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 at 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 hunger days, 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 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, of 101200 bucks just to file bankruptcy. no, 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, 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 of a perfectly healthy, but you don't know what's going on inside someone's body in 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 so young for 2070 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. 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 get 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 whole small town and it has destroyed many families. it sure has shown amanda grand brady, j o. 6 a i so want to have one and a half works harder that you just don'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 the girls in 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,

no, 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 foot for the nearest place. hulu with masha 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 time ago around a born in pasco, yet another $200.00. he didn't have that $2.03 time you, pasco,

and monopoly. the gang would be over and about 3 turns. see that $200.00 you get for passing go when 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 it. 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 representative 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,

i have to buy groceries here at the bar. vision lies example 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 go started off with the river cuz the doc is a little bit either further, but here, oh i forgot to throw oh, did you get infrastructure like roads and bridges and rail brings in business. oh, basic income is like infrastructure spending for families. right, last families to, 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, gamma wish money, and got me out here, hard or gain. imagine was she had to go through a hated to put her in a 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 hard to pay. you know, if you can get the money game, it scares me death. i'm a ne, a or if i know of, i don't buy it after so long, they're gonna come get in type me away from a family in. are you working right now? i'm fine off in our working room. it's hard on me. course i'm notice you guys knows my hands and stuff. it's hard on me cuz i retain fluid and

stuff. but i know when i have to give 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 and i mean it would god oh mine. okay, the market magic way it would, dave. so my family may, my wife would live better. we would our years much is mounted. our

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an engagement. it was the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look so common ground a story with the law. we have which are ours. good make, you know, i'm not know, let you to really care about me. if you care about the play. i wish somebody could just tell me why they're all hatred, lynching, beating poverty, why supremacy is just for disgusting ambulance. the people in mississippi voted on a flyer, and 65 percent of the people voted to keep the car and flag our purpose is to to

play in the good name and the confederates held because of these monuments that you see everywhere or not. can they not monuments to the confederate government, their monuments to the soldiers that are, you know, if we're going to be offended by everything, every negative part of our history, we have to get rid of everything. oh mm. mm mm 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, our 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 basic it come to us. i just up a couple of different things on 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 specific be 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. that was good enough for jesus. think it ought to be good enough for us to 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 tank somebody to paypal or via bill money. they wouldn't turn into

a dope, a couch, potatoes, works 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, go out 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 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 cash or stop 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 residence and 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 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, the then that's the beauty and the power pairs. ah, i use 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 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 with also learned. ah me. i was able to go ahead and now enrolled him in daycare in the and just focus on school. i sorry my sake of the military and medical bill in the coding and 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 it was 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 is not enough to sustain yourself or your family. so individuals took this for what it was an opportunity to get a lead up, an opportunity to put in place a plan for themselves and their families. so no one quit working individuals when and gab better career opportunities in the day doesn't look at the school individual paid off dead individuals, labor, charbonneau watson, l. polls of valentine bay. it were the inside. he can make them with the keys in 6 months for the baby girls when he had a gar. mary had a when i was nervous and i get up. there was a fine. oh my god, i have no stump into tears or gotten road on row in. i looked up a he boy, he bo, he crying hard and air reward. you know, there was, it was exciting. you know,

50000. yeah. she started the, she started the, that the room, all crying. yes. mom, actually i was on a magnet with cancer hearts out. they also want our relationship close to because you know, my mom got the phone and you know she needed a lot, or she is made of being queen o name she here with the below. she'll with the key. so now, harby and dal, you know, just to return the favor just to be like, mom, we're for you just like use here 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 depended 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 need it. 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, which is campaign by 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 visas administration. i met some great people who it's great think they let me know when i cross the bridge to come pop to warm. 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 to change your life. a new situation then in your

awaiting kamani. and we have here with what you think is gonna happen when the programs 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 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 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, 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 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 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 blanket 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 a with

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in only one main thing is important for not as an internationally speaking. that is, that nations, because that's allowed to do anything, all the mazda races, and then you have the minor nation. so all the slaves, americans, proc obama and others have had a concept of american exceptionalism. international law exist as long as it serves american interest. if it doesn't, it doesn't exist by turning those russians into this dangerous go. you man, that wants to take over the world. that was a conscious strategy. so some golf out of it on your own, i not leashed off tim zip on and tablet block. nato said, it's ours. we moved east and the reason us, hey jim, it is so dangerous, is it deny the sovereignty of all the countries?

the exceptionalism that america uses and its international war planning is one of the greatest threats to the populations of different nations. if nature, what is bad that shareholders in united states and elsewhere in large obs companies would lose millions of millions or is business and business is good. and that is the reality of what we're facing, which is fashion. and what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race is on very dramatic development. only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very difficult time. time to sit down and talk and 2022. the italian government approved a package of military

a to ukraine coordination with nature to help ukrainians defend themselves and fight back about 150000000 euro as well. i make a week, almost even i told me bombs are hearing all the same nato and the u. f. issue. i'm the one that people will die just for make money. the one that i've been yes, there while you mess you got for. if you're gone through my, she thought complete, i mean there's water damage with me, you only get on to get i want for them. it is what are more sorry me by short part tool for able hopa exec leila lesser opinion polls show that over 70 percent of italians are against military support for ukraine. i landed in confront with the day after the flap don't a level yet. never really got it more on

a skid out and go home and do not she then da da da da dad. we log lucille my last lot, a lot she, they've been a fool. he said, we're not in fun. theatre the ah, we don't recall a similar reaction in the west in 2015 when risen of crimea were left without water and electricity due to ukraine's actions. moscow head south walls, it calls a western hypocrisy of the un security council. dots in response to an emergency session over russian strike on ukraine's critical infrastructure. that the 5 russian prisoners of war are released often negotiations with p. f. c. his some of their harrowing stories with some of us were forced to walk and crawl after being shot in the knees. they brought one guy to the camp.