a, she came off a horse in a curve and i found her on the bank and over here is my grand great grandmother in great grandfather. here it's pays full. i really lock it up here and then since my family's buried here, i just feel like i need to come up here and take care of the secretary the i disliked volunteer and do things for my community in try to make a difference. the no one ever dies and says, and i wish i had a better job, they say i wish i had more time to spend with my family. i wish i could've explored some of my interest of music or ard, or church, or being a baseball coach. and so i just think we're at

a moment where we're going to have machines and artificial intelligence produce a lot of things much more cheaply than we've ever seen before. we're going to have the potential for abundance. and when we have abundance, what we should do is give people the chance to live out their dreams, whatever they are. and that's the gift of this moment. if we don't turn into the 100 is we already spend billions of dollars every year in this country to try to address poverty and economic insecurity. what do we get for that money? we get 50 percent of americans living paycheck to paycheck. 50 percent of americans who have little or no savings in the banks to tie them over if they encounter a serious illness. 50 percent americans don't have that kind of savings to get them over that kind of an offense. come on in the house. here it is what it is, but i'm happy here. i must the rocks very much of over. i seriously

thought i was the help this person ever. i also just feel like someone helped me and my spine with an x and my blood pressure was 380 over 260. and then they finally came in and decided that i've had a order dissection. there's 3 lines to your a order which fees all your body with blood. and mine was ripping apart both by the force of the blood. which means i have to my blood pressure down very, very low. because because to hide, it will rupture and use dead wherever you're at me when you're sick and you're trying to deal with a potentially fatal health issue. there's just so much stress, you know, uh on the financial end of it because you're getting these phone calls every day

and, and every attorney i would call it was like a $11200.00 just to file bankruptcy. and i'm thinking, or you know, am i so broke? i can't afford to offer bankruptcy. you know, of my, um, cardiovascular specialist, their vendor bill, he wrote on my medical records, they said, look, this guy does not need to wait for his disability. he needs it. now, and i still had to wait 15 months, you know, if it hadn't been for a family and some friends, i don't know what i would have done. i really don't because i mean, i had no money and you know, i had to, i had to eat the look at someone like you can look at me right now. perhaps and, and maybe think of

a perfectly healthy, but you don't know what's going on inside someone's by the feel what we spend another 2 trillion dollars on. spend another trillion dollars on tax cuts for wealthy people. do you see the effects of wealthy people spending those tax cuts that we give them? and so i know, or do you think that instead of economic activity always coming from the top and trickling down, that economic activity might actually be kind of thing. the bubbles up from the ground right with, if everybody has a decent amount of economic security and has money to spend, then economic activity will spiral upwards and community like so on the left in the army originally. and when i got out, i just didn't come back home. i just started work for 2070

the reason that i'm here back in. so i is because uh i have custody of my 2 granddaughters. they are uh, 11 and 10 and its a full time saying i live here and go home, start getting ready for them to get home from school and then your course we have to have supper and if their homework gets their bass and it's bad time and ready to start all over again. they've been through a lot of debate as small as they are. and same thing, the 3rd things and the child should, you know, drugs is really bad thing here in this whole small town and it has destroyed many families. it sure has showed mind that the world. 6 so smart, it literally can do whatever to the 1st one i want him to have works hard is that you still

a lot of us live in the basement and packed. i gave up the best job i ever had in my life when i came back to take care of girls in that it was either that or let them go into states custody. and so i gave it all up, came back out. and i need to say what you have today, you know, so the there you go, i do think about where i spend my money and i would much rather do it here. and they have to drive 30 to 45 minutes to the foot for the nearest place, the flu because

we really would like to say the sound come alive again, like i said, we just need more people that are willing to invest in the community. if we give everybody money, you know, everybody has something to spend and they can spend it in, in each other's businesses. and that creates an upward spiral of economic activity that can revitalize. the small town likes lajna. and if i can make the analogy to a board game, if you think about the game monopoly time to go around the board, the costco, you get another $200.00. you didn't have that $2.03 telling you pasco, and monopoly. the game would be over and about 3 terms. see that $200.00 you get for passing go and monopoly. that's universal, basic income. there no matter what, it's unconditional. you know it's come, you're getting it, whether you're winning or you lose. and if you're losing, it can give you a chance. and so you can give you hope that maybe just maybe you can still pull

