Stockton, CA Testing “Universal Basic Income” – IOTW Report

Stockton, CA Testing “Universal Basic Income”

Giving $500/Month to Recipients Including Jobless Former Addicts.

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Garza is unemployed and was a previous drug addict. She has been sober for 18 years following time in prison. She says this project “is the coolest thing…I like it because I feel more independent, like I’m in charge. I really have something that’s my own.”

17 Comments on Stockton, CA Testing “Universal Basic Income”

  1. Just think of how much it would feel like your own if you would have worked for it! To paraphrase someone from a long time ago, a government strong enough to give you all you need is powerful enough to take it all away.

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  2. Dateline…June 28, 2012…

    Stockton, California, became the largest city to file for bankruptcy in U.S. history on Thursday after years of fiscal mismanagement…

    The California Public Employees’ Retirement System, which manages Stockton’s pension plan, tops the list. The retirement system has a $147.5 million claim for unfunded pension costs…

    The budget approved on Tuesday by Stockton’s city council suspends $10.2 million in debt payments and cuts employee compensation and retiree benefits by $11.2 million to help close the deficit…

    While the retiree medical benefits will eventually be eliminated, Stockton plans to leave its public pensions unchanged while in bankruptcy proceedings…

    AND NOW THEY WANT TO GIVE AWAY MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN HARD EARNED TAXPAYER MONEY…TO WHAT?…BUY VOTES…

    “It is perhaps well enough that the people of the nation do not know or understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning” ~ Henry Ford

    Fool me once, shame on you – fool me twice, shame on me – fool me for the seventy-seventh time, I MUST BE A FOOKIN MORON WHO DESERVES WHAT HE GETS!!!

    Smile and bend over you irretrievably stupid dumbasses!

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  3. $500 is an insult! They are trying to buy the silence of the Oppressed with these token payments. Nothing less than $75,000 per year with subsidized housing and medical care will even start the healing process.

    They can never go back now.

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  4. She feels more “independent” receiving a $500 per month handout? I don’t think that word means what she thinks it does. Bet she takes up drugging again, what with all her new found disposable income and economic independence.

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