you really think the min wage should be 25$ an hr lol 50% of the business would close you are paid a task you are paid for the job at hand not the person isnt the companies fault want better then better yourself sacrifice like everyone else did in time to get ahead get some education train anyting but it isnt the employers job to pay your bills.
How would you know that if you don't know him personally you didn't grow up with him you didn't hang around with him so how do you know what's a real smile and a fake smile how do you know his real emotions from his fake emotions?
they lowered the level for poverty in his mother's homeland to lie to the world and proclaim poverty was alleviated there. He can not speak to me about poverty, with his "I'm a democrat", "I'm a republican", "I'm a democrat", "I support 3+ genders", "I support two genders", etc. HE IS AS BAD AS HILLARY!
@@Anthony-wm5of Honestly I'm to a point where I believe that the people in charge are doing all of this on purpose to keep people desperate. In short, inflation seems to be an artificial construct.
So sad more people didn't give Andrew Yang the attention he deserved during his run. One of the most down to earth, knowledgeable, and fair people to ever run. We had a huge opportunity to set some regulations on AI in place but people didn't think it would come this fast. If we don't start soon it will be so far gone we will have missed the chance to keep it in check. Best of luck Andrew. I'm still hoping your voice will make a difference.
There's stuff happening with regulations and people across industries fighting for it. I'm glad Yang has been talking about AI for a while but it's hard to write regulations before a new technology or new changes in society comes to pass. Courts are very reluctant to speculate for the future as there might be unintended consequences. We haven't missed the opportunity. The opportunity is now.
In the words of Donald Trump, "The media treats me so unfair" - In Yang's case, it is true, they set double standards for Yang and demonize him for things that they wouldn't do to his opponents. They cut his air time and limit his exposure to the public as well. In the presidential debates, he was given a few minutes to answer questions and debate while the other more popular candidates were given way more time, like Biden were given what seems like forever to barely answer anything. Even in the NYC mayoral election, Yang was vilified by progressives because of his political views of Israel while his opponents who share the same views got no heat for it at all.
He was to out there for most of the mainline democratic voters and the conservatives were never going to vote for him. His campaign was doomed from the start which was a shame.
It’s dumb how people rather vote for trump and his MAGA slogan than someone who actually understands their position instead of a man who is filthy rich and will never understand them completely
@@fritzforsthoefel8031crazy because you're generation got lots of reduced interest rates and the banks just through home loans at everyone. Absolutely crazy how your generation that leached off the system and sucked it dry for everybody else gets to talk about socialism and how everyone's now just lazy and looking for a hand out. I want you to not use any of your bank accounts not put any of your experience on an application or any education higher than high school, go get a job work 40 hours a week, then try to go get somewhere to live. I want you to go start from nothing and build yourself back up in this economy and then come talk to me.
@TH-camDislikesConservativeidk we are in debt because they spend money on on stupid things. Like a proxy war. With Russia. America needs to start producing things again. And tbh. I'd start putting these migrants to work. If they wanna come so bad. I would leverage them to help us stop buying from china
You haven't been listening to him then because he's been inconsistent on it especially his poor attempt at a third party. UBI wasn't even part of his policy.
He was so right about AI, most average Americans didn't see it as a concern at that time. Now, looking at the landscape and where AI is headed... AI can now do what no one thought AI could, create art, write, act, etc. His ideas were essential.
yeah but he was dead wrong about the trucking jobs disappearing first. I guess he was using same election tactic that Trump used with miners but it didnt work
@@michaelmai281it’ll happen soon doe. Just cuz it hasn’t happened yet don’t mean it won’t. Tech advances exponentially. Design and application is already there. It’s clean data collection at this point.
Americans as a whole didn’t listen to this man. Everything he has said has now come true, and every single person is suffering because of it. Wow, I feel like I’m living nightmare. A man who warns us of great tragedy, but the masses don’t listen or take him seriously. Humans are really dumb.
It is cheaper to convince people of a short idea like "I'm not crazy like my opponent" (basically the platform that Biden ran on) than to try to convince someone of a more complex argument like, "smart computers that don't exist yet are coming for your job in a few years". (Back when ChatGPT was not widespread knowledge.) Conveying a longer message costs more campaign dollars.
Too bad a country full of brainwashed identity political sheep who enjoys the drama being left or right instead of uniting for the betterment of their country.
I’m pretty sure he united the country.. Yang gang was all over the country.. but a leader who brings up real issue before it’s time.. whether he wins or not is definition of a “true selfless leader”. Unfortunately this country is 51% elementary.
one half _IS_ ready ... but the *60--70 million PROUDLY ILLITERATE militia* is big enough to block it .. So, not only they will drown ... they will take everyone else with them
he will never gain power sadly. corporations wont side with him and will go against him, and he's honest, he tells the truth and is for helping the people, good ppl never gain power in a corrupted government like ours. but if he starts a new party like i believe he is after last i heard I'd vote for him.
He's trying to enslave y'all through inflation. If you give everyone working and non-working $1000 a month then some people will decide that they don't want to work anymore. Shops will need to raise salaries to attract staff back to work. Shops therefore raise prices. End result: consumer is no better off - but now it's dependent on the government for $1000 extra each month just to buy the same quality of life that they had before UBI. End result: slaves to the government. Be awake y'all! It's not free money. You pay with your freedom
Another bad idea with good intent by a man who has probably never read Adam Smith's Wealth of Nation or Milton Friedman's Freedom and & Capitalism. When you give everyone $1000, it basically raises the prices of things in the market, because people are an additional $1000 flush with cash. This is simple economics. In other words, the $1000 becomes the new zero. As an example, the covid era "stimulus" (which Yang himself mentions were basically tax credits and child care paychecks etc) was one of the factors in the inflation that soon followed. Also, there is a moral issue - the government will be coercing the high/middle income earners to chip in for the Basic Universal Income for the others who do not have income or have low incomes. What gives the government the moral right to force a benevolence for the low income group out of the rest of the citizens, with the tax collector's gun to their heads? I am sure this idea is well loved by all the moochers & looters in the crowd (which is the unfortunately majority of you Americans who do not have *any* knowledge of basic economics, history or civics). There is no such thing as a free lunch people! Basic Universal Income is merely wealth redistribution not wealth generation.
they lowered the level for poverty in his mother's homeland to lie to the world and proclaim poverty was alleviated there. He can not speak to me about poverty, with his "I'm a democrat", "I'm a republican", "I'm a democrat", "I support 3+ genders", "I support two genders", etc. HE IS AS BAD AS HILLARY!
@@fritzforsthoefel8031 ahhh so clearly you haven't listened to a thing he said or any of the plans he laid out at all. just another who will be ignorant and not listen cause they aren't your choice. the children don't suffer but get an actual chance in this country with a ubi, but you don't actually care for an argument or even constructive conversation other wise you would have proven your point or had any evidence or substance to back up your claims. just gonna say its bad for kids and act like you have a clue. when your generation was part of what made our country you worse.
Nobody should be a retired teacher renting a room in Florida. Inflation has surpassed her retirement income. Rent up 30% in a year. DEREGULATION sucks.
…it is truly unfortunate a retired teacher have to rent a room. Obviously, teaching is an important profession and they’re NOT getting compensated accordingly. Since pro athletes are getting paid SO handsomely…WHY not do the same for teachers, teacher assistants, and the related positions. It’s ONLY fair.
@@bluestonemetallic7 Crony Capitalism is by design never ever "fair". It has evolved to benefit "only" the rich. Socialism for the rich, and rugged individualism for the poor. It stinks to high heavens!
In communist china under mao he took from the rich and gave it to the masses and raised low skilled low producing workers pay dramatically result millions starved now in china low skilled workers make low wages and there are billionaires result china has one of the fastest growing economies in the world explain that
When I was a schoolteacher, I had to work 2 different part-time jobs just to pay rent. I was working 50-60 hours a week and could barely afford to pay rent. It's not right.
But didn't you personally choose to enter the school teacher profession ? Did you do due diligence of the pay/benefits for your profession ?? Just curious given it seems you were 'underwhelmed' by the pay and needed to subsidize your professional pay.
@@ctzoomieh, that attitude doesn’t work here. I don’t always disagree with your stance here. There are plenty of jobs that are less vital than others and their pay scale is going to be in accordance with this (at least in theory). However, I think most people would agree that a teacher is very much a necessary profession in today’s world. Any necessary profession out to at least merit enough pay that people aren’t discouraged from taking that job due to the fact that they’ll likely need a second job to make ends meet. Drew isn’t alone in having to had worked an additional job or two. It’s pretty much a well known fact that the average teacher does not make sufficient money for the service they are providing.
