appearance, and since my family's buried here, how this feel like, i need to come up here and take care of the same material. 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 i 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 it into the hunkers,

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 an 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 to help this person ever. i all sudden 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, it will rupture in you just 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, what we spend another 4 trillion dollars on. we spend another 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 like celine 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 and 10 in the program in buying a 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 is 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, 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 on i need is there what you have to do? you know, so in where you go, i don't like about where i spend my money and i would much rather do it here than to have to drive 30 or 45 minutes to for the nearest place. it will with the fashion nowadays. we really would like to say the town come alive again,

like said, we just need more, a fuller will in 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 time it go around the board, the costco, yet another $200.00. you didn't have that $2.03 time 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. they are no matter what. it's unconditional. you know, it's come, you're getting it, whether you're winning or you lose in and if you're losing, it can give you a chance. you can give you hope that maybe just maybe you could still pull this off

in our representatives in, in legislatures and congress. they know that investments payoff, right? they know that, for example, a $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 travel here just to free and buy them, come into slot, or just to visual, say at the bar groceries here at the bar vision loss is out of bar gas. you know, those terms like to economy, you know, quite a bit with right, 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 to

the doctor a little bit either further, but you know, oh the offer has got a girl. oh oh, did you get infrastructure like roads and bridges and rail brings in business. basic income is like infrastructure spending for families. right. last families to, to pay for the infrastructure that they need, whether it's child care, or whether ah, ah, that everything is changing. and then 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,

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ah. 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 pre suppositions 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. are 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 to say, 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 like somebody to paypal or via bill money they wouldn't journey into well doped a couch potatoes work and what we are name. but when i asked 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. i'm looking at this way. if i'm growing a garden in my family, what there have a nice garden wait, work hard on that. so you're saying i should just open the door and let the neighbor down the road. he didn't won't work so hard. come in here and get part of my garden house at rat, for us just kind of resist. this is almost a question of human nature. you know,

how do people think about other people beyond their own family or 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 manion surprise groceries pay and 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 the school, get better and coin opportunities aren't to like be or more engaged parents to re establish relationships. really does have an opportunity to show up and live their full lives. the then that's the beauty and power care. oh i used the for so many things stay and on top of paying the bills in the household, things i was having to like take the baby to play so you know me, you know, you can't really just really have the baby as food though. oh baker, allowing him to be somewhere where he can also not. not just being watch dewitt also learned. ah me,

i was able to go ahead and now enroll him in daycare in the and just focus on school. on my sake a semester. he a medical bill in the coding 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 a 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 dead individuals, labor, charbonneau, mazda lo, poles and they it was the name side. i can make them with the keys in

6 months for the baby girls were in a gar. mary had a when i was in. c movies and i get up there on this line. oh my god, i have to do something to tear the golden road on row in. i looked up a he, boy, he bow, he cry on an air roar. you know, and it was exciting. well, you know, because he, yeah, he started the, he started the that the rural, all crying. yes. mom actually i was on madness with cancer hearts out. they also want our relationship close to between the, you know, my mom got the oh, and you know, she needed a lot or she is mer to stay in a quiet oh name she here with the below. she'll with the key. so now, harby and now, you know, just to return the favor just to be like, mom, we're for you. just like use your for me all, even though it is

a guaranteed income pilot in there, 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 receive 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, we do like family mark line katie bow lane movie. we were able to celebrate a law where they, we, you know, times before holidays and just campaign by actually being able to get together as a family member, how sole means lie and up. i'm actually going to be looking for a job in beesley administration. i met some great people, great, great things,

way let me know when cost a brief to come pop 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're trying to do something, you know, to change your life. and you situations standing here waiting like kamani. and we're happy here with that. what do you think is gonna happen when the program ends? you know, 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. 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 are not there. 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 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. an 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 a stag. cashed to me it's freedom and it is 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 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 have 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 bay and 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 freakin, contagion level, pandemic. hard to feel very good about thank treadmill. don't you think you 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 lipp 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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