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Bill: The Union Party Proposal II
Details
Submitted by[?]: Union 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: July 2282
Description[?]:
| The Union Party seeks to impliment the following modifications to the current law... |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning adoption.
Old value:: Adoption is strictly regulated by the government. Only by passing several tests and by following an intensive program applicants can adopt children.
Current: Regulation is used to screen out only those with a previous history of child abuse.
Proposed: Adoption is regulated by the government. Applicants can adopt after a routine check-up.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The nation's defence industry.
Old value:: The state owns national defence industries but these exist alongside privately owned defence industries.
Current: The state owns national defence industries but these exist alongside privately owned defence industries.
Proposed: The state owns all defence industries.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Energy regulation.
Old value:: Energy is provided by private companies but the prices they can charge are regulated.
Current: Energy is provided by private companies but the prices they can charge are regulated.
Proposed: Energy is provided by nationalised companies.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Government-issued identity card policy.
Old value:: All citizens are issued with identity cards and are required to carry them at all times.
Current: All citizens are issued with identity cards but are not required to carry them.
Proposed: All citizens are issued with identity cards but are not required to carry them.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change The age at which a person is considered an adult (limited between 12 and 24).
Old value:: 18
Current: 18
Proposed: 16
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change Malpractice suits.
Old value:: Only a medical regulatory body can prosecute a doctor for malpractice.
Current: Malpractice suits may be brought against doctors.
Proposed: Malpractice suits may be brought against doctors.
Article 7
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on nuclear power.
Old value:: The government requires most energy to be generated by nuclear power.
Current: The government encourages nuclear power (subsidies, tax relief etc).
Proposed: The government encourages nuclear power (subsidies, tax relief etc).
Article 8
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning organ donations.
Old value:: Unless otherwise stated, consent is assumed.
Current: Unless otherwise stated, consent is assumed.
Proposed: Organ donations are legal with personal consent.
Article 9
Proposal[?] to change The recreational drug policy.
Old value:: There are no laws regulating what citizens can put into their bodies.
Current: All naturally occurring drugs are legal.
Proposed: Recreational drug use is regulated by local governments.
Article 10
Proposal[?] to change The national refugee policy.
Old value:: Only refugees that are victims of extreme circumstances are welcome; they are given integration-aid.
Current: All refugees are welcome, regardless of their reason, and given aid in integrating them into the country.
Proposed: All refugees are welcome, regardless of their reason, and given aid in integrating them into the country.
Article 11
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on Democratic Workers' Councils.
Old value:: The government does not intervene in the marketplace with regards to Democratic Workers' Councils.
Current: The government does not intervene in the marketplace with regards to Democratic Workers' Councils.
Proposed: The government requires all businesses to be run by Democratic Workers' Councils.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 16:53:49, September 09, 2006 CET | From | We Say So! Party | To | Debating the The Union Party Proposal II |
| Message | We can't see any logical reason for any of these modifications to be implemented and we assume that neither can the Union Party as they have provided no reasoning beyond the fact that they wish to change the laws that have governed this Country well for so long. |
| Date | 21:04:52, September 09, 2006 CET | From | Union Party | To | Debating the The Union Party Proposal II |
| Message | We seek a government that is more resonant with a just, intelligent, and righteous society is all. The government of Hobrazia should not be a road block to the citizens of our nation. |
| Date | 22:36:51, September 09, 2006 CET | From | We Say So! Party | To | Debating the The Union Party Proposal II |
| Message | In which case we fail to understand the reasoning behind any of the changes attempting to be made in this bill. Article 1 makes it easier to adopt, good, but it fails to take into account the dangers of allowing anyone to adopt without proper checks and balances. Article 2 takes away citizens rights to own businesses and forces them to work for the government. Article 3 does the same as article 2. Article 4 reduces the security of the citizens whilst also removing the most efficient way of guaranteeing customer protection, through the ability to secure ones identity without easier theft, and also removes the most efficient way of guaranteeing the purchase of age related commodities. Article 5 reduces the age at which people can purchase age restricted goods and brings people are aren't anywhere near fully matured, mentally or physically, into a position that would force them to act in a more mature way without any protection. Article 6 makes the important work that medical practitioners do even more problematic as they are constantly not just under pressure through the type of work they are doing but also under pressure that any move they make could well leave them open to the destruction of their lives. This could very well lead to trained people not attempting life saving surgeries, or passers by attempting to assist in the event of car accidents etc as they could well be sued should anything go wrong as their interference automatically makes them responsible. This has shown itself to occur and will put lives at risk. Article 7 makes no sense at all. Nuclear power is the safest and cleanest form of high yield energy production that is currently available, not only that but with the current push by many parties to nationalise all energy producers just leads into a system where the government allows tax breaks to its own industries, an odd idea we're sure you'd agree. Should the current system continue we would actually allow an increased production in higher polluting industries as well as paying out increased costs to those industries that merely continue with the current policy that they are currently forced to follow. Article 8 would just be foolish as the current law allows any person to opt out whereas this change would require people to opt in. As most people are, at best, apathetic this would lead to a massive reduction in the number of organs available for transplant and so increase mortality rates within this Country, lives that would otherwise have been saved under the current system. Article 9 would lead to differing and confusing laws operating in differing areas of the Country. This would make it increasingly difficult for citizens and visitors within this Country to know whether they are breaking the law or not and would increase costs for the courts as otherwise simple to follow National laws become an incoherent morass of differing ideas and political infighting between regions. There are, of course, more detailed reasons against each of these articles, however we hope you see the problems and the antithesis of your position to form a "just, intelligent, and righteous society" by changing these laws to those you are aspiring to. |
| Date | 01:10:46, September 10, 2006 CET | From | Hobrazian Peoples Party | To | Debating the The Union Party Proposal II |
| Message | Remove all other than 2 and 3 and you will have our support. |
| Date | 03:33:00, September 10, 2006 CET | From | Union Party | To | Debating the The Union Party Proposal II |
| Message | The Union Party is tired of being run rough shod over by the older parties of this government. We formed not to simply be an assistant to the interests of the socialists of Hobrazia or an occasional buddy to the social liberals, but to advance a particular agenda. These proposals are a part of our attempts to do so. If the rest of the government votes against us, then so be it. But at least we are standing for what we believe. |
| Date | 12:56:40, September 10, 2006 CET | From | Capitalizt Party | To | Debating the The Union Party Proposal II |
| Message | Fine, just remember that compromises are fundamental sometimes. Just look at my party's name and then at the many 'way too leftist' proposals to me I had to vote anyway, to prevent the 'way too communist' proposals to prevail :) |
| Date | 13:19:55, September 10, 2006 CET | From | Hobrazian Peoples Party | To | Debating the The Union Party Proposal II |
| Message | We are sorry, but we cannot accept 9 changes in our laws that we do not favour for 2 that we would like see implemented. We have to vote against this. |
| Date | 18:24:15, September 10, 2006 CET | From | Left Communist Party | To | Debating the The Union Party Proposal II |
| Message | Looks like the LCP are the only other party to back this bill... |
| Date | 19:40:03, September 10, 2006 CET | From | National Imperial Hobrazian Front | To | Debating the The Union Party Proposal II |
| Message | Forgot about us! |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 136 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 264 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: "Jezvraljogadsrlji" means "Social" in the Jelbic languages. |
| Random quote: "This administration is not sympathetic to corporations; it is indentured to corporations." - Ralph Nader |