Posted on 04/08/2019 10:45:48 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Andrew Yang, a businessman who is running for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president, said Sunday on ABC's "This Week" that his proposal to provide every American with a $1,000 guaranteed monthly income would help "solve the problems that got Donald Trump elected in 2016."
"To me the main driver of his victory was that we automated away 4 million manufacturing jobs in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, the swing states he needed to win," Yang said.
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In the words of ‘sandy O’, “Just pay for it.”
Government is theft
Why doesn’t he see jobs as a solution to joblessness?
Why not make it $5000/month, and then everyone can be above average!
People who think like this are really mentally defective.
Analysis: spot-on
Proposed solution: dead wrong
Moreover, how could bigger government be the solution to the problem of big government?
Andrew, are you a black or hispanic woman? Then forget about it.
No, it won’t.
The inner cities, especially minority majority areas, have sky high illegitimacy rates, crime and drug abuse since they lost manufacturing jobs in the 1960s after the Civil Rights era riots. Throwing trillions of dollars in reparations, welfare and various government programs have no fixed this.
The semi-rural and rural areas have been economically hollowed out by outsourcing, moving factories abroad, and competition by lower-paid illegal immigrants. They responded by adopting welfare, moving to Social Security disability, and using drugs at a growing rate. Instead of crack and marijuana, it is prescription painkillers and meth.
TWO cases in the US in our lifetimes where giving people enough money to live on didn’t lead to retraining or happy permanent vacations. Instead, it led to despair, broken families and drug abuse.
We have to find a way to re-engage these people, and we haven’t found that yet. It is the working who are more likely to volunteer, while those on welfare are permanently held in receiving “victim” status.
We have NOT yet found a replacement for the social engagement people derive from jobs.
So, this guy thinks basic income/socialism is the answer to the problem of 0bama and his minions?
Hmmmm....interesting.
How do these people make such enormous sums of money without having a BASIC UNDERSTANDING OF ECONOMICS ?
200 million people over 18 time 1000 per month.
200 billion per month times 12 months.
1.4 trillion per year.
What could possibly be wrong with that?
If you’ve been working making $9/hr, you’ve made about $1440/month.
How ticked off would you be if people doing nothing suddenly got 70% of what you got for getting up every day and busting your butt?
I hate these idiots.
..... Ya ..... That outta solve our Illegal Immigration Problem ........
Welfare alone did away with any decent work and responsibility ethic these minority areas ever had.
Welfare took away the need to work, and be a productive and responsible human being.
Welfare also took away/outsourced the father figure in these minority families.
Take away the welfare and the work ethic SHOULD come back.
Manufacturing and other jobs are readily available.
I'm never optimistic, but I always mention that as we move into a post-scarcity world of automation and few jobs, we might benefit from small agricultural communities. It's not about "feeding the nation" and it's not about "growing the GNP". But I think people need a community and they need to be engaged in work that they can see in front of them. I would not mind at all living in a town of 2000 people, growing a garden on an acre of land, and walking over to the local pub and drinking a nice craft brew with my neighbors. That would be a good life. And if the machines are doing most of the work far, far away, I'm fine with that.
But storing people in high-rises in the middle of cities and mailing them a check once a month just isn't a long-term solution.
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