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Bill: Foreign Business Development Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Millennial Salvation Front
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: February 2067
Description[?]:
| A foreign aid policy of enlightened self-interest, where we connect aid to business development, will allow us to help ourselves as we help others. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards giving aid to foreign countries.
Old value:: The government never offers international aid.
Current: The government gives moderate aid to countries in need.
Proposed: The government supplies "tied" aid to poorer nations in return for trading rights.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 15:23:01, June 08, 2005 CET | From | Liberal Democratic Party of Mordusia | To | Debating the Foreign Business Development Act |
| Message | While we remain fairly sceptical of such 'tied' aid. It is better than the nothing. |
| Date | 23:37:21, June 09, 2005 CET | From | People's National Party | To | Debating the Foreign Business Development Act |
| Message | Yes, good idea to help boost our businesses. |
| Date | 12:33:24, June 14, 2005 CET | From | Plinio's United Followers | To | Debating the Foreign Business Development Act |
| Message | Such aid is costly and only benefits the specific sectors that are being negociated for. I propose that the aid offered be changed instead to lifting of commercial barriers on both sides. This is to be done only with countries with which we have a commercial surplus. |
| Date | 21:28:00, June 14, 2005 CET | From | Millennial Salvation Front | To | Debating the Foreign Business Development Act |
| Message | Moving to a vote. |
| Date | 23:35:53, June 15, 2005 CET | From | Capitalist of the Mordusian Republic | To | Debating the Foreign Business Development Act |
| Message | this will keep the poor countries poor and ,even though i am in favor of making money, in the long run it is benificial to both countries to not give aid at all. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 154 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 38 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 31 |
| Random fact: References to prominent real-life persons are not allowed. This includes references to philosophies featuring the name of a real-life person (eg. "Marxism", "Thatcherism", "Keynesianism"). |
| Random quote: "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson |