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Bill: Fair Foreign Aid Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Union of Work-Shy Elements
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: September 2081
Description[?]:
| The Region of Gavonshire, in the Republic of Aloria, has been devastated by a terrorist attack. There have been almost 150 casualties. http://aiglesrv.no-ip.info:8080/particracy/main/viewnews.php?newsid=2799 Such disasters only serve to demonstrate how grotesquely selfish our current foreign aid policy is. Taking that into account we propose the following alteration. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards giving aid to foreign countries.
Old value:: The government gives moderate aid to countries in need.
Current: The government gives moderate aid to countries in need.
Proposed: The government gives high levels of aid to countries in need.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 00:16:33, July 07, 2005 CET | From | Universal Humanists | To | Debating the Fair Foreign Aid Act |
| Message | We are in support of this proposal, especially since we still have control over how much aid we can actually afford. It is important for those who are against helping out our fellow humans in crisis to remember that the decision remains ours. However, compassion and humanity make the decision an easy one, in our view. We applaud this gesture by the Rihannsu Party. |
| Date | 18:46:13, July 07, 2005 CET | From | Party of Evil | To | Debating the Fair Foreign Aid Act |
| Message | Agreed. Even though it goes against our isolationist sentiments, we feel we should make an exception in this case. |
| Date | 12:43:04, July 14, 2005 CET | From | Party of Evil | To | Debating the Fair Foreign Aid Act |
| Message | Then again... we don't feel that giving 'moderate aid to countries in need' is 'grotesquely selfish'. We'd like to see a clear definition of 'moderate' and 'high levels' of aid before endorsing such a commitment. |
| Date | 21:51:16, July 15, 2005 CET | From | Union of Work-Shy Elements | To | Debating the Fair Foreign Aid Act |
| Message | Because I don’t hold any of the relevant positions I can’t make any guarantees as to what the definitions would translate into in actual figures. So basically your estimate is as good as mine. I still feel this would be a good gesture for us to make though. Let’s put it to the vote and see. |
| Date | 21:59:07, July 16, 2005 CET | From | Rubike Capital Lost Party | To | Debating the Fair Foreign Aid Act |
| Message | Number of seats counted for YES is higher (while being just a newbie I don't know how many seats we need to stand on with a new law). But the number of seats who did not participate yet in this bill debate is still higher among these who voted for the law ... and this rises a question: if people knows what they voted YES? My own opinion about this subject is positive, but I can't find the page or the year when this terrorists attack happened. For the year 2081, February, I discovered that in the republic of Aloria some people are accused of bribery ... and this is what may happen with the aids sent by Kundrati Union (such as FOOD, see February news, 2081). I think that this law must have more details before we pass it ... The most important must reffer to a kind of "world bank" able to guarantee the "way back home" of the funds sent for aid support if the aids consists of huge values and numbers. Or if the aid is just moderated or over moderated then it has to come from the people, from the industrial sector the suggestions. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 177 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 128 |
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