1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:05,040 Speaker 1: It lessens my bills. Yeah, there's your headline from the 2 00:00:05,080 --> 00:00:09,720 Speaker 1: Associated Press. Five hundred dollars payments are now being tested 3 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:13,600 Speaker 1: in upstate New York. This is also happening in other 4 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:17,400 Speaker 1: places around the country. Now, when I say it's being tested, 5 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:23,480 Speaker 1: let me explain to you what the Socialists Democratic Party 6 00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:25,759 Speaker 1: is doing. They're doing exactly what I warned you they 7 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:28,080 Speaker 1: would do it. I told you they were going to 8 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:31,760 Speaker 1: do it, and now they are doing it. There is 9 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:35,599 Speaker 1: a individual the Associated Press decided to talk about, and 10 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:39,240 Speaker 1: they start off their first sentence with this that this 11 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:44,360 Speaker 1: person isn't destitute or unemployed, but for a year, she'll 12 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:47,839 Speaker 1: receive five hundred dollars per month and no strings attached 13 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:53,360 Speaker 1: payments as part of an experimental universal basic income program 14 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:57,480 Speaker 1: in upstate New York. Did you hear me? Universal basic 15 00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:04,200 Speaker 1: income program meaning universe socialism in Upstate New York. Places 16 00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:10,000 Speaker 1: from Compton, California, to Richmond, Virginia are now trying out socialism. 17 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:16,720 Speaker 1: This socialism they're trying out is guaranteed income programs, which 18 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:23,040 Speaker 1: gained more attention after the pandemic, and it put millions 19 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:27,640 Speaker 1: of workers in a weird situation, some of them wanting 20 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:30,080 Speaker 1: to work, some of them not wanting to work, some 21 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:32,080 Speaker 1: of them being under employed they claim, or some of 22 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:34,240 Speaker 1: them saying they don't feel safe to work, therefore they're 23 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:38,520 Speaker 1: not going to work. So from California to Virginia to 24 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:43,360 Speaker 1: New York, even in Seattle, in Washington State and others, 25 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:47,960 Speaker 1: we are seeing this now. This woman, Miss Steel, is 26 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:52,600 Speaker 1: a special education school aide. This is a woman who 27 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:56,600 Speaker 1: has a job. There's a woman who's getting paid now. 28 00:01:56,720 --> 00:02:01,840 Speaker 1: She's getting her payments to a program in Ulster County, 29 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:07,080 Speaker 1: which covers part of the Caskill Mountains and the Hudson 30 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:13,400 Speaker 1: River Valley. During the pilot program, one hundred county residents 31 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 1: making less than forty six nine annually, we'll get an 32 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:21,400 Speaker 1: extra five hundred dollars a month for a year now. 33 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:26,600 Speaker 1: The income threshold was based on eighty percent of the 34 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:31,320 Speaker 1: county of the county's average medium income meeting. It includes 35 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:33,680 Speaker 1: both the poor and a slice of the middle class, 36 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:38,679 Speaker 1: people who will face financial stress but might not originally 37 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:44,320 Speaker 1: qualify for government aid based on income. In other words, 38 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:47,400 Speaker 1: we're going to do socialism, and we're going to raise 39 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:51,519 Speaker 1: the amount of money you're allowed to make to then 40 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:56,880 Speaker 1: get this socialist benefit. Now, of course they say, well, 41 00:02:56,880 --> 00:03:00,840 Speaker 1: this isn't socialism. We're just doing research, right, This is 42 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:05,720 Speaker 1: just research for researchers. The AP is trying to sell 43 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 1: you on this becoming normal. The pilot could give them 44 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:12,440 Speaker 1: a fuller picture of what happens when a range of 45 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:17,520 Speaker 1: people are sent payments that guarantee a basic living, in 46 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:22,720 Speaker 1: other words, a basic level of living. For Steel, she's 47 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:25,920 Speaker 1: fifty seven. She says it's a welcome financial boost that 48 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:30,840 Speaker 1: helped her pay for car insurance and groceries. It lessens 49 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:36,640 Speaker 1: my bills. She lives in a village of Ellensville with 50 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:40,240 Speaker 1: her retired