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Utopia in one city: Stockton
americantyhinker.com ^ | 10/22/2017 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 10/22/2017 9:04:59 AM PDT by rktman

Of all the candidates for utopia, Stockton, California would be on the bottom of my list. But a 27-year-old mayor, with the backing of a foundation, is trying for utopia, as seen by supporters of the Mommy State: Universal Basic Income. Futurism.com writes:

Stockton, California, is about to become the first city to test government-supported universal basic income in the U.S. The program is the idea of the city's 27-year-old mayor and will be primarily funded by the basic income advocacy group Economic Security Project.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: bankrupt; basicincome; california; governormoonbeam; govmoonbeam; lofan; michaeltubbs; sanctuarystate; socialism; stockton; stocktonians; universalbasicincome; wth
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To: vette6387

Good Lord!!

There’s a country song in there somewhere :(


21 posted on 10/22/2017 9:25:43 AM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: Olog-hai

Yeah...I was scratching my head, thinking the same thing...do they grow money on trees in Stockton?


22 posted on 10/22/2017 9:26:02 AM PDT by goodnesswins (There are only TWO Races. The Decent Race, and the Indecent Race. (Frankl))
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To: LouieFisk

So they’re basically funding ####.

That won’t last a month.

Then the gov steps in

So the idea that they are funding it is misleading, to say the least.


23 posted on 10/22/2017 9:27:11 AM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: tumblindice

lol sure just north of the airport


24 posted on 10/22/2017 9:28:39 AM PDT by morphing libertarian (A proud member of the Ruthie Bader Afternoon Nap Club)
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To: TexasGator

Well...I read past the headline, and $500/mo from some Foundation or grant won’t solve anything...


25 posted on 10/22/2017 9:29:24 AM PDT by goodnesswins (There are only TWO Races. The Decent Race, and the Indecent Race. (Frankl))
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To: oh8eleven

Indeed his math 2+2=22 add zeros as needed.


26 posted on 10/22/2017 9:30:33 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: TexasGator

What’s to read? The blog author agrees with how I see Stockton. He cleverly mirrored his headline after Stalin’s “Socialism in one country” slogan.


27 posted on 10/22/2017 9:30:40 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: dp0622

Typically Saturday night is Utopia, http://www.recordnet.com/news/20171022/one-dead-two-critical-in-south-stockton-shootings


28 posted on 10/22/2017 9:32:13 AM PDT by w1andsodidwe (TRUMP. He makes me smile, too.)
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To: rellimpank
their homepage doesn't list where the bulk of it's cash comes from, and i bet they all get paid very well before the first penny goes out the door

$oros prolly funds part of the .org but not a penny for the actual payout portion

29 posted on 10/22/2017 9:32:23 AM PDT by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: rktman

It will make Stockton worse than it is now.

Which of you have been there?

The town has been abandoned by everything good and clean. In it’s place is despair.

I drive through often, starting on I5, then cutting over on 4 to the 99.

I always go armed, just in case I get a flat. Per capita, it’s the most dangerous town in America, especially for white people.


30 posted on 10/22/2017 9:39:21 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: SaveFerris

“It’s so hard to predict.....”

Somebody is going to give them free cheese, then take it away.


31 posted on 10/22/2017 9:40:38 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: dp0622

Read for yourself:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/28/stockton-bankruptcy-california-_n_1633647.html


32 posted on 10/22/2017 9:46:24 AM PDT by vette6387 (LOCK HER UP! COMEY TOO.)
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To: goodnesswins

no, Stockton is mostly a rundown dump which has just recently managed to crawl out of municipal bankruptcy for being unable to even pay for its police and fire protection

it has a number of locational and transport attributes, it also has a fine history... it could be resurrected....but right now most investors and potential homebuyers are scared still to move there, so it will take awhile
(i do think it will someday recover, however paying for ZeroCare is absolutely a pipe dream, and a sicko one at that)


33 posted on 10/22/2017 9:48:55 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: faithhopecharity

Sad, isn’t it.


34 posted on 10/22/2017 9:51:50 AM PDT by goodnesswins (There are only TWO Races. The Decent Race, and the Indecent Race. (Frankl))
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To: Mariner

Armed? In cali? Shhhhhh.


35 posted on 10/22/2017 9:52:22 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: rktman; Mariner; SkyPilot; Roman_War_Criminal; metmom

[LOL! Free stuff at local stores if and when they try to end this new and improved entitlement.]

Yes, there will be shocked looks on the faces of the local liberals when the rioting and looting begins not long after the payments end.

They will, of course, blame President Trump and conservatives.

That’s what scares me about the epic level of stupidity since the advent of Obama. A trainwreck of ridiculously-bad ideas sold to fools along with antichrist agendas.

What could possibly go wrong? It could go bad very, very quickly. He is the poster child for insane liberal, communist thought - in America, that is.

When I still see fools slobbering over That Manchurian Candidate it really makes me thing we’re having 1929 and 1938 again.

Think back on all the idiots who sold “Hope and Change”. Friend of mine was just in Stockton for some training. I had no idea they elected a 27-year-old Communist as mayor. Or is that Socialist?


36 posted on 10/22/2017 9:56:42 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: goodnesswins

yes, stockton is a very sad case...and it COULD be a very nice city, too...especially since it does have both history and a number of attributes that could help it recover and even prosper (deep water port, airport, railroad, location good too, and developing transport connections with SF Bay Area, etc.)
it is a crying shame but it has very high crime (People all tell me they feel they HAVE to pack heat for self-defense there) and a lot of run-down neighborhoods (which were once quite decent) and high unemployment and dysfunctional sociological situation (you pick which of the above causes the others, I would pick the sociological problems)

nevertheless, I firmly believe it could recover someday.
its just too dumpy and dangerous for me, personally, to try to move there now.
a real shame for a city that even started to get better at one time, I can remember when it was doing that, but then it slid right downhill again

a real shame, as you say
there are new homes going in nearby...around Stockton, but those people are mostly afraid to visit the city itself, they stay outside


37 posted on 10/22/2017 10:06:52 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: rktman

I support these snowflake Marxist experiments. As long as there is NO outside support, and everything is truly “free” from the City of Stockton.


38 posted on 10/22/2017 10:13:49 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: dp0622
There’s a country song in there somewhere :(

LOL, yes, indeed.

Let's see...

I drank up all my guaranteed income at a Stockton Honky-Tonk, and now all I got is the guaranteed blues (and a free phone).

What do you think?

39 posted on 10/22/2017 10:15:02 AM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except for convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: rktman

“In cali?”

You’re here right?

Only stupid white people don’t carry in their car.

Every day.


40 posted on 10/22/2017 10:18:39 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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