for flemming, up until literally last 2 years of my life might have been like one emergency situation away from complete financial catastrophe. basically, i just had living paycheck to paycheck, not having any extra money for any thing at all. and you know, things happen. my name is trey crowder. i've got attention on the internet for these videos i made featuring a character called the liberal read tri crowder little red, tri crowded long time. no scheme. i want to talk to you about something. it's deeply personal to me. pails, law people ask me what to think about black lives matter. well, put simply, i think that they do for a long time when i was a young adult, i didn't have health insurance, you know. and so i wouldn't do i in a mural sports and stuff like that at college. i sincerely because i was like, wow, you know what about blow money out or something?

i'm screwed. and those just those types of things just knowing that you're on the precipice of flag ruin all the time. yeah. it's extremely stressful. and i know for a fact just statistically that a lot of people in this country are live in that day to day. you know, all the time, only 41 percent of us adults have enough savings to cover a $1000.00 emergency. we have record numbers of americans who are on the verge of having their cars repossess more than a 137000000 americans are facing financial hardship because of medical debt. my son couldn't afford the life sitting the saving medication. he needed, the worsening on a planet picture is simply staggering. the pandemic is also causing many to go hungry. my bills are going to back up and i'm going to be in job here. couple is student loan debt in the united states has doubled 40 percent of americans, $65.00 and older are in default. that's all way me going to be there for me

personally, i heard about the idea of a universal basic income and was pretty immediately of the opinion. well, there you go. that's at least a solution because we're gonna have to do something. the idea is this. every citizen in this country would receive a $1000.00 a month every month, no strings attached. that might seem part best to you, but it could be a potential improvement over some of our existing welfare programs that i grew up in only wrong. i'm grateful for him, but i can look back on those programs and food stamps and all that the same way that i look back on the final season, a game of thrones. i'm still glad that it exists, but it could have and should have been so much better. we deserved better u b, i is actually not a new idea. in america, you can trace it back to one of our founding fathers, thomas paine. you know, the guy who 1st convince people that american independence might be a good idea. he's not the only one. martin luther king junior was for you. we are one of and seems to me is a guaranteed annual income,

a guaranteed minimum income, all people around for families of our country. $969.00, richard nixon, even proposed an actual plan to congress. let us place a floor under the income of every family with children in the math, and without those demeaning sol cycling brands for human dignity that so bite the lives well for welfare children to day. one state in america actually already has a form of basic in alaska. each year they take a portion of the states, oil revenue and distributed to every man, woman and child, should be an example for the world emulate. and the last make strangely proud of that because it's a whole new concept of people loaning resources and government having to take their money back from the people instead of government getting the money. and partial in and out, and socialistic program is exactly the opposite of what some people term,

the dividend, the b socialistic. it's capitalistic killer screen. okay, so they've got oil up in alaska, but how do we pay for basic income and the rest of the country? tax is. yeah, i said it the dreaded t word, but yes, actually it's time to incorporate welfare get big tag to pay its fair share. and use tax mechanisms to create the strongest safety net the world has ever seen. and all these rich people can rest easy knowing the extra money they give back isn't going to some big sold us government bureaucracy. it's going directly to the people social justice. get with it. mm hm. i'll tell the law firm a small town a lot, especially in the south. it can end up in this like sort of a small town contest thing where it's like now my home town smaller than yours. and i feel like that's an argument that i typically win because it's really, really small. i remember saladas this like quaint

little southern town with you know, some charm to it and the football team was good. the tailed squire was, you know, just little mamma businesses a store for us that type of thing and everything was fine. but at the beating heart of the tales economy was this big clothing factory where most people worked and that's where my mom worked. that's for a lot as many the work and my neighbor caller to come out there for a long time. and then am i tiffs, my dad, he was, he was the healing engineer and my mom, she actually so ever body and saw that you talk to these work oshkosh, oshkosh, that nascar that. and if you heard osh kosh, my gosh, or whatever. yeah, for decade, the center the towns economy was large, cloud and factory in, in the mid ninety's after nasa. it made like

a stoner at midnight and went south of the border and we never recovered. there's been no real industry that's come in there in the 20 plus years since and as far as i'm aware, there's not anything major in that regard on the horizon. so selina, in my opinion is like a textbook example of the top mice that would benefit a lot from a basic income and then also from a sensible you'd think to people there would be all for it would. but i don't know that that is true. there it is saying the crime is there osh kosh vegas factory? yes, my gosh, he did. how long do you know how long it was here? the fact he was here and when he clothes, people had worked there, 40 years go after here i was in business up the street and there was

a little wind blowing through town that may be a factory was going to be close. and i mean people stopped coming in to the restaurant in spend in for bucks on you know, a sub or something like that. if it was $345.00, people stop spinning it. you know, you've got the cafe may mon pod daddy or run in the video store in the car lot. and that by the time i graduated high school, it's literally all gone. it was say, and not all, not only is that all gone but like i, you know, all the stuff with mama are getting all strong. i'll be able to jail him my, my life changed tremendously for the worse. just like everybody else is around here . when that happened, it was like it affected like literally everything and pray, learn the ripple in excel or band that see. yeah, i know, you know, that was, i mean yeah, i wasn't just the hits just kept on come and ah,

