Posted on 02/07/2018 7:20:28 AM PST by mandaladon
Drug dealers are celebrating!
Guess what? Tubbs is the first Black Mayor of Stockton, so look for Stockton to become California’s first Detroit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX8ZcT5pwDc
Add for clarity: all the money comes from a private grant of $1,000,000. So apparently the 400k is for administrate fees ...
We all know exactly what happens when the government can no longer afford to make these payments: Venezuela! People starving, riots in the streets, runaway inflation, crime, etc. The people loved Hugo Chavez as long as they were getting their checks. I’m just sorry he died before he could see the end results of his actions.
More $$ for cigarettes, alcohol, pot, drugs, Big Macs, lottery tickets, gambling, smartphones, full package cable TV and other vices. Many are poor because of ignorant habits and discipline. If I were mayor Id work a deal with Dave Ramsey and citizens could enroll for a free Financial Peace University course. A whole lot cheaper and way more effective than a welfare giveaway. Pure stupidity.
They never learn from the failures no matter the history and facts. Insanity.
Experimenting with Drug Dealers.
Stockton has been for the last 15 years, Drug Central for the flow north and south on I5.
Dear Mr. [26 year old] Mayor -
Old saw: “If you’re not a communist at the age of 20, you haven’t got a heart. If you’re still a communist at the age of 30, you haven’t got a brain.”
You’ve got less than 4 years to wake the f*** up. (If not, you’ll do just fine in the Dimmocrat Party.)
You know whats worse than being so-called poor? Its going through all of your life as a stupid, unwise moron that rejects reality and learning from mistakes. A fool that constantly chooses to be one always.
This might just be the way to lure the homeless away from San Francisco.
I grew up in Stockton. Is and always has been a pit, though I do enjoy going to their lovely ballpark and arena they built, and which helped bankrupt the city, though it was the public pensions that primarily did them in. So now lets see. Pilot program. Were going to give people money and then study whether they liked getting it. Hmmm. Cant wait to learn the answer. My hope is that my widowed mother
May be eligible. I figure if a fool and his money are soon to be parted, might as well get a piece
The problem is what happens when the money runs out? Who gets to fund this baic income program then? Also, do the people who benefit from the program have to work in order to receive the universal basic income? Answer to question 1 . . . the citizens of Stockton and the answer to question 2 is no.
I can't see anything that could go wrong. Seriously, this is a no-brainer for democRATS.
And therein lies the problem.
No brains.
Fools. Fools.
Even the most gullible person has to know that if you give X amount of free money, it won’t be enough.
It is NEVER enough when it is given to you.
There will always be more freebies to augment the “basic income”.
Always.
What a bunch of idiots.
At least the worthless, clueless LIB idiots doing this are good for a laugh. Hahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
Exactly. If we made the deal that in exchange for X amount of dollars given (in various forms) under various welfare programs, we will instead give X+Y amount of money, that will be non-negotiable, and will only go up as a cost of living increase, blah blah blah, I guarantee they would jump at it.
Positively jump at it, as all leftists would.
Even if we said we were going to get rid of all the government jobs and infrastructure regulating the welfare state, they would still want it.
Then, like Charlie Brown and Lucy with the football, they would break it up into tiers. More money for this group. Next they would begin adding things back in. “Oh, you get universal income? You are eligible for (Insert government supplied Internet access/computers/cars/whatever)!”
Followed up with “This isn’t enough money for these people to live on, we have to give them more...”
God, this makes me angry. If these people want to spend their own money to do some stupid, comically useless, money wasting giveaway, power to them. But we know it won’t stop there.
Yes...but what is equally likely is they will fudge the results of this, openly lie and deceive, and figure out a way to get some kind of local/state/federal program going on it and we are off to the races.
I am with you, though. If done honestly, we could openly laugh at these idiots who want to give their money away.
These "poor" people don't want to work. They just want the paycheck.
And this mayor is enabling them to do just that.
Where is this “starting out” $50K per month going to come from?
Of course - as is so boilerplate for Socialists - not only do they have no idea where the money for their handouts (which are just another link in the chain of slavery to government) will come from, they 100% ignore the root causes of the so-called “need” they see government as the fix for.
Stockton is a hellhole for a reason - bordering on the $h_tHole status so infamously applied to several 3rd World nations of recent.
Stockton is the glaring example of what happens when government enables and promotes the welfare system, provides “education” that neither educates or empowers, and when government still bills itself as the answer.
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