husbands. So, just to be clear about what 51 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:47,320 Speaker 1: we're dealing with. Now, you've got a dude, a man 52 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:52,720 Speaker 1: who's sitting at home who is retired. You got a 53 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:56,080 Speaker 1: wife that works in the public school system, and I'm 54 00:03:56,120 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 1: assuming working and I'm assuming I don't know this, but 55 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:04,880 Speaker 1: I'm guessing for a pension. She's making forty six nine, 56 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:09,920 Speaker 1: she's gonna get an extra five grand. So if you 57 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:12,880 Speaker 1: do the math on that, it's six there's six thousand 58 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:17,480 Speaker 1: dollars a month. Okay, just to be clear, an extra 59 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:20,279 Speaker 1: six thousand dollars a month or a year. Excuse me. 60 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:23,200 Speaker 1: So if you do the math on this, and I 61 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:25,760 Speaker 1: want you to really think about what we're now advocating 62 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:29,720 Speaker 1: for in this country and how this will absolutely fundamentally 63 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:33,240 Speaker 1: change how this nation works. It will, it will change 64 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:37,080 Speaker 1: it completely if you do the math. At forty six thousand, 65 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:40,920 Speaker 1: nine hundred dollars is what she's making, plus another six 66 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:44,560 Speaker 1: thousand bucks. She's now fifty two nine, with a pension 67 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:48,880 Speaker 1: i'm assuming coming her way, and a husband who's already 68 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:55,400 Speaker 1: at home retired, which means he's also getting money. It 69 00:04:55,520 --> 00:04:58,480 Speaker 1: lessens my bills. So we're not about actually helping people 70 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:01,120 Speaker 1: in poverty because they're not in poverty. Hell, they got 71 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:05,640 Speaker 1: a man retired at home. Right, this is about socialism. 72 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:08,279 Speaker 1: Take from the rich, you're gonna give the poor. That's 73 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:10,800 Speaker 1: how you pull this off. Right, You give poor people 74 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:13,719 Speaker 1: this money through a pilot program. You tell them to 75 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:15,960 Speaker 1: tell all their friends about it. They're going to vote 76 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:18,800 Speaker 1: for socialism because hey, I got an extra six grand 77 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:23,320 Speaker 1: and you would love it too. It lessens my bills. 78 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:28,520 Speaker 1: People think, because we've been working so many years, that 79 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:31,240 Speaker 1: you make this tremendous amount of money, but no, Actually, 80 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:34,880 Speaker 1: she goes on to sell the public less than one 81 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:38,520 Speaker 1: hundred miles north of New York City, Ulster County is 82 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:42,880 Speaker 1: a popular destination for weekend weekenders headed to Woodstock or 83 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:49,960 Speaker 1: the Catskill Mountains. It's big city, Kingston is small, with 84 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:55,320 Speaker 1: only twenty three thousand people. They go on to say 85 00:05:55,839 --> 00:06:00,480 Speaker 1: basic income programs elsewhere tend to focus on cities and contrast, 86 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:04,160 Speaker 1: this upstate program stretches out over a mix of places 87 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:08,560 Speaker 1: a city, small towns, and remote areas many miles from 88 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:13,559 Speaker 1: bus lines and supermarkets, showing that this approach will work 89 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:17,080 Speaker 1: not just in urban areas, but for rural parts of 90 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:19,960 Speaker 1: the country, which we know is one of our big 91 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:24,760 Speaker 1: national problems. I think there's great opportunity here, said Ulcer 92 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:29,440 Speaker 1: County Executive Patrick Ryan. So see, we're now pushing socialism 93 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:32,279 Speaker 1: outside of the city limits right in liberal cities. We're 94 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:35,120 Speaker 1: now pushing it to the rural areas because that's where 95 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 1: we can grab some of these voters. This is buying votes. 96 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:41,040 Speaker 1: I want you to understand. This is nothing more than 97 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:44,240 Speaker 1: buying votes and getting people addicted to a drug, which 98 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:47,240 Speaker 1: is a government paycheck. It's a drug. It's just like crack, 99 00:06:47,279 --> 00:06:49,560 Speaker 1: it's just like heroin, it's just like LST. It's just 100 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:53,200 Speaker 1: like marijuana. It's a drug. It's just like alcohol, cigarettes, tobacco. 