came off the horse i in a curve. how does my founder on a bank? and now here's my grand great grandmother and great grandfather. here it's peaceful. i really like it up here and then since my family's buried here, how does feel like i need to come up here and take care of the same material. mm. 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 it 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 an advance 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 healthy 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 fees all your body with blood. and mine was ripping apart both by the force of the blood. which means i have to keep 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 just 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 801200 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 to, 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 likes align left in the army originally. and when i got out, i just didn't come back home. i just started work, started going 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 to full time in saying 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 get their bass and it's bad time and ready to start all over it. 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 crazy day. oh. 6 the smart a i still wanna warn him to have to work hard that he just didn't want to live in a basement a bag. i gave him 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 the 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 in, 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 great time ago around a born in pasco, yet 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. you can give you hope that maybe just maybe you could still pull this off a 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 farish will say at the bar groceries here at the bar visualizes out by 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 production. oh offering 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. 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. it'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 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 ne, a or if i know if i don't buy it after so long they're gonna come get in. take me away from a family and are you working right now and sign off in our 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 by maybe days all turn came down

and he didn't show it to you guys. but when he slid down the hill over there to, 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 would, our years much is mounted out at valen. nearby wyoming out the paper. okay. and if you don't me careful. mm mm.

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you go to the broker insurance card company. what is covered in a new book with more? do this completely put us because those are supported boy, e, a lesson with a little too much with a late. what is her 3rd, but the estimate, the moment, and then i mean with, with me watching it was a way you can go to if i give but when you go in there,

the shadow shorter one a not by me. the ah ah 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 . our children are 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 was in people. there's 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 hope in years or what tribal pursue entity, or other belief systems that we prior to that 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 somebody to paypal or

via bill money they wouldn't turn into a dope, 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. 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 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, 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 does have an opportunity to show up and live their full lives. and that is the beauty in the power pad. ah, 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. so, oh baker, allowing him to be somewhere where he can also not, not just be and watch to what 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 and they all coating at the finish that semester. i made the dean's list, there was a very exciting. i got my ged. i graduated in june on 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 loan. oh polls. and they you of the very side he can make them with the keys in 6 months from the baby girls. when a guy mary had a when i was. c nervous and i get up there was a flight. oh my god, i have no stump into tears or gotten road on row in. i looked up a he boy, he bowl he cry on an air roar. you know, and it was exciting. well,

you know, because he thought, yeah, he started it, he started the that the rural, all crying. yes ma'am. actually i was on a magnet with cancer 1st and south. they also want our relationship close to between the, you know, my mom got c o m a and you know, she needed a lot or she is mer to stay in the 09. she here with the bill. she out 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 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 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. most importantly, where do i go? family, milan, gayety, bow lane, movies. we were able to celebrate a lie, a few times before holidays, 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, a home diesel administration. i made some great people who it's great think, wait, let me know when i crossed the bridge to come pop to home. so i'm very excited about a, you know, just say people, you know, and looking out for you just to see did, you're trying to do something, you know,

to change your life in your situation than in your awaiting like kamani. and we're happy to share with of what you think is gonna happen when the program and 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 which you and your family need, i have to say that i trust you had 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 their, ah ah, in the end, if 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 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 really a stag. cashed to me, it's freedom, it, it, it's bringing. it gives you options that without that you do not have a casual ass them the freedom to actually make the decisions 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 in that pitch. so it's something i really want for, you know,

the disadvantage 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. i take this opportunity and see that we do not have a limited 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 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. racket medical bills are never going to be able to pay. and oh, by the way, a global freaking contagion level pandemic. hard to feel very good about. they drop me off. don't you think you'd feel a little better if you had slightly more assurance that you and your family we are 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 the get all american pass so that no one has to start from nothing. that's freedom that you b r. take about a with

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