this off the, our representatives in the legislatures congress, they know the investments pay off, right? they know that, for example, $1000000.00 investments in the fish hatchery at the hollow pays off in multiples of that amount, every year in the tourism that it brings into this community. a lot of people actually travel here just to fish and buy them, come and do a lot of just to fish and say, i have to buy groceries here at the buy fusion license. i have to buy gas, you know, they, they stimulate the economy, you know, quite a bit the right, this is why our representatives fight for money, washington to bring back to our communities because they know that these investments can have multiplier effects that bring in much more than the cost of those programs, it goes straight up. the river offers has got

a unit infrastructure like roads and bridges and rail rings in business. all basic income is like infrastructure spending for families, for the less families to, to pay for the infrastructure that they need, whether it's child care or whether it's housing, whether it's food closing, for a car that works for medical expenses. these are all infrastructure investments as well in the productive power of our people and our families in our communities. finally, my wife came up this money and got yeah, it was hard on. i can't imagine what you had to go through the. i hated to put your net predicament. now i would never have to put her in that project me again if i

can help it. but like i said, as long as hard to get work is hard to pay, you know, if you can get the money to pay, it scares me that and any day or if i know if i don't pay it after so and they won't come get indicted anyways, my family and are you working right now? i'm signing off and on working roof and it's hard on me course. i'm notice you guys notice my as the it's hard on me because i retain fluid and stuff but i get it done. and i, when i have to cause my kids, you know, we try to go to a doctors office, they wouldn't accept him because they don't have insurance. and then that goes all the way back to the money thing. no money. so because you don't got no money, we don't care about your health. we don't care what's going on with you. we're not going to tell you good by they but days all turn him down.

and he didn't show it to you guys, but when he slid down the hill over there to to catch land and that heard him a got him with the $1000.00 and then help you or a i mean it would die on mine. ok. then bucket. imagine what it would do for my family. may my wife would live better. we would argue as much is allowed is our is valid and the, and then the intel, the table. ok. maybe then we go for the,

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i know me, they've been dealing with nearly many bits of shown in space. so it see, read down could have been yet a letter with just the monday or they going this could do gasket monday. did you want to go to some community dock? a. the law got $1.00 and $2.00, but she's the committee goes empty and the i mean the same going 3, i'm we a multi danielle and she be the be i one of all the go on beyond what he did not turn on. but kick was it, give him a go down to see what will be the the

we have 2 choices when we design programs for the poor and for people who are struggling, we can say, you need to prove to me 1st that you're worthy of my health. and then i'll help you . ready more we can treat people the way we treat our families. our children are neighbors and say, we're going to help you 1st because we have space in you. we believe that you're going to do something good with that help. and that's what it basic income does. um, just a couple of different things. um the pre suppositions is that there is a, a belief of inherent good as that was and people there is a common belief and understanding that most people are basically good. i believe in that the we say that you have to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps. that's a really classic southern. so you know,

some people don't have bootstraps to pull up. some people don't have hands to coleman and some people don't have feet to put them on the matter was specific is or what your other felicia, as they are, where they are not to jesus, be good enough for us to the what's interesting to me talking to people about basic income, especially people that wouldn't benefit from it, is there often resistance to the idea. and often the resistance takes the form of, you know, some other people will be lazy,

some other people will use it for drugs. some other people misuse it in some way. some other people choose not to work to do you think some of these people, if you will, money they wouldn't turn into a dope, a couch, potatoes, porch and while we are name. mm hm. but when i ask people, well, what would you do? right? no one has ever said to me like, oh, i'll sit on the couch and buy some drugs and some alcohol and be lazy. but i'm looking at it this way. if i'm girl in a garden, in my family, what they're that with national guard and we work hard on that. so you're saying i should just open the door and let the neighbor down the road and it will work so hard. come in there and get part of my garden. how is that right? for us. this kind of resistance is almost a question of human nature. you know, how do people think about other people beyond their own family and friends? do they trust them or do they not trust them? and i think that's that's what we kind of have to talk about. and that's where actually pilots are very useful because we have a little bit of and i,

we have actually quite a lot of impair 11 saying, well actually most people act like you and your friends in your family. basic income pilots have been done all over the world, and generally they do not find that people misuse the cash or stop working when they receive it. in 2019, the mayor of stockton, california launched and 18 month program, where they gave $500.00 a month, no strings attached to a $125.00 residents and made less than cities. annual median income. one of those recipients spends the money on surprise, groceries paying bills, you know, the same things you and your family would probably spend the money onto the . so we are within the last 30 days of the pilot project. in this 1st year with the 20 women and we work with, we have seen them do everything from payoff predatory debt. go back to school,