i'm saying, i think there will be a lot of people that will say i wanna, i mean, i don't know handy. yeah. i'm not looking for a hand well, i just want to work bring, bring a job like that's what you need to do. politicians. what like, i mean, can you easily envision a lot of people responding to it that way? oh yeah, i can see that right. well, i think that's gonna be a major garage. i would love to also see how they respond if he could check and everyone's had a day, right? to see what they did with gra. presumably they basta, or you know, finally get like the fan belt fixed on their car or whatever that i've been put. yeah. for forever. but i'm saying they're going to go to some mechanic around here to do that. you want to main, like theoretically a big portion of it would get like pump strike back into just sure the general economy because there has been all things that they need, that they haven't been buying in a long time because i had no money to do the idea of giving unconditional cash

might not sit well with everybody. i know that's a shocker. i does this out a paycheck every month, even if you do not have a job. i think it's a continuation towards the road of socialism and america welfare should be a 2nd chance and not a way of life. we're going to take from you over here to give to you over here, because that's where we're going to do the universal basic income when you're taxing people and redistributing wealth without marriage, that in encourages lazy. what forced warren buffett to work hard with forced this guy to work hard, not handling them a check. you cannot appreciate something fundamentally that you get for free. with you. my distress is providing a guaranteed income to low income african american women and their families are the

medical you my distress. it's doing this in the form of a $1000.00 a month for 12 months. i am so excited if like my 2nd shell in the matter of months, i had to give the 2018 in magnolia mothers trust is the one of them. it is taking a population that worked so hard to be seen on a daily basis. and really saying we see, we honor your story, it's, we believe in you and we trust that you know what it is that you need for your family. now there will be all tremendous break for gays to support my kids are tell me pay bills and hell know to straight from month to month with where my mom was in of the obvious relationship. my day it was very, very for my mom so when i got to my relationship,

marlexia was abusive and i was like, i would never ever put my key in jeopardy. oh. or in a relationship that i mean is now working for you have to break the cycle somewhere . and so therefore, i mean, i'm older jason and i broke the side. there's a $1000.00 a month. no strings attach a. he is a hero. i will like there mays. i don't know. i just won't go crazy with that one night when mamma babies were here, we actually fell asleep on the couch. and oh, seamless was right here. i else heard the door. josh, yes. i had to 1st in they came to mamma was grant my baby after you for my life and i knew by at the moment i'm now stay here for ever. i will get back

in school pay off some days and continue to raise my credit score. so that i can get the home that i want for me and my load was, oh no . when i was showing the wrong one, i'll just don't hold any world yet to see proud disdain becomes the advocate. an engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look for common ground. lou needs to come to the russian state. full narrative on the most landscape with within the

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you know, when i went back with that teacher, just tell session a finance nash ozium known that she shyly yours just being a budget by when you sit on with that by mia all of the individuals that we work with living communities where they receive housing vouchers, we really are trying to figure out the impact and benefits when cash is infused into these situations where individuals are highly subsidized. but then also we're trying to get a better understanding of how the women themselves are able to show up. are they less stress at a more engaged in their local community? are there more engaged in our kids school? are they more engage in their own self care? are they able to now look towards career and not just the job because they held

their freedom? ah more honestly in church. oh, freedom was getting up a fire, getting all the middle one the jury there were 80 take him to the bus. stop police by 545. didn't him off the school were actually come back of the house. oldest one . she's getting ready, probably this will arrive in the layman's 655, actually having to rush back home, get the baby ready to take your so my mom's house is entering the. busy terrible tooth when you get back cold and come along, sir, come, let me see, let me see, can i see the rady myself and also be in clay is a like 720 some light rushing. oh,

oh. so i think of the lack of sleep is merely challenging i won't so least get to a point in my life where i'm actually working a good paying job. i wanna job this is going to make, is me. i want to be able to save it. you know, take trib, so do all the things to so in a reason that i am a fan of the parenting income because it is this idea that everybody is deserve it . just by virtue of your being here. you deserve a life where you and your family can bribe, you deserve a life where you can actually dream you deserve a life where you can actual are. so strings is going to help us really, really like really, really a lot. i'm very cited about these are not really hearing too many like

rules or just tell you or you that you have to spend it on or how, how much you have to say let me say, and i, when i was on time, if this money's forgave, you have to put this, this is for j as in terms of asian work. he see that doctor i see you a little tears. you can't say food 1000 pale. i be a like, he can't take food stamps and get your medicine. so is, is a big difference being able to just go and do everything i need to go with is going to be exciting. i think most of america believes that our systems work and that we have welfare and we have these safety nets and they actually are doing what they're supposed to be doing. and that's not true. that's actually a myth. most folks don't quite understand how complicated these various systems are in the complication of these systems, but they're not working or just ineffective. for example, if you're on panic,