He's trying to enslave y'all through inflation. If you give everyone working and non-working $1000 a month then some people will decide that they don't want to work anymore. Shops will need to raise salaries to attract staff back to work. Shops therefore raise prices. End result: consumer is no better off - but now it's dependent on the government for $1000 extra each month just to buy the same quality of life that they had before UBI. End result: slaves to the government. Be awake y'all! It's not free money. You pay with your freedom
He has eyes to see, a heart, and doesn't speak like a teenage boy or a geriatric corpse. If he runs again he has my vote. The level of understanding of reality that he has is so refreshing.
He's trying to enslave y'all through inflation. If you give everyone working and non-working $1000 a month then some people will decide that they don't want to work anymore. Shops will need to raise salaries to attract staff back to work. Shops therefore raise prices. End result: consumer is no better off - but now it's dependent on the government for $1000 extra each month just to buy the same quality of life that they had before UBI. End result: slaves to the government. Be awake y'all! It's not free money. You pay with your freedom
Eh I disagree, I worked for a homeless shelter for 5 years. There was Alot of taxpayer waste with what they were given. A better solution would be if they got jobs and earned their own money they'd be less likely to waste it.
@@kylesullivan8607the waste happens because the programs are means tested, if you have 3 bureaucrats tracking every benefit that's where waste is happening. Universalize and make it unconditional. That cuts a ton of that out
@@kylesullivan8607what are the taxpayer doing for the us..i barely got anything from tax return... Government nothing for us we have to put are hope on luck...
@@kylesullivan8607that’s fine, you can disagree. But as I walk 20 minutes to book an Uber to drive me 30 minutes to work right this minute, I KNOW that if someone spotted me $100 a month my car would not have been repossessed 😊
The rich are just getting richer. Corp.profits are up every year, oil company's are killing the planet and making record profits. Inflation is out of control, elderly retired are struggling to make ends meet and can no longer work to try and make up the gap. We are at very hazardous time. The poor are getting poorer, climate change is at a tipping point. Sadly I can not see enough positive change now or coming. This is the disaster we are leaving our kids.
"Your income is mostly determined by your philosophy not the economy "---Jim Rohn The same economic winds blow on us all...but its not the blowing of the winds that determines your economic future---it's the set of the sail."
I would vote for this guy. Getting sick and tired of politicians being vague, beating around the bush, afraid of being wrong, being out of touch with the average American, and not laying out any vision or solution to problems we face everyday. It seems Yang was right about this 4th "industrial" revolution and our quality of living has gotten worse year after year with tech advances eliminating most entry to mid level jobs. Personally, I'm not even considering marriage or kids knowing the way things are now and where things are headed. I initially had a knee jerk reaction with UBI and was against it but I am totally for it after doing research on how it works to boost the economy from the bottom up.
UBI can be the next "land grants" that make generational wealth. Hopefully it won't be a racist handout like when colonists ordered a genocide against the native people. The Veterans Administration has been proven to show racial bias in benefits awards ( white / Caucasians received more overall, and sooner, compared to other races) . The additional danger is becoming "king maker" of political allies; help the friends of friends who will donate or help run political campaign events.
If you ain't rich, you ain't sheet. Not a single individual can afford to rent or own in the U.S. unless they're pretty daemn wealthy! 😂🤣😂 It is what it is. Acceptance is key. If you want to live, just be rich. Tomorrow, next week, whatever... ya gotta have coin to join!
@@Novastar.SaberCombat wrong. This is not a country for the rich. It's a country for the free. Free from slavery, debt and poverty. Your ideas seems alien here. Alien ideas should be out in the land to prevent land of contamination and corruptions.
@@Novastar.SaberCombat there are a simple solution to the higher rent. Just follow the money to know where it goes and tax them heavily because of that. Over profiteering should be ban in this country.
I honestly feel this guy was so far ahead of his time and that if he ran now after the pandemic and this issue with AI and the stimulus checks. I really believe he would win now. Inflation was driven by greedy corporations we all know this man
As much as I love Andrew's ideas, he would never be allowed to win a presidential race. People are either too stupid, too conspiratorial to trust anything, too distracted to get out of the 2 party nonsense, or too heartless to understand that helping your fellow citizens does not mean hurting you.
Send half your income to the government to pay for it otherwise we would add it to the debt our children will have to pay for makeing you a thief of the worst kind stealing from our childrens future earnings to pay handouts for adults of today
Many retail/restaurant chains abuse the system by being fully staffed with part-time employees without benefits. It forced a lot of people to work 2 or 3 part-time jobs! This is true working and still poor! We need to fix this loophole.
His free money idea does nothing to increase productivity so our output of goods and services goes down even further making the dollar worth less and the brics more attractive
I believe Andrew Yang to be the most underrated politician in America. He has great ideas and if he were given the opportunity to be a Secretary of the Treasury or even Head of Government, he would make a huge difference in the lives of many people and help grow a nation's economy.
Thanks Mr Yang! I think a 4 day work week is necessary for health. To have one day for chores, one for relaxation or recreation, and one for food prep. The latter could lessen the reliance on fast junk food which causes health problems. Community centers could have cooking classes geared to educating on healthier food options and how to’s..I also agree on someone’s comment about education finances/money management in public schools. Universal income would be great, but considering wealthy corporations are good at dodging taxes..putting money overseas, how to pay for this? I do trust Mr. Yangs creative ideas and ability to work with others on this though.I agree the structure of most social programs can be an oppressive trap, and hard to navigate, possibly at least some of those jobs can be transferred to administrating the Universal income if that became a reality. Hopefully we will not hear the last of him, and I like that he is not polarizing- I’m tired of sound bites and cliche’s from politicians pitting one against another..Can’t wait to hear more from him.
Its not just eating “healthy food” a lot of our fruits and vegetables are gmo despite gmo’s being illegal in several countries due to health and safety concerns.
Giant corporations need to remember who made them giant Working poor shouldn't exist. People should be able to work and support themselves and families. Power for the People
The problem is that the companies will never give a flying fig; it's for government to intervene so that capitalism can work without exploitation. When government abdicated that responsibility, and politicians decided to prostitute themselves to the 1% instead of serving the majority, is when we started to see the loss of workers rights and basic economic sense.
@@gracepark4557 if democrats got what they wanted and destroyed all the corporations by taxing them to death they’d all be unemployed and and starving on the streets.
I know even working full time, after rent i literally have to pick who gets paid so i can eat. No credit card debt, no mortgage, no car payment and still its a struggle.
There is rampant rent gouging nowadays. Rent should not be more than 25% if monthly income. That has always been the financial rule. Landlords broke that rule for greed.
I was one of the people receiving the child care tax credit and I can say first hand it helped beyond and pulled my family out of poverty and any money we spent went right back into the economy
It was money the government borrowed this adding to our debt our children will have to pay for do you realize how huge our debt is and the burden it will create for our children you put nothing but paper back into the economy the resources you consumed was borrowed to be paid back by our children with intrest
@@playlisthitmaker9913 and Im half Chinese half English, I was born in America and I struggle everyday because of my race. It’s not racist when it’s true that white people have it easy in America.
I agree, no one working should be poor. Andrew Yang has a really good idea, and I think covid proved it's feasible and it's good for the country. Money going directly to people is better than going through programs intended for people not to qualify. A big problem is corporate America will not only attack workers' wages, but they will also indiscriminately increase prices for goods, products and services, to scoop up the "extra money" to increase their already record profits. I think that too, was proven by the covid era.
@@steadystackin7250 What happened to basic principles of "supply and demand?" "More money" doesn't make things cost more. Unbridled capitalism and price gouging does. I "imagine" government price controls to stop the greedy corporate gouging.
He can not speak to me about poverty, with his "I'm a democrat", "I'm a republican", "I'm a democrat", "I support 3+ genders", "I support two genders", etc. HE IS AS BAD AS HILLARY!
@@imhopelesslyaddictedtofent4266 its not just that, its also companies that can do what ever they want, they exploit and gain tremendous profit, housing is purposelessly kept short so housing prices go up, a lot of problems is government and higher powers purposelessly keep things in this state. theres too much to even say whats going on that just piles up, but you can find a lot of information online, its a big rabbit hole.
Every politician goes on TV adio etc and says a lot of things that needs to be fixed and candidates (of EVERY party) will stand up and say I'll fix this and that if "you elect me". But in reality if they accomplish even 25% of what they promised us we're lucky. Whether it's due to circumstances out of their control (not enough votes in the House\Senate or they were blowing smoke just to get elected, they won't deliver on the majority of their campaign talking points of hot air.
@@ryanbulley4739really don’t understand how people aren’t getting this. Wealth disparity is absolutely nuts right now. Highest in history actually. But giving people a UBI doesn’t actually help. It’s just going to raise the prices of everything. Excess savings leads to inflation regardless if the money was printed or not.
