Posted on 05/26/2018 10:33:50 PM PDT by KingofZion
Tubbs, a Stockton native and Stanford graduate who is all of 27 years old, wants to give at least $500 a month to a select group of residents. They'll be able to spend it as they wish, for 18 months, in a pilot program to test the impact of what's called guaranteed basic income.
If the very sound of that knocked you half off your chair, this next initiative might finish the job.
Stockton is about to award stipends of up to $1,000 a month to residents deemed most likely to shoot somebody. This program is called Advance Peace, and it's modeled after a crime reduction program in the Bay Area city of Richmond.
The idea is that a small number of people are responsible for a large percentage of violence, and offering them an alternative path with counseling and case management over an 18-month period, along with a stipend if they stay the course can be a good investment all around.
***"Exciting" is not the way everyone describes the program.
"You've got to be kidding," Sarah Palin, former Alaska governor and vice presidential running mate, tweeted last month.
But Tubbs responded with a Twitter touche.
"Actually modeled after the Alaska Permanent Fund," he wrote. "Are you familiar with it?"
The Alaska fund shares the wealth on state oil revenues, awarding residents roughly $2,000 a year.
*** "I think it's not smart," said insurance agent Evelyn Vega, who wouldn't mind it so much if the free money went to people with legitimate need, rather than being awarded randomly and without requirements. "After Bill Clinton passed the welfare-to-work act, my mom had to go back to school and it eventually motivated her."
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
How much, if tell them that you are likely to shoot TEN somebodies?
I still didn’t see how it will be financed. The article alludes to it but down’t say specifically. It only gives specifics re :education.
When they get into taxpayer pockets, people will start jumping straight up and straight down.
LOL - ya gotta love liberals and how they vote - they’re like children
http://files.constantcontact.com/3fb46e59601/32bd6c0f-71f0-41a4-907e-b9511342ccc3.jpg
...firmly believe that talent and intelligence are universal... Tubbs said when he introduced the program this year....
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Right....everybody has talent and everybody is intelligent. What could possibly go wrong with policies based upon and depenent upon that as a premise.
.firmly believe that talent and intelligence are universal... Tubbs said when he introduced the program this year..
Too bad politicians are lacking in common sense, otherwise they wouldn’t dream up this fairy tale.
I wouldn’t want to be a somebody in that town. Are the mayor and city council members considered to be somebodies?
So you can get free money but you can get MORE free money if you are really violent, as a bribe to be less violent. So it incentives being ultra violent so you can collect that bribe. Nice idea.
A country in northern Europe devised an experiment with a group of citizens, with this basic income idea. It was to last two years, they called it off after one.
Zuckerberg and some “nwo” types are also in favor.
Sorry John, they have you beat this time.
UBI is tied to artificial intelligence. When workers are no longer needed. Its beyond Zuckerberg.
And free weed, dont forget the free weed.
Alaska had a lot of oil so they could pay their citizens a part of the profits from its sale.
Stockton, from what I hear, doesn’t have much of a pot to piss in.
Try telling the punks to either stay in school and learn, or go to jail, but that they will NOT “Pass Go” nor will they collect “”$200 or $1000 dollars”.
I now believe that insanity is “catching”. The way it flows from one liberal/leftist generation to the next, while not doing so for conservatives, is proof positive that stupidity and lunacy can be passed down through the generations.
Sane people don’t let their kids marry liberals.
Finland had a trial UBI program and killed it after it didnt work.
He’s a Black DEmocrat....of course they want to give OTHER PEOPLES MONEY to NON DESERVING people!
There used to be another way of dealing with this problem. I believe it was known as “prison.”
rewarding the criminal, we have come to a point of absolute lunacy
The minute a white, straight, Christian, conservative male is deemed a shooter the program will end, more redistribution on a ridiculous scale
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/26/us/reparations-happy-hour-portland.html
check this out, truly insane
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