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Bill: Foreign Aid Bill VII
Details
Submitted by[?]: Red Star Movement
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: October 2186
Description[?]:
| Second time around. Tied aid is a sorry excuse from a humanitarian response. It's only there to give governments the guilt relief for being self indulgent, greedy aristocrats and having no aid. Tied aid does nothing to help the recipient country's market, it only helps the donor country. It's entirely pointless and needs to be reformed. |
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 gives high levels of aid to countries in need.
Proposed: The government gives high levels of aid to countries in need.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:43:37, February 13, 2006 CET | From | New Daio Party | To | Debating the Foreign Aid Bill VII |
| Message | Exactly. Tied aid helps us. Who are we as a government to care about people who are not our citizens? If private citizens wish to give to gaijin less fortunate, then they have that right. Further, we will not orchestrate a budget to support this. It is a waste of our money. |
| Date | 19:14:11, February 13, 2006 CET | From | Red Star Movement | To | Debating the Foreign Aid Bill VII |
| Message | Your attitude frankly disgusts me. The fact that you are so cold hearted and selfish comes as a surprise, but we do not expect any more now. It's people like you that cause elitism in this world and would happily exploit anyone you possibly could. Furthermore, if the parties that voted yes last time to this bill vote yes again, this ought to pass. |
| Date | 23:57:33, February 13, 2006 CET | From | Party for the Promotion of Pandas | To | Debating the Foreign Aid Bill VII |
| Message | DTP: Who would we be as people not to help fellow men? Isn't that what sets us above animals? Besides the morality of it all, its shortsighted not to help other countries in need, even if they are poor. It is not unheard of to have a poor country rise to power and prominence over time... and when that does happen, who do you think theyre gonna have better relations with, the country that helped them in time of need or the country that selfishly exploited them? This bill passing would mean that now we are paid with gratitude and a feeling of right, and later we may have even better financial payoff then if we exploited them now. RSM: I do believe his view is sprung from the fact that he believes the government are not "people". While I earlier said that this could possibly be harmful for our own countrymen i forgot to mention that it would probably end even worse for others. |
| Date | 23:58:42, February 13, 2006 CET | From | Civic Platform | To | Debating the Foreign Aid Bill VII |
| Message | We support, minister of finance it illiterate |
| Date | 16:58:17, February 15, 2006 CET | From | Jacobin Society | To | Debating the Foreign Aid Bill VII |
| Message | We are in agreement with the Frogmarch and the Red Star, we should help our fellow men, particularly those struggling against oppression. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 226 | |||||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | |||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 59 |
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