Big red flag. Instead of ubi, what will actually benefit people are these things: Much stronger unions. Massive spends on public infrastructure. Increase minimum wage. Fund all these by massively taxing the rich. Punish those who try to shift to low tax regions.But he's not for raising minimum wage and focusing on UBI.. This guy isn't the messiah everyone is thinking him to be. The actual solution is to both raise the minimum wage and tax the rich much more.. what UBI actually does is to change the position of common public as a receiver of donations.. UBI effectively will lead to serfs and fiefdoms.. We must protect democracy by raising the minimum wage, taxing the rich heavily across countries and sharing the productivity gains of last many decades with the general public
Yang is as always the guy I wanted to vote for and I thought it was a shame that he dropped out but I understood why. I hope I see him back in 2024. I would love to see him try to tackle the issue of credit scores in the US. It can be very difficult to understand the unspoken rules of credit and often it keeps poor people poor and just generally keeps people from using their own money for their own wants and needs.
Free free free the democrat way while our debt grows larger and larger our children will have to pay for leaving them a bankrupt shell of a nation because of democrat handouts
He is a thief of the worst kind giveing adults of today free money that adds to the unbelievable debt our children will have to pay for don't you care or do you just care about free things at our childrens expense
@@fritzforsthoefel8031Yang is like those that allowed GSW to dominate. He's educated and a Democrat. Two things you loathe and there's no changing your mind. God help is all.
Change my mind by telling me how to pay for it why should our children pay so you can have free money democrats have turned the world upside down used to be adults supporting our children now because of democrats our children will be responsible for the handouts we adults get today an unbelievable frightening 32 trillion dollar debt bigger than our entire economy and democrats want more wow
Yup, I have one foot out the door in every relationship these last 7 years, whether it be employment or otherwise, betrayal will do that to an individual.
True. The reason why wages at the lower end have stayed low is because Democrats have been using nonstop immigration year after year, high taxes, over regulation and the phony global warming scam to put slack in the labor market and drive down wages at the bottom and increase housing prices at the same time. To the point tens of millions of Americans don't have any money left over at the end of the month. Which gives all the power to employers. And its the lack of power in the hands of employees that allows the excesses at the top, causing the wealth gap. Minimum wage makes the incomes zero for people that have low skills or bad work records. Raising the minimum wage is sadistic. Compare that with the conservative model of using low taxes, less immigration, and less regulation to tighten up the labor market. Which raises wages, allows mobility, allows for advancement, allows people with lousy work records or low skills to get decent jobs, and gives people dignity. If liberals were capable of empathy and compassion and cared about the little guy, they would be Kennedy/Reagan conservatives. "The ever expanding power of the federal government, the absorption of many of the functions that states and cities once considered to be responsibilities of their own, must now be a source of concern to all those who believe as did the great patriot, Henry Grattan that: “Control over local affairs is the essence of liberty.” Commencement Address, University of Notre Dame, January 29, 1950.....John F.Kennedy "You can’t be for big government, big taxes and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.”.......Ronald Reagan
Big red flag. Instead of ubi, what will actually benefit people are these things: Much stronger unions. Massive spends on public infrastructure. Increase minimum wage. Fund all these by massively taxing the rich. Punish those who try to shift to low tax regions.
i like him too. But he is chinese and there is alot of tension with China. he will never get enough votes. Maybe an asian guy in 20 years will become president. too high risk of china getting to his family members that are still in china
You think it's ok to live off our children democrat handouts have brought us a debt so big it defies belief grow up stop bankrupting our nation by voteing for handout democrats
Unbelievable can you imagine living of that income that is why we have so much crimes because of poverty especially in the black race but it were designed that way but the chains of poverty will be broken wither free will are by force in positive way ...
That only means that you didn't work enough from ages 18-65. There are consequences to laziness, you could always get a part-time job to supplement your low income!😉
@@colleenpeck6347calling people lazy wow. Imagine that because every business with high pay is just hiring all the qualified employees right 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 defend the corporation but say the worker is lazy they must love ya boot licking😂😂😂😂
HUGE FAN. I'm a small retail business owner. The online businesses are killing the retail shops and we're barely making ends meet. If the hourly minimum wage gets raised, it's only the small business owners that will get hurt. If UBI gets implemented, it will help not only my workers, it will also help the homeless who dont have jobs. It will dramatically uplift the economy from the ground up. People having extra money will help the small businesses as well since people will shop more. I still remember when people got their stimulus checks, it definitely helped my business.
Minimum wage increases only hurt small business in the near term. You'd I'm sure rather start a business in a place that has higher income levels. The issue is the time frame, does cash flow increase in the localities as wages increase the answer is yes usually but It takes too long if the wage growth is to fast for the new money to circulate
@@contemplativeidiot1 that is why UBI is a better solution. near future or later, UBI is a better solution. People who get paid minimum wage usually have trouble with not just purchasing producs but also with rents and utilities. raising the hourly wage will barely help the small businesses in the later future, because it doesnt really give more "buying power." just barely. plus with income tax and such, theyll still fall victim to taxation n still be under financial struggle. UBI is a way better solution for ALL because it give people "buying power," boosts up the economy in a dramatic fashion, even to the homeless. that's all I was saying.
The stimulus money caused shortages and inflation and added 800 billion dollars to the debt our children will have to pay for leaving them a bankrupt shell of a nation because of democrat handouts don't you care
The poverty line is becoming ridiculous the fact that people seem to think that humans are meant to just basically work our lives away and then die is really disgusting if anyone thinks that a person should have to work three or four jobs just to support themselves when this is the only life that we have and then die you're a part of the problem no human should have to live like that understand that we only get one life
if everyone worked half as much and get paid the same, everything would be twice as expensive. goods and services don't magically grow on trees. they are directly proportional to productivity x number of hours worked.
the solution is to either increase your productivity (ex. becoming a doctor, lawyer, engineer) or forcing the government to take money from people who are more productive than you.
@coutureclown333 The typical net margin of an S&P 500 company is approximately 11%. So even if profits were banned and redistributed, this still wouldn't lead to a substantial rise in average wages.
@@coutureclown333 US personal income in 2022 is $22 trillion. Corporate income in 2022 is $2.3 trillion. So even if you banned corporate income and redistributed it your wage would only increase around 10% lol.
Funny now Yang is not running as a candidate, his ideas are suddenly forward thinking & ahead of his time and with MSM coverage trying to understand them without using demeaning words/questions... Yang hasn't changed a bit & he still staying true to what he was proposing and Yang Gang then was right & still is today.
I just don't get why a house has to cost like $300,000 or more but you can't have a small house because it's "not up to code" or the government will tear down the tiny homes because reasons so people have to take out loans and then get into a cycle of debt
The real cost of a new 1500 square foot 3-2-2 is one man year of labor to build it; one man year of labor to buy the materials; plus the land cost and building fees. At an average annual wage of $50,000 that means the house should cost $100,000 plus the land cost. That's it. The rest is builder price gouging. And that gouging is very real right now.
Yes yes yes. I just need a very small house, I’d prefer if it even had one room with kitchenette and shower than be deep down with mortgage for many years. Need more people like OP here.
Many people seem to get joy out of seeing other people suffer. Yang doesn't seem like that kind person. I like that. I don't need free handouts from the government (but I'll take em tho 😊). I like that Yang empathizes with fulltime struggling workers, and he wants to do something about it, which in turn, will help the collective mental health downward spiral that we are all currently in.
What he wants to do about would add to our debt our children will have to pay for and cause a decrease in productivity why work as hard when you get free money leaving our children a bankrupt shell of a nation our debt is so high it defies belief
Imagine people actually voted for him and made him president when he was running before the pandemic. We could have had UBI during Covid19. It would have helped everything and everyone so much more.
As an ICU RRT, i gotta work extra and it takes a toll on me mentally and emotionally when cost of living is high and my income is low. I’m praying it gets better
Don't you think that a tad bit extreme in a country that spent the last century claiming that Marxism, Bolshevism, communism, and socialism are all the same thing and anti-American?
Big red flag. Instead of ubi, what will actually benefit people are these things: Much stronger unions. Massive spends on public infrastructure. Increase minimum wage. Fund all these by massively taxing the rich. Punish those who try to shift to low tax regions.
I have always struggled to understand why it's so hard for many Americans to accept the flaws of their own country. Is it pride? Denial? Refusal to acknowledge that it's not the 80's anymore? This is a big problem, because when you don't have a problem, you don't need to look for a solution either... And the real tragedy is that to a lot of US problems, the solutions are well known and tried, if they could just get over the "humiliation" of learning from another country.... gasp! *USA is unique in that almost all of their problems are entirely self inflicted, most countries have problems they **_can't_** solve, USA has problems it **_won't_** solve.*
He can not speak to me about poverty, with his "I'm a democrat", "I'm a republican", "I'm a democrat", "I support 3+ genders", "I support two genders", etc. HE IS AS BAD AS HILLARY!
