half of the margaret's, this was my grandpas sister. she came off a horse in a curve and i found her on the bank and over here's my grand great grandmother and great grandfather. here it's peaceful. i really like it up here. and then since my family's buried here, how does feel like i need to come up here and take care of the secretary the i disliked volunteer and do things for my community in try to make a difference. the 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've explored

some of my interest 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 into the 100 is we already spend billions 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 banks 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 offense. the money in the house here it is. what it

is, but i'm happy here. must rocks very much of over. i seriously thought i was the help this person ever. i also just feel like someone helped me and my spine with an x and my blood pressure was 380 over 200 is 60 and then they finally came in and decided that i've 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 my blood pressure down very, very low. because if it gets too high, it will rupture in use dead wherever you're at me when you're sick and you're trying to deal with a potentially fatal health issue. there's just so much stress, you know,

uh 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. and i'm thinking, you know, am i so broke? i can't afford to offer bankruptcy. you know, of my um, cardiovascular specialist or vendor bill, he wrote on my medical records, they 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 a 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 to eat the look at

someone like you can look at me right now. perhaps and, and maybe think of it perfectly healthy, but you don't know what's going on inside someone's by the feel it, we spend another trillion dollars on spend other trillion dollars on tax cuts for wealthy people. do you see the effects of wealthy people spending those tax cuts that we give them? and so i know, 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. the bubbles up from the ground right with, if everybody has a decent amount of economic security and has money to spend, then economic activity will spiral upwards and community likes the one in the army originally. and when i got out,

i just didn't come back home. i just started work for 2070 the reason that i'm here back in savannah is because i have custody of my 2 granddaughters. they are $11.10 and it's a full time thing. i live here and go home, start getting ready for them to get home from school, and then your course we have to have suffer. 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 thing, the 3rd things and that child should, you know, drugs is really bad thing here in this whole small town and it has destroyed many families. it sure has showed minded the world. 6 smarter live so you can do whatever you as the owner at one of the

half works hard, is that you're just doing well. all of us live in the basement. the impact i gave up the best job i ever had in my life when i came back to take care of girls in that it was either that or let them go into states custody. and so i gave it all up, came back out, and i need this the what you have today, you know, so the other thing about where i spend my money and i would much rather do it here. and they have to drive 30 or 45 minutes to look for the nearest place the flu because

we really would like to stay with the town come alive again. it's like i said, we just need more people that are willing to invest in the community. if we give everybody money, you know, everybody has something to spend and they can spend it in, in each of these businesses. and that creates an upward spiral of economic activity that can revitalize. the small town likes lajna. and if i can make the analogy to a board game, if you think about the game monopoly tray time to go around the board, the costco, get another $200.00. you didn't have that $2.03 telling you pasco, and monopoly. the game would be over and about 3 turns. see that $200.00 you get for passing, go with monopoly. that's universal, basic income. there no matter what, it's on conditional, you know it's come, you're getting it, whether you're winning or you lose. and if you're losing,

it can give you a chance. and so you can give you hope that maybe just maybe you can still pull this off the, our representatives in the legislatures, the congress, they know the investments pay off, right? they know that, for example, a 1000000 dollar investments in the fish hatchery at the 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 a lot of just to fish and say, i have to buy groceries here. have to buy fusion license. i have to buy gas, you know, they say stimuli to economy. you know, quite a bit the 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 and go straight out to the river to offer just got a crown infrastructure like roads and bridges and rail rings in business for basic income is like infrastructure spending for families, for the 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 for a car that works for medical expenses. these are all infrastructure investments as well in the productive power of our people and our families in our communities. finally, my wife came up this money and got yeah, it was hard on. i can't imagine what you had to go through the hazy to put her in

that predicament. and i would never have to put her in that predict me again if i can help it. but like i said, as long as hard to get work is harder pay, you know, if you can get the money to pay, it scares me death and any ne a or if i know if i don't buy it after so, and they won't come get indictment away from a family year. are you working right now? i'm signing off and on working roads and it's hard on me course i'm notice you guys knows my is the, it's hard on me because i retain fluid and stuff but i get it done. i. when i have to cause my kids, you know, we tried to go to a doctors office, they wouldn't accept him because they don't have insurance. and then that goes all the way back to the money saying, 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've, they've 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 and that heard him a got him of the with the $1000.00 and then help you and i mean, it would gone on mine. okay them, i couldn't imagine what it would do. so my family may, my wife would live better, we wouldn't argue as much is allowed as are valid and the, and then i'm out the table. ok. maybe there

we go for the acceptance and i'm here to plan with you whatever you do. do not watch my new show search like why watch something that's so different opinions that he won't get anywhere else. welcome to please or do you have the state department to see i a weapons makers, multi 1000000000 dollar corporations. choose your fax for you. go ahead. i changed and whatever you do, don't want my show state main street because i'm probably going to make you uncomfortable. my show is called stretching time, but again, you probably don't wanna watch it because it might just change the waiting thing.

