i found her on her bank. and now here's my grand great grandmother and great grandfather. here it's pays full. i really like it up here and hen since my family's buried here. how this feel like, i need to come up here and take care of the same material. mm hm. i disliked volunteer and i do thanks for my community in try to make a difference. no one ever dies and says, and i wish i had a better job. they say i wish had more time to spend with my family. i wish i could have explored some of my interests 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 hackers, we already spend millions 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 bank 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 events. come on in the house. here it is. what it is, but i'm happy here much the rocks very much of our i seriously thought i was a health is person ever i all

a sudden i just feel like someone hit me and my spine with an axe and my blood pressure was 380 over 260 and then they finally came in and decided that i had an a order dissection. there's 3 lines to your a order which feed all your body with blood. and mine was ripping apart both by the force of the blood. which means i have my blood pressure down very, very low. because it gets too high. if a rupture in you use dead where you're at me when you're sick and you're trying to deal with her potentially fatal health issue . there's so much stress, you know, on the financial end of it because you're getting these phone calls every day and, and every attorney, i will call it like a 101200 bucks, just to file bankruptcy. now i'm thinking, you know,

am i so broke? i can't afford to offer bankruptcy, you know, my cardiovascular specialist there, vanderbilt, he wrote on my medical records, he 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 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, i had to eat you can look at someone like you can look at me right now perhaps and, and maybe think hello, perfectly healthy. but you don't know what's going on inside someone's body in

it. we spend another 4 trillion dollars on we spent other trillion dollars on tax cuts. are wealthy people, do you see the effects of wealthy people spending those tax cuts that we give them in salina, 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 that bubbles up from the ground right with, if everybody has a decent amount of economic security and has, might spend, then economic activity will spiral upwards and community likes align left in the army originally. and when i got out, i just didn't come back home. i just started working together for 27. the reason that i'm here back and so on. i was because i have custody of my 2 granddaughters. they are $11.10 and it's

a full time thing. i live here and go home, start getting ready for them to get home from school. and of course we have to have supper. and if their homework gets their bass and it's bad time and ready to start all over, they've been through a lot to be as small as they are and same things and heard things and that child shouldn't, you know, drugs is really bad thing here in this little small town and it has destroyed many families. it sure has shown amanda the grand favey. oh. 6 the smart a i so want to have wanted to have works hard that you just didn't want to live in a basement a bag. i gave up the best job i ever

had my life when i came back to take care of girls and 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 know what you have to do, you know, so ah, where you go. i don't like about where i spend my money and i would much rather do it here. and i have to drive 30 or 45 minutes to for the nearest place. it will with fashion nowadays. we really would like to say the town come alive again. like i said, we just need more people that are willing to last 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 like selena. and if i can make the analogy to a board game, if you think about the game monopoly, every time you go around the board, the costco, get another $200.00. you didn't have that $2.00 every time you, pasco, and monopoly. the gang would be over in about 3 terms. see that $200.00 you get for passing go and monopoly. that's universal, basic income. they are no matter what. it's unconditional. you know, it's come, you're getting it, whether you're winning or you lose and, and if you're losing, it can give you a chance and give you hope that maybe just maybe you could still pull this off in our representatives in, in legislatures,

congress. they know the investments payoff, right? they know that, for example, $1000000.00 investment in the fish hatchery, they'll hollow, pays off in multiples of that amount every year in the tourism that it brings into this community. a lot of people actually try well here, just to fish and buy them, come and do salon. i'll just to fears will say, i have to buy groceries here at the bar. vision loss is out to buy gas, you know, they, they stimulate to economy, you know, quite a bit with this is why our representatives fight for money in 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. go straight up the river because the dock is a little bit either a little low on food, who's got a girl. oh,

oh, did you get infrastructure like roads and bridges and rail brings in business? oh, basic income is like infrastructure spending for families. right. 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, or a car that works or medical expenses. these are all infrastructure investments as well in the productive power of our people and our families in our communities. volley mo, came up with money and got yeah, here's harder. again, imagine what she had to go through a hated to put her in a predicament, and i would never have to put her in a predicting again if i can, i can help it. but like i said, as long as it's hard to get work, it's hard to pay,

you know, if you can get the money, you can't pay, it scares me. death. i'm a need a a or if i know if i don't buy it after so long they won't come get in. take me away from a family in. are you working right now? i'm fine and often are working room. it's hard on me. course i'm notice you guys knows lions and stuff. it's hard on me cuz i retain fluid and stuff . but i know when i have to get my kids, you know, we tried to go to a doctors office. they wouldn't accept him because he don't have insurance. and then i 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 bye. they days all turned him down and he didn't show it to you guys, but when he slid down the hill over there to catch land in that heard him

a got him now with a $1000.00 and then help you aid. i mean it would god, oh mine. okay. them bucket. imagine what it would do. so my family may, my wife would live better. we went, our years much is mounted out at valen. nearby wyoming out the paper. okay. and if you don't me careful. mm. mm. a

