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Andrew Yang’s (D) aggressive pitch to offer a universal basic income of $1,000 monthly to U.S. adults has been attempted numerous times on a small scale, but the experiments have not necessarily produced the desired results. The Washington Post details an experiment implemented by a nonprofit, which aimed to give “20 African American single mothers living in public housing $1,000 each month for a year” with no strings attached. The experiment began last November, and the women began receiving checks the following month. According to the Post, most of the women – 15 total – were working at the time....

Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang wants to give cash to every American each month. Susie Garza has never heard of Yang. But since February, she’s been getting $500 a month from a nonprofit in Stockton, California, as part of an experiment that offers something unusual in presidential politics: a trial run of a campaign promise, highlighting the benefits and challenges in real time. Garza can spend the money however she wants. She uses $150 of it to pay for her cellphone and another $100 or so to pay off her dog’s veterinarian bills. She spends the rest on her two...

**SNIP** Like many of his fellow Democratic presidential candidates, Yang has proposed using a wide range of tools to ramp up renewable energy, reduce reliance on fossil fuels, establish new standards on emissions for buildings, cars and the entire electric grid and boost nuclear energy capacity. However, his 20-year, $4.87 trillion climate plan differs in one way and that’s in terms of geoengineering - the notion that humans should take deliberate and large-scale action concerning climate in order to stop or slow down the planet’s warming. Yang’s plan would provide $800 million to NASA, the Department of Defense and the...

New York senator Kirsten Gillibrand dropped out of the Democratic presidential race yesterday evening after failing to qualify for the third round of primary debates, slated for September 12. Tech entrepreneur Andrew Yang, meanwhile, will be one of ten Democrats on stage in Houston next month. To qualify for the debate, candidates had to hit 2 percent in at least four public-opinion polls and secure 130,000 unique donors. Among the others not to reach the threshold for September were Colorado senator Michael Bennet, Hawaii representative Tulsi Gabbard, and Montana governor Steve Bullock. While Yang managed to snag a spot in...

2020 Democratic presidential candidate and tech entrepreneur Andrew Yang scored a major endorsement this weekend from fellow tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, the founder of PayPal who now leads SpaceX and Tesla. “I support Yang,” Musk tweeted in response to another tweet commenting on a post from Yang urging voters to have an open mind. Elon Musk ✔ @elonmusk I support Yang 101K 11:16 AM - Aug 10, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy 21.8K people are talking about this Musk’s tweet was a welcome endorsement for Yang, who has struggled to garner support in the crowded field of candidates in...

DETROIT — Andrew Yang says it’s already too late to stop climate change, and that it’s time for Americans to head for the hills. Yang, debating his fellow Democrats on Wednesday night in Detroit, had this to say when the subject of climate change was in full swing. Yang — a long-shot candidate — is best known for his universal basic income proposal: he has put a $1,000-a-month payout at the forefront of his platform. **SNIP** Yang said the U.S. acts like it controls 100% of global emissions itself, and that, “the truth is even if we were to curb...

A Biden/Gabbard Democrat ticket for 2020 would pose the most legit threat to President Trump and therefore I hope it doesn’t materialize. I am NOT impressed with Tulsi Gabbard’s record or speeches — and her platform is as leftist as they come. Immigration, abortion, you name it. People are praising her anti-interventionism foreign policy stance, but this would only be relevant if Trump were truly a warmonger. Which he is not. He is the consummate diplomat if anything. She also says it would be better to have kept the Iran deal in place... Yeah. No. But alas, I can see...

Controversial Chinese swimmer Sun Yang shouted, ‘You’re a loser, I’m a winner’ at Duncan Scott after the British athlete refused to share a podium with him. Sun, who served a three-month doping ban in 2014, was elevated to the gold medal position in the 200m freestyle at the World Championships after Lithuania’s Danas Rapsys was disqualified for movement on the blocks. Scott, awarded bronze, stood apart following the medal presentation and declined to stand on the top step of the podium for pictures — prompting a furious reaction from Sun.

