Living Wage (Paperback) | Released: 16 Jan 2017

"Let me put it like this; The economy is like a cat. It sits there and looks real pretty, it purrs once in a while and if it really likes you, it rubs up against you. But you never own the cat, the cat owns you. It takes what it wants and gives what it wants, but it demands all your time and attention. And you give it, because you're afraid if you don't the cat will leave and you won't have a cat at all. After a while, depending on how the cat is treating you, you like the cat and tell everyone there is nothing like the cat and you would do anything for your cat and you think everyone else should have a cat and if they don't have a cat you look down on them, or..."Jake was scowling, "Or what?""Or your cat is bad to you and you hate the cat and wish it was something else, or that it would just go away, or anything. But the cat is always there, and you serve it because you feel like you have no choice, no matter how bad the cat treats you."When Jake Plummer decides he can run for president and lose while educating people about a Living Wage, he realizes he has a tiger by the tail. Come see what heppens when an honest man decides to tell the truth in America, and actually do what he says he's going to do.Meet the over-sexed financier, the Three Blind Mice, the best group of criminal bodyguards east of the Rockies, and a whole cast of unlikely characters who plot to end the American dream by winning an election.We all know it's hard to make a living, but Jake Plummer knows why. He decides to do what can't be done; run for president with no party backing, no money, and by telling people the truth. It works so well, he has a chance of winning! This is no populist presidential candidate. Jake is about educating people that the only thing that will save America is a living wage, and freedom from the economic apartheid that is tearing this country apart. Unlike other people who would use poor people to get what they want, Jake helps people see the truth of what they could, and should, have in their lives. He's honest, he sits in their kitchens, sleeps on their couches, and gets arrested when too many of them show up at a rally. Jake has his loyal wife, a recovering alcoholic campaign manager, bodyguards recruited from drug gangs, an over-sexed finance manager, and the Three Blind Mice, a group of genuises who all like to say the same thing at the same time.As unlikely as this story may be, we've seen the evil version of it play out in America recently. This is what it COULD be, and what it should be. Within each evil there is some truth, or evil can't grow. And within each truth, there exists the potential for evil.Jake Plummer shows us what may happen if we decide to treat people fairly. The ending shows us the difference between what using people for profits looks like, and what standing up for them as human beings looks like.This is a story about helping people get from one day to the next. About the things that are really inmportant; educating our kids, feeling secure in our homes, and not being slaves to our managers at work. People all over the world want the same thing; they want to enjoy their lives and see their kids grow up without being harmed. The few who would turn all of us into slaves for their own gain have sold us on an idea that things will never change. Jake Plummer says it's time for a change.And that change is called The Living Wage.