get veterans, employment opportunities to like be or more engaged. parents re establish relationships. really just have an opportunity to show up and we have their full lives. the then that's the beauty and a power path. i use the for so maybe things stay and on top of paying the bills, the household things i'm saving to like take the baby to glaze so you know they, you know, you can't really just really have the baby is closed. so the daycare allow them to be somewhere where he can also not, not just be watch the but also learn the me. i was able to go ahead and enroll him in daycare in the end is focused on school. start in las vegas, the military and medical building. they are coding. as i finish that semester, i made the dean's lease, there was a very exciting gamma g

b. i graduated in june. i was very excited about that because it was really one of the things that he cannot hinder me from getting a job basically uh, with the job receiving a $1000.00 a month. even though it is a blessing is not enough to sustain yourself or your family. so individuals took this for what it was an opportunity to get a leg up an opportunity to put in place a plan for themselves and their families. so no one quit working individuals went and got better career opportunities individually that the school individual paid off that individuals able to show up in their own lives and controls valentine's day it was uh, his name's diety. you can make them with the keys. thanks so much for me today because went ahead and got married, had a williams, and i get up there on this line. oh my god, i have to do something to 2 years ago the road i got a row and i looked up

a blue table. he crying hard and ever worn down. it was excited. yeah, she saw her to be, she started the, the ripple trying a tom actually um was on adding those will cancel services out. they also want our relation goals and to, you know, my mom got the, um and you know, she needed a lot where she got the mfc inquiry. she helped with the bills here with key. so now her being down, you know, just to return the favor just to be like mom, we're for you. you just like use your for me even though it is a guaranteed income pilot and there are other guaranteed income pilots currently being conducted. ours is the only one working with extremely low income families. so families who have various subsidies that they are dependent upon. and even though individuals had a decrease in benefits,

they still say that they are glad that they received the cash because the cash allowed and the opportunity to do whatever they needed. it wasn't about share or subsidy dedicated to one particular bank. or most importantly, we do like a family, not a booby. we were able to celebrates a lot they we forbes holidays and just count prior to actually being able to get together in the family. have so many things lined up. i'm actually going to be looking for a job in these ministration. i meet some great people, great things say well let me know when cost a breeze to come talk to him. so i'm very excited about the

notes. just say people, you know, and looking out for you just see that you're trying to do something, you know, change your life, easy generations, standing here waiting like come on and we had to use that i think is gonna happen when you know, i believe that we spent a lot of time thinking about what happens when something ins and to me that's a clarify and i'm not trusting individuals that if i am going to say that i trust you enough to give you money and know that you are going to do what you and your family need, i have to say that i trust you enough to have put a plan in place for when is money and stuff. so i believe that individuals are going to continue to do whatever they need to do to take care of themselves and their on the, in the end, people want to be productive. they want to have a better tomorrow and they have to day. and if you give people a stable,

durable source of income that they can count on, then most people will invest that money in ways that are best for them. as we live in a moment of change, it's going to happen. driverless cars are going to arrive and artificial intelligence is going to improve progress though, in terms of people and whether they're better or worse off. that is optional. this is a moment to leave. this is a moment for debate because the future of our families and our children is realistic. cash to me it's freedom and it is bringing. it gives you options that without did you do not have a casual, asked them the freedom to actually make the decision to determine what it is that they need for themselves. you know, right now i'm an academic, let's say for some reason academia doesn't work out. and i need to take a couple of years to get some training or to switch careers. or let's say i have a parent that really needs my help. i can instantly fall back on that universal

basic income and not pitch. so it's something i really want for, you know, the disadvantaged people in this country, but it's something i also really want for myself. and i think that's how you create really powerful political movements. take this opportunity and see that we do not have unlimited time. and so my ask for you all to night is for you to take this new vision of the economy, this trickle up economy, this human centered economy, this vision and make it yours. i don't, no doubt picked up on it or not, but right now things are less than ideal for a huge number of people in this country. people are being let go from jobs that are never going to come back racking medical bills are never going to be able to pay, you know, by the way, a global freaking contagion level pandemic. hard to feel very good about, say, traveling. don't you think you'd feel a little better if you had slightly more assurance that you and your family were going to be okay. we really believe in the land of the free lunch act, like it's

a slip that john economic boot off of people's next, let's give everyone a piece of the good all american pass so that no one has to start from nothing that's freedom that you be. i think about the,

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