NationStates Jolt Archive

NS Food Bank

A resolution to reduce income inequality and increase basic welfare.

Category: Social Justice Strength: Strong Proposed by: Our Own Laziness

Description: Hunger hurts. It denies dignity, lessens human energy, erodes community stability and impairs the potential of people and societies to achieve. To break this cycle of hunger, the Free Land of Our Own Laziness proposes a food bank that would be committed to providing an efficient, cost effective centralized system for collecting and distributing food that reduces waste and alleviates hunger in our world. We seek to provide life sustaining meals to those in need and to silence the pain that hunger brings.

We, the United Nations, resolve to create an international network of food banks that will cater to the starving masses this will be entirely charitable so anyone can donate or benefit.

“Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.” – Basil King


Approvals: 0

Status: Lacking Support (requires 148 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Mon May 31 2004


Public Media

A resolution to increase democratic freedoms.

Category: The Furtherment of Democracy Strength: Strong Proposed by: Our Own Laziness

Description: All UN nations must FUND at least one media outlet that is devoted solely to the education of its people, whether it be television, radio, newspaper, or magazine. Programming will include content on children's learning, cultural awareness, and scientific discovery. Programming will be free of political/cultural bias. Media can be used as an institution that helps to educate, while entertaining the masses from adolescence through adulthood.

Approvals: 0

Status: Lacking Support (requires 148 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Mon May 31 2004

Why are all your proposals 'strong'? I don't agree with this categorising, particularly for the resolution at vote.

I like when proposals are "strong". I have a fervent belief in my proposals and I think they should reflect that.

I like when proposals are "strong". I have a fervent belief in my proposals and I think they should reflect that.

I like when proposals are "strong". I have a fervent belief in my proposals and I think they should reflect that.

That's not really what the strength means, though. It's supposed to reflect the scale of the proposal's impact on UN members. Does it affect every citizen in every UN nation, requiring a high level of funding, which would be "strong"? Does it haul a large proportion of UN nations into line with the majority's policy, which would be "significant"? Or does it affect only a small number of nations or only a small percentage of citizens within every nation, requiring only a low level of funding?

That's really what strength indicates, since the strength of a proposal determines what kind of effect it has on your nation's stats. A "strong" social justice proposal will hit your economy hard, for instance, while a "mild" one will only cause a small blip.

Exactly my point, I believe that my proposals should bring about major change. Whether you agree with them or not is a matter for the voting block to decide.

Well, yeah, but you've got to be sure that the effect of your proposal, as laid down in its wording, would really bring about "major change".

The food bank thing, for instance - if you had some sort of mandatory system whereby food surpluses in rich countries were diverted to poverty-stricken nations, that'd be a major change since (if the NS world's demographics are anything like the real world's) it could end world hunger. But a voluntary system's unlikely to make that big a dent in famine, so I reckon that's "significant" at best, and more likely "mild".