Posted on 01/31/2024 9:17:28 PM PST by Angelino97
For years, Kipp Kahlia felt stuck. The Long Beach guitarist used to tour the country with reggae artists. But 20 years ago, after contracting intestinal parasites on a trip abroad, Kahlia had to take a step back from gigging.
Her health deteriorated and visits to doctors drained her savings. Recently she decided to start a business performing social justice songs at events. But with no extra funds or time, she had to pause the venture.
“With all the struggling I was doing, my attitude took a hit,” Kahlia said. “The more you witness yourself being down and out, the more you feel down and out, and the more stuck you feel.”
Now Kahlia is getting a chance to get unstuck. Kahlia was selected as one of 1,000 participants in L.A. County’s guaranteed income program, called Breathe.
It’s one of the largest guaranteed income programs in the nation, giving participants $1,000 a month over three years, more money over a longer period of time than other similar income programs...
One question the Breathe program raises, Kline said, is what does it mean to have extra money for months versus several years? “If you knew the money was coming for three years, it’s a much longer runway. Can you go back to school? Can you quit your job now and look for a new one? Can you care for your aging parents?”
(Excerpt) Read more at smdp.com ...
WTF?
Can you quit your job now and look for a new one?
The government is paying people to quit their jobs so they can bum around, playing "social justice songs" at events.
For anyone to write that story in a serious manner is downright scary, frightening, and sad.
Well at least she’s not struggling to be the next big DJ or rap singer.
Whenever I was employed and wanted to change jobs, it was a second full-time job to find the new one. Nobody paid me to look for that new job.
The USA has SO lost its way. Only a MAJOR cataclysm is going to end this.
So kind of the taxpayers of LA County to lay out $36 million to support the lifestyle of people like this leftist hack. And, mind you, she’s the showcasenthe reporter chose from among 1000 potential subjects
The USA Doom Loop is accelerating. I can't people actually celebrate programs like this as if it is a huge social achievement to teach people to be parasites and to pass that parasitism on to their kids.
yet the guy/gal being taxed to support the freeloader has no remaining time to strum a personal tune...
#ing Rats
Off Topic.
Look how flexible she is.
Even when I was young, could still do cartwheels and running somersaults, my left knee never allowed me to sit that way, in the properlotus position. Meanwhile though, I kept working and kept most the bills paid. So there’s that.
Well, see, here’s a problem.
The emergence of AI will wipe out vast sectors of white collar work. Shortly after that, blue collar work will suffer as AI-controlled humanoid robots take those jobs.
So how do you live? How do you pay rent, a mortgage, whatever?
Take from the people who earned it and give it to people who didn’t.
What could possibly go wrong?
Issac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke were among those who painted such scenarios in some of their work.
Of course, the reality is that most common men (and women) will spend their time with porn, gaming, movies, social media, drugs, alcohol, and food. And yes, I suppose the government will pay to keep them in a quiet, vegetative state.
To accompany the photo, here is a guitar version of We’re In The Money.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=HAbwYd1ICVg
Insightful post.
Ok, point that seems to be missed...
She lives in LA
And somehow, as a black woman, cannot make a living singing social justice songs at the myriad of liberal/woke events there every year...
Buy shares in a robot
I actually sit like that 90% of the time I am sitting, even while on my computer chair.
After 21 years in Japan, it’s the only way that feels comfortable.
(And I’m a guy.)
Juvenal coined the phrase, “Bread and circuses”; from Latin: panem et circenses), a phrase which refers to superficial appeasement.
Juvenal originally used it to decry the “selfishness” of common people and their neglect of wider concerns. The phrase implies a population’s erosion or ignorance of civic duty as a priority.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.