Universal Basic Income

[Exfactor]

You brought up a point about stability. Some women do not report when their boyfriends live with them or when their husbands come back because they would become ineligible for assistance either due to the man's criminal record or his income. If they were to break up, it can take a year or more to get back into public housing or to receive Section 8 vouchers.

It might vary by state and laws do change over time, but the only agency that came to our home was the local housing authority. They checked for whether or not there was a man in the home, not because there was a blanket rule against having a man, but because a man was not listed in the household composition.

Black Americans generally suffer from generational poverty; if it weren't for the social and political issues that were projected on Black Americans such would have largely been removed from poverty generations ago. However, you have a population who pretty much had to pick themselves up by their own boot straps. You had a population to come out of slavery who were basically told you are now free, with no education. The G.I Bill, Homestead Bill, Social Security, educational grants etc, which non-blacks were given access too, which built the current middle class; which could have taken black people out of poverty generations ago; were denied to Black Americans.

A large population of American's won't understand it, and will never understand it; until it appears more on their doorstep. Just like with the war on drugs, and when drugs were wreaking havoc in the inner city; no one cared. Now that morgue's all across the country are now packed to capacity with non-Blacks due to an increase in drug related deaths; now is such a "health concern." It's now gotten so bad in my state; the morgues are now asking funeral homes to store bodies; while police departments are now charging drug dealers with the muders of those who overdose; like the drugs dealers forced them to consume such.

[Thorne]

Do you know what I learned to do? I learned not to compare everyone's resilience and abilities to my own.

I'm not comparing everyone's resilience to my own, I am simply stating that I cannot feel any empathy to people who have absolutely no resilience for anything. If you had a traumatic experience, it is likely that such an experience is going to define you in some way. However, if you spend the next fifty years of your life victimizing yourself because of what happened, then you are allowing an experience to control you, to enslave you, something which I cannot fathom.

[jsd]

People are more eager to attack the poor who exploit the system than the rich who expolit the system. No-one I ever met in my life ever wanted to accept governmental assistance willingly; so this ideal that people are living comfortably and don't want to get off the system is the most hilarious thing I've ever read.

It's a nice fantasy they sold us so that we fight amongst ourselves instead of looking at the real issue. It's very effective.

[sanantone]

Did y'all hear about the Kansas experiment? It's been all in the news lately.

[dfrecore]

Did y'all hear about the Kansas experiment? It's been all in the news lately.

It hasn't here, and I can't find it when I search for it. Do you have any info on what they're calling it besides UBI?

[videogamesrock]

People are more eager to attack the poor who exploit the system than the rich who expolit the system. No-one I ever met in my life ever wanted to accept governmental assistance willingly; so this ideal that people are living comfortably and don't want to get off the system is the most hilarious thing I've ever read.

How do rich people exploit the system?

[Collegelady2]

How do rich people exploit the system?

Are you kidding me the super rich are the worst offenders

[sarg123]

Are you kidding me the super rich are the worst offenders

I'm really curious - in what way? Food stamps? Medicaid? Just wondering.

[videogamesrock]

Are you kidding me the super rich are the worst offenders

Please explain?

[icampy]

Are you kidding me the super rich are the worst offenders

milelol:

Letting the .gov take less money than they want, using legal methods, is all game.

And for effs sake, keeping YOUR money is COMPLETELY different than taking OTHER PEOPLES money. Holy hell, how is that even something that needs said. Are you kidding me.

But then again, we almost had a witch get elected.