Posted on 10/29/2021 7:29:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
One of the favorite utopian goals of the left-wing loons — from members of "The Squad" to Andrew Yang — is the guaranteed-to-fail fantasy of Universal Basic Income...or, as Dire Straits said in their 1985 hit, "Money for Nothing." This welfare-on-steroids plan has already been tried and failed in Ontario, Canada and Finland, but progressive hopes spring eternal in California, where many new ideas — business concepts, laws, social experiments, fads, drugs (legal or not), or whatever — are often tried. It's a type of proving ground, if you will
Stockton, California has tried an experiment of its own, giving $500 a month to 125 randomly-selected families, and the progressive media like NPR and The Atlantic have declared it a success. Now, the tried-and-true entitlement hub of the City of Angels -- with media prominence dwarfing that of the San Joaquin Valley agricultural hub, is jumping on board the bandwagon. The Los Angeles city council approved a measure to grant selected families a monthly stipend that requires no work and will initially last for a year.
"At Tuesday’s meeting, the LA City Council unanimously voted to expand the city’s initial $6 million investment in the BIG:LEAP, which stands for Basic Income Guaranteed: Los Angeles Economic Assistance Pilot, to nearly $40 million, making it the largest such program in the nation," according to CBSLA. Councilman Curren Price, who proposed the program, called it a "life-changing initiative."
"The program promises to benefit as many as 3,000 Angelenos with $1,000 in direct cash payments to families every month for a year," CBSLA continued. "The no-strings-attached payments will be given to families who have been hit hard by the pandemic and are living in poverty."
The program is tentatively scheduled to begin in January 2022.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Oh you should check out how many people from Milwaukee also collect benefits from Chicago...
Hurry hurry plant more money trees ... Biden needs them
This universal basic income idea may well become common everywhere, as they declare these experiments to be successful.
I don’t know where the heck the money to pay these universal basic income payments is coming from.
I figure these payments are over and above whatever public assistance programs these people already are getting benefits from.
IF this spreads this could be a budget buster. Heck, Congress may feel the need to pass $3.5 trillion bills to keep up.........
sarcasm, or am I being sarcastic????
It’s predictable too, that some liberal types, will declare that $500 a month just isn’t enough to live on, and then decide we need to double or triple these payments.
Eventually, people will be paid a six figure income not to work, under these universal basic income programs. How that gets paid for is unknown. But as people such as Ocasio-Cortez say, you “just pay for it”, when you are deciding how to fund various liberal priorities. People such as her do not consider where the money will come from.
Seems to me this a feel good program for the people authorizing the plan. Just to put this in prospective, there are 40K+ homeless people in the city of LA. This doesn’t even take into account the number of people living in poverty that have a roof over their head.
What could possibly go wrong?
What possible bad ripple-effect could there be?
Lol...
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