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Bill: Equal knowledge across the nation
Details
Submitted by[?]: National Thomasian 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: June 2196
Description[?]:
| By splitting Museums and Libraries into regional control we have divided the nation’s access to information. Knowledge should be accessible to the same standard across the nation and by placing libraries under national rather than regional control the movement of books and exhibits from one region to the other should be made easier by removing differences in bureaucratic methods across regions. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy towards the funding of libraries.
Old value:: The national government provides local governments with funding to operate libraries.
Current: The national government contracts with private companies to maintain a system of libraries.
Proposed: The national government controls a vast and comprehensive system of public libraries.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning museum funding.
Old value:: The national government provides local governments with the funding to operate museums.
Current: The government gives monetary grants to organizations which have established or are looking to establish museums.
Proposed: The national government maintains a system of museums nationwide.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:54:09, March 04, 2006 CET | From | Agrarian Party of Mordusia | To | Debating the Equal knowledge across the nation |
| Message | As we have always done, we support. |
| Date | 23:20:01, March 04, 2006 CET | From | The Mordusian Green Party | To | Debating the Equal knowledge across the nation |
| Message | The TN is wrong here. This measure provides museums and libraries with more freedom in how their manage their own facilities. OOC: Remember, I'm a librarian, and I know about these things. |
| Date | 23:21:36, March 04, 2006 CET | From | The Mordusian Green Party | To | Debating the Equal knowledge across the nation |
| Message | Ah, that is, the current measure provides libraries and museums with more freedom in how to manage their own facilities. This measure would eliminate that freedom, and make librarians and curators into mere automatons and puppets of the State. |
| Date | 23:52:28, March 04, 2006 CET | From | National Thomasian Party | To | Debating the Equal knowledge across the nation |
| Message | Indeed they would now come under the control of the state rather than the regions. They don't have freedom to make decisions now, this is just shifting desicion making to a more sensible place to remove regional differences. OOC: I worked in a library and I know librarians. regional differences bugger up the transfer of books across internal borders and make things more akward. |
| Date | 09:15:34, March 05, 2006 CET | From | The Mordusian Green Party | To | Debating the Equal knowledge across the nation |
| Message | OOC: Okay everyone, who would you rather trust on this measure? Someone who once worked in a library and knows librarians, or someone (me) who is 2 months away from earning his Masters degree in Library Science? |
| Date | 09:16:06, March 05, 2006 CET | From | The Mordusian Green Party | To | Debating the Equal knowledge across the nation |
| Message | OOC: Oh, and who also has two years experience working in libraries... |
| Date | 14:23:21, March 06, 2006 CET | From | Unio Liberál daď Ordio Mordusián | To | Debating the Equal knowledge across the nation |
| Message | No. It should stay under local control. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 225 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 374 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Particracy does not allow real-life fictional references (eg. Gandalf, Harry Potter, Luke Skywalker). |
| Random quote: "The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected." - Will Rogers |