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Bill: Beluzian Libraries Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Partisans And Artisans League
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 2071
Description[?]:
| The people of Beluzia should no longer be at the mercy of businesses trying to make a quick-buck on trashy thrillers and sleazy literature. The nation needs books and books need libraries and libraries need gentle government encouragement! Long live Beluzia! Long live our fertile imaginations and appetite for all things upright! |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy towards the funding of libraries.
Old value:: The national government controls a vast and comprehensive system of public libraries.
Current: The national government provides local governments with funding to operate libraries.
Proposed: The national government contracts with private companies to maintain a system of libraries.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:51:21, June 22, 2005 CET | From | Front for a Solidarian Country | To | Debating the Beluzian Libraries Act |
| Message | Why resort to private companies? Political lobbying, perhaps? Beluzian Libraries must be state owned! |
| Date | 11:38:52, June 22, 2005 CET | From | Partisans And Artisans League | To | Debating the Beluzian Libraries Act |
| Message | State owned - state cotrolled - state freakin' well everythin' in this stupid parliament! |
| Date | 11:39:17, June 22, 2005 CET | From | Partisans And Artisans League | To | Debating the Beluzian Libraries Act |
| Message | Ooooooh the private sector.... what does that mean? |
| Date | 14:04:16, June 23, 2005 CET | From | Neo-Marxist revolutionary Party | To | Debating the Beluzian Libraries Act |
| Message | You do know your description and proposal actually contradict one another. Your proposal suggests government ownership so that business' will not make money however by using private companies they clearly will. Bit of an oxymoron there. |
| Date | 16:22:41, June 23, 2005 CET | From | Partisans And Artisans League | To | Debating the Beluzian Libraries Act |
| Message | Come again non-comprende? The private libraries will make money, but the government will able to make sure there is national coverage and a wide spread of literature etc etc. Unless I'm missing something I'm not sure what's oxymoronic... |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 138 | |||||||
| no | Total Seats: 81 | |||||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 81 |
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