I have always had deep reservations about the Universal Basic Income (UBI) and Europe’s first national government-backed experiment in giving citizens free cash has ended and conclusion is that it wasn't that great.
Finland held a two year basic income trial where 2,000 people aged 25 to 58 were paid £475 a month to see if the guaranteed income might incentivise people to take up more low-paid or temporary work but surveying the results, Finland’s minister of health and social affairs, Pirkko Mattila, said that based on the the first year’s data the impact on employment 'seems to have been minor' but it did mark an improvement in positiveness, health and happiness of the recipients.
The idea of UBI seems to be appealing to the left who see it as a way to cut poverty and inequality especially in an age where automation threatens many jobs but i can't see how any nation could afford it.
Finland’s government’s have now scraped the plan to expand the trial and i can't see anyone else rushing to give it a go either.
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Excerpts from what the American left, the past 30 days, say they want. It is scary because it is true. They call it socialism. So, the definition is irrelevant.
I understand I'm privileged
American, White, Male, Healthy. Lucky to have those things. But, I went to the same public schools as people that had the same privileges and were total failures.
What justifies giving away the “privilege” if you get it?
I followed the law, avoided drug addiction, avoided obesity, exercised regularly, earned 3 college degrees, sacrificed “fun” and “nice” things so that I could succeed financially. The privilege required effort and sacrifice to succeed.
The left play the “rich” against the “poor”, who are the rich?
The “poor”:
• can't retire (well, they often don't work, but still...)
• can't afford health insurance (get it from the government)
• can't afford housing (get housing subsidies)
• are uneducated (it is free grades 1 thru 12)
That means the rich:
• can retire (like a school teacher)
• can afford health insurance (have to work for a corp)
• can afford housing (need 2 incomes, each working 50 hour weeks)
• are educated (have student loans, often can’t find a job)
So, who are the rich, privileged people?
It isn’t just doctors, lawyers, wall street investors, executives, actors, and athletes. The rich include school teachers, bookkeepers, store clerks, programmers, chefs, professors, coaches, managers, pastors, nurses, police, firefighters…
To the left, if you make more than minimum wage, you are rich…
Here is what the left said they have in mind for America. . . . .
• cheered laws that allow killing of babies already born alive
• proposed a Green Deal to pull planes from the sky
• proposed rebuilding every structure in America
• proposed high-speed rail nationwide
• proposed Medicare for all - cost is not germane
• deficit, no problem - just print money
• want net zero greenhouse gas in 10 years…
Their hypocrisy…
• governor of Virginia and the attorney general dressed in blackface
• governor says he is going to explore “white privilege” and “racial reconciliation”
• Lt. Gov. Fairfax accused of forcible sexual assault and rape
- one attack was 16 years ago and the other 15 years ago
- the victims each have specific recollections
- one has classmates to corroborate her outcry of rape
- one remembers date, time, place, and told classmates
- one involves a Dr. forced to perform oral sex on Lt. Gov. Fairfax
- A FAR CRY from demands of the left that Kavanaugh remove himself as a candidate for Supreme Court for an allegedly event 35 years ago with an alleged victim who didn't remember WHERE, WHEN, and who never reported it
- Fairfax's victim has the date, place, time
- where are the Democrats who turned the Constitution on its head for Kavanaugh saying all women need to be believed?
- where are all the women in pink hats?
- where are women storming the doors of the Capitol?
- where are women, who blocked an elevator door?
• if the accused is a Democrat, the rules don't matter
- Democrats don't care if someone is in blackface, if it is a Democrat
- Democrats don’t care if someone accused of sexual assault is a Democrat
- Democrats don’t care if a baby is murdered after it is born (they do care about stopping the death penalty… and they care about polar bears…)
These people sat on their hands when the president said he wants to:
• stop human trafficking
• end childhood cancer
• eradicate AIDS
Who are these people?
• THEY ARE PEOPLE THAT ONLY CARE ABOUT POWER
• THEY ARE THE LEFT
Is this on the right post?
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