He's right about that you can only work 20 hours per month if you want Social Security disability this man is absolutely right if you go beyond 20 hours per month you will get your benefits cut automatically or penalize it don't make any sense
Any man that has this amount of foresight should be listened to. Andrew is right! Slaving away to only be in debt in a completely out of control global economy headed towards ruin is not the way. We need to take a step back and have men and women like Andrew who have novel ideas to actually HELP everyone from bottom to top and from top to bottom.
“Slaving away only to be in debt is not the way, instead of making myself a more valuable employee so I can earn more i’m going to vote for a politician who wants to enslave future generations to an unpayable debt so I can have more free stuff!”
@@imhopelesslyaddictedtofent4266it the supreme court that have to pass the law.look at what happen with student debt law that Joe try to pass to help us out... They didn't pass it..
@@fritzforsthoefel8031Maybe we could reduce our defense budget by 15% and pay for it that way. U.S spends more on defense than the next 10 closest countries combined! Just a thought
@@silentmajority8365 it helped me buy a car when I was walking 4 miles to and from work. But keep going on about laziness. Isn't your generation the reason our economy was so bad the past 7 years? You know retiring YEARS early and being generally useless when it comes to the most basic technologies in the corporate workspace. Wish you silent majority wannabes would go back to you know..being silent. Not the loud and proud useful idiots the world knows you to be.
Checks that came from the rest of us that contribute to society You want government to be your mommy so you can live in a basement to decide your gender
Hard to imagine Mr. Yang being able to successfully run on a platform that actually gives power of any kind back to the people. I would love to see it though.
The phrase we need to remember here is: "the full-time working poor." People who work full time should not be impoverished. We also need to note "the full-time working homeless."
AI is starting to affect my industry. I am a translator and now with all the translation software that's available, many people prefer to use that to translate documents which means that what I mostly just do is editing (correcting the translation done with that software). In a few years, I probably won't even be doing that. It doesn't matter that much to me since I'm almost 60 and hope to retire soon but young people who hope to enter this profession will not have the same opportunities I had when I was first getting into it.
@@ImVeryBradYang has a BA in Economics from Brown and inflation is one of the first things he's thought about. He does not believe inflation is a concern with UBI, and explains why here (timestamped) th-cam.com/video/87M2HwkZZcw/w-d-xo.html
And sheep like you will vote for him because he is giving you money, that’s literally communism. Look forward to gas prices at $10 a gallon, $20 for a dozens eggs.
As a conservative, I like Andrew Yang. He comes across as honest and well meaning, definitely not a politician type. I don't agree with UBI because I don't think it will take long for good ol American greed to figure out how to extract that from us and nullify it completely, but I do like him.
I wished there was a viable way for people like him to win, since the rest of the party decided Biden was better. I don’t understand why they would choose Biden over someone like Yang.
@@lamorthonyfairyfriend4082increased participation in the primaries would be a step in the right direction. I think people's issues with Trump and Covid following after overshadowed all of the other candidates' policies.
Andrew Yang as president would be so refreshing. He actually has solutions and isn't even 80 years old. Blows my mind how so many argue about which grandpa should be president.
No one bargains harder than the house. His theory that having your basic needs met gives you better staying power in job negotiations seems fine but the house always has more resources, more staying power, and other people lining up to take what you won’t. But the phrase: “no one should be working and be poor”, I like the spirit of that and I agree. Some of the most physically exhausting jobs pay so little, and create a culture of working overtime to really make ends meet. We do need a change, but for the life of me I don’t have any great ideas and I’m open to listening and exploring.
Ok but you realize some people have ridiculous car payments and give most of their paycheck to their parent to help some people have to buy food for theirselves constantly put gas in their car drive 25 min to work and wake up every morning tired in a bad mood to skip breakfast being at work in 80 degree weather for 7 hours with low energy about to pass out dont want to move back in with mom cause she'll stress you out and give you a hard time
Nobody should be working full time 40 hour weeks and be poor. Hard agree.
Then work 80 hours and donate half your wages to those that are poor than. Problem solved.
@@MamacitaBonita what are you on about?
you really think the min wage should be 25$ an hr lol 50% of the business would close you are paid a task you are paid for the job at hand not the person isnt the companies fault want better then better yourself sacrifice like everyone else did in time to get ahead get some education train anyting but it isnt the employers job to pay your bills.
@@B86432 Don't talk about education with that kind of grammar. They said nothing about $25 an hour. Quit putting words in people's mouth, weirdo.
@@MamacitaBonitasaid the failure living with mommy
You know what I like about Andrew Yang. No fake smiles and he goes straight to the point.
The point is bullsh*t.
@BigDaddyKai620 He fake cries.
He's as fake as they come, if you buy his shtick, well I feel sorry for ya
How would you know that if you don't know him personally you didn't grow up with him you didn't hang around with him so how do you know what's a real smile and a fake smile how do you know his real emotions from his fake emotions?
@@doctorbigsmiles Not as fake as Trump.
Show respect to this man. He might have single handly saved the economy during covid. The government took his ideas and ran with them
they lowered the level for poverty in his mother's homeland to lie to the world and proclaim poverty was alleviated there. He can not speak to me about poverty, with his "I'm a democrat", "I'm a republican", "I'm a democrat", "I support 3+ genders", "I support two genders", etc. HE IS AS BAD AS HILLARY!
Enjoy the inflation and decline of the country 😂
@@Anthony-wm5of Honestly I'm to a point where I believe that the people in charge are doing all of this on purpose to keep people desperate. In short, inflation seems to be an artificial construct.
@@Anthony-wm5of The US likely doing 10x than your country
@@Anthony-wm5of the inflation has got nothing to do with the hand outs, its corporate greed going after 90% profit margin.
So sad more people didn't give Andrew Yang the attention he deserved during his run. One of the most down to earth, knowledgeable, and fair people to ever run. We had a huge opportunity to set some regulations on AI in place but people didn't think it would come this fast. If we don't start soon it will be so far gone we will have missed the chance to keep it in check.
Best of luck Andrew. I'm still hoping your voice will make a difference.
There's stuff happening with regulations and people across industries fighting for it. I'm glad Yang has been talking about AI for a while but it's hard to write regulations before a new technology or new changes in society comes to pass. Courts are very reluctant to speculate for the future as there might be unintended consequences. We haven't missed the opportunity. The opportunity is now.
In the words of Donald Trump, "The media treats me so unfair" - In Yang's case, it is true, they set double standards for Yang and demonize him for things that they wouldn't do to his opponents. They cut his air time and limit his exposure to the public as well. In the presidential debates, he was given a few minutes to answer questions and debate while the other more popular candidates were given way more time, like Biden were given what seems like forever to barely answer anything. Even in the NYC mayoral election, Yang was vilified by progressives because of his political views of Israel while his opponents who share the same views got no heat for it at all.
He was to out there for most of the mainline democratic voters and the conservatives were never going to vote for him. His campaign was doomed from the start which was a shame.
It’s dumb how people rather vote for trump and his MAGA slogan than someone who actually understands their position instead of a man who is filthy rich and will never understand them completely
he need to fix his own country
He is one of the only people who speaks like he has a realistic understanding of how hard it can be to make it in the modern American economy
Our ancestors who worked almost constantly would think we whine to much
More democrat handouts than ever why are things hard
Yup
@@fritzforsthoefel8031I want you to go fight in a war and not complain about it then you can talk.
@@fritzforsthoefel8031crazy because you're generation got lots of reduced interest rates and the banks just through home loans at everyone. Absolutely crazy how your generation that leached off the system and sucked it dry for everybody else gets to talk about socialism and how everyone's now just lazy and looking for a hand out.
I want you to not use any of your bank accounts not put any of your experience on an application or any education higher than high school, go get a job work 40 hours a week, then try to go get somewhere to live.
I want you to go start from nothing and build yourself back up in this economy and then come talk to me.
You know what? I like this guy. I love how he can actually break down the situation instead of empty platitudes and sensationalism
He can break down the situations but he can’t do Math. We’re in debt, go get a job
@TH-camDislikesConservativeidk we are in debt because they spend money on on stupid things. Like a proxy war. With Russia. America needs to start producing things again. And tbh. I'd start putting these migrants to work. If they wanna come so bad. I would leverage them to help us stop buying from china
You haven't been listening to him then because he's been inconsistent on it especially his poor attempt at a third party. UBI wasn't even part of his policy.
@@joshuabarnes7552 interesting , if he decides to run ill look into that
@@PatrickGotHands well obviously we are in debt because the way things have been going is creating debt 💸
He was so right about AI, most average Americans didn't see it as a concern at that time. Now, looking at the landscape and where AI is headed... AI can now do what no one thought AI could, create art, write, act, etc. His ideas were essential.
yeah but he was dead wrong about the trucking jobs disappearing first. I guess he was using same election tactic that Trump used with miners but it didnt work
Ai cant pick the fields. Ai cant put shingles on roofs. The poor will still do the dirty work.
