Posted on 07/10/2018 10:58:13 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK
(Full Title) CALIFORNIA CITY TO GIVE $500 A MONTH TO ANYONE-BUY DRUGS, BOOZE, GAS FOOD-SOCIALISM WORKS!
DAILY MAIL: Stockton, California will become the first city in the country to participate in a test of Universal Basic Income, in which 100 residents will be given $500-dollars-a-month, with no strings attached.
The program aims to create a level of income that no one will fall beneath.
By providing impoverished residents a regular sum of money that they can use on anything they wish, be it food, clothes, gas, or starting a new venture, those behind the program believe it could go a long way to give people enough support to try out new ideas.
The program in Stockton, which was once known as America’s foreclosure capital, will see the program launched by 2019, and the payments will continue to the individuals chosen for the program for a full 18-months.
The Stockton UBI program has heavy backing from one of the wealthiest areas of the country- Silicon Valley, according to CNN Money.
The idea is, in part, to off-set the economic distress the growing automation industry is expected to cause to American laborers, as well as a way to potentially reduce poverty.
One of the backers for the Stockton UBI program is Facebook’s co-founder Chris Hughes, whose organization, the Economic Security Project, contributed $1 million to the Stockton initiative.
‘It is such a fundamental idea behind America that if you work hard, you can get ahead, and you certainly don’t live in poverty. But that isn’t true today, and it hasn’t been true in the country for decades,’ Hughes told CNN Money.
‘I believe that unless we make significant changes today, the income inequality in our country will continue to grow and call into question the very nature of our social contract.’
One-in-four people in the city of more than 300,000 live in poverty, with the median household income sitting at $49,271, compared to $57,617 nationally.
The city’s inhabitants are also largely minorities with 70 per cent identifying themselves as such.
Universal Basic Income would mean all of the 77,500 people would receive an extra $500 per month. This 'program' is a five hundred dollar raise to welfare payments.
It's stupid - and should be renamed: "Extra Five Hundred Dollars for Welfare recipients".
Do you have to be in Stockton to get it? Can I just send off for it?
“Fake news”.
Not defending it, but the pilot program is only for 100 people for a year or two, iirc. Not “everyone”. Not yet.
That should be long enough to make this movement’s epitaph.
If I can’t post from some sites, I don’t understand how Savage can be permitted here. He went over the deep end long ago. In some ways he’s worse than Alex Jones.
Funny. That's not what the rest of American city's look like. Just the sh*thole cities.
Time for drug dealers to have a party! ...they’ve also found a new home, along with all the users.
Congrats!
Same city.
Same mayor.
Same stupidity.
There is a shortage of truck drivers...
However, the biggest reason so few are being hired is because they can NOT pass drug testing.
Truckers get randomly tested quite often. Test dirty-—you are gone—on the spot.
That $500 a month won’t change anything about the lives of the people who get it. They might get a few more bottles of booze, a few more rocks or more of whatever their drug of choice might be. That money will help enable them to continue their destructive lifestyle.
Yeah, I had bad sentence structure...I meant that they are only doing this for 100 people instead of 77,500. Stupid LITTLE experiment.
The idea behind what you said was right... that’s what matters.
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