101 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:59,440 Speaker 1: You get people addicted to this, right, you get people 102 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:06,440 Speaker 1: add to this, and it's game on. Ryan saw cast 103 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:08,919 Speaker 1: payments as a way to help local families struggling to 104 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:14,120 Speaker 1: get ahead or even get by as a pandemic continues 105 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:16,320 Speaker 1: to go on. Many people in the country were already 106 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:19,160 Speaker 1: stretched in by housing costs before the pandemic, So hell'll 107 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:24,120 Speaker 1: just give money, researchers say, they're coming together now to 108 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:29,400 Speaker 1: see how it works. Researchers believe that they should study this, 109 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:32,960 Speaker 1: and if they study it correctly, then they will know 110 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:38,600 Speaker 1: exactly what to do. What do you think the research 111 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:41,280 Speaker 1: is going to say. I'm just curious to these researchers 112 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:43,960 Speaker 1: who were looking at these cash payments as a way 113 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:46,480 Speaker 1: to help local families struggling to get ahead or even 114 00:07:46,520 --> 00:07:50,720 Speaker 1: get by. Many people in the country were already stretched 115 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:53,240 Speaker 1: thin by the housing costs before the pandemic. With a 116 00:07:53,320 --> 00:07:56,040 Speaker 1: large influx, they say, of New York City residents led 117 00:07:56,080 --> 00:07:59,000 Speaker 1: to skyrocking real estate prices. All right, let's talk about 118 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:02,720 Speaker 1: affordable housing real quick. Is there anything that says that 119 00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:05,480 Speaker 1: you have to live in New York? Is there anything 120 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:08,120 Speaker 1: that says you have to live in California. Is there 121 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:10,120 Speaker 1: anything that says that you have to live an extremely 122 00:08:10,200 --> 00:08:12,840 Speaker 1: high price housing market? For that matter, is there anything 123 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:14,400 Speaker 1: that says that you have to be able to afford 124 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:18,960 Speaker 1: to live in some of these places? I would argue 125 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:24,160 Speaker 1: the answers no. I would argue that the answer is no. 126 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:28,600 Speaker 1: In fact, I know many people that don't live in 127 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:31,160 Speaker 1: these areas for the exact reason that I just mentioned. 128 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:33,920 Speaker 1: The reason why they don't live in these areas because 129 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 1: it's too expensive. In fact, I know people all the 130 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:41,720 Speaker 1: time that move I know people all the time that 131 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:45,360 Speaker 1: move away from states because it's too expensive to live 132 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:51,080 Speaker 1: in those states. But there's a new push now, right, 133 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:55,680 Speaker 1: you deserve to live in New York City, you deserve 134 00:08:55,760 --> 00:08:59,720 Speaker 1: to live in Connecticut, you deserve to live an upstate 135 00:08:59,760 --> 00:09:03,760 Speaker 1: A why or Z Right? You deserve to live in 136 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:08,640 Speaker 1: those places. That's what you deserve. That's what they're selling. 137 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:14,320 Speaker 1: That's what they're saying you got to do. They're saying 138 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:17,840 Speaker 1: you deserve all of that, and we're gonna help you 139 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:20,840 Speaker 1: pay for it, because also that's what we do. We 140 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:25,280 Speaker 1: help you pay for that stuff, and we're going to 141 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:27,640 Speaker 1: give you a handout. Now, this is just socialism. They're 142 00:09:27,640 --> 00:09:31,000 Speaker 1: just slow selling it to you. There are a lot 143 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:34,880 Speaker 1: of Americans that make not a lot of money. And 144 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:36,480 Speaker 1: when I say not a lot, I'm talking about not 145 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:39,199 Speaker 1: like six figures, right, There are a lot of Americans 146 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:43,960 Speaker 1: that make less than six figures. It's true. There are 147 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:49,440 Speaker 1: a lot of Americans that work paycheck to paycheck, and 148 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:51,800 Speaker 1: a lot of them that work paycheck to paycheck, Let's 149 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:56,680 Speaker 1: be very clear, do it on purpose. There's a lot 150 00:09:57,040 --> 00:10:01,600 Speaker 1: that work paycheck to paycheck that absolutely do it on purpose. 