@@michaelmai281it’ll happen soon doe. Just cuz it hasn’t happened yet don’t mean it won’t. Tech advances exponentially. Design and application is already there. It’s clean data collection at this point.
Its true…why hire an artist when you can just get it for free from AI generator
@@jrheeeee Some things arent as easy as they seem, remember we were supposed to have flying cars decades ago, blue collar labor will not be AI!
Americans as a whole didn’t listen to this man. Everything he has said has now come true, and every single person is suffering because of it. Wow, I feel like I’m living nightmare. A man who warns us of great tragedy, but the masses don’t listen or take him seriously. Humans are really dumb.
Humans are dumb af.
So True!
Worst part is I see us making the same mistakes over and over for the foreseeable future.
Hard to be optimistic about where we’re headed
We deserve to get erased from the world from a Thanos snap
It is cheaper to convince people of a short idea like "I'm not crazy like my opponent" (basically the platform that Biden ran on) than to try to convince someone of a more complex argument like, "smart computers that don't exist yet are coming for your job in a few years". (Back when ChatGPT was not widespread knowledge.)
Conveying a longer message costs more campaign dollars.
Nobody listens to me either and I'm a big picture thinker.
"If this dude can unite a TH-cam comment section, he can unite a country."
Too bad a country full of brainwashed identity political sheep who enjoys the drama being left or right instead of uniting for the betterment of their country.
He didn't do that, so.....
I’m pretty sure he united the country.. Yang gang was all over the country.. but a leader who brings up real issue before it’s time.. whether he wins or not is definition of a “true selfless leader”. Unfortunately this country is 51% elementary.
Haha 😂
Rural Americans aren't going to want this. They will consider it socialism and government handouts
I don’t think Americans are ready for a guy like Andrew Yang yet. The guy is way too smart for a lot of people to understand what’s going on.
Yea maybe in 20 yrs
Dude literally ran on the correct platform for our current problems.
Andrew Yang is too amazing for us
Really is the conspiracy theory meme of 'you can't handle the truth' Movie Trope.
one half _IS_ ready ... but the *60--70 million PROUDLY ILLITERATE militia* is big enough to block it ..
So, not only they will drown ... they will take everyone else with them
Andrew Yang is grossly underrated. He is smart and very insightful
he will never gain power sadly. corporations wont side with him and will go against him, and he's honest, he tells the truth and is for helping the people, good ppl never gain power in a corrupted government like ours. but if he starts a new party like i believe he is after last i heard I'd vote for him.
He's trying to enslave y'all through inflation.
If you give everyone working and non-working $1000 a month then some people will decide that they don't want to work anymore.
Shops will need to raise salaries to attract staff back to work.
Shops therefore raise prices.
End result: consumer is no better off - but now it's dependent on the government for $1000 extra each month just to buy the same quality of life that they had before UBI.
End result: slaves to the government.
Be awake y'all!
It's not free money. You pay with your freedom
@@vampr20ranger We really need to change our entire system.
Forward Party is how we change the election system so we can get some politicians willing to make the braver reforms
@vampr20ranger I like yang but I agree, what he preaches isn't in line with the powers that be
I missed seeing Andrew yang getting recognized for his smart ideas and progressive thoughts on how to help basic needs citizens.
Another bad idea with good intent by a man who has probably never read Adam Smith's Wealth of Nation or Milton Friedman's Freedom and & Capitalism. When you give everyone $1000, it basically raises the prices of things in the market, because people are an additional $1000 flush with cash. This is simple economics. In other words, the $1000 becomes the new zero. As an example, the covid era "stimulus" (which Yang himself mentions were basically tax credits and child care paychecks etc) was one of the factors in the inflation that soon followed. Also, there is a moral issue - the government will be coercing the high/middle income earners to chip in for the Basic Universal Income for the others who do not have income or have low incomes. What gives the government the moral right to force a benevolence for the low income group out of the rest of the citizens, with the tax collector's gun to their heads? I am sure this idea is well loved by all the moochers & looters in the crowd (which is the unfortunately majority of you Americans who do not have *any* knowledge of basic economics, history or civics). There is no such thing as a free lunch people! Basic Universal Income is merely wealth redistribution not wealth generation.
Free money at our childrens expense the democrat way meanwhile our debt gets bigger and bigger
they lowered the level for poverty in his mother's homeland to lie to the world and proclaim poverty was alleviated there. He can not speak to me about poverty, with his "I'm a democrat", "I'm a republican", "I'm a democrat", "I support 3+ genders", "I support two genders", etc. HE IS AS BAD AS HILLARY!
@@fritzforsthoefel8031Forget about debt, even if debt is affordable.
Universal basic income lead to society collapse
@@fritzforsthoefel8031 ahhh so clearly you haven't listened to a thing he said or any of the plans he laid out at all. just another who will be ignorant and not listen cause they aren't your choice. the children don't suffer but get an actual chance in this country with a ubi, but you don't actually care for an argument or even constructive conversation other wise you would have proven your point or had any evidence or substance to back up your claims. just gonna say its bad for kids and act like you have a clue. when your generation was part of what made our country you worse.
I would vote for Yang.
But did you when he was running?
@@bchin324 He wasn't the nominee so how can you?
🗳
And so will all the free loader leeches in the country.
@eugenefirebird8938 wow. Creative joke. Such novelty. Such execution. 🙄
The American dream now is to stay alive and not be afraid to go out of our homes!
Where I live in Florida is dangerous at night. I grew up in NYS and could go out all night no prob.
Well, that failed. 'Stand Your Ground' laws are now commonplace all over America...
@jeffreyschnitman2484 You get a pass Florida as you got freaking dinosaurs strolling around down there and i'm not talking about the boomers,lol
Speak for yourself
What are you afraid of?
Nobody should be a retired teacher renting a room in Florida. Inflation has surpassed her retirement income. Rent up 30% in a year. DEREGULATION sucks.
Sounds hard to believe.
Deregulation of what?
…it is truly unfortunate a retired teacher have to rent a room. Obviously, teaching is an important profession and they’re NOT getting compensated accordingly. Since pro athletes are getting paid SO handsomely…WHY not do the same for teachers, teacher assistants, and the related positions. It’s ONLY fair.
@@bluestonemetallic7 Is this irony?
@@bluestonemetallic7 Crony Capitalism is by design never ever "fair". It has evolved to benefit "only" the rich. Socialism for the rich, and rugged individualism for the poor. It stinks to high heavens!
Nothing but respect for this man.
Same
Great to see Yang doing what he does best: communicating the need for humanizing our economy ❤
Yes I absolutely agree!!!👏🏽
In communist china under mao he took from the rich and gave it to the masses and raised low skilled low producing workers pay dramatically result millions starved now in china low skilled workers make low wages and there are billionaires result china has one of the fastest growing economies in the world explain that
There is a shortage of skilled workers why is that
If Yang is anything it is that he is consistent.
couldnt have said it better myself.
“Nobody who works should be poor in America.” Wow! Nobody has ever said that before.
🤖
Really? You have heard any of the Democratic Socialist?
@@Kate-mg3rb beep boop beep
This guy is a total socialist/ communist mind set lol.
@@TheGodatwaroh no scary words, he must be bad man.
When I was a schoolteacher, I had to work 2 different part-time jobs just to pay rent. I was working 50-60 hours a week and could barely afford to pay rent. It's not right.
But didn't you personally choose to enter the school teacher profession ? Did you do due diligence of the pay/benefits for your profession ?? Just curious given it seems you were 'underwhelmed' by the pay and needed to subsidize your professional pay.
@@ctzoomieh, that attitude doesn’t work here. I don’t always disagree with your stance here. There are plenty of jobs that are less vital than others and their pay scale is going to be in accordance with this (at least in theory). However, I think most people would agree that a teacher is very much a necessary profession in today’s world. Any necessary profession out to at least merit enough pay that people aren’t discouraged from taking that job due to the fact that they’ll likely need a second job to make ends meet. Drew isn’t alone in having to had worked an additional job or two. It’s pretty much a well known fact that the average teacher does not make sufficient money for the service they are providing.
@@two7plumbing Personal economics and market factors always work.
@@ctzoomie I wish that was so
He's trying to enslave y'all through inflation.
If you give everyone working and non-working $1000 a month then some people will decide that they don't want to work anymore.
Shops will need to raise salaries to attract staff back to work.
Shops therefore raise prices.
End result: consumer is no better off - but now it's dependent on the government for $1000 extra each month just to buy the same quality of life that they had before UBI.
End result: slaves to the government.
Be awake y'all!
It's not free money. You pay with your freedom
He has eyes to see, a heart, and doesn't speak like a teenage boy or a geriatric corpse. If he runs again he has my vote. The level of understanding of reality that he has is so refreshing.
