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 hit me and my spine with an axe and my blood pressure was 380 over 260. and then they finally came in and decided that i had a order dissection. there's 3 lines to your a order which fees all your body with blood. and mine was ripping apart both by the force of the blood. which means i have my blood pressure down very, very low. because it gets too high, it will 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 will call it like 801200 bucks just to file bankruptcy. no, 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 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 to 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 it . 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, might spend then economic activity will spiral upwards and community like someone from the army originally. and when i got out, i just didn't come back home or started work. so young for $27.00. there isn't that i'm here. back in so on. i was because i have custody of my 2 granddaughters. they are 11 and hey, in full time saying i live 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 boss and it's bad time and ready to start all over. and they've been through a lot to be as small as they are and same things and heard things and that the child shouldn't. you know, drugs is really bad thing here in this whole small town and it has destroyed many families. it sure has shook man to the ground crazy world. 6 6 they're smarter than their whatever it was, the owner warning that works hard, that you just didn't. well, all of us live in a basement with impact. i gave up the best job i ever had my life when i came back to take care of the girls in the head . it was either that or let them go into states custody. and so i gave it out, 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 it's this is lashana nowadays, we really would like to say the town come alive again. like i said, we just need more people that are willing to invest in the community. if we give everybody i yeah, 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 a small town like selina. if i can make the analogy to a board game, if you think about the game monopoly, great time ago around the board, the costco, yet another $200.00. you didn't have that $2.00 every time you. pasco and monopoly, again, would be over in about 3 turns. see that $200.00 you get for passing, go and monopoly. that's universal, basic income. they are no matter what. it's unconditional. you know, it's come, you're getting it, whether you're winning or you lose it. 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 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 finish and buy them, come and do slot. i'll just to virgil, say i have to buy groceries here at the bar. visualize is up a bar guess. you know, like those terms like to economy. you know, quite a bit with right, this is why our representatives fight for money in washington to bring back to our communities because they know that these investments can have multiplier effects that bring in much more than the cost of those programs. go straight up, the rubric of the doc is a little bit either further, but here, oh, the offer has got a girl. oh oh, do you ah, infrastructure like roads and bridges and rail rings in business? basic income is like infrastructure spending for families. right. last families to, to pay for the infrastructure that they need, whether it's child care or whether it's housing, whether it's food closing or a car that works for medical expenses. these are all infrastructure investments as well in the productive power of our people and our families in our communities. barry mo, gamma was money and got me out. here is harder. again, imagine what she had to go through a hated to put her in that predicament. and i would never have to put her in a predicting again if i can, i can help it. but like i said, as long as it's hard to get work, it's harder paid. you know, if you got the money again i it scares me death. the i'm a ne, a or if i know of, i don't buy it after so long they won't come get entire me away from a family and are you working right now is fine of an hour working roads and it's hard on me course. notice you guys notice lions and stuff. it's hard on me cuz i retain fluid and stuff but i get it and i, when i have to give my kids, you know we tried to go to a doctors office. they wouldn't make sad tam because you don't have insurance, and then that goes all the way back to the money thing. no money. so because you don't got no money, we don't care about your health. we don't care what's going on with you. we're not going to tell you good by they all turned him down and he didn't feel like to you guys, but when he slid down the hill over there to to catch land in that heard him a got him now with a $1000.00 and then help you i mean it would god oh mine. okay. them back at imagine what it would do. so my family may, my wife would live better. we would our year much is mounted are valid and they go by your mom into the paper. okay. you know, if you don't me careful who a dish. oh, i a money, a money, a money, a my my money in my name with with i mean we have 2 choices when we design programs for the poor and for people who are struggling, we can say you need to prove to me 1st, 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 on the presupposition is that there is a, a belief of inherent good that was then people. there is 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 though, 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 hope in is or what tribe appreciate 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 was good enough for jesus. i think it ought to be good enough for us to hey, ah, what's interesting to me talking to people about basic income, especially people that would benefit from it is 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 somebody to paypal or via bill money they wouldn't turn into a dope, a couch, potatoes, work and what we are name. but when i ask people, well, what would you do? right? no one has ever said to me like, oh, i'll sit on the couch and buy some drugs and some alcohol and be lazy. i'm looking at this way. if i'm growing a garden in my family, go out there. have a nice garden, wait, work hard on that. so you're saying i should just open the door and let the neighbor down the road. he didn't work so hard. come in here and get part of my garden house at rat for us. this kind of resistance is almost a question of human nature. you know, 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 i've actually quite a lot of empirical evidence saying, well, actually most people act like you and your friends in your family. basic and compounds have been done all over the world. and generally, they do not find that people misuse the cache or stopped working when they