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Bill: Helping The Poor Get To Work
Details
Submitted by[?]: Pseudocentrists
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: June 2234
Description[?]:
| If You Can't Afford A Car, You Should Still Be Able To Get To Work |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Funding of public transport (where applicable).
Old value:: Public transport is fully user-pays.
Current: Public transport is partially subsidised with the remainder "user-pays".
Proposed: Public transport is partially subsidised with the remainder "user-pays".
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:04:32, May 27, 2006 CET | From | Barmenistan Communist Party | To | Debating the Helping The Poor Get To Work |
| Message | We'd of course like to go farther than this. The question is, can we get the PDP to support it? |
| Date | 17:12:25, May 27, 2006 CET | From | Partiya Rizgarî ya Bamenistan | To | Debating the Helping The Poor Get To Work |
| Message | We disagree here. Does the PC believe that everyone who hasn't a car is poor and unemployed ? If so, why is our unemployment rate very low ? Besides that, the current competition between bus- and railway companies already brings about low prices. No reason to change the current policy. |
| Date | 23:23:57, May 27, 2006 CET | From | Pseudocentrists | To | Debating the Helping The Poor Get To Work |
| Message | If the PDP won't support it, we'll move back further to the right. We're equally comfortable as a centrist or left of center party. |
| Date | 23:27:28, May 27, 2006 CET | From | Pseudocentrists | To | Debating the Helping The Poor Get To Work |
| Message | Oh, and to the Liberals, currently all of our prefectures excluding Murdhild are below Terran averages in unemployment. |
| Date | 02:48:39, May 28, 2006 CET | From | Barmenistan Communist Party | To | Debating the Helping The Poor Get To Work |
| Message | Our unemployment rate is low because capitalists control the formulas used to calculate unemployment, and so lots and lots of things are left unaccounted for. Those workers who are forced into full-time positions at part-time salaries, without access to unions, without a decent wage--those people are certainly underemployed, and that should be taken into account--also, unemployment figures never take into account those people who have given up looking for work. Unemployment figures are a capitalist lie. |
| Date | 08:54:55, May 28, 2006 CET | From | Partiya Rizgarî ya Bamenistan | To | Debating the Helping The Poor Get To Work |
| Message | PC: The rates are low anyway and the Cabinet should do everything to bring it down but these measurement will backfire. By increasing the GDP share of the state the sound financial policy of the Pseudocentrists of the past can not be maintained. CRP: A very typical reaction of communists: bad founded arguments and accusations. Looks like the CRP- attorneys at work after you accomplished your proletarian ideal state. "Betrayal of the working class, death sentence" will be the verdict of the CRP judges of course. By the way everyone can be a member of a union and before you start another round of accusations....yes, they are allowed to strike and cannot be fired by your enemy, the entrepreneurs. |
| Date | 22:04:43, May 28, 2006 CET | From | Barmenistan Communist Party | To | Debating the Helping The Poor Get To Work |
| Message | Yes, but the idea that the labor market is completely fluid is also a capitalist lie. A worker dissatisfied with his job cannot just go "screw you, I'm going to this other company that has better benefits." Other factors such as a worker's training, educational background, geographical limitations, or just a lack of other jobs might prevent that worker from being able to get a better job. Also, saying that all workers have the opportunity to join a union doesn't make it so. Corporations use all kinds of intimidation tactics to prevent workers from forming and joining unions. Such is the nature of capitalism. And especially in the service sector there are a lot of workers making a pittance who are basically employed as "part-time" but work 40 hours a week or more. These facts are the cogs that make the machine of capitalism work. There is no way to "fix" them except to stop the machine and replace it with a better one. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 407 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 343 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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