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Bill: Aid Without Conditions
Details
Submitted by[?]: Sosialistisk Venstreparti
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: March 2875
Description[?]:
| Aid should not be a way in which our government imposes its will upon the less fortunate. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards giving aid to foreign countries.
Old value:: The government supplies "tied" aid to poorer nations in return for trading rights.
Current: The government only gives aid for disaster relief in foreign countries.
Proposed: The government gives high levels of aid to countries in need.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:05:30, January 06, 2010 CET | From |  Mitten Partiet | To | Debating the Aid Without Conditions |
| Message | We have nothing against higher aid but we can't swift from the "least" to the "most" help. Propose a comprise and we will consider voting yes to it. |
| Date | 23:05:46, January 06, 2010 CET | From | Mitten Partiet | To | Debating the Aid Without Conditions |
| Message | in the Aid question |
| Date | 00:05:34, January 07, 2010 CET | From | Sosialistisk Venstreparti | To | Debating the Aid Without Conditions |
| Message | We have a fairly large foreign budget and should easily be able to provide generous aid to those in need. And it was only recently that we stopped giving high levels of aid anyway. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes |
Total Seats: 579 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 171 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Moderation will not approve a Cultural Protocol request within the first 48 hours of it being requested. This is in order to give other players a chance to query the proposed changes, if they wish to do so. Moderation may be approached for advice on a proposed change, but any advice proffered should always be understood under the provisio that no final decision will be made until at least 48 hours after the request has been formally submitted for approval. |
| Random quote: "What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?" - Abraham Lincoln |