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Bill: Foreign Intervention Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Nihilist Fascist Collegiality
Status[?]: defeated
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: June 2139
Description[?]:
| New Endralon needs to restrict its flow of international aid so that it benefits us. Once given, there's no guarantee that that money will go to where it needs to go. There's no 'oversight committee' designed to make sure all funding goes towards, say, peace as opposed to war. If we limit our aid to receiving trade rights, we'll be benefiting nearly immediately. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards giving aid to foreign countries.
Old value:: The government gives moderate aid to countries in need.
Current: The government supplies "tied" aid to poorer nations in return for trading rights.
Proposed: The government supplies "tied" aid to poorer nations in return for trading rights.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:36:47, November 10, 2005 CET | From | Communist Party of New Endralon | To | Debating the Foreign Intervention Act |
| Message | Wow. It's been a while since you've proposed this. |
| Date | 13:58:35, November 11, 2005 CET | From | II / Newsnight Faction | To | Debating the Foreign Intervention Act |
| Message | Yeah! I never thought anyone else agreed with this one - here's voting for! In reality I would prefer an option where all the aid we give is in the form of goods and actual engineers building roads, water systems and the like in poor countries. (China currently does this.) Giving money to poor regimes is often of no use in the long term to their people, through mismanagment, corruption and neglect. (It's hard to run your new airport when you haven't a pilot or a plane engineer in the country.) |
| Date | 14:05:49, November 11, 2005 CET | From | Nihilist Fascist Collegiality | To | Debating the Foreign Intervention Act |
| Message | It's also hard to give money for peacekeeping when you know that, chances are, that money is going to go to building a new palace for the dictator currently in power. |
| Date | 17:57:44, November 11, 2005 CET | From | Libertarian Socialists of Endralon | To | Debating the Foreign Intervention Act |
| Message | "Tied" aid is a disgusting practice which will destroy the solidarity of the international working class and is designed to allow one country to benefit from the misery and exploitation of another. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 217 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 247 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 35 |
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