151 00:10:01,920 --> 00:10:05,080 Speaker 1: They deliberately choose not to save a single time, not 152 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:09,160 Speaker 1: because they can't, but because they don't want to. Not 153 00:10:09,280 --> 00:10:14,640 Speaker 1: because they can't, but because they decide not to. They 154 00:10:14,679 --> 00:10:20,280 Speaker 1: deliberately choose not to do it. They specifically make a 155 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:23,680 Speaker 1: decision to live paycheck to paycheck. They specifically make a 156 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:29,600 Speaker 1: decision to not make smart financial decisions. You know, can 157 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:31,960 Speaker 1: I can tell you a couple of different things that 158 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:35,120 Speaker 1: I know to be true. I know people that are 159 00:10:35,160 --> 00:10:37,720 Speaker 1: poor living paycheck to paycheck. They make one hundred thousand 160 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:40,720 Speaker 1: dollars a year because they choose not to save a 161 00:10:40,760 --> 00:10:44,200 Speaker 1: single penny. I know people that are that choose not 162 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:46,800 Speaker 1: to make two hundred thousand, or that make two hundred 163 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:48,720 Speaker 1: thousand or three under thousand. They live paycheck to paycheck. 164 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:50,960 Speaker 1: I know people that are actually quite wealthy and they 165 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:54,760 Speaker 1: make forty five because they save and they invest, they 166 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:58,160 Speaker 1: live under their means. I know people that make smart 167 00:10:58,160 --> 00:11:00,640 Speaker 1: financial decisions and bad financial decisions. And what you're saying 168 00:11:00,679 --> 00:11:04,199 Speaker 1: now is the government basically is arbitrarily decided that if 169 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:06,600 Speaker 1: you have a certain amount of money that therefore you 170 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:09,120 Speaker 1: don't really need that much. And the only way you 171 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:11,520 Speaker 1: can pay for what they're experimenting with right now is 172 00:11:11,520 --> 00:11:13,959 Speaker 1: to take from those that work really hard or make 173 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:16,199 Speaker 1: more money. And usually if you make more money, you 174 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:19,960 Speaker 1: work really hard. Right, That's a that's not crazy to 175 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:22,000 Speaker 1: think that. I want to make that very very very 176 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:31,760 Speaker 1: very clear. So here we are experimenting with sending people cash, 177 00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:37,280 Speaker 1: not because they're destitute, and I'm quoting the ap article right, 178 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:42,760 Speaker 1: not because they're destitute, but because we've decided that they 179 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:46,480 Speaker 1: just need more of other people's money. Because the only 180 00:11:46,559 --> 00:11:49,880 Speaker 1: way you can do this if you mandate you take 181 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:55,920 Speaker 1: other people's money. That's a fact, right, This is this 182 00:11:56,040 --> 00:12:00,520 Speaker 1: is about taking other people's money. Be very very very 183 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:06,920 Speaker 1: very clear. You have to rob someone to pay for this. 184 00:12:08,040 --> 00:12:10,640 Speaker 1: We don't have the cash to do it without raising taxes. 185 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:16,280 Speaker 1: We don't have the money just randomly sitting around. Right, 186 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:20,400 Speaker 1: it doesn't exist. It doesn't work that way, and everybody 187 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:24,319 Speaker 1: should know that. Imagine if we start giving out these 188 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:27,040 Speaker 1: checks the way the AP is putting this, it lessens 189 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:29,240 Speaker 1: my bills. Is at the job of the government to 190 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:33,599 Speaker 1: lessen your bills? Is that really the job of the 191 00:12:33,679 --> 00:12:37,040 Speaker 1: United States government? The first payments were made by the 192 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:40,040 Speaker 1: way giving back to the article in mid May. Recipients 193 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:44,000 Speaker 1: the money can spend it as a wish, but we'll 194 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:47,880 Speaker 1: be asked to participate in periodic surveys about their physical health, 195 00:12:47,920 --> 00:12:51,000 Speaker 1: mental health, and employment status. So in other words, you 196 00:12:51,040 --> 00:12:52,640 Speaker 1: just tell them you're doing well, and then of course 197 00:12:52,679 --> 00:12:54,200 Speaker 1: they're going to say, well, we should keep doing this. 198 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:58,640 Speaker 1: The Center for Guaranteed Income Research the University of Pennsylvania, 199 00:12:58,760 --> 00:13:03,400 Speaker 1: which is school formed with the Mayor's Socialist Mayors for 200 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:07,120 Speaker 1: a Guaranteed Income, is evaluating the pilot program, right, because 201 00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:08,760 Speaker 1: of course they're going to come back, and of course 202 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:12,760 Speaker 1: they are going to tell you that when they come 203 00:13:12,760 --> 00:13:15,440 Speaker 1: back that this was so good for mental health, this 204 00:13:15,520 --> 00:13:18,480 Speaker 1: was so good for people. Right, this was the greatest 205 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:21,920 Speaker 1: thing you could ever do. They're not going to