you're caseworker cuz they okay, you have 2 weeks to get a job, but no supported provided and getting that job. no child care is provided when you're looking for the job. if you do not have a job within 2 weeks, you are sanctioned. in most cases that means that you will lose your net for 90 days. what that means is that for 90 days you have no way of ensuring insured household. your kids have take a moment less the thinking and that's also why a lot of individuals choose not to fool with tana, because who can run the risk of not being able to be their kid. oh, sorry. oh, okay. and instead of recognizing that is the policies that are wrong were blaming the families, were saying, oh family, someone at o. r o family. so when i,

you know, have to take the drug test that were required in the tape because they are on drugs . now is none of that, if you went out and had conversations, you could actually really get to what the problems are with these policies that are being with. i think our current staffing assistant is now working in so i believe that a guaranteed income is an opportunity for us to rewrite a system. everybody deserves to be able to take care of their child. everybody deserves to be able to have safe and adequate housing. everyone deserves to be able to so depend on a meal, a society that cannot take care of its children, society that cannot take care of its elders. a society that leaves people in the cold without options cannot call is so civilized. we're trying to elevate and push towards a dignity economy and economy,

which focuses on the inherent dignity of every person and show that that actually operates in the best interest of all citizens. we have to equip mothers to be able to care for their children. and the more we're able to do that, the more whole society we're raising, the more whole circumstances and conditions where lifting up so that we can make certain that we create these dignity economies. we should say, ah, in america, we do have a welfare system in place to help people who are struggling financially, but it's a conditional system. you have to prove to the government that you truly need help . and if that doesn't immediately sound unfair to you, consider that different people's different financial woes can be very wide ranging hard to quantify, typically time sensitive and overall, just generally speaking, pretty damn complicated to sort out. luckily for them, every american knows that our government ex sales at resolving complex and nuanced

issues and an efficient and judicious manner, right? as joe, now it's in fact is the opposite in our system as well and truly broken. but let's imagine for a 2nd, you are deemed worthy of receiving government support. the minute you get a job and your income increases that support will decrease. think about the incentives of that i can make it so that doesn't make financial sense to take a job. if it's a low paying job, if you are a single parent, you need child care for when you're working. you can be successful in your job. search and end up worse off than you were before when you were on government assistance alone. that's called a poverty trap. be universal, basic income, on the other hand, is an unconditional system. you don't have to prove that you deserve anything. you don't have to constantly jump through bureaucratic hopes. you don't have to choose between working a job and actually being able to afford your bales. because under you be i, everyone will always be better off with

a job. you be. i can be an economic floor on which we all can stand. i was let you know we're having a town hall discussion and cook out a penny out. flyers for event. we're having tomorrow at the courthouse, my name is almost lucky and i am an associate professor of practice in political science at n y u shanghai. also it's going to be right across the street at the courthouse. ok, and we're going to talk about ways of bringing economic vitality to towns like wanna i think it was great if people really understood what the basic income is. i think it be great if this was something that they started to talk to candidates about as well. so that we can bring broader attention to the idea of based income and get the voices of ordinary people rather than just academics like me. another one, you know,

the simplest away like explain a basic income is that it's like social security for the rest of us. a basic income would be a monthly payment that would go to everyone. i think if we get these details right, basic income can eliminate poverty, can increase economic security for working folks and can give a boost to local economies like the economy of selena. does it sound good to you? does it sound too good to be true? yeah. mm mm for to close out with faith. hope in what i got by exactly what other than. okay,

here's 11 on your wedding. hurry to put money on your electric and then you know, you're wondering how you're going to get that back and i have no clue. i'm going to give that back. but would rather my bills be paid entering me on my finger precious . i say it, i don't, i wouldn't be rich by any means. i don't want and handed him. i just want to be able to pay money for my kids. that's all i want to be on. last tuesday by has really charged for court over his oldest daughter not are 3, but his oldest oldest one asia that judge. look, i just got a job. i'll start paying, however much shortly to pay that wasn't good us. there he is. be in the 180 days or until his family can come up. $707.00 or is it a lot of money to me?

$10.00 is a lot of money to share with him. god. what do you do for me for christmas? what he knew? no mean to is still like no harder are dryer for my kids to be normal. for further they go back in one of the feminist arguments for basic income is that for a very long time care work as being devalued. we've devalued care work as the same and if we think about what really matters to include society to a society where people liable to flourish, then of course realize that care should be put much more on the center of our conception of good to say be the kingdom by being unconditional, enables people to make the choice to spend more time caring for others.

why will we touch the wealthy for basic income? is because we hate the wealthy or we we resent them for their success. no, it's because they're the ones we're benefiting from the economy. as it is right now, they're the ones who are doing well, lose them. i will not take all their money. well, let them keep. and after that, they are incentivized to keep doing the work that they do. we want to reward entrepreneurs, we want to reward people who take business risks. we want to reward people who create jobs for other americans. but we take some of their, some of the gains that they're making and we share it with everybody. and that not only has the effect of reducing economic and security and eliminating poverty. it

also has the effect of putting resources in the hands of the people who know best, what to do for their own communities. with that if they're both, both the models you need to do both got nothing to do with a over us government perform nobody a lot of numbers, but human own food, them boss with all they need

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