I don’t agree with Andrew Yang but he is not a radical nut like the rest of the candidates

Wanting to give $1,000 per month to every single person isn't "radical" to you?

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Andrew Yang but he is not a radical nut like the rest of the candidates

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First of all, I fundamentally disagree with your premise.

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Politics aside he seems like a cool dude.

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That's great. Maybe you and him can play poker or catch a ballgame sometime, but last I checked he is running for fricking president...so politics are definitely NOT aside.

He’s very radical but mild mannered

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Wanting to give $1,000 per month to every single person isn't "radical" to you?

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Initially, I was with you, and I still am, but I think people appreciate the approach. Just follow with me for a second or two. Don’t immediately try and dispute my questions, approach them honestly.

Is the oil dividend in Alaska radical? Which is what? A grand a year? Is this some radical fabric altering economic destroyer? Obviously not on the scale of Yang’s proposal, but if anyone that’s familiar with it hears that this is the basis for the proposal, is it honestly as radical as even something like Obamacare? And do you view the Alaskan oil dividend as Soviet Russia style redistribution, or simply an Alaskan resident being a shareholder earning a yield? I think we have to be honest about the distinction.

Not listening to Andrew Yang’s resonation is the same as people not listening to Trump’s resonation. Communities are break down. Andrew Yang’s reason for this dividend is that he sees automation displacing jobs, much as it already has, and the hollowing out of communities, and the freedom dividend is the alternative to people ending up on $40k a year “disability” and stuck in a cycle dependent on the government. What’s been the cost of the Midwest of the current welfare state due to all the shite China trade deals and automation effect? What will be the cost across this country if we see that but four or five times as bad all over this country? Do you really think a new trade deal with China is the only reason the Midwest lost so many jobs? Agreed that’s a large part, but as Tucker Carlson rants about... China has nothing to do with driverless trucks. What happens of overnight truck drivers hit the unemployment line en masse? Millions of Americans are out of a job and the “free market” isn’t going to be an answer.

And there are other real world examples. Let’s look at healthcare for instance. How many people don’t quit their job and start their own business because they need their employers insurance. How much economic waste is due to our terrible inefficiency there alone? How many mothers that should stay at home raising kids can’t make ends meet, chipping away at our societal fabric? What’s the economic cost of this?

So. Did you get this far without finding a way to dismiss one or two questions entirely? Good.

As I said, I don’t support UBI. I don’t think Yang’s approach will be effective, I think he’s not honest or is dismissive of the drawbacks. It’s an inflationary disaster, and in tandem with our current immigration laws, it might further entrench an underclass. Democrat policies and the welfare state will not pull back to compensate and it will fail.

But did you see how he at least attempts to solve many of the same things that got Donald Trump elected, and how it’s not that radical? Do you see how it being a response to automation, and how it can help REAL people navigate the very real case study we’ve already seen in the Midwest by empowering people, not letting them be beholden to the government to decide how they have to navigate losing their job with “learn to code” or some such nonsense?

Because let’s be honest. Yang isn’t going to win. UBI isn’t a thing. But at least he gets the Democrats talking about empowering people to solve their own problems, which is a refreshing angle from the Democrats. For that reason alone I would hope Republicans and conservatives don’t think he’s some dumb Bernie/60s socialist retread.

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Don’t immediately try and dispute my questions, approach them honestly.

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That is cute. New here?

Adding a 3 trillion dollar a year vanity project to the budget isn’t radical?

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"Men did not make the earth. It is the value of the improvements only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property. Every proprietor owes to the community a ground rent for the land which he holds." - Thomas Paine

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This carries as much weight with me as that poem on the Statue of Liberty. Aka it means nothing.

Didnt Yangs companies and starts up all fail per his own mouth?


Yet Trump is a dummy cause of a BK?

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not a radical nut

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Redistribution of wealth isn't radical.