Free money at someone else's expense is a sure way to bankruptcy for our children don't you care
I’d vote for this guy in a heartbeat
i would to.
Me too! Yang Gang 💯
He's trying to enslave y'all through inflation.
If you give everyone working and non-working $1000 a month then some people will decide that they don't want to work anymore.
Shops will need to raise salaries to attract staff back to work.
Shops therefore raise prices.
End result: consumer is no better off - but now it's dependent on the government for $1000 extra each month just to buy the same quality of life that they had before UBI.
End result: slaves to the government.
Be awake y'all!
It's not free money. You pay with your freedom
that's a no brainer for me too!
🥰🧢🥰 #YangGangForever
I've worked with homeless and the very poor for years.
Even $100 a month would save lives and change their lives dramatically.
Eh I disagree, I worked for a homeless shelter for 5 years. There was Alot of taxpayer waste with what they were given. A better solution would be if they got jobs and earned their own money they'd be less likely to waste it.
@@kylesullivan8607the waste happens because the programs are means tested, if you have 3 bureaucrats tracking every benefit that's where waste is happening. Universalize and make it unconditional. That cuts a ton of that out
@@kylesullivan8607I have never seen taxpayers money used WISELY by the government...NEVER
@@kylesullivan8607what are the taxpayer doing for the us..i barely got anything from tax return... Government nothing for us we have to put are hope on luck...
@@kylesullivan8607that’s fine, you can disagree. But as I walk 20 minutes to book an Uber to drive me 30 minutes to work right this minute, I KNOW that if someone spotted me $100 a month my car would not have been repossessed 😊
The rich are just getting richer. Corp.profits are up every year, oil company's are killing the planet and making record profits. Inflation is out of control, elderly retired are struggling to make ends meet and can no longer work to try and make up the gap. We are at very hazardous time. The poor are getting poorer, climate change is at a tipping point. Sadly I can not see enough positive change now or coming. This is the disaster we are leaving our kids.
"Your income is mostly determined by your philosophy not the economy "---Jim Rohn
The same economic winds blow on us all...but its not the blowing of the winds that determines your economic future---it's the set of the sail."
@@3joewjUseless platitudes. Just what the wealthy want you to believe. Work harder so they can get richer? Nah.
Blame and demand corporate criminals be held accountable ! Don't forget , YOU AND I bought their products , did the driving .
@@williamobryan682 as if there's any other choice. the small businesses were being crippled and can't compete to the big corporations
I would vote for this guy. Getting sick and tired of politicians being vague, beating around the bush, afraid of being wrong, being out of touch with the average American, and not laying out any vision or solution to problems we face everyday. It seems Yang was right about this 4th "industrial" revolution and our quality of living has gotten worse year after year with tech advances eliminating most entry to mid level jobs. Personally, I'm not even considering marriage or kids knowing the way things are now and where things are headed. I initially had a knee jerk reaction with UBI and was against it but I am totally for it after doing research on how it works to boost the economy from the bottom up.
UBI can be the next "land grants" that make generational wealth. Hopefully it won't be a racist handout like when colonists ordered a genocide against the native people.
The Veterans Administration has been proven to show racial bias in benefits awards ( white / Caucasians received more overall, and sooner, compared to other races) .
The additional danger is becoming "king maker" of political allies; help the friends of friends who will donate or help run political campaign events.
When a living wage exceeds $80k, the problem is corporate greed!
Facts
Not just corporate greed, but no representation from our crooked politicians
If you ain't rich, you ain't sheet. Not a single individual can afford to rent or own in the U.S. unless they're pretty daemn wealthy! 😂🤣😂 It is what it is. Acceptance is key. If you want to live, just be rich. Tomorrow, next week, whatever... ya gotta have coin to join!
@@Novastar.SaberCombat wrong. This is not a country for the rich.
It's a country for the free.
Free from slavery, debt and poverty.
Your ideas seems alien here.
Alien ideas should be out in the land to prevent land of contamination and corruptions.
@@Novastar.SaberCombat there are a simple solution to the higher rent.
Just follow the money to know where it goes and tax them heavily because of that. Over profiteering should be ban in this country.
I honestly feel this guy was so far ahead of his time and that if he ran now after the pandemic and this issue with AI and the stimulus checks. I really believe he would win now. Inflation was driven by greedy corporations we all know this man
And WHERE do you think he comes from? Some of the HUGE CORPORATIONS! hahaha
As much as I love Andrew's ideas, he would never be allowed to win a presidential race. People are either too stupid, too conspiratorial to trust anything, too distracted to get out of the 2 party nonsense, or too heartless to understand that helping your fellow citizens does not mean hurting you.
Andrew Yang for president. This would be life-changing for so many.
Send half your income to the government to pay for it otherwise we would add it to the debt our children will have to pay for makeing you a thief of the worst kind stealing from our childrens future earnings to pay handouts for adults of today
He thinks it's ok to live off our childrens future earnings
@@fritzforsthoefel8031 “but they taught me in college that deficits don’t matter and the governments job is to give everyone free stuff”
I can't find a democrat to build me a house
A free house of course
He is so right! $1000 a month would be a game changer for myself and millions of other Americans.
Many retail/restaurant chains abuse the system by being fully staffed with part-time employees without benefits. It forced a lot of people to work 2 or 3 part-time jobs! This is true working and still poor! We need to fix this loophole.
Andrew is smart. Unfortunately many money hungry narrow minded people can’t understand something so simple.
Takeing from one person by force and giveing it to another used to be called strong armed robbery
His free money idea does nothing to increase productivity so our output of goods and services goes down even further making the dollar worth less and the brics more attractive
Most people understand theft
@@fritzforsthoefel8031 I know this whole country was built on theft, we should understand that very well. That is true...👍
@@Supersonic5579 slave labor is exactly what this government won't abolish...
He was right on back in 2019
I believe Andrew Yang to be the most underrated politician in America. He has great ideas and if he were given the opportunity to be a Secretary of the Treasury or even Head of Government, he would make a huge difference in the lives of many people and help grow a nation's economy.
Thanks Mr Yang! I think a 4 day work week is necessary for health. To have one day for chores, one for relaxation or recreation, and one for food prep. The latter could lessen the reliance on fast junk food which causes health problems. Community centers could have cooking classes geared to educating on healthier food options and how to’s..I also agree on someone’s comment about education finances/money management in public schools. Universal income would be great, but considering wealthy corporations are good at dodging taxes..putting money overseas, how to pay for this? I do trust Mr. Yangs creative ideas and ability to work with others on this though.I agree the structure of most social programs can be an oppressive trap, and hard to navigate, possibly at least some of those jobs can be transferred to administrating the Universal income if that became a reality. Hopefully we will not hear the last of him, and I like that he is not polarizing- I’m tired of sound bites and cliche’s from politicians pitting one against another..Can’t wait to hear more from him.
There are many illegal immigrants that would like to have your jobs and they will work 7 days a week. Choose your poison.
Its not just eating “healthy food” a lot of our fruits and vegetables are gmo despite gmo’s being illegal in several countries due to health and safety concerns.
Your just lazy
Instead of a four day work week, I think shorter workdays might be easier to execute and would be equally beneficial
@@smellybearc74114hrs a day max?
Giant corporations need to remember who made them giant
Working poor shouldn't exist. People should be able to work and support themselves and families.
Power for the People
The problem is that the companies will never give a flying fig; it's for government to intervene so that capitalism can work without exploitation. When government abdicated that responsibility, and politicians decided to prostitute themselves to the 1% instead of serving the majority, is when we started to see the loss of workers rights and basic economic sense.
If it wasn’t for giant corporations, there would be higher unemployment rate.
@@gracepark4557 if democrats got what they wanted and destroyed all the corporations by taxing them to death they’d all be unemployed and and starving on the streets.
I know even working full time, after rent i literally have to pick who gets paid so i can eat. No credit card debt, no mortgage, no car payment and still its a struggle.
And yet no one cares to stand up and fight the system. Capitalists like complacency.
Yes there is so much. Have you tried a food bank to get some things to supplement you.
@@KS-cl8br no, thankfully I have a great family and kids.. but asking for help isn't always easy is it?
There is rampant rent gouging nowadays. Rent should not be more than 25% if monthly income. That has always been the financial rule. Landlords broke that rule for greed.
Welcome to American capitalism. Why this country's government and corporations continue to take from the poor is unconscionable.
We are literally in The Great Depression Part 2 but no one is brave enough to say it!
