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Joe Biden Slams Universal Basic Income: ‘A job Is About a Lot More Than a Paycheck’
Newsweak ^ | 3/28/18 at 4:55 PM | Nicole Goodkind

Posted on 03/28/2018 6:17:34 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Those who support the idea of a universal basic income are “class clueless,” former Vice President Joe Biden said in an interview Wednesday.

Universal basic income, a program that would guarantee a minimum income for all Americans, has been gaining popularity as job displacement due to advances in technology continue. A recent Gallup poll found 48 percent of Americans support a universal basic income for workers who are replaced by artificial intelligence.

But Biden, who is rumored to be eyeing a presidential run in 2020, said he does not believe that’s the way “America is built.” Instead, it’s a concept created by Silicon Valley executives who are missing the point, he said on Crooked Media’s Pod Save America, which is hosted by former Obama staffers.

“Every time someone would lose a job, my dad would say, ‘You know, Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about dignity, it’s about respect.’ It’s about your place in the community. It’s about being able to look your kid in the eye and saying, ‘Honey, it’s going to be OK.’ That’s what it’s about. Dignity,” he said. “Getting an annual wage, you sit home and do nothing. You strip people of their dignity.” …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: backpedaling; basicincome; biden; democrats; plugs; slowjoe
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Biden trying to turn right in a car that only turns left? He seems to have forgotten that his former boss wanted people who talked like that in the back seat and not driving.
1 posted on 03/28/2018 6:17:34 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

“I’ve been in a lot of locker rooms, you know...I’ve been around”—Slow Joe


2 posted on 03/28/2018 6:19:33 PM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Obama voters killed America...Treat them accordingly.)
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To: Olog-hai

Walks back his talk on Trump and now this. That pedo thingy must be hitting the fan.


3 posted on 03/28/2018 6:19:35 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (If the illegal immigration issue were Social Security, it'd be privatized by now.)
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To: Olog-hai

After this little lecture, does Slow-Joe’s son think the multi-million dollar job he land in China ‘just a paycheck’ or a job?


4 posted on 03/28/2018 6:20:05 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: Olog-hai

Blind pig...

Acorn...


5 posted on 03/28/2018 6:20:19 PM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
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To: WayneS

Slo Joe ask the Indians at Duncan Donuts what they think ......


6 posted on 03/28/2018 6:23:08 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: Olog-hai

Ever had one, Joe? A job that is.


7 posted on 03/28/2018 6:23:36 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Electric Graffiti

Glory hole Joe.


8 posted on 03/28/2018 6:24:58 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Wisdom and education are different things. Don't confuse them.)
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To: TigersEye

No, but he’s always had more than basic income.


9 posted on 03/28/2018 6:25:45 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA/KAG!!!)
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To: Olog-hai

Good. He just lost all of Bernie’s Marxist Army.


10 posted on 03/28/2018 6:26:59 PM PDT by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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To: Olog-hai

The only way scumbag leftist Rats can possibly be elected is by pretending to be moderates. Like Crazy Uncle Joe, they have to lie about who they are, otherwise they have no chance of winning elections.


11 posted on 03/28/2018 6:28:00 PM PDT by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
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To: TigersEye

“Joe Biden Slams Universal Basic Income: ‘A job Is About a Lot More Than a Paycheck’

What would this schmendrick know about a job?


12 posted on 03/28/2018 6:28:23 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Olog-hai

So says the idiot who never held a straight job his entire adult life earning government universal taxpayer income and other sleazy perks.


13 posted on 03/28/2018 6:29:14 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: WayneS

My thoughts exactly!


14 posted on 03/28/2018 6:30:02 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: Olog-hai

Sounds racist.


15 posted on 03/28/2018 6:31:53 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: Olog-hai

So says the government parasite.


16 posted on 03/28/2018 6:32:36 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Olog-hai

I started working when I was 15 and worked EVERY DAY of my life until I was 67. I’ve been retired for a year and a half. The hardest thing for me to get used to is NOT waking up and going to work. Sometimes I wish I hadn’t let the wife and family members talk me into retiring.


17 posted on 03/28/2018 6:34:01 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: Olog-hai

Wow....an idea so stump even Joe Biden thinks it dumb...


18 posted on 03/28/2018 6:35:16 PM PDT by Popman (My sin was great, Your love was greater  What could separate us now…)
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To: Popman

Make that stupid not stump


19 posted on 03/28/2018 6:37:09 PM PDT by Popman (My sin was great, Your love was greater  What could separate us now…)
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To: Olog-hai

Biden: “A job is flying around the world on tax payer dollars, groping women, saying the first dumb thing that comes to you and getting paid big bucks for doing it”


20 posted on 03/28/2018 6:37:21 PM PDT by Zathras
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