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Bill: Change to the Military/National Service
Details
Submitted by[?]: Medinat Israel Shelanu
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: May 2762
Description[?]:
| All citizens of Beiteynu must serve in the military. Their service must not be replaced with civilian national service for the following reasons: 1) In times of war, they must be ready to defend our nation. In order to do so, they must be trained and only the military provides that training. 2) Although, civilian national service can bring many benefits to the population, there are always volunteers who are willing to perform the similar or same duties as those in civilian national service. 3) If serving in the civilian national service is an option instead of serving in the military, most citizens will choose to avoid harsh military life. Thus, there will be shortage in military manpower and we will need professional soldiers. Resulting in use of defense budget to pay for these soldier's income when they could be used to pay/purchase for better equipment/weapons. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change National service.
Old value:: All adults upon completion of schooling must serve either a term in the military or a lesser paid term of civilian national service, at their option.
Current: All adults upon completion of schooling must serve either a term in the military or a lesser paid term of civilian national service, at their option.
Proposed: All adults upon completion of schooling must serve a term in the military.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:48:08, May 25, 2009 CET | From | Tadrakian Military Regime | To | Debating the Change to the Military/National Service |
| Message | We request that you alter this bill to allow us to draft. That way we will have the military when we need them, for example time of war or natural disasters. |
| Date | 19:29:53, May 25, 2009 CET | From | Medinat Israel Shelanu | To | Debating the Change to the Military/National Service |
| Message | That is also an option but that also does not differ from civilian national service. If our citizens serve in the military as proposed, they will help out in times of natural disasters and national emergency. Because we need our citizens to be prepared before the war starts, we need to train them. If we draft them when the war starts, there will be higher casualty rate because our citizens will be untrained/unprepared/disorganized for it. |
| Date | 23:02:21, May 25, 2009 CET | From | Medinat Israel Shelanu | To | Debating the Change to the Military/National Service |
| Message | Religious Jews don't have to serve but they can do so voluntarily. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 149 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 21 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 30 |
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