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A candidate for President wants a Universal Basic Income

Andrew Yang, a not-for-profit and for profit entrepreneur is running for President of the United States. I for one couldn't be happier. Those who have been reading me for some time, and those who know me, know that I couldn't be sicker of the current public "assistance" system: the one that distributes insufficient amounts of [...]

By |2018-11-23T18:55:14-05:00February 11th, 2018|Featured, Politicians, all types|0 Comments

Pro-soda group’s “concern” for poor is bull-doo

So now, are we to believe that the pro-soda, pro-diabetes, pro-obesity lobby is coming to the defense of the poor in the United States? If the anti-soda tax people cared, they'd get behind a Universal Basic Income.

FDR’s Freedom from Want: Time to Remember

- Photo by John Simoes (jsfotographic.tumblr.com) - FDR despised soup kitchens and bread lines and thought them to be shameful evidence of our failure to create income distribution policies for our people.

By |2018-01-06T13:04:05-05:00December 27th, 2017|Politicians, all types, Poverty and income|0 Comments

The Christmas Basket (A conversation starter for your post-holiday hangover)

To say the chosen families needed the help more than the others was to advertise that they were particularly destitute, since everyone in room was poor, including by the way the teachers, who made about $12 an hour.

By |2018-11-23T18:48:08-05:00November 19th, 2017|Poverty and income, Universal Basic Income, Women|0 Comments

Marco Rubio’s pre-Thanksgiving hypocrisy on helping “working families.”

In Rubio's Florida, for example, the maximum monthly welfare payment for a family is $303, even though a federal poverty line income is about $1500 a month for a family of three. That's some lifestyle.

By |2018-11-23T18:48:21-05:00November 12th, 2017|Politicians, all types, Poverty and income|0 Comments

All Tricks, No Treats: A Nation (Un)Committed to Children

It may seem anti-social to smother the baby you birthed, but for a teenager schooled in the values of American society, maybe not so much. Tiona Rodriguez, who was 17 at the time, may have needed some more adult direction to keep from going shopping and shoplifting right after birthing a baby and killing it. [...]

By |2017-11-12T12:40:04-05:00November 7th, 2017|Poverty and income, Stupid politicians|0 Comments

Universal Basic Income vs. “Welfare” block grants, August 3rd NYC

After 20 years of state controlled welfare, liberals and conservatives agree that the experiment is a massive failure. Would Universal Basic Income be a superior alternative? Come help to move the agenda so those in power do not continue the ill fated tweaking of welfare grants. Universal Basic Income may be the solution.

By |2016-07-17T16:50:13-04:00July 17th, 2016||0 Comments
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