Came off the horse. I in a curve, my founder on a bank. And now heres my grand great grandmother and great grandfather. Here its pays full. I really like it up here and then since my familys married here, how does feel like i need to come up here and take care of the same material. Mm hm. I disliked volunteer and i do thanks for my community in try to make a difference. No one ever dies and says, and i wish i had a better job. They say i wish i had more time to spend with my family. I wish i could have explored some of my interests of music or ard, or church, or being a baseball coach. And so i just think were at a moment where were going to have machines and Artificial Intelligence produce a lot of things much more cheaply than weve ever seen before. Were 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 thats the gift of this moment. If we dont 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 dont 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 im happy here much the rocks very much of over. I seriously thought i was the help this person ever. I all a sudden i 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 an a order dissection. Theres 3 lines to your a order which fees all your body with blood. And mine was ripping apart both by the force of the blood. Which means i have my Blood Pressure down very, very low. Because it gets too high, you have a rupture in your dad where youre at me when youre sick and youre trying to deal with her potentially fatal health issue. Theres just so much stress, you know, on the financial end of it because youre getting these phone calls every day and, and every attorney, i will call it like 801200 bucks just to file bankruptcy. No, im thinking you know, am i so broke . I cant afford to offer bankruptcy, you know, my cardiovascular specialist there, vanderbilt, he wrote on my medical records, he said look, this guy does not need to wait for his disability. He needs it now. And i still had to wait 15 months, you know, if it hadnt been for family and some friends, i dont know what i would have done. I really dont because i mean, i, i had no money and, you know, i had, i had eat you can look at someone like you can look at me right now. Perhaps and, and maybe think of a perfectly healthy, but you dont know whats going on inside someones body in it. We spend another 4 trillion dollars on we spend another trillion dollars on tax cuts. Are wealthy people. Do you see the effects of wealthy people spending those tax cuts that we give them in salina, or do you think that instead of Economic Activity always coming from the top and trickling down, that Economic Activity might actually be kind of thing that bubbles up from the ground right with if everybody has a decent amount of Economic Security and has my to spend, then Economic Activity will spiral upwards and community likes align left in the army originally. And when i got out i just didnt come back home. I just started working again for 27. The reason that im here back and so on is because i have custody of my 2 granddaughters. They are 11 and 10 to full time in saying i live here and go home, start getting ready for them to get home from school. And of course we have to have suffer if theyre homework, if theyre bass and its bad time and ready to start. All over theyve been through a lot to be as small as they are and same things and heard things and that child shouldnt, you know, drugs is really bad thing here in this little small town and it has destroyed many families. It sure has sure man to the ground freight oh. 6 the smart a i still wanna warn him to have works hard, that he just didnt want to live in a basement a bag. I gave up the best job i ever had my life when i came back to take care of girls and it was either that or let them go into states custody. And so i gave it all up, came back out. And i need to know what you have to do, you know, so ah, well, i dont like about where i spend my money and i would much rather do it here. And i have to drive 30 or 45 minutes to for the nearest place. It will with fashion nowadays. We really would like to say the town come alive again. Like i said, we just need more people that are willing to last in the community. If we give everybody money, you know, everybody has something to spend and they can spend it in, in each others businesses. And that creates an upward spiral of Economic Activity that can revitalize the small town like selena. And if i can make the analogy to a board game, if you think about the game monopoly, every time you go around the board, the costco, yet another 200. 00. You didnt have that 2. 00 every time you, pasco, and monopoly. The gang would be over and about 3 turns. See that 200. 00 you get for passing go and monopoly. Thats universal, basic income. They are no matter what. Its unconditional. You know, its come, youre getting it, whether youre winning or you lose and, and if youre losing, it can give you a chance. You can give you hope that maybe just maybe you could still pull this off in our representatives in, in legislatures and congress. They know that investments payoff, right . They know that, for example, 1000000. 