tell 206 00:13:21,920 --> 00:13:25,720 Speaker 1: you it didn't work. Right. We're the socialist mayors for 207 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:29,360 Speaker 1: guaranteed income, and we've got a university, the University of 208 00:13:29,360 --> 00:13:32,360 Speaker 1: Pennsylvania Vania, which is socialist, telling us that this is 209 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:36,559 Speaker 1: exactly what we need to do. Recipient Eric Luna, at 210 00:13:36,559 --> 00:13:39,040 Speaker 1: twenty six year old electrical lab technicians, said the money 211 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:42,640 Speaker 1: will help pay the bills at home he recently helped 212 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:48,240 Speaker 1: his parents buy. In law kill, not a joke. The 213 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:51,480 Speaker 1: money will help pay the bills at the home he 214 00:13:51,559 --> 00:13:56,000 Speaker 1: recently helped his parents buy. So we're now paying for 215 00:13:56,040 --> 00:14:00,920 Speaker 1: people to buy people homes because why not. He also 216 00:14:00,920 --> 00:14:04,480 Speaker 1: hopes set some aside, possibly for a master's degree. Let's 217 00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:07,520 Speaker 1: get all the rosy stories, folks. I'm also learning how 218 00:14:07,559 --> 00:14:10,240 Speaker 1: to save money as well, he said, So this will 219 00:14:10,280 --> 00:14:14,240 Speaker 1: be a learning experience. Really, we're now supposed to pay 220 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:16,800 Speaker 1: for you to learn how to save money by giving 221 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:19,120 Speaker 1: you extra money so you can save other people's money 222 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:22,040 Speaker 1: that we stole from them. Because again, that is what 223 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:27,600 Speaker 1: socialism is. You're gonna teach somebody how to save someone 224 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:32,800 Speaker 1: else's money while someone else gets screwed. There were more 225 00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:36,920 Speaker 1: than four thousand, two hundred applicants for the program in 226 00:14:37,040 --> 00:14:40,280 Speaker 1: a county of one hundred seventy six thousand people. The 227 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:44,040 Speaker 1: Center for Guaranteed Income Research, the co founder, Stacy West, 228 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:47,480 Speaker 1: who is evaluating more than twenty such pilot programs, is 229 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:53,560 Speaker 1: interested in seeing how spending compared to cities like Stockton, California, 230 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:58,600 Speaker 1: where more than a third went for food. They claim, quote, 231 00:14:58,640 --> 00:15:01,240 Speaker 1: knowing what we know about barrier to employment, especially in 232 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:04,520 Speaker 1: rural areas, we may see more money going towards transportation 233 00:15:04,560 --> 00:15:08,920 Speaker 1: than we've ever seen before in any other experiment. By 234 00:15:08,920 --> 00:15:11,600 Speaker 1: the way, this is a professor at the University Attendee 235 00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:15,200 Speaker 1: College of Social Work. Shoot me now, it remains to 236 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:18,480 Speaker 1: be seen, she says. Proponents of Guaranteed in't come say. 237 00:15:18,520 --> 00:15:21,040 Speaker 1: Recipients can decide how to spend the money, and that's 238 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:24,280 Speaker 1: the most important point. Because they're in charge of the money. 239 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:27,840 Speaker 1: They can use it for food, job searches, or to 240 00:15:27,880 --> 00:15:30,040 Speaker 1: replace a refrigerator, or they could just spend it on 241 00:15:30,080 --> 00:15:33,720 Speaker 1: things that they won't mention the article, like beer or cigarettes, 242 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:38,800 Speaker 1: or pod or filet mignon, or a vacation or a 243 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:43,000 Speaker 1: new car or a car note, right, we won't put 244 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:44,440 Speaker 1: any of that in there. Right, how much this was 245 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:46,360 Speaker 1: just gonna go to like pure waste and abuse. They 246 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:48,680 Speaker 1: may go get a new iPhone with this money, right, 247 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:50,400 Speaker 1: because you can do whatever you want to. You might 248 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:52,920 Speaker 1: get a new gaming system with this. You can do 249 00:15:52,920 --> 00:15:54,120 Speaker 1: whatever you want to. How you can go buy a 250 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:56,760 Speaker 1: lotto tickets, you could go to the casino, you could 251 00:15:56,840 --> 00:15:59,760 Speaker 1: gamble more. But I'm sure we won't put any of 252 00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:04,040 Speaker 1: that in there, right, No, No, we won't put any 253 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:07,640 Speaker 1: of that in the report. Proponents of the guaranteed income 254 00:16:07,760 --> 00:16:11,400 Speaker 1: say recipients can quote decide how they want the best 255 00:16:11,440 --> 00:16:14,440 Speaker 1: spend the money. So that's a good thing. They can 256 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:19,480 Speaker 1: find that they can spend it on food or job searches. Yes, 257 00:16:19,480 --> 00:16:21,440 Speaker 1: because I'm sure there's a bunch of people that got 258 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:23,440 Speaker 1: this money and immediately we're like, hey, let's do some 259 00:16:23,560 --> 00:16:27,520 Speaker 1: job searches. Right, Yeah, let's that's that's exactly what they're 260 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:30,080 Speaker 1: going to spend the money on job searches, ord to 261 00:16:30,080 --> 00:16:35,760 Speaker 1: replace a refrigerator. The money can compliment the existing social 262 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:38,400 Speaker 1: safety net, they say, or can be used as emergency 263 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:42,960 Speaker 1: response when the economy starts tanking. I mean that that 264 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:48,440 Speaker 1: is pretty darn interesting, isn't it. It's pretty pretty darn interesting. 