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me, which of choice, musical material enough on thought it was jewish and the longer you most interested in useful not for the push to to stream remote because you know, your personal view school course. i don't know who stevie i know for the don't know that a lot of these subpoena philosophies come up with everything is changing. and one of the elements of this picture is the desperate, the effect of the west or counter attack to stop the duration of their positions. they decided to concentrate on russia. and their real aim is, of course, saving their 500 years of their domination. and the emitter intermediate,

a based on demand china. now a bunch of domains, china, they have to 1st to take out with me i mean, 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 help and then i'll help you. ready or we can treat people the way we treat our families, or children, or neighbors and say,

we're going to help you 1st because we have faith in you. we believe that you're going to do something good with that help. and that's what it basic income. just a couple of different things. the presupposition is that there is a, a belief of inherent good that within people there is a common belief and understand that most people are basically good. i believe in there with we say that you ought to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps. that's a really classic southern say though, some people don't have bootstraps to pull up. some people don't have hands to pull them. some people don't have feet to put them on to be a person of faith, no matter what was specifically a lot of in is or what try was pretty entity or other belief system that we try to

get there. isn't there ought to be a common written, loving our name for who they are for where they are not for who and where we think they ought to be. that kind of was good enough for jesus. i think it ought to be good enough for us to hey, ah, what's interesting to me talking to people about basic income, especially people that would benefit from it is they're often resistant 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 will misuse it in some way. some other people choose not to work. don't you think some of these people do . gabriel money, they wouldn't journey into well doped a couch potatoes, work and what we are name. 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 by looking at this way. if i'm growing a garden in my family, what there have a nice garden weight work hard on that. so you're saying i should just open the door and let the neighbor down the road. he didn't work so hard. come in here and get part of my garden house at rat 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 an earlier i've actually quite a lot of empirical evidence saying, well, actually most people act like you and your friends in your family. basic and compounds have been done all over the world, and generally they do not find that people misuse the cache or stopped working when they receive it. in 2019, the myra stockton, california launched an 18 month program where they gave $500.00 a month. no strings attached to

a $125.00 residents are made less than the cities annual median income. one of those recipients spent the money on surprise groceries paying bills, you know the same things you and your family would probably spend the money on to ah ah, so we are within the last $30.00 days of the pilot project. in his 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 better and coin that opportunities to like be, are more engaged parents to re establish relationships. really this have an opportunity to show up and live their full lives. and that is the beauty in the power pairs. ah, i used the for so maybe things stay and on top of paying the bills in the household

things oh, i was having to like take the maybe clay so you know me, you know, you can't really just really have the babies. oh, so oh baker, allowing him to be somewhere where he can also not, not just be and watch the but also learned. ah me. i was able to go ahead and enroll him in daycare in the and just focus on school. on my sake a semester. he a medical bill and they all coating at the finish that semester. i made the dean's lease, there was very exciting. i got my ged, i graduated in june. i was very excited about that because ill, really, one of the things that he cannot hinder me from, you know, job basically well good 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 of plan for themselves and their families. so no one, quit working individuals went and got better career opportunities in the they didn't look at the school and it was paid off. did individuals, labor, charbonneau, mazda loan? oh polls and they it was the name side who can make them with the keys in 6 months from the baby girls. when a guy mary had a when, how about tomorrow. c and i get up there on this line. oh my god, i have to do something to 2 years ago and rode on row in. i looked up a he boy, he bo, he crying hard in air reward, you know, and it was exciting. well, you know, because he, yeah, he started it, he started the that the rural, all crying. yes. mom actually i was on madness with cancer 1st. and so

they also bought our relationship close to between the, you know, my mom gas t o m and you know, she needed a lot or she got a seat is mer to stay in the 09. she here with the below. she'll with the key. so now her being down, you know, just to return the favor just to be like, mom, we're for you just like use your for me. oh, even though it is a guaranteed income pilot in their other guaranteed income pilot 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 the opportunity to do whatever they needed. it wasn't a voucher or a subsidy dedicated to one particular b. or most importantly, where do i go? family, milan, gayety, bow lane movie. we were able to celebrate a law,

let's say we, you know, times before holidays and just campaign by actually being able to get together as a family. and i have so many names lie and up. i'm actually going to be looking for a job in baez's administration. i made some great people who it's great being way, let me know when i cross the bridge to come talk to them. so i'm very excited about getting with, you know, just say people, you know, and looking at for you just to see, did you trying to do something, you know, to change a life new situations there awaiting like kamani. and we're happy to share with that. what do you think is gonna happen when the program and i believe that we

spend a lot of time thinking about what happens when something ins. and to me that's a clear sign of not trusting individuals. so 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 and that they have put a plan in place for when is money. and so, so i believe that individuals are going to continue to do whatever they need to do to take care of themselves. and, ah, ah, in the end, people want to be productive. they want to have a better tomorrow than they have today. 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, 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 lead. this is a moment for debate because the future of our families and our children is really upset. cash to me, it's freedom and it's bringing it gives you options that without that you do not have a casual asked them the freedom to actually make the decisions to determine what it is that they need for themselves. you know, right now i'm 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 in that 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. oh, we have to take this opportunity and see that we do not have

a limited time. and so my ask for you all tonight is free 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 know to have picked up on it or not, but right now things are less than ideal for a huge number of people in this country. a blur ban. let go from jobs that are never going to come back rack 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 a treadmill. 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 was slip at john, economic boot off of people's next, let's give everyone a piece of get all american pass so that no one has to start from nothing that's freedom at u b. i think about a

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the country is deeply divided. these elections make things worse. ah with i'm still shocked. i can't believe this is really happening. the main thing is that we've finally returned home. thank god, an emotional return moscow and yet can dr. another prisoner swap this time, exchanging $107.00 capture soldiers from each side. some of the russian troops described the abuse they witnessed in captivity. those 3 months were living help the forest disabled soldiers with no legs to do sit ups. i saw some guys, children, live wolf show their legs. they were swollen from beatings. hundreds of people gather outside a ha.