ah ah, you just read for a while. we have which are ours we make, you know, i'm not let you to really care about me. if you care about the play. i wish somebody could just tell me why they're all lately, lynching, beating poverty, why supremacy is just the disgusting ambulance. the people in mississippi voted on a flyer, and 65 percent of the people voted to keep the car and fly or purposes to, to play in the good name of the confederates held because of these monuments that you see everywhere or not can. but they're not monuments to the can better go there,

monuments to the soldiers, to the battery. 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 m. ah, most people i know they laid their 8 hour job and go home and relax. i have about 3 or 4 more hours to go. so i just keep them close. change my clothes, 1st job. go to the 2nd and the dish. tv. ma'am. hastening from want to go home. oh, what's the book about this town? i well, it is spanish. you have to have my own box. it was. it was amish. ah,

yeah. i'm, i have listen to some of that one with you. ah, if you didn't have to, maybe work is hard to get by. you could 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 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.

i dislike 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 immense 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 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, you have a rupture in your dad where you're at me when you're sick and you're trying to deal with the 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 was like 201200 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 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 mine to spend, then economic activity will spiral upwards and community likes align left for the army originally. and when i got out, i just didn't come back home or started work. so young for 27, the reason that i'm here back in, so ana is because i have custody of my 2 granddaughters. they are a 11 and hey, then a full time thing. i leave here and go home, start getting ready for them to get home from school. and then 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. and they've been through a lot to be as small as they are and same things in the 3rd things and that the 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 shook man to the ground. crazy girl. 6 smart elliptical, or whatever it is, the owner wanted to have works hard that you just didn't want to live in a basement with impact. i gave up the best job i ever had my life when i came back to take care of the girl in the head. it was either that or let them go into states custody. and so i gave it all up, came back out. and i need is there what you have to do? you know, so in

where you go, i don't think 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. they will because this is the 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. hi, 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 and go around the board,

the costco, yet another $200.00. you didn't have that $2.03 time you, pasco, and monopoly, again, 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 and 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 finish and buy them, come and do slot. i'll just to finish will say i have to buy groceries here at the

bar vision, loss of that bar. guess. 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 program goes for it out really because the doctor a little bit either further, but here, oh the offer has got a girl. oh, oh, did you good infrastructure like roads and bridges and rail rings 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, i've come up with money and got me out here is harder. again, imagine what she had to go through. i 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 harder paid. you know, if you got the money, you can't pay, it scares me death that i'm a ne, a or if i know of, i don't buy it after so long. they're gonna come get in. take me away from a family in. are you working right now? i'm flying off in our working rooms and 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 get it now and i, 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 that 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. they all turned 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 now with a $1000.00 and then help you and i mean it would god oh mine. okay. the imagine what it would do. so my family

may, my wife would live better. we would our years much is mounted are valid and that way mom talked to paper. okay. if you don't me careful. mm. mm. a dish. oh, at the recent g, 20 meeting and bali, the west did all it could with the help of corporate media to isolate russia,

all their efforts came to nothing. in fact, the opposite happened. russia was a welcome, participated nato's proxy. war in ukraine. does united much of the global south it's made against the world? 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 a base again 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 within people there's a common belief in 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 call 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 people been, is or, or what tribe appreciated who are 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 was good enough and jesus 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 there often resistance 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 are gabriel money they wouldn't journey into well 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, go out there. have a nice garden, wait, work hard on that. so you're saying i should use open 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 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 to school, get better in coin, that 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, then that's the beauty and power care. oh, i use the for so many things. stay and on top of paying the bills in the household

themes and i was having to like take the baby to play. 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 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. i started my sake a semester. he a medical bill in the coding and i finished 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 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 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, lives. oh, polls of valentine bay. it was a very decided he can make them with the keys in 6 months for the baby girls were to go. mary had a when i was. c nervous and i get up there was a fine, oh my god, i have to do something to tear the golden road on row in. i looked up a he, boy, he bo, he cry our them air roy, you know, it was excited. well, you know, 50000. yeah. she started the she started the that the rural, all cry. yes. mom actually i was on madness with cancer hearts out.

they also want our relationship closer to the, you know, my mom got the mom and you know, she needed a lot, or she is mer to stay in the 09. she here with the be your 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 pile 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? family milan, katie, boley,

movies. we were able to celebrate a law, right? they, we, you know, times before holidays and just campaign by actually being able to get together as a family that has so many names lie and up. i'm actually going to be looking for a job in these ministration. i made some great people, great, great things, way let me know when i crossed the bridge to come pop to warm. so i'm very excited with, you know, just just say people, you know, and looking out for you jason c, date you're trying to do something, you know, to change your life, you situations, then you're 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. 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 stake. cash 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 to 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. they 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 freaking contagion level. pandemic. hard to feel very good about they 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 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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a lynching beating poverty. why supremacy is the disgusting amber. the people in mississippi voted on a wire, and 65 percent of the people voted to keep the car and fly. our purpose is to, to plan a good name and a better child because of these monuments that you see everywhere are not. can there not monuments to the confederate government? there monuments to the, to the soldiers, to the battery. 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 oh, when i was sure seemed wrong when i was just a few feet out,

the same becomes the african and engagement. it was betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look so common ground. oh, in the summer of 2022, italy, along with all other nato member states to think of li, sided with ukraine in the armed conflict with russia. rome in coordination with the u. s. approved a military assistance package for keith to help ukrainians defend themselves. and fight back, looking glad, i'm not jealous, father of lilyanne will spend that the fan, you'll need you on your job site on the same nato and the u. f with you and the ones that people will die just for make money. there are those who oppose their decision at various levels of government. i was one of these.