265 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:57,520 Speaker 1: It just it makes me laugh, It really does. It genuinely, 266 00:16:58,800 --> 00:17:05,720 Speaker 1: genuinely make me laugh. How much is this gonna be 267 00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:07,840 Speaker 1: spent on booze? How much is gonna be spent on 268 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:10,280 Speaker 1: video games? How much is this gonna be spent on 269 00:17:10,359 --> 00:17:13,080 Speaker 1: like eating out? How many? How many? I mean, how 270 00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:20,520 Speaker 1: much money is gonna be just totally wasted? Now, the 271 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:23,040 Speaker 1: end goal, they say, for a number of advocates, is 272 00:17:23,080 --> 00:17:29,600 Speaker 1: a universal basic income socialism. Anytime you hear the word universal, 273 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:33,720 Speaker 1: it's socialism. They're now giving it a good algorithm or 274 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:37,760 Speaker 1: good good, good name. Excuse me. They want you to 275 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:41,000 Speaker 1: refer to it because it will sound scientific as a UBI, 276 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:46,080 Speaker 1: which would distribute cash payments programs for you heard it, 277 00:17:46,760 --> 00:17:49,119 Speaker 1: all adults. I warned you this was going to happen 278 00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:58,600 Speaker 1: for all adults, all adults, for all adults. The UBI 279 00:17:58,760 --> 00:18:02,840 Speaker 1: idem help feel a stronger than expected Democratic presidential primary 280 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:06,919 Speaker 1: run last year by Andrew Yang. This is how you 281 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:10,879 Speaker 1: know socialism works when you sell it to people. At 282 00:18:10,960 --> 00:18:14,000 Speaker 1: least Andrew Yang, a guy that no one had ever 283 00:18:14,359 --> 00:18:17,880 Speaker 1: even heard of before, out of nowhere, becomes like some 284 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:22,960 Speaker 1: sort of icon to young people because he said that 285 00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:26,320 Speaker 1: he was going to give a bunch of cash to people. Right, 286 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:29,600 Speaker 1: give a bunch of money to people, And it certainly did. 287 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:33,040 Speaker 1: It helped him. People loved it. They were like, man, 288 00:18:33,119 --> 00:18:38,000 Speaker 1: this is a great idea. Yang is a guy that 289 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:41,240 Speaker 1: said we need this. When he was running for president 290 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:45,119 Speaker 1: last year, Yang proposed a thousand dollars a month for 291 00:18:45,280 --> 00:18:48,719 Speaker 1: every American adult. Now, of course that sounds great, right, 292 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:50,600 Speaker 1: And a lot of people voted for him in the primary. 293 00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:53,399 Speaker 1: And guy came out of nowhere to become somewhat of 294 00:18:53,440 --> 00:18:58,240 Speaker 1: a celebrity. Yang, who is a second home in Ulster County, 295 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:01,640 Speaker 1: second home. Thing about that second home. Let's think about 296 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:06,000 Speaker 1: that real quick, a second home. Just think about it, 297 00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:07,919 Speaker 1: is now running for New York City mayor with a 298 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:11,680 Speaker 1: basic income proposal to help lower income residents get cash 299 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:15,360 Speaker 1: every month no matter what Eventials say Yang hasn't been 300 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:19,840 Speaker 1: involved in this Ulsters program, but that the nonprofit he founded, 301 00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:24,639 Speaker 1: Humanity Forward, was helping and sharing experiences on starting a 302 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:30,000 Speaker 1: UBI pilot. Finally, the Associated Press puts this in their 303 00:19:30,119 --> 00:19:34,600 Speaker 1: article Critics of cash transfer programs worry about their ineffectiveness 304 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:37,840 Speaker 1: and costs compared to aid programs at target funds for 305 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:42,840 Speaker 1: food shelter or help raising children. Drake University Economists Economics 306 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:48,760 Speaker 1: Professor Heath Anderson is concerned the program are the programs 307 00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:53,480 Speaker 1: miss need of your people less likely to apply, including 308 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:57,640 Speaker 1: those without homes. It's a good point, by the way, Well, 309 00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:01,400 Speaker 1: there are times people might be benefit from a cash infusion, 310 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:04,840 Speaker 1: the money is unlikely to address the structural issues holding 311 00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:10,960 Speaker 1: people back, like inadequate healthcare in schools. The Drake University 312 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:16,080 Speaker 1: Economists also said, quote, if we keep thinking about the 313 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:19,280 Speaker 1: remedying of poverty in terms of just throwing cash at people, 314 00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:24,840 Speaker 1: you're not thinking about the structures, the kind of reproduce 315 00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:28,000 Speaker 1: that reproduce poverty in the first place, and you're not 316 00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:33,000 Speaker 1: really solving the problems at all. Wait, hold on a second. 