00 investment in the fish hatchery, theyll hollow, pays off in multiples of that amount every year in the tourism that it brings into this community. A lot of people actually try well here, just to fish and buy them, come and do salon. Ill just to fears will say i have to buy groceries here at the bar fusion license out by gas. You know, they, they stimulate to economy, you know, quite a bit with my, this is why our representatives fight for money in washington to bring back to our communities. Because they know that these investments can have multiplier effects that bring in much more than the cost of those program. Go started out with the river cuz the doc is a little bit either further, but here a lot. Oh, for years got a girl. Oh, oh, did you get infrastructure like roads and bridges and rail brings in business . Oh, basic income is like Infrastructure Spending for families. Right. Last families to, to, to pay for the infrastructure that they need. Whether its child care or whether its housing, whether its food, clothing, or a car that works or medical expenses. These are all Infrastructure Investments as well in the productive power of our people and our families in our communities. Volley mo, came up with money and got yeah, years harder. Again, imagine what she had to go through a hated to put her in a predicament. And i would never have to put her in a predictor again, if i can, i can help it. But like i said, as long as its hard to get work, its hard to pay, you know, if you can get the money, you cant pay, it scares me death. Im a ne, a. Or if i know if i dont buy it after so long, theyre gonna come get in. Take me away from a family and are you working right now . Im fine off in our working room. Its hard on me course. Notice you guys knows lions and stuff. Its hard on me because i retain fluid and stuff but i know when i have to, cuz my kids, you know, we tried to go to a doctors office, they wouldnt accept him because he dont have insurance. And then i goes all the way back to the money thing. No money. So because you dont got no money, we dont care about your health. We dont care whats going on with you. Were not going to tell you good by. Maybe days all turn him down and he didnt show it 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 dollars and then help you aid. I mean, it would god, oh mine. Okay. The market, imagine what it would do. So my family made my wife would live better. We went, our years much is mounted out of valen. Nearby wyoming out the paper. Okay. And if you dont me careful. Mm mm. For dish ah ah ah ah a moon i mean we have 2 choices when we design programs for the poor for people who are struggling, we can say you need to prove to me 1st. Youre worthy of my help and then ill help you. Ready or we can treat people the way we treat our families. Our children are neighbors and say, were going to help you 1st because we have faith in you. We believe that youre going to do something good with that help. And thats what it basic income. Just a couple of different things. The presupposition is that there is a, a belief of inherent good that was in people. Theres a common belief and understand that most people are basically good. I believe in that are we say that you ought to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps. Thats a really classic southern say though, some people dont have bootstraps to pull up. Some people dont have hands to pull them. Some people dont have feet to put them on to be a person of faith, no matter what was specifically a lot of in is or what tribe appreciate your other belief system that we prior to that there isnt, 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, whats interesting to me talking to people about basic income, especially people that would benefit from it is theyre 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. Dont you time somebody to paypal or via bill money, they wouldnt turn into a dope, a couch, potatoes, work and what we are name. But when i asked people, well, what would you do . Right . No one has ever said to me like, oh, ill sit on the couch and buy some drugs and some alcohol and be lazy. Im looking at this way. If im growing a garden in my family, what there have a nice garden wait, work hard on that. So youre saying i should just open the door and let the neighbor down the road. He didnt work so hard. Come in here and get part of my garden house at rat, for us. Just kind of resist. This is almost a question of human nature. You know, how do people think about other people beyond their own family or friends . Do they trust them or do they not trust them . And i think thats, thats what we kind of have to talk about. And thats where actually pilots are very useful because we have a little bit of an ive 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 manion surprise groceries pay and bills you know, the same things you and your family would probably spend the money on to ah ah, so we are within the last 30. 00 days of the pilot project. In his 1st year with the 20 women and we work with, we have seen them do everything from payoff predatory debt. Go back to school, get better and coin been opportunities to like be or more engaged parents to re establish relationships. Really this have an opportunity to show up and live their full lives. The then thats 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 clay so you know me, you know, you cant really just really have the babies. Oh so oh baker, allowing him to be somewhere where he can also not, not just be a watch dewitt also learned, ah me, i was able to go ahead and now enroll him in daycare in the and just focus on school. On my sake a semester. He a medical bill and they all coating at the finish that semester. I made the deans list, there was very exciting. 