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Obama: Consider a universal basic income
theweek.com ^ | July 17, 2018

Posted on 07/17/2018 4:49:55 PM PDT by PROCON

In his first major speech since leaving office, former President Barack Obama endorsed the idea of providing a universal basic income.

Speaking at the Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture in South Africa on Tuesday, Obama raised the notion of guaranteed income as a way to reduce what he called "yawning disparities" in wealth, education, and security across different socioeconomic groups.

"It's not just money that a job provides," said Obama. "It provides dignity and structure and a sense of place and a sense of purpose. So we're going to have to consider new ways of thinking about these problems, like a universal income, review of our workweek, how we retrain our young people, how we make everybody an entrepreneur at some level. But we're going have to worry about economics if we want to get democracy back on track."

He additionally called on the rich to support higher taxation, saying that "you don't have to take a vow of poverty just to say 'let me help out a few of these folks.'"


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: basicincome; economicilliterate; handouts; hussein; idiocracy; illiterati; kenyangohome; mmm; obama; obamalegacy; obambi; odumbo; socialism; universalincome; x44
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To: PROCON

Earning money brings dignity. Handouts do not.


61 posted on 07/17/2018 6:06:18 PM PDT by MortMan (The white board is a remarkable invention.)
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To: kanawa
How about considering more emphasis on freedom, opportunity and personal responsibility.

Stop with the crazy talk. 😄

62 posted on 07/17/2018 6:09:04 PM PDT by PROCON ('Progressive' is a Euphemism for Totalitarian)
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To: PROCON
Consider this Obama:


63 posted on 07/17/2018 6:10:27 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: PROCON
Consider a world without Bronco Bama.
64 posted on 07/17/2018 6:13:06 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason (The U.S. Senate - where American freedom goes to die.)
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To: PROCON

So all those $hithole countries in Africa run by tribal dictators and communists should expect that universal basic income how exactly? That’s right. From our pockets.


65 posted on 07/17/2018 6:15:42 PM PDT by Lent
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To: PROCON

Obambi jumped the shark (again).
Empty rhetoric for empty minds.


66 posted on 07/17/2018 6:16:41 PM PDT by rfp1234 (I have already previewed this composition.)
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To: PROCON

MARXIST POS


67 posted on 07/17/2018 6:16:46 PM PDT by MarMema (John James for US Senate. Dump Debbie!! Let's Fly Michigan.)
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To: PROCON

Bammy Hussein should send in his Sta$h.

As an example

For the chillin’s.


68 posted on 07/17/2018 6:17:14 PM PDT by Paladin2 (no spelchek, no problem...)
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To: PROCON

“Money for nuthin’ and your chicks for free”


69 posted on 07/17/2018 6:17:47 PM PDT by Hardastarboard (Three most annoying words on the internet - "Watch the Video")
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To: Major Matt Mason

“Bronco Bama”

That kid had it right.


70 posted on 07/17/2018 6:18:12 PM PDT by Paladin2 (no spelchek, no problem...)
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To: PROCON

**In his first major speech since leaving office**

Why is he out now? timing is everything!


71 posted on 07/17/2018 6:19:14 PM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: Paladin2

Longest 8 years of my life!


72 posted on 07/17/2018 6:19:54 PM PDT by Boardwalk
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To: Mariner

1. It’s philosophically wrong.

2. No one has shown that it “works”.


73 posted on 07/17/2018 6:20:32 PM PDT by Paladin2 (no spelchek, no problem...)
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To: Boardwalk

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/11/02/npr-apologizes-to-4-year-old-tired-of-bronco-bama/


74 posted on 07/17/2018 6:22:25 PM PDT by Paladin2 (no spelchek, no problem...)
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To: Paladin2

As I get older I understand the value of clean comedy.


75 posted on 07/17/2018 6:30:24 PM PDT by Boardwalk
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To: Paladin2

“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.

James Madison


76 posted on 07/17/2018 6:34:53 PM PDT by huckfillary
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To: PROCON

I have a better idea! Let’s give everyone a pony!!!


77 posted on 07/17/2018 6:35:47 PM PDT by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: PROCON

After watching and experiencing the effects this ignorant mediocrity had us under for over eight years I think I can say that in my fifty nine years on this planet watching and observing life in general, that this weak, worthless man is a blithering idiot who has never had an original, worthwhile, salient idea in his entire life. He mouths stale bromides and regurgitates things that he heard from notable, accomplished men like Frank Marshall Davis and Saul Alinsky. It would be like watching a drunk puking in the alley behind the bar. You watch it for a moment, then have to look away.


78 posted on 07/17/2018 6:39:26 PM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
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To: PROCON
My minimum income is what I do. If you work hard you'll get more than a moron who is to lazy to find work...

You'll see a problem, moron liberals if you use your brain cell.

79 posted on 07/17/2018 6:51:45 PM PDT by ConservaTeen (Islam is Not the Religion of Peace, but The religion of Pedophilia...)
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To: PROCON
"yawning disparities"

Anyone who has to sit through this fop's speech will be afflicted with a case of yawning despair-ity.

80 posted on 07/17/2018 6:56:58 PM PDT by Migraine
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