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Bill: Military Service Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: United Blobs
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: March 2158
Description[?]:
| This bill will allow this government to implement conscription if and only if this contry finds itself at war. Upon completion of their education all citizens will be eligable for call up except for reasons of age and if their current job is needed more than their service. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change National service.
Old value:: There shall be no mandatory military or civilian national service.
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 can be required in times of war to serve a term in the military.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:12:49, December 15, 2005 CET | From |  Hobrazian Peoples Party | To | Debating the Military Service Act |
| Message | We've said it before: "It is our nations foremost assignment to defend our borders and to protect our citizens. Therefore it is neccesary to introduce conspription in the army". But.......if we allowed conspription only during war time, it would already be to late. Is it not every hobrazians duty to stand up to protect there country. And this wil only be possible if they have had an education in doing so...... The cost will also be lowered, when many state assignments will be taken care of by the ones doing civil national service. Thererfore we would like to see a proposal saying that 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 |
| Date | 21:45:14, December 15, 2005 CET | From | United Blobs | To | Debating the Military Service Act |
| Message | Would you vote in favour of this and then create your own bill to move it to the compulsory option? |
| Date | 22:11:41, December 15, 2005 CET | From | Hobrazian Peoples Party | To | Debating the Military Service Act |
| Message | would you vote for that? |
| Date | 14:22:17, December 16, 2005 CET | From | United Blobs | To | Debating the Military Service Act |
| Message | We would probably not vote for it at present but this may change in the future. |
| Date | 21:33:44, December 16, 2005 CET | From |  Liberal-Progressive Union | To | Debating the Military Service Act |
| Message | If we are to have conscription, an increase in the military budget would be needed to cover the increased costs. So what are we going to reduce spending on? |
| Date | 23:03:16, December 16, 2005 CET | From | United Blobs | To | Debating the Military Service Act |
| Message | This law will implement conscription _only_ in the event of war. Under those circumstances the defense budget be much larger so cost is not a concern at present. If this passes then we can consider the more extreme proposal and recalculate the budget appropriately. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 196 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 204 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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