receive it. in 2019, the myra stockton, california launched an 18 month program where they gave $500.00 a month. no strings attached to a $125.00 residents are made less than the cities annual median income. one of those recipients spent the money on surprise. groceries paying 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. and that is the beauty in the power pairs. ah, i use the for so many things. stay and on top of paying the bills in the household, things 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 be in watch the but also learned, ah me, i was able to go ahead and now enroll him in day care in the, in on school and my sake a semester. he a medical bill and they all coating at the finish that semester i made the danes lease. there was very excited. i got my ged, i graduated in june. i was very excited about that because ill, really, one of the things that he cannot hinder me from, you know, job basically we're good job receiving a $1000.00 a month, even though it is a blessing is not enough to sustain yourself or your family. so individuals took this for what it was an opportunity to get a leg up an opportunity to put in place a plan for themselves and their families. so no one, quit working individuals went and got better career opportunities in the they didn't look at the school and it was paid off dead individuals, labor, charbonneau, mazda loan. oh, polls of valentine bay. it was a very decided we can make them with the keys in 6 months from the baby girls where they had a gar. mary had a when i was. c nervous and i get up, there was a fine, oh my god, i have to do something to tear the golden road on row in. i looked up a he, boy, he bo, he crying hard in air roar. you know, there was, it was exciting. you know, because he thought, yeah, he started it, he started the that the rural, all crying. yes ma'am. actually i was on a magnet with cancer 1st. and so they also want our relationship close to between the, you know, my mom got the mom and you know, she needed a lot or she is mer to stay in the oh, name she here with the below. she'll with the key. so now her being down, you know, just to return the favor just to be like mom, we're for you. just like use your for me all, even though it is a guaranteed income pilot, 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 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 a lie, right? they, we, you know, before holidays and just count 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, a home diesels administration. i met some great people, great, great things. they let me know when i crossed the bridge to come pop to them. so i'm very excited about a, you know, to just say people, you know, and looking out for you to see that you're trying to do something, you know, to change your life a new situation than in your awaiting kamani. and we have here with what you think is gonna happen when the programs you know, i believe that we spend a lot of time thinking about what happens when something ins. and to me that's a clear sign of that trusting individual. so if i am going to say that i trust you enough to give you money and know that you are going to do which you and your family need, i have to say that i trust you enough. they have 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 their, ah ah, in 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 lee. 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, it, it, it's bringing. it gives you options that without you do not have a 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 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 for, you know, the disadvantage 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. i take this opportunity and see that we do not have a limited time. and so my ask for you all to night is for you 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, a blur bay and let go from jobs that are never going to come back. racket medical bills are never going to be able to pay, you know, by the way, a global freakin contagion level pandemic. hard to feel very good about a treadmill. don't you think you'd feel a little better if you had slightly more assurance that you and your family we are going to be okay. we really believe in the land of the free lunch act like it was flip at 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 at u b. i think about a with oh, well, never be a victory for russia. wait, we shall see what you're still waiting. i truly need not unless you look at a meal crane. war is a proxy war. this is a war between russia and the united states. naz on are made, it comes to not should get done in carbon dioxide. america forces are and you're not in europe to gauge in conflict with russian forces. the american forces are here and defend nato allies that bridge that nato escalates even more indiscretion . military operations become a war when you but does have some rules that demonstrate and that'll that notion is my dog. i see it that i see you at the west thinking possibly that's what i mean with. so you sleep, he should make a nasty stuff to with almost them. let's see when you miss at home, just don't finish the in your sewage. never see the girl who's are we witnessing the end of globalization as we have known it for about the last half century. it would certainly seem so the west ability to shape the world in its own image also appears to be on the way. as a result, should we expect new regional and block globalization in 2020 to the italian government approved a package of military aid to ukraine, coordination with nato to help ukrainians defend themselves and fight back about 150000000 euros. well, i make a, we pose, even atomic bombs are hearing all the same nato and the u. f with the one that people will die just for make money. the one that if i have been yes while you message, as soon as they're, if you're gone soon as you are complete, i mean there's water damage with me. you need to be done to get i will put them in as well. the more sir me, my show it was roll tool or a roper zack leila. lesson opinion polls show that over 70 percent of italians are against military support for ukraine, but landed in confront with the date for last or you flat. don't a level yet. we only got it more on a skid out and go home and do not. she then the the, the, the daily dazzling the will i lucille my last lot a lot you. this'll things and we're not doing fine. theda the layout ah, the provide the much needed warm and the hint at comfort amid the very difficult conditions. here are the follows. russian troops as they bustle ukrainian, artillery on freezing weather conditions on the phone lines. the u. s. organization protecting journalist world wide refuses to support russia. media from the u. s. senate got tracks on his own resolution, banning american support for saudi led military operations in yemen over 23000000.