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Bill: No Mandatory National Service
Details
Submitted by[?]: Democratic Front Party
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: October 4058
Description[?]:
| Due to the peaceful nature of the United Republic of Karistan, we feel it is totally against our citizens civil liberties to have any form of mandatory national service. We should celebrate those who have finished schooling by promoting them to go into further education or carving their way into an industry - rather than spending time in the military that many will not see the same kinds of benefits from. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change National service.
Old value:: All adults upon completion of schooling must serve a term of 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: There shall be no mandatory military or civilian national service.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 00:59:43, July 13, 2016 CET | From | Labour Party | To | Debating the No Mandatory National Service |
| Message | The National Service is a part of the National Sevice Act of 3401 [http://bit.ly/2a7e19U] and allows higher education to be freely available in Kalistan. We hope this changes the Democratic Front Party's mind. |
| Date | 01:02:02, July 13, 2016 CET | From | Labour Party | To | Debating the No Mandatory National Service |
| Message | Note that it does not have to be military service and that Kalistan has no national military for any citizen to serve in, only private partisan militias: http://bit.ly/29LPrO2 |
| Date | 01:03:22, July 13, 2016 CET | From | Labour Party | To | Debating the No Mandatory National Service |
| Message | OOC: Broken link, http://classic.particracy.net/viewbill.php?billid=243838 |
| Date | 07:15:57, July 13, 2016 CET | From | Socialist Party of Kalistan (SPoK) | To | Debating the No Mandatory National Service |
| Message | (OOC: Your Assembly members would all have gone through the NSP if they went to college. It has been the law in Kalistan, and so characterization of it as mandatory military service is only realistic if all the people in your Party are foreigners who have no knowledge of the way Kalistan works.) The National Service Program , which is entirely civilian based, has been a remarkable success, not only in providing people jobs right out of college, but freeing them of any sort of debt, and providing service to the republic. Additionally, the NSP soaks up millions of workers, slowing their entry into the workforce, and ensuring that there is no competition for jobs in both the private and public sector. The NSP is one of the pillars of the national labor Market, and balances the power of workers who do work and employers. The NSP provides those students who ARE finished with school an opportunity to learn various life skills necessary to succeed in the workforce. They essentially attend college for free, and then do a few years of civilian national service, where they learn the discipline necessary for being a productive worker, things like what it means to work a job from 9-5, what it means to dress and act professionally, what it means to keep appointments, and so forth, as well as the job that they work while in the NSP. Then once done, they can opt to re-enlist in the NSP if the labor market is looking poor at the moment, so they don't starve, or they can leave, free of all debt, to start their life. Most leave the NSP by the time they are 26, and are highly valued employees. Time in the civilian NSP is a rite that ALL Kalistani Youth have gone through, for the last several hundred years in this country. Surely the DFP and the KLP know that, seeing as you all passed through the NSP, same as everyone else. We fully support the NSP, and welcome a debate on the matter. We believe we can convince anyone of the benefits of mandatory civilian national service, except those Parties who are ideologically bent on privatization of everything, without regard to the pragmatic benefits that these policies provide. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 345 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 405 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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