We are and the Third World War will happen but this time they won’t be no recovery sadly the world as we know will end
I was one of the people receiving the child care tax credit and I can say first hand it helped beyond and pulled my family out of poverty and any money we spent went right back into the economy
It was money the government borrowed this adding to our debt our children will have to pay for do you realize how huge our debt is and the burden it will create for our children you put nothing but paper back into the economy the resources you consumed was borrowed to be paid back by our children with intrest
Socialism is good... The rich use it all the time for their benefit
How does stealing money from our children by running up more debt by giveing adults free money good policy
Free money for adults at our children's expense democrats have no shame
Fact and mines went straight on daycare and after care
My husband has two jobs and I have one and we still struggle from time to time. We have 3 teens. We were doing well up until the past few years.
Ur white, ur not struggling😂
@@supercal3944 that's racist and I'm black, stop the double standards
@@playlisthitmaker9913 and Im half Chinese half English, I was born in America and I struggle everyday because of my race. It’s not racist when it’s true that white people have it easy in America.
@@supercal3944for some reason that made me laugh
I agree, no one working should be poor. Andrew Yang has a really good idea, and I think covid proved it's feasible and it's good for the country. Money going directly to people is better than going through programs intended for people not to qualify. A big problem is corporate America will not only attack workers' wages, but they will also indiscriminately increase prices for goods, products and services, to scoop up the "extra money" to increase their already record profits. I think that too, was proven by the covid era.
So all you have to do is drop out of school get a low skilled job and live good is that what your saying
Covid payments proved it's destructive to our national debt
When more money is out there, things cost more. Imagine that
@@steadystackin7250 What happened to basic principles of "supply and demand?" "More money" doesn't make things cost more. Unbridled capitalism and price gouging does. I "imagine" government price controls to stop the greedy corporate gouging.
@@fritzforsthoefel8031 Most "low skilled" jobs are being automated. By the way, what is a "low skilled job?"
Andrew Yang is the guy we need. Props to the interviewer he asked some solid questions.
He can not speak to me about poverty, with his "I'm a democrat", "I'm a republican", "I'm a democrat", "I support 3+ genders", "I support two genders", etc. HE IS AS BAD AS HILLARY!
You know it’s bad when you work full time and cannot afford rent and need government assistance.
“Everythings unaffordable because the government printed too much money! Lets fix it by printing even more!”
My situation right now.
@@imhopelesslyaddictedtofent4266 its not just that, its also companies that can do what ever they want, they exploit and gain tremendous profit, housing is purposelessly kept short so housing prices go up, a lot of problems is government and higher powers purposelessly keep things in this state. theres too much to even say whats going on that just piles up, but you can find a lot of information online, its a big rabbit hole.
im with yang on this issue
You want to enslave future generations so you can have free stuff
I love this guy. I voted for him in 2020 and will vote for him in the future. UBC will help everyone.
Every politician goes on TV
adio etc and says a lot of things that needs to be fixed and candidates (of EVERY party) will stand up and say I'll fix this and that if "you elect me". But in reality if they accomplish even 25% of what they promised us we're lucky. Whether it's due to circumstances out of their control (not enough votes in the House\Senate or they were blowing smoke just to get elected, they won't deliver on the majority of their campaign talking points of hot air.
@@kb9826”we the people”
If everyone makes $1000 then $1000 is worthless.
@@ryanbulley4739really don’t understand how people aren’t getting this. Wealth disparity is absolutely nuts right now. Highest in history actually. But giving people a UBI doesn’t actually help. It’s just going to raise the prices of everything. Excess savings leads to inflation regardless if the money was printed or not.
Big red flag. Instead of ubi, what will actually benefit people are these things:
Much stronger unions.
Massive spends on public infrastructure.
Increase minimum wage.
Fund all these by massively taxing the rich. Punish those who try to shift to low tax regions.But he's not for raising minimum wage and focusing on UBI.. This guy isn't the messiah everyone is thinking him to be. The actual solution is to both raise the minimum wage and tax the rich much more.. what UBI actually does is to change the position of common public as a receiver of donations.. UBI effectively will lead to serfs and fiefdoms.. We must protect democracy by raising the minimum wage, taxing the rich heavily across countries and sharing the productivity gains of last many decades with the general public
Yang is as always the guy I wanted to vote for and I thought it was a shame that he dropped out but I understood why. I hope I see him back in 2024. I would love to see him try to tackle the issue of credit scores in the US. It can be very difficult to understand the unspoken rules of credit and often it keeps poor people poor and just generally keeps people from using their own money for their own wants and needs.
The worst thing to do to a poor person is loan them money then charge interest
It use to be that a man worked 30 hrs a week and could pay all the bills, family vacation expenses and even buy property. Oh how things have changed
I always liked him, I wish we could get people like him in office
Free free free the democrat way while our debt grows larger and larger our children will have to pay for leaving them a bankrupt shell of a nation because of democrat handouts
He is a thief of the worst kind giveing adults of today free money that adds to the unbelievable debt our children will have to pay for don't you care or do you just care about free things at our childrens expense
Did you vote for him?
@@fritzforsthoefel8031Yang is like those that allowed GSW to dominate. He's educated and a Democrat. Two things you loathe and there's no changing your mind. God help is all.
Change my mind by telling me how to pay for it why should our children pay so you can have free money democrats have turned the world upside down used to be adults supporting our children now because of democrats our children will be responsible for the handouts we adults get today an unbelievable frightening 32 trillion dollar debt bigger than our entire economy and democrats want more wow
I love his comment on strengthening workers bargaining power. That was the only way I ever got anywhere in life - by having the power to walk away.
Yup, I have one foot out the door in every relationship these last 7 years, whether it be employment or otherwise, betrayal will do that to an individual.
True. The reason why wages at the lower end have stayed low is because Democrats have been using nonstop immigration year after year, high taxes, over regulation and the phony global warming scam to put slack in the labor market and drive down wages at the bottom and increase housing prices at the same time. To the point tens of millions of Americans don't have any money left over at the end of the month. Which gives all the power to employers. And its the lack of power in the hands of employees that allows the excesses at the top, causing the wealth gap.
Minimum wage makes the incomes zero for people that have low skills or bad work records. Raising the minimum wage is sadistic.
Compare that with the conservative model of using low taxes, less immigration, and less regulation to tighten up the labor market. Which raises wages, allows mobility, allows for advancement, allows people with lousy work records or low skills to get decent jobs, and gives people dignity. If liberals were capable of empathy and compassion and cared about the little guy, they would be Kennedy/Reagan conservatives.
"The ever expanding power of the federal government, the absorption of many of the functions that states and cities once considered to be responsibilities of their own, must now be a source of concern to all those who believe as did the great patriot, Henry Grattan that: “Control over local affairs is the essence of liberty.” Commencement Address, University of Notre Dame, January 29, 1950.....John F.Kennedy
"You can’t be for big government, big taxes and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.”.......Ronald Reagan
Big red flag. Instead of ubi, what will actually benefit people are these things:
Much stronger unions.
Massive spends on public infrastructure.
Increase minimum wage.
Fund all these by massively taxing the rich. Punish those who try to shift to low tax regions.
That’s called unions.
@@ammkr2757or all of the above plus ubi
This man seems smart, knowledgeable, level headed, and calm. I want to see more of him!
I would have voted for Andrew Yang before and I'll vote for him if he runs again.
i like him too. But he is chinese and there is alot of tension with China. he will never get enough votes. Maybe an asian guy in 20 years will become president. too high risk of china getting to his family members that are still in china
The problem is Yang doesn't sell dreams. He sells reality. Can't win an election on facts
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I actually wrote his name in.
You think it's ok to live off our children democrat handouts have brought us a debt so big it defies belief grow up stop bankrupting our nation by voteing for handout democrats
I'm trying to live on $338 social security a month. I don't want to start robbing banks and trains like my ancestors did.
Unbelievable can you imagine living of that income that is why we have so much crimes because of poverty especially in the black race but it were designed that way but the chains of poverty will be broken wither free will are by force in positive way ...
That only means that you didn't work enough from ages 18-65. There are consequences to laziness, you could always get a part-time job to supplement your low income!😉
@@colleenpeck6347calling people lazy wow. Imagine that because every business with high pay is just hiring all the qualified employees right 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 defend the corporation but say the worker is lazy they must love ya boot licking😂😂😂😂
@@freshmclovin4593 There are plenty of lazy people out there (and stupid people too). I'd estimate that most street bums are very lazy.
@@colleenpeck6347 There are also consequences to being a ret*rd. You will find them out sooner or later....if you aren't already.
HUGE FAN. I'm a small retail business owner. The online businesses are killing the retail shops and we're barely making ends meet. If the hourly minimum wage gets raised, it's only the small business owners that will get hurt. If UBI gets implemented, it will help not only my workers, it will also help the homeless who dont have jobs. It will dramatically uplift the economy from the ground up. People having extra money will help the small businesses as well since people will shop more. I still remember when people got their stimulus checks, it definitely helped my business.