317 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:34,960 Speaker 1: So you're telling me that I could be right that 318 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:38,040 Speaker 1: just handing out cash to people may actually do nothing 319 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:40,000 Speaker 1: but just give them cash and they blow it on 320 00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:43,760 Speaker 1: stuff and it may not change the world. No way, 321 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:48,120 Speaker 1: you're telling me that's possible, that this five hundred dollars 322 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:51,600 Speaker 1: a month, people just may just grab it and go 323 00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:54,520 Speaker 1: spend it and not save it and not change their life, 324 00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:58,160 Speaker 1: not change the way they do anything. You mean, if 325 00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:01,920 Speaker 1: you give irresponsible people who have a job or those 326 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:04,080 Speaker 1: that don't have a job a bunch of money, you're 327 00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:05,880 Speaker 1: telling me you don't think it's going to change your life. 328 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:12,119 Speaker 1: How could this possibly be? But be clear, this is 329 00:21:12,119 --> 00:21:15,879 Speaker 1: not really about helping people. This is about redistributing wealth, 330 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:20,960 Speaker 1: taking from people that you believe have too much money 331 00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:23,639 Speaker 1: and giving it to people that you believe deserve to 332 00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:30,119 Speaker 1: have more of your money. This is robbing Peter to 333 00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:35,879 Speaker 1: pay Paul. That is what this is, nothing more, nothing less. 334 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:41,960 Speaker 1: This is robbing the rich and giving to the poor. 335 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:44,080 Speaker 1: Maybe that's a better way of putting it. That's what 336 00:21:44,119 --> 00:21:51,320 Speaker 1: it is. That's what this is rob the rich. And 337 00:21:51,359 --> 00:21:56,480 Speaker 1: what is the definition of rich? Now it's not millionaires, folks. Okay, no, 338 00:21:56,600 --> 00:22:05,640 Speaker 1: that's not it's not millionaires. Okay, understand that it's not millionaires. 339 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:10,359 Speaker 1: There's people that make a hundred thousand bucks, people make 340 00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:13,439 Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty thousand. This isn't this is not 341 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:16,919 Speaker 1: We're no longer talking about people that make millions, right. 342 00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:19,399 Speaker 1: We used to. We used to hate on the millionaires. 343 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:22,440 Speaker 1: That's who we used to really hate on. No, No, 344 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:25,120 Speaker 1: this is anybody that basically just has a job, folks. 345 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:30,800 Speaker 1: This is basically anyone that just got that has some cash, 346 00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:32,960 Speaker 1: and we're gonna take it from you, and we're gonna 347 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:36,080 Speaker 1: redistribute it to those they don't have as much because 348 00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:38,119 Speaker 1: we bring you down while raising them up to the 349 00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:40,640 Speaker 1: same level that you're on, or we certainly at least 350 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:43,280 Speaker 1: get you close to the same level. That's what we're 351 00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:49,239 Speaker 1: doing here. This is socialism. And if you don't think 352 00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:51,120 Speaker 1: people will vote for this, they will because they don't 353 00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:55,720 Speaker 1: even realize that they're voting for socialism, because all they 354 00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:58,240 Speaker 1: hear is, hold on a second, if I vote for 355 00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:02,120 Speaker 1: that guy, they're gonna give me five hundred dollars a month, 356 00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:07,960 Speaker 1: or a thousand dollars a month, no strings attached, no 357 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:11,960 Speaker 1: monitoring of the money. I can do with it whatever 358 00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:18,040 Speaker 1: I want to do with it, Jackpot. Let's talk about 359 00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:22,600 Speaker 1: young people for a moment. Let's really really think about 360 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:26,200 Speaker 1: young people for just a second. You