all stable and oh they lay there. 08 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, the 1st job. go to the 2nd and this keeps occasionally from want to go home. what's the book about this town? i well, it is foolish. youtube. the mailbox. yeah it was. it was hamish ah, yeah. i may have listened to some of that one with you. ah, in you see, 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 him 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 does feel like i need to come up here and take care of the same material? mm hm. 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 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 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 to 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 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 would call it was like a $11200.00, 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 my to spend, then economic activity will spiral upwards and community likes a line for the army originally. and when i got out, i just didn't come back home. i just started work so young for 27. there isn't that i'm here. back in so on. i was because i have custody of my 2

granddaughters. they are a 11 a full time bang. i leave here and go home and 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 3rd 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 shook man to the ground baby girl. 6 smart elliptical, or whatever it is, the owner wanted to have works hard that you just didn't. well, all of us live in a basement a bag that i gave up,

the best job i ever had my life when i came back to take care of the 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 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. if i can make the analogy to a board game, if you think about the game monopoly time ago around the board, the costco, yet another $200.00. you didn't have that $2.03 time you, pasco, and monopoly. the gang would be over in about 3 terms. 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 in and if you're losing, it can give you a chance to give you hope that maybe just maybe you could still pull this off

in our representatives in, in legislatures and congress. they know the 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 fish and buy them, come and do slot. i'll just to finish will say i have to buy groceries here at the bar. visualize into the bar guess, you know, like, so i stimuli 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 go straight up the rubric of

the doctors a little bit either further, but here, oh, the offer has got a girl. oh oh, did you? ah, infrastructure like roads and bridges and rail rings in business. basic income is like infrastructure spending for families, vital loss 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, clothing, 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. barry mo, i'll come up with money and got me out. here is 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 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 v and got the money again. i, 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 type me away from a family in. are you working right now in fine of an hour, working roof and it's hard on me. course i'm no, did you guys notice 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 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. they all turned him down.

and he didn't show it to you guys, but when he slid down the hill over there to catch land in that harrington a. got him now lead a $1000.00 and then help you aid. i mean it would god. oh my okay, them back at maggie, what it would do for my family? may my wife would live better? we would our years much this is mouth are valid and that way mom child the paypal guy. you know, if you don't make careful. mm. mm.

for english ah, well, it's showing wrong when i just don't want you to see how it is the kind of the advocate and engagement. it was the trail when so many find themselves, well, the more we choose to look for common ground o. in 2022, the italian government approved a package of military aid to ukraine, coordination with nita to help ukrainians defend themselves and fight back about

150000000 euros. wow. i make a week or even i told me bombs are hearing all the same nato and the you with the one that people will die just for make morning. the one that i have i don't. yes. good. while you must, who got through on it or if you're gone through unless you are complete, i mean there's a room for them as well. dar more saw me my show it was wrong tool or able offer 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 for that last or if i don't a little yet. levi and more on a skid out and go home and do not she them to to the the really desperate wonderful

lucille my last lot a lot you then cuz he's been a full book and he's been in fun theater. the ah, blue 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. the presupposition is that there is a, a belief of inherent good that within 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, you know, 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 in is or, or what tribe appreciate any of 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 kind of love was good enough. i think it ought to be good enough for us. 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 some of these people do? gabriel money they wouldn't turn into a dope, 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 look at

this way. if i'm growing a garden and my family go out there, have a nice garden weight 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. 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 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 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. then that's the beauty in the power pairs. oh, i used the for so many things, staying on top of paying the bills in the household,

things 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 enrolled him in day care in the and is focus on school as 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 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 dollars 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 when and gab better career opportunities in the day to look at the school individual paid off dead individuals, labor, charbonneau, watson, poles of valentine bay. it was a mere inside. we can make them with the keys in 6 months for the baby girls with our merry had a wind howls. c mar visa, 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 boy, he crying hard in air. roy, you know, there was, it was exciting. well, you know, because he found way. 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 close to the, you know,

my mom got the mom and you know she needed a lot, or she is mer to stay in a queen o name 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 here for me all, even though it is a guaranteed income pilot in there, 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, gayety, bow lane movie. we were able to celebrate law, right?

they, we, you know, 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 in diesels administration. i met some great people who it's great been way let me know when i crossed the bridge to come pop to them. so i'm very excited about getting with, you know, just say people there, you know, i'm looking at for you just to see dates. you're trying to do something, you know, to change your life. and you situations vanity or waiting like kamani. and we're happy to share with what you think is gonna happen when the program ends in i believe that we spent a lot of time thinking about what happens when something ins. and to me that's

a clear sign of not trusting individuals. 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 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 stag. cashed to me it's freedom and 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 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 slip 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 with

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 participant, nato's proxy war in ukraine. does united much of the global south it's nature against the world ah, picked up would important job with them. would we give that to the state of celia? was this because they get to school? if you get a new year for him, i teach the way know i'm reaching out to school and you have cheated us from global valuable. would you repeat the sheila wishing i cim?

i'm a new model, but the woman was more mo, mo, from william, with, from bush, not to not slip. your mom there. glad to book then you what that completed. i'm just, i get, i use one, or should i load scholarly, i'm, well, i did some a little of study to the progress and brought i used to wish i had finished. this is just, those are for the i'm of national wouldn't become saying to do friday. is it month where you are ordering a sure sherman yes, there was a little bit of induction. ah ah .

ah, in the summer of 2022, italy, along with all other nato member states effectively sided with ukraine in conflict with russia, roaming, coordination with the u. s. approved a military assistance package for keith to help ukrainians defend themselves and fight back. let father liana spend the time you need on the job site all the same now in the us and the ones that people will just for make money. there are those who opposed the decision at various levels of government. i was one of these.