a the same rom just don't you have to shape house because after kids and engagement was betrayal, when so many find themselves will support. we choose to look so common ground the the we have 2 choices when we design programs for the poor and for people who were

struggling, we can say you need to prove to me 1st that you're worthy of my health. and then i'll help you. ready more we can treat people the way we treat our families. our children are neighbors and say, we're going to help you 1st because we have space in you. we believe that you're going to do something good with that help. and that's what it basic income does. um, just a couple of different things. um the pre suppositions is that there is a, a belief of inherent good or that was in people. there's a common belief in understanding that most people are basically good. i believe in that the we say that you ought to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps. that's a really classic southern. so you know, some people don't have boot straps to pull up. some people don't have hands to open

. so some people don't have feet to put them on the person no matter what was specific is or what other police are not jesus be good enough for us to the 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 misuse it in some way.

some other people choose not to work. so do you think it sounds like they fully be gabriel? money they wouldn't turn into uh dope a couch, potatoes, porch and what we are name. mm hm. 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. so i'm looking at this way. if i'm girl in a garden, in my family, what they're that with national guard and we work hard on that. so you're saying i should just open the door and let the neighbor down the road and it will work so hard. come in there and get part of my garden. how is that right? for us of 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 them. and we have actually quite a lot of empirical evidence saying,

well actually most people act like you and your friends in your family, basic income pilots 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 and 19 month program where they gave $500.00 a month, no strings attached to a $125.00 residents and made less than the cities annual median income. one of those recipients spent the money on surprise groceries paying bills, you know, the same things you and your family would probably spend the money onto the . so we are within the last 30 days of the pilot project. in this 1st year with the 20 women that we worked with, we have seen them do everything from pay off credit torrie debt. go back to school,

get veterans claimant opportunities to like be or more engaged parents re establish relationships, really just have an opportunity to show up and we have their full lives. and that's the beauty in the power path. i use the for so maybe things stay and on top of paying the bills in household things i'm saving to like take the baby to glaze so you know they, you know, you can't really just really have the baby is closed. so i daycare, allow me to be somewhere where he can also not, not just be watched, but i also learn the me, i was able to go ahead and enroll him in daycare and then just focused on school. i saw him in las vegas, the military and medical building the coding. as i finish that semester, i made the dean's lease, there was very exciting gama g b. i graduated in june. i was very excited about that and because it was really one

of the things that he cannot hand or me from, you know, job basically when the job receiving a 1000 dollars to 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 individually that the school individual paid off. that individuals they will show up in their own lives calls valentine's day. it was uh, his name's diety. you can make them with the keys. 6 months from the baby miles went ahead and got married, had a we in and i get up there on this line. oh my god, i have to do something to 2 years ago the road i got a row and i looked up a blue table. he crying hard and ever worn down. it was

excited. yeah, she saw her to be, she started to the ripple trying a tom actually was on that and i was looking at so far so. so they also want our relationship goals and to explain why, you know, my mom got sick and you know, she needed a lot or she got mad as being a queen. she here with the be yours, you know, with key. so now her being down, you know, just the return, if i would just to be like mom, we're for you just like he was here for me even though it is a guaranteed income pilot and there are 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 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 and the opportunity to do whatever they needed. it wasn't about share or subsidy dedicated to one particular bank. or most importantly, we do like a family model, a bowling movie. we were able to celebrate a lot they we, forbes holidays and just count actually being able to get together. i have a family, i have so many things lined up. i'm actually going to be looking for a job in bees ministration. i made some great people, great things to say, let me know when cost a breeze to come talk to them. so i'm very excited about the notes of just saying people, you know,

and looking out for you just see that you're trying to do something, you know, change your life, easy generations, many or waiting like come on and we had it in i'm in do you think is gonna happen when the program ends, you know, i believe that we spent a lot of time thinking about what happens when something in and to me that's a clarifying. i'm not trusting individuals. so if i am going to say that i trust you enough to give you money and know that and you are going to do what you and your family need, i have to say that i trust you wouldn't have to have put a plan in place for when is money and stuff? so i believe that individuals are going to continue to do whatever they need to do to take care of themselves and their think on the end, 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 a state cash to me. it's freedom and it is bringing. it gives you options that without you do not have cash allows them the freedom to actually make the decisions to determine what it is that they need for themselves. you know, right now i'm an 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 and not pitch. so it's something i really want for, you know, the disadvantaged people in this country. but it something i also really want for myself. and i think that's how you create a really powerful political movements take this opportunity and see that we do not have unlimited time. and so my ask for you all tonight is for you to take this new vision of the economy. this trick a lot for economy, this human centered economy, this vision and make it yours. i don't, no doubt picked up on it or not, but right now things are less than ideal for a huge number of people in this country. people are being let go from jobs that are never going to come back rack and 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 site traffic. 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 ok? we really believe in the land of the free lunch act, like it's

a slip that 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 as you be. i think about the

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known in vietnam as the american war, the vietnam war, lost it for almost 2 decades and drained in numerous countries. not any time we have now, and then you don't see it now. why did all i'm empty? hundreds of thousands of american troops was sent to the country to bank the south vietnamese on me. i got all that, not much. american soldiers limited resistors, most of us like the down entire villages and spread dangerous chemicals. and li bye. all right. did the americans ever fully acknowledge what they did on the, via the means? veterans ready to forgive? yeah, yeah. yeah. that's. that's a ways to go. yeah.

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