Minimum Wage
What's up with that crazy minimum wage, anyway? It's not like anybody could actually live on that, could they? Could you? What if you had to live on it some day? Plus, it's dragging our salaries downward.
Minimum Vacation
Our favorite paycheck party proposal guarantees anyone who works 30 paid vacation days a year, plus holidays. Could save the travel industry in one fell swoop and reduce unemployment drastically.
Minimum Health Care
If 47 million people are working their rear ends off for bosses too cheap to buy them health care insurance, then why not pass a law making it illegal to not give it to them? No more deductions from your paycheck, either. Not in the paycheck party way of doing things!
Minimum Severance Pay
Severance pay is the money bosses get when they quit or get fired for doing an even crappier job than they usually do. It's time to give this great benefit to everyone else in the company, too. Not just the boss and his buddies, but all of us.
Minimum Pension Plan
Why privatize social security when it works fine just the way it is. Sure, it's not enough money to live on, but that's where a law requiring businesses to save money for when you are ready to retire for you is needed. And you keep it even if you quit or get fired, too.
The Paycheck Party is our best hope for getting the politicians of this country to stop running our government to benefit the rich bosses and bankers and to start benefitting us, the people who get up and go to work every day.
The paycheck party is just us, with one idea in mind: Better paychecks, easier to get, and dignity in the workplace for all of us, from the executive suites down to the janitor's closet. It's just a way of looking at politics that cuts through the crap.
The country is mostly three different groups:
The Government
The government is supposed to be by the people and for the people, but the governing politicians have figured out a neat and simple way to avoid accountability to we the people. Divide and conquer. The old two party system. Nothing that goes wrong is ever anyone's fault when each side blames the other.
The Bosses
The rich and powerful overlords who finance the campaigns of the politicians. The politicians are not stupid, and know that they are really working for them and not for us. We can be easily bought off with a $50 tax cut and some hysterical talk about terrorists or gay marriage, but the bosses want real payback for their money. So in Washington DC, this small minority is heard the loudest and the most.
The paycheck party
That's us. We are actually almost everyone in the country, aren't we? If we only vote for politicians that offer us something, maybe things will finally get a little better in this country for everyone who works for a living.
If you want to know the rules, click here. Otherwise join the paycheck party Google Group and tell us what you think. But most of all, ask your politicians what they intend to do for the paycheck party and vote for whoever promises to give us a decent life.
If you are a diehard conservative who hates liberals click here.
If you are a bitter, angry liberal who hates conservatives click here.
If you make a lot of money but are kind of afraid that if you step out of line you might lose it all click here.
If you make a decent amount of money but are living from paycheck to paycheck and nervous about that click here.
If you don't make nearly enough money compared to what you ought to then click here.
But don't even click on any of the links above
if you think it's getting pretty obvious that no matter who you think you are, you are just a person who gets up and goes to work every day and is tired of being ignored by your own elected officials. I hope you are starting to get the idea that 'divide and conquer' is the simple and effective strategy that the politicians and bosses have been using for years to keep us confused about what they should be doing for us.