See video at link. Andrew Yang has been censored by MSNBC. His mic was cut off during the debate so he could not respond. The other candidates' mics were NOT cut off. He only got two questions. Why? They (media punks) said Yang was the debate's "loser". They didn't even give him the chance to speak and tried to make him appear timid and stupid. Why don't the mainstream media want people to hear what Yang has to say?

Every day, parents that are citizens of the United States commit crimes of various sorts, are separated from their children, are taken to county jails or other locations, are booked, and the process rolls on from there. Why do Democrats place parents that are illegal aliens on a higher pedestal than they do parents that are citizens of the United States? Why do Democrats say that illegal aliens who are the parents of children should not be separated from their children? Third, the border patrol and other various law enforcement personnel often do not know if these "parents" are actully...

President Trump blasted the contestants in the second Democratic presidential debate on Thursday when they all declared their support for health care coverage for undocumented immigrants. All of the candidates - including former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Kamala Harris and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg - raised their hands when asked by an NBC moderator if they would support a health care plan that would cover undocumented immigrants. "All Democrats just raised their hands for giving millions of illegal aliens unlimited healthcare," Trump wrote on twitter from Japan, where he is to attend the G20 Summit. "How about...

Who takes the fault for this the Democrats or NBC? ...

Tweet: Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer Trumpism was the fantasy that America can be we saved. Yangism is the awareness that it can't. Tweet: Andrew Yang @AndrewYang Replying to @AndrewYangVFA America is set to become majority minority by 2045. That’s 27 years from now. This will be a truly dangerous time particularly as we are decimating the most common middle class jobs (e.g. retail, truck driving etc). Economic stress adds to social polarization and violence. Andrew Yang, the 44 year-old New York tech entrepreneur running for the 2020 Democratic nomination, has one distinction he might want to lose: He is the preferred...

It could have been the fact that Yang, a dark-horse contender for the Democrat presidential nomination, gave a speech at Harvard where he predicted that within ten years, roving gangs of Caucasian youths would be roaming the streets of America, attacking Asian people because white people were jealous of their professional success. That is, after all, what white people do all the time to black people right now. Right? Let’s hear it straight from the same mouth that wants to give every American $1000 a month: Who is going to be the boogie man of the next 10 to 20...

I have a feeling this guy is going to be the 'Hope and Change' guy for Democrats come 2020. He supports everything from universal basic income to upholding Roe v. Wade. It's worth observing him to see how his personality and emphases (automation, decline in American life expectancy, middle America's economy, using military budget to fund infrastructure) set him apart from the others in the leftier than ever pack.

Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang criticized the media Monday for its coverage of President Trump, saying that it has failed to explain his appeal. "I would say I think our media has done us a disservice by overly simplifying why Donald Trump is our president today,” Yang said at a rally in Chicago. Yang said that the media was wrong to blame Trump's election on racism, Russia, ignorance, immigration, Facebook, or the FBI, among other narratives. “The reason Donald Trump is our president today is we automated away 4 million manufacturing jobs,” he said. Yang, whose upstart campaign has recently...

As the horde of Democratic Presidential candidates continue to try to outdo one another in how much ‘free shit’ they can give away, one man in the crowd just turned up the idiocy to ’11’… Forget about small things like ‘Obamaphones’, Sara Carter reports that Andrew Yang, the Democratic presidential hopeful is promising to pay $1000 once a month to every American if he is elected in 2020. A supporter of universal basic income, Yang already launched a pilot program for free cash payments known as the Freedom Dividend. He selected a family in Goffstown, New Hampshire, who he says...

For political observers of a certain vintage, long-shot presidential candidate Andrew Yang’s proposal to give every American adult $1,000 a month brought back a distinct memory from 1972. That year Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern also proposed writing a $1,000 check to every American — $1,000 a year, however (there’s been a lot of inflation since then). To put it mildly, it did not go over well. Even though McGovern eventually abandoned the proposal, and even though it was similar to the “negative income tax” idea crafted by famed free-market economist Milton Friedman and briefly considered by Richard Nixon, the...

Presidential candidate Andrew Yang is campaigning on the platform of Universal Basic Income. He says everyone from MLK to Milton Friedman to Richard Nixon were for it. But were they? The answer won't surprise you.