don't think young 361 00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:33,040 Speaker 1: people are gonna go for this, They will, I promise you, 362 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:36,600 Speaker 1: because they're gonna want to get out of school, whether 363 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:39,679 Speaker 1: it's high school or college, it doesn't really matter, and 364 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:44,040 Speaker 1: they're gonna want to get this cash. They're going to 365 00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:50,600 Speaker 1: want to do it. They're gonna want the cash big time. 366 00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:55,159 Speaker 1: They're gonna want this money, and they're gonna want it 367 00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:59,680 Speaker 1: right now, and they're gonna take the instant gratification and 368 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:01,800 Speaker 1: are not going to think about the money coming from 369 00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:03,480 Speaker 1: them or how much harder it's going to be for 370 00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:05,520 Speaker 1: them down the road to actually be successful because the 371 00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:08,119 Speaker 1: government's sucking the life o the bank account each and 372 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:14,400 Speaker 1: every day. Right, they're not going to do that, folks. No, no, no, no, 373 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:21,040 Speaker 1: that they won't do no, sir, No, they're gonna they're 374 00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:25,199 Speaker 1: they're gonna just let it happen. It's just gonna happen. Folks, 375 00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:31,160 Speaker 1: vote for it. Take it here it is, here's your cash, 376 00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:35,840 Speaker 1: no strings attached. We want to do this forever. That's 377 00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:40,760 Speaker 1: what they said. They want to do it forever, indefinitely. 378 00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:45,840 Speaker 1: This pilot program, they're gonna come back with some new 379 00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:49,000 Speaker 1: info for you, and the info, I'm going to tell 380 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:50,760 Speaker 1: you exactly what it's going to say, because this is 381 00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:54,440 Speaker 1: not based in sciences, is based in propaganda. They're gonna 382 00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:57,560 Speaker 1: tell you it's gonna be amazing for the economy. They're 383 00:24:57,560 --> 00:24:59,600 Speaker 1: gonna tell you that it's gonna be amazing that without 384 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:04,080 Speaker 1: it people are going to live in poverty. They're going 385 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:06,960 Speaker 1: to tell you that people are going to live in 386 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,240 Speaker 1: poverty and live a terrible life, and we have a 387 00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:12,520 Speaker 1: moral obligation to do this. And we saw incredible, a 388 00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:16,520 Speaker 1: credible transition of independence and freedom and happiness. Because you 389 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:19,840 Speaker 1: notice what they're say they're studying with this right you 390 00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:22,360 Speaker 1: notice some of those keywords and phrases that they said 391 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:27,320 Speaker 1: they were going to study with this mental health. They're 392 00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:29,440 Speaker 1: going to connect it to mental health. They're going to say, 393 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:33,719 Speaker 1: we have a moral obligation based on mental health to 394 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:36,480 Speaker 1: make sure that people have plenty of cash. And that's 395 00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:39,719 Speaker 1: the job of the United States government to give them that. 396 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,680 Speaker 1: So if you're making fifty now you're gonna make fifty 397 00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:48,280 Speaker 1: six thousand. If you're making fifty six, we're now going 398 00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:51,919 Speaker 1: to pay you sixty two. It's just they're just going 399 00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:55,399 Speaker 1: to keep giving you the money. And there's going to 400 00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:57,520 Speaker 1: be a certain point, it's probably gonna be eighty grand 401 00:25:57,560 --> 00:25:59,200 Speaker 1: or one hundred grand where they're gonna cut it off, 402 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:01,080 Speaker 1: and that's where they're going to tax the hell out 403 00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:04,040 Speaker 1: of you. And this is going to be a class 404 00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:07,720 Speaker 1: warfare issue. And as long as you do the math 405 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:10,679 Speaker 1: on the number of voters who are under that threshold. 406 00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:13,800 Speaker 1: You can control every aspect of this country, and you 407 00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:17,680 Speaker 1: can suck the economic independence out of people's lives while 408 00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:20,680 Speaker 1: giving to people that aren't doing anything to deserve it. 409 00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:25,919 Speaker 1: I'll say it again. 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