Posted on 07/17/2018 4:49:55 PM PDT by PROCON
In his first major speech since leaving office, former President Barack Obama endorsed the idea of providing a universal basic income.
Speaking at the Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture in South Africa on Tuesday, Obama raised the notion of guaranteed income as a way to reduce what he called "yawning disparities" in wealth, education, and security across different socioeconomic groups.
"It's not just money that a job provides," said Obama. "It provides dignity and structure and a sense of place and a sense of purpose. So we're going to have to consider new ways of thinking about these problems, like a universal income, review of our workweek, how we retrain our young people, how we make everybody an entrepreneur at some level. But we're going have to worry about economics if we want to get democracy back on track."
He additionally called on the rich to support higher taxation, saying that "you don't have to take a vow of poverty just to say 'let me help out a few of these folks.'"
Earning money brings dignity. Handouts do not.
Stop with the crazy talk. 😄
So all those $hithole countries in Africa run by tribal dictators and communists should expect that universal basic income how exactly? That’s right. From our pockets.
Obambi jumped the shark (again).
Empty rhetoric for empty minds.
MARXIST POS
Bammy Hussein should send in his Sta$h.
As an example
For the chillin’s.
“Money for nuthin’ and your chicks for free”
“Bronco Bama”
That kid had it right.
**In his first major speech since leaving office**
Why is he out now? timing is everything!
Longest 8 years of my life!
1. It’s philosophically wrong.
2. No one has shown that it “works”.
As I get older I understand the value of clean comedy.
“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.
James Madison
I have a better idea! Let’s give everyone a pony!!!
After watching and experiencing the effects this ignorant mediocrity had us under for over eight years I think I can say that in my fifty nine years on this planet watching and observing life in general, that this weak, worthless man is a blithering idiot who has never had an original, worthwhile, salient idea in his entire life. He mouths stale bromides and regurgitates things that he heard from notable, accomplished men like Frank Marshall Davis and Saul Alinsky. It would be like watching a drunk puking in the alley behind the bar. You watch it for a moment, then have to look away.
You'll see a problem, moron liberals if you use your brain cell.
Anyone who has to sit through this fop's speech will be afflicted with a case of yawning despair-ity.
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