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Bill: Humanitarian and Development Aid Policy
Details
Submitted by[?]: RSDP - Democratic 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: June 2066
Description[?]:
| Current: The government never offers international aid Alternatives: o The government supplies "tied" aid to poorer nations in return for trading rights o The government only gives aid for disaster relief in foreign countries o The government gives moderate aid to countries in need o The government gives high levels of aid to countries in need. |
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 high levels of aid to countries in need.
Proposed: The government only gives aid for disaster relief in foreign countries.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 16:16:39, June 08, 2005 CET | From |  RSDP - Democratic Front | To | Debating the Humanitarian and Development Aid Policy |
| Message | I'd support this option: "The government gives high levels of aid to countries in need." |
| Date | 16:21:26, June 08, 2005 CET | From | Freedom Party | To | Debating the Humanitarian and Development Aid Policy |
| Message | We would support the 'tied' aid option or the disaster relief option only. |
| Date | 16:44:15, June 08, 2005 CET | From | RSDP - Democratic Front | To | Debating the Humanitarian and Development Aid Policy |
| Message | I feel the 'tied' aid option is not fair. It's not because governments or countries don't want to give us an advantage in comparison with other nations when it comes to trading rights, that the people of those countries should suffer because we would only help them if their government grants us increased trading rights. |
| Date | 16:46:11, June 08, 2005 CET | From | RSDP - Democratic Front | To | Debating the Humanitarian and Development Aid Policy |
| Message | I also feel we should give more than just disaster relief; we should help countries with stagnating economies develop and send humanitarian aid to the regions where it is needed, regardless whether a disaster occurred or not. |
| Date | 16:49:04, June 08, 2005 CET | From | Freedom Party | To | Debating the Humanitarian and Development Aid Policy |
| Message | A lot of countries problems stem from their refusal to open up their markets to free trade. However, others stem from being too open. We rephrase our answer to being vehemently opposed to high levels of aid and reserve judgement on the moderate aid question until more parties have commented. |
| Date | 17:01:32, June 08, 2005 CET | From | RSDP - Democratic Front | To | Debating the Humanitarian and Development Aid Policy |
| Message | As a sidenote: I'm willing to accept the moderate aid option as a means of compromise. |
| Date | 17:57:25, June 08, 2005 CET | From | Libertarian Alcoholic Par-tay | To | Debating the Humanitarian and Development Aid Policy |
| Message | I think it should be up to Rutanians themselves whether or not they want to give to foreign countries. If they do, they can easily make a private contribution to charities which specialize in such things, but they certainly shouldn't be made to give (spending tax money on foreign aid is essentially forcing the populace to give to charity). |
| Date | 18:19:40, June 08, 2005 CET | From | Freedom Party | To | Debating the Humanitarian and Development Aid Policy |
| Message | That would of been our argument too. We support one of the first two options only. |
| Date | 18:15:18, June 10, 2005 CET | From | RSDP - Democratic Front | To | Debating the Humanitarian and Development Aid Policy |
| Message | In that case, does anyone object that I open voting on "The government only gives aid for disaster relief in foreign countries" |
| Date | 18:22:58, June 10, 2005 CET | From | Freedom Party | To | Debating the Humanitarian and Development Aid Policy |
| Message | We would support that. |
| Date | 16:07:52, June 12, 2005 CET | From | RSDP - Democratic Front | To | Debating the Humanitarian and Development Aid Policy |
| Message | Oops, I forgot to edit the description :-( |
| Date | 19:49:55, June 12, 2005 CET | From | Libertarian Alcoholic Par-tay | To | Debating the Humanitarian and Development Aid Policy |
| Message | looks like I'll have to compromise on this one. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 247 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 52 |
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