[000:00:00;00] ah, most people, i know they laid their 8 hour job and go home and relax, but i have about 3 or 4 more hours to go. so i just keep them close. change my clothes, a 1st job, go to the 2nd and the disks and hastening from. want to go home. oh, what's the book about this town? i? well, it is spanish. you have to repeat the mailbox she it was. it was amish. ah, yeah. i'm i have listen to some of that one with you. ah,

you see didn't have to maybe work is hard to get by. you kinda maybe spend more time with your loved ones. why? you still have them margaret, this is my grandpa sister. she ah, came off a horse i in a curve, i found her 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 hen since my family's buried here. how this feel like, i need to come up here and take care of the cemetery and is slack 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 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 advance come on in the house. here it is what it is, but i'm happy here much the rocks very much of over. i seriously thought i was the 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 fees 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 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 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 eat you can look at someone like you can look at me right now. perhaps and, and maybe think l a 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 in a community, likes align left in the army originally. and when i got out, i just didn't come back home. i just started work so young for 27. the reason that i'm here back and so on is because i have custody of my 2 granddaughters. they are 11 and 10. it's a 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 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 her child shouldn't. you know, drugs is really bad thing here in this whole small town and it has destroyed many families. it sure has shown amanda,

the grand baby. oh, they're smart. a also wanna warn that works hard, that you just don't want all of us to live in a basement with a bag. i gave up the best job i ever had my life. when i came back to that girl girl in the head, it was either that or let them going to states custody. and so i gave it all up, came back out. and i need this know what you have to do, you know? so in there 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 because this is the fashion nowadays. we really would like to save 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. yeah, 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. if i can make the analogy to a board game, if you think about the game monopoly, great time ago around the board, the costco. yeah, another $200.00. he didn't have that $2.03 time you, pasco, and monopoly, again, would be over in about 3 turns. 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. and she gave you hope it may be just, maybe you could still pull this off in our representatives in legislatures and congress. they know the investments payoff, right? they know that, for example, $1000000.00 investment in the fish hatchery deal 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 slot, or just to fears will say i have to buy groceries here at the bar. visualizes out by gas, you know, like i still 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. it goes straight up the river cuz the doc is a little bit either production. oh, i forgot to throw. 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. allows 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 out which money and got me out. here is harder. again, imagine what she had to go through. i hated to put her in that predicament, and i would never have to put her in a predictor again if i can, i can help it. but like i said, as long as it's hard to get work, it's harder paid. you know, if you got the money again, hey, it scares me death. the i'm a ne, a or if i know of, i don't buy it. after all, no one can get in type me away from a family in. are you working right now? i'm fine off in our working rooms and it's hard on me course on notice you guys knows my hands and stuff. it's hard on me cuz i retain fluid and stuff, but i get it now and i, when i have to give my kids, you know, we try 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 channels. we don't care what's going on with you. we're not going to tell you good by maybe 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 in that heard him a got him. how would a $1000.00 a man help you? i mean it would gar. oh mine, america, magic what it would do for my family. may my wife would live better. we would, our years much is mounted our balin

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ah ah ah community. we have 2 choices when we design programs for the poor, for people who are struggling, we can say you need to prove to me 1st, you're worthy of my health and then i'll help you. ready or we can treat people the

way we treat our families or children our 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 basically come to us . i just up a couple of different things i'm. 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 that ah, 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 will be in is or,

or what tribe appreciate your other belief system 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 sure that it 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 time somebody to paypal or via real money they wouldn't journey into well doped a couch potatoes work what we are now. but when i asked people, 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 look 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 opened the door and let the neighbor down the road. it 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 what, 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 mayor of stockton,

california launched an 18 month program where they gave $500.00 a month. no strings attached to $125.00 residents were made less than the cities annual median income. one of those recipients spent the money on 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 worked with, we have seen them do everything from payoff predatory debt. go back to school, get better and coin that opportunities 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 the power pairs

i use the for so maybe 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, they, you know, you can't really just really have the babies. oh so oh baker. allowing him to be somewhere where he can now, so not, not just being watched but also learned. ah me, i was able to go ahead and now enrolled him in day care and the, and just focus on school. i sorry my sake of the military and medical bill in the coding. as i finished that semester, i made the dings 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 can hinder me from, you know, job basically well good job receiving a $1000.00 a month, even though it is

a blessing. it's 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 a better career opportunities in the they didn't look at the school and it was paid off, dead individuals, labor charbonneau, wives. oh. and you will post valentine, obey it with the inside. he can make them with the keys in 6 months for the baby. girls were in a gar. mary had a when i was nervous and i get up. there was a flight. oh my god, i have to do something to tears. a golden road on row in. i looked up a he, boy, he beau. he crying hard and air reward. you know, there was, it was exciting. well, you know, 50000. yeah. she started the she started the that the rural, all cry. yes ma'am. actually i was on

a magnet with cancer hearts out. they also want our relationship close to between the, you know, my mom got the mom and you know, she needed a lot, or she is mad as being a queen o 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. oh, even though it is a guaranteed income pilot in their other guaranteed income pyle is 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? a family milan,

katie boley movie. we were able to celebrate a lab of the week before holidays and just count as barbara actually being able to get together as a family. and i have so many things lined up. i'm actually going to be looking for a job, a home diesels administration. i met some great people who it's great being late. let me know when i cross the bridge to come pop to them. so i'm very excited about a just say of people, you know, i'm looking at for you jason c. date you're trying to do something, you know, to change a life the new situations then in your awaiting kamani. and we're happy to share

with what 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 that trusting individual. 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 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, 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 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 expect cash to me. it's freedom, it, it, 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 to 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. oh,

we have to 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, you know, by the way, a global freakin contagion level pandemic. hard to feel very good about a drop male. 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 blackett. 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 at u. b. i think about

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with ah, in 2022. the in government approved a package of military aid to ukraine. coordination with nita to help ukrainians defend themselves and fight back about 150000000 euros. well, i make a week then i told me bombs are here in all the same now and the you are the ones that people will die just for make money. the one that had been yes, could there while you mess you got through on it or if you're gone through or not,

you are complete. i mean there's water. damage with on to get i want for them is what are more saw me my show, it was wrong tool or able offer. zachary law lesser opinion polls show that over 70 percent of italians are against military support for ukraine. landed in confront with the day after the flap don't a little yet a scared out and was home and do not she then the the, the daily dad will are lucille my last lot a lot. you then to sell banners, things and we're not returning fund fee to the laptop. what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy even foundation, let it be an arms race is often very dramatic development only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful,

very critical of time. time to sit down and talk with a similar reaction in the west in 2015 when the residence of crimea were left without water and electricity due to ukraine's action. not to mention the dumbasses with which has been starved off like an oxygen for 8 years. moscow heads out at western hypocrisy. add the un security council criticizing its lack of response to cranium, blockades of crimea, and don bath, that amend massive blackouts and new crate. all in russian strikes with the european parliament labels, russia, a state sponsor of terrorism,