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Bill: Action- Right to Basic Standards of Living.
Details
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: December 2454
Description[?]:
| ----- The State exists to serve the people, and yet there is a growing majority who cannot sustain the basic standards of living. The Phillips Trust, a charity based in Santa Alessandra has recorded a frankly staggering rise in the rate of working men unable to maintain financal independence, kips filled in doss houses and charity kitchens have also reported a rise in patronage. This would not be such an issue if we were facing rising unemployment, but in fact over the last three years unemployment rates in Hebilon have fallen by twenty-six percent, Atleast one success brought about by the current government, But less than half the growth rate of destitutes in the region. The Nation, and by extention exists to serve its population, as already stated, The economy of the nation should always count secondary to the welfare of her people. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Guarantee of minimum income.
Old value:: There shall be no direct cash payments to individuals to guarantee a minimum income.
Current: All adults not supported by another person shall be guaranteed a reasonable, though not high, standard of living by the government.
Proposed: All adults not supported by another person shall be guaranteed a very basic subsistence income by the government.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the pension system.
Old value:: The state does not operate a pension system. Individuals must save up for retirement on their own.
Current: The state operates a compulsory public system combined with an optional private pension.
Proposed: The state offers a voluntary public pension, combined with other voluntary private pensions.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The professional retirement age.
Old value:: 75
Current: 75
Proposed: 65
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The government policy regarding housing.
Old value:: All housing is privately-owned.
Current: Housing policy is to be determined by local governments.
Proposed: The state provides public housing to low-income families.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 04:47:43, September 12, 2007 CET | From |  Imperial Cildanian Egoists | To | Debating the Action- Right to Basic Standards of Living. |
| Message | Right to a basic standard of living? People have a right only to what they earn. The simple fact of living earns nothing. |
| Date | 05:13:00, September 12, 2007 CET | From | Action | To | Debating the Action- Right to Basic Standards of Living. |
| Message | You speak of liverty and freedom and yet you will not allow either to fluish under your reign. You see the people only as parts of the economic machine, Inhuman and valueless. The People contribute more to our nation than a thousand corporations, Without the people the economy is meaningless, and yet you only have your eyes on the money. -Pilgrim |
| Date | 05:38:31, September 12, 2007 CET | From | Imperial Cildanian Egoists | To | Debating the Action- Right to Basic Standards of Living. |
| Message | There is no higher humanity than participation in the economic "machine". The inhuman and valueless are those who rely on welfare, for they take without participating. "The people" do not contribute more than a thousand corporations, for without the thousand corporations, the people would have no jobs. It is the capitalist who allows the worker the opportunity to work. |
| Date | 06:37:33, September 12, 2007 CET | From | Action | To | Debating the Action- Right to Basic Standards of Living. |
| Message | So you stife the small buisnessman the enturpenuer, the true fondations of capitalism with the uneducated, sickly and unhappy workforce being bred by your policies even the corporations and investors shall suffer. Would it not be finer for the industrial machine to work for the betterment of the Nation, the majority rather than the financal few. -Pilgrim |
| Date | 06:38:39, September 12, 2007 CET | From | Action | To | Debating the Action- Right to Basic Standards of Living. |
| Message | No liberties are harmed by this bill. But the choice for assistance is their and the populace have the liberty to ask. |
| Date | 06:40:07, September 12, 2007 CET | From | Justice League of Cildania | To | Debating the Action- Right to Basic Standards of Living. |
| Message | Liberty and freedom mean freedom from government and criminal force, not freedom from reality. No such thing as a free lunch :) |
| Date | 06:48:37, September 12, 2007 CET | From | Marxist-Leninist Happiness Front | To | Debating the Action- Right to Basic Standards of Living. |
| Message | All measures we can support. |
| Date | 06:58:06, September 12, 2007 CET | From | Action | To | Debating the Action- Right to Basic Standards of Living. |
| Message | It is the Leage who have abandoned reality. A society run in the interests of the market without any safeguards destabilitises and cannot last. Under the current policies the quality of the work will fail, the workforce diminish and nation tetter on economic collapse. There can be no progress under the heavily restricted and regulated society under which we now live, These regulations are set by Finance and not by the government elected by the people for the people. You have opened the doors, not to liberty, but to tyrrany by anothers hand. If this continues the Republic will no longer be the government, as the nation will be divied and governed by Finance and we will just be the puppet show, Powerless and irrevant opering in the shadow of the dictatorship of Finance. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 78 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 234 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 113 |
| Random fact: "OOC", "IC" and "IG" are commonly-used acronyms in Particracy. "OOC" refers to comments, discussions and actions which are out-of-character, meaning they are done player-to-player rather than party-to-party. "IC" refers to in-character interactions (ie. party-to-party). Similarly, "IG" means in-game, although this term may also simply refer to what happens in the actual game interface, as opposed to on the forum or elsewhere. "RP" just means "role-play". |
| Random quote: "The whole uncivilized bunch on the opposite benches can get stuffed." - Craig Warwick, former Dranian politician |