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Bill: Privatization Initiative of 2192
Details
Submitted by[?]: Bachelor Party
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: January 2193
Description[?]:
| To turn over businesses to private ownership which are not the role of the national government. These industries are commercially viable and need not be funded by the taxpayers of our great nation. The customers will be better served, and the federal budget will be relieved of the responsibility to provide these services which can better be served by the private sector. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the post office
Old value:: There is a nationalised post office agency in the nation. Private ones are banned.
Current: There is a nationalised post office agency. Private post offices are allowed to exist but the services provided by them are regulated.
Proposed: Only private post agencies exist, and the services they provide are unregulated.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government-sponsored recycling programs.
Old value:: The government funds recycling facilities but enforces mandatory recycling for industry only.
Current: The government funds recycling facilities and enforces mandatory recycling for residents, commercial enterprise, and industry.
Proposed: There is no national policy regarding recycled garbage.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards space exploration.
Old value:: The government shall operate a space agency that contracts with and oversees private space-exploration companies.
Current: The government shall operate a space agency that contracts with and oversees private space-exploration companies.
Proposed: Space exploration and use shall be totally unregulated.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:08:34, February 27, 2006 CET | From |  Jacobin Society | To | Debating the Privatization Initiative of 2192 |
| Message | We only agree to article 2. |
| Date | 17:37:43, February 27, 2006 CET | From | Bachelor Party | To | Debating the Privatization Initiative of 2192 |
| Message | Concerning article one, is it the Society's view that the government should be in the business of competing with international courier corporations such as FedEx and UPS? How is being in the parcel and document courier business a function of governing a nation? If it were not a commercially lucrative industry, we could maybe see the necessity for providing the service. But the service is far better provided by private enterprise. |
| Date | 00:48:35, February 28, 2006 CET | From | New Daio Party | To | Debating the Privatization Initiative of 2192 |
| Message | 2 and 3 I agree with. The post office, we believe, is a vital service along the lines of the military and police agencies. They are the only things so utterly vital that they actually need the oversight of government. |
| Date | 00:49:25, February 28, 2006 CET | From | New Daio Party | To | Debating the Privatization Initiative of 2192 |
| Message | (gah, sleepy) the weight of the rider, though, is insuffecient for us to vote against. |
| Date | 01:02:11, February 28, 2006 CET | From | Jacobin Society | To | Debating the Privatization Initiative of 2192 |
| Message | Agreed with the Anarchists in respect to the Post Office. |
| Date | 12:06:06, February 28, 2006 CET | From | New Daio Party | To | Debating the Privatization Initiative of 2192 |
| Message | The thing is that the post isn't exactly the parcel business. There's no problems in letting private companies take care of packages in competition to the federal postal service, but letters and correspondence (the post) is one of the few things that should be handled exclusively by the government. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 152 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 126 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Information about the population of each country can be found on the Population Information thread: http://forum.particracy.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=8663 |
| Random quote: "When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called 'the People's Stick.'" - Mikhail Bakunin |