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 well 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 didnt look at the school and it was paid off. Did individuals, labor charbonneau lives . Oh, polls of valentine bay, it with the inside. He can make them with the keys. Thanks much for the baby girls. When a guy mary had a when, how about tomorrow. C 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 cry on an air reward. You know, there was, it was exciting. Well, you know, because he thought, yeah, he started it, he started the that the rural, all crying. Yes, mom ashley i was i madness with cancer 1st. And so they also want our relationship close to the, you know, my mom got the phone and you know she needed a lot, or she guess is mer to stay in a quiet oh, name she here with the below. Shell with the key. So now, harby and dal, you know, just to return a favor just to be like, mom, were for you just like use here for me all, even though it is a guaranteed income pilot in there, other guaranteed income pyle is currently being conducted. Ours is the only one working with extremely low income families. So families who have various subsidies that they are dependent upon. And even though individuals had a decrease in benefits, they still say that they are glad that they received the cash because the cash allowed the opportunity to do whatever they needed. It wasnt a boucher or a subsidy dedicated to one particular b. Or most importantly, where do i go . A family, madeline. Katie, bow lane movies. We were able to celebrate a law, right . They, we, you know, times before holidays and just campaign, probably actually being able to get together as a family and i have so many names lie and up. Im actually going to be looking for a job in diesels administration. I met some great people who, its great things way let me know when i crossed they a breeze to come talk to them. So im very excited with, you know, just say people, you know, and looking at for you to see did youre trying to do something, you know, to change your life, new situations, vanity or waiting like kamani. And were happy to share with that. What do you think is gonna happen when the program and i believe that we spend a lot of time thinking about what happens when something ins. And to me thats a clear sign of not trusting individuals. If i am going to say that i trust you enough to give you money and know that you are going to do what you and your family need, i have to say that i trust you are not there. Put a plan in place for when is money and so, so i believe that individuals are going to continue to do whatever they need to do to take care of themselves. And, ah, ah, in the end, people want to be productive. They want to have a better tomorrow and they have to day. And if you give people a stable, durable source of income that they can count on, then most people will invest that money in ways that are best for them. As we live in a moment of change, its going to happen. Driverless cars are going to arrive. Artificial intelligence is going to improve progress though in terms of people and whether theyre 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, its freedom, it, it, its bringing it gives you options that without that you do not have a casual, asked them the freedom to actually make the decisions to determine what it is that they need for themselves. You know, right now im academic, lets say for some reason academia doesnt work out and i need to take a couple of years to get some training or to switch careers. Or lets say i have a parent that really needs my help. I can instantly fall back on that universal basic income in that pitch. So its something i really want for, you know, the disadvantaged people in this country. But its something i also really want for myself. And i think thats how you create really powerful political movements. Oh, we have to take this opportunity and see that we do not have a limited time. And so my ask for you all tonight is free to take this new vision of the economy. This trickle up economy, this human centered economy, this vision and make it yours. I dont know to have picked up on it or not, but right now things are less than ideal for a huge number of people in this country. They blur bay and let go from jobs that are never going to come back rack medical bills are never going to be able to pay, you know, by the way, a global freakin, contagion level pandemic. Hard to feel very good about they treadmill. Dont you think youd 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 lipp at john economic boot off of peoples next. Lets give everyone a piece of get all American Pass so that no one has to start from nothing. Thats freedom at u b. I think about a 4th with the new choice. A lot of questions about the post a twinge with things for me, but im going to push on what that is. If i go to place, get that up the radius no matter what, thats my different benefit. You want to put a camera which doesnt feel like ive been doing this now to regroup on punch group or your to your for holding a picture. Where do we still hold . You go to the broker insurance card. The property, what is company is it, ive got the new book with more can i do this completely put us. 5 those to assist in this, lets put a boy e. Yeah, i would estimate because i thought it was the last november meet at siena. Well discuss it with release. Good. I mean, they all kind of like your local so to most of the place where the, the stuff on here for a late, what insurance or somebody thats been a minute, are going to ask them, bringing financial at least to begin with. What only days before america is mid term elections, everything seems to be breaking in the direction of the republicans. This would seem to confirm this will truly be a change election and a solid defeat for joe biden. And the democrats, the country is deeply divided. These elections make things worse. Oh, everything has changed. And one of the elements of this picture is to the desperate, the attack of the west, or counter a check to stop the duration of their positions. They decided to concentrate on russia and theyre real aim is of course, saving their 500 years of their domination and the emitter intermediate in this on demand china. 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