Minimum wage increases only hurt small business in the near term. You'd I'm sure rather start a business in a place that has higher income levels. The issue is the time frame, does cash flow increase in the localities as wages increase the answer is yes usually but It takes too long if the wage growth is to fast for the new money to circulate
@@contemplativeidiot1 that is why UBI is a better solution. near future or later, UBI is a better solution. People who get paid minimum wage usually have trouble with not just purchasing producs but also with rents and utilities. raising the hourly wage will barely help the small businesses in the later future, because it doesnt really give more "buying power." just barely. plus with income tax and such, theyll still fall victim to taxation n still be under financial struggle. UBI is a way better solution for ALL because it give people "buying power," boosts up the economy in a dramatic fashion, even to the homeless. that's all I was saying.
The stimulus money caused shortages and inflation and added 800 billion dollars to the debt our children will have to pay for leaving them a bankrupt shell of a nation because of democrat handouts don't you care
Small business owners are NOT entitled to starvation waged/federally subsidized (food stamps, edu, housing subsidies, medicaid etc) labor
The poverty line is becoming ridiculous the fact that people seem to think that humans are meant to just basically work our lives away and then die is really disgusting if anyone thinks that a person should have to work three or four jobs just to support themselves when this is the only life that we have and then die you're a part of the problem no human should have to live like that understand that we only get one life
if everyone worked half as much and get paid the same, everything would be twice as expensive. goods and services don't magically grow on trees. they are directly proportional to productivity x number of hours worked.
the solution is to either increase your productivity (ex. becoming a doctor, lawyer, engineer) or forcing the government to take money from people who are more productive than you.
@@fearmetoo-le8dwhow about recognizing the worth of all those that work? How about recognizing and addressing unprecedented corporate greed ?
@coutureclown333 The typical net margin of an S&P 500 company is approximately 11%. So even if profits were banned and redistributed, this still wouldn't lead to a substantial rise in average wages.
@@coutureclown333 US personal income in 2022 is $22 trillion. Corporate income in 2022 is $2.3 trillion. So even if you banned corporate income and redistributed it your wage would only increase around 10% lol.
I like this guy, it seems like he gets it.
Can you please explain that to me? because to me he just seemed like every other politician that's trying to win votes🤷🏽♂️
@@cliftonmobile123 You'll see in 20 years when robots and AI take over jobs, everything he said will be true, Americans needs universal basic income.
@cliftonmobile123 he's not shown any notion of running for anything at present. He's doing a podcast at the moment.
More like he cares
@@cliftonmobile123what other politicians say and push for the things he does though
Funny now Yang is not running as a candidate, his ideas are suddenly forward thinking & ahead of his time and with MSM coverage trying to understand them without using demeaning words/questions... Yang hasn't changed a bit & he still staying true to what he was proposing and Yang Gang then was right & still is today.
I just don't get why a house has to cost like $300,000 or more but you can't have a small house because it's "not up to code" or the government will tear down the tiny homes because reasons so people have to take out loans and then get into a cycle of debt
You can absolutely have a tiny home if you want.
The real cost of a new 1500 square foot 3-2-2 is one man year of labor to build it; one man year of labor to buy the materials; plus the land cost and building fees. At an average annual wage of $50,000 that means the house should cost $100,000 plus the land cost. That's it. The rest is builder price gouging. And that gouging is very real right now.
An old bungalow is 1 million in Toronto.
Yes yes yes. I just need a very small house, I’d prefer if it even had one room with kitchenette and shower than be deep down with mortgage for many years. Need more people like OP here.
@@guidedbygreen1480 Not really. Lot of local Governments don't allow it.
What a wonderful human!!!
Last election, I was hoping that he made it to the end… hopefully this time he win 🤞🏼. He is young and straight forward.
Many people seem to get joy out of seeing other people suffer. Yang doesn't seem like that kind person. I like that. I don't need free handouts from the government (but I'll take em tho 😊). I like that Yang empathizes with fulltime struggling workers, and he wants to do something about it, which in turn, will help the collective mental health downward spiral that we are all currently in.
What he wants to do about would add to our debt our children will have to pay for and cause a decrease in productivity why work as hard when you get free money leaving our children a bankrupt shell of a nation our debt is so high it defies belief
Imagine if these news outlets let Andrew Yang speak for more than 3 mins at a debate.
I’m voting for him 😂 that $1000 a month gone change my life
it will change your life and sink America like the Titanic
Imagine people actually voted for him and made him president when he was running before the pandemic. We could have had UBI during Covid19. It would have helped everything and everyone so much more.
Smart man with an honest goal
Andrew Yang brings money matters into a human perspective 👍
As an ICU RRT, i gotta work extra and it takes a toll on me mentally and emotionally when cost of living is high and my income is low. I’m praying it gets better
I always said this … no one should work 40 hours and be poor… no one should be working 2 to 3 jobs just to get by
If you’re running a business in which the share of labor cannot be equitably split, you’re DOING IT WRONG or shouldn’t be in business at all.
Why don't start a business like that and let's see how that goes
Just go to China and join the commies.
Great concept but not practical policy
😂 says the beneficiaries of 400 years of slavery
Don't you think that a tad bit extreme in a country that spent the last century claiming that Marxism, Bolshevism, communism, and socialism are all the same thing and anti-American?
Godspeed Mr. Yang🙏
Big red flag. Instead of ubi, what will actually benefit people are these things:
Much stronger unions.
Massive spends on public infrastructure.
Increase minimum wage.
Fund all these by massively taxing the rich. Punish those who try to shift to low tax regions.
I still believe Yang could fix capitalism to make us work for the people instead of a privileged minority.
I have always struggled to understand why it's so hard for many Americans to accept the flaws of their own country. Is it pride? Denial? Refusal to acknowledge that it's not the 80's anymore?
This is a big problem, because when you don't have a problem, you don't need to look for a solution either... And the real tragedy is that to a lot of US problems, the solutions are well known and tried, if they could just get over the "humiliation" of learning from another country.... gasp!
*USA is unique in that almost all of their problems are entirely self inflicted, most countries have problems they **_can't_** solve, USA has problems it **_won't_** solve.*
That is so true. Way too much arrogance and an egoic need to eat each other for the glory of it.
we need someone like him a real person, not an insane business man
He can not speak to me about poverty, with his "I'm a democrat", "I'm a republican", "I'm a democrat", "I support 3+ genders", "I support two genders", etc. HE IS AS BAD AS HILLARY!
Huge fan!! Wish policy makers would really sit down with him. Our country needs a real reboot and actual SOLUTIONS ❗️
He's right about that you can only work 20 hours per month if you want Social Security disability this man is absolutely right if you go beyond 20 hours per month you will get your benefits cut automatically or penalize it don't make any sense
Its meant for people who actually need it
Yang: "we have the money to do this."
Everyone: "you're crazy."
After Primaries: "Here's the money."
The fact that this conversation is happening is proof that capitalism is not the best way to move forward.
The wealthy would go on an insane campaign to end this conversation. Im glad its already being had
Andrew Yang's ideas is on point!! We need more bright folks like him in America.
No one should be working and be poor in America.
Yet we are.
This man just wants to find solutions that will help improve our country. We need more people like him running in office.
Any man that has this amount of foresight should be listened to. Andrew is right!
Slaving away to only be in debt in a completely out of control global economy headed towards ruin is not the way.
We need to take a step back and have men and women like Andrew who have novel ideas to actually HELP everyone from bottom to top and from top to bottom.
It'll never happen. The wealthy control it all, and no one can stop them. 💪😎✌️ Acceptance is key. Stay in your lane, or exit the planetary causeway.
“Slaving away only to be in debt is not the way, instead of making myself a more valuable employee so I can earn more i’m going to vote for a politician who wants to enslave future generations to an unpayable debt so I can have more free stuff!”
With a debt so big it defies belief where will this money come from
@@imhopelesslyaddictedtofent4266it the supreme court that have to pass the law.look at what happen with student debt law that Joe try to pass to help us out... They didn't pass it..
@@fritzforsthoefel8031Maybe we could reduce our defense budget by 15% and pay for it that way.
U.S spends more on defense than the next 10 closest countries combined!
Just a thought
Yang. The man who could've actually helped us out. The reason we got those stimulus checks. You can't make me believe otherwise.
I feel that too. Bringing UBI concepts to prominence when he did literally saved lives.
Helped lazy Gen Z live in a basement forever
@@silentmajority8365 it helped me buy a car when I was walking 4 miles to and from work. But keep going on about laziness. Isn't your generation the reason our economy was so bad the past 7 years? You know retiring YEARS early and being generally useless when it comes to the most basic technologies in the corporate workspace. Wish you silent majority wannabes would go back to you know..being silent. Not the loud and proud useful idiots the world knows you to be.
Yeah, it was all a test😂
Checks that came from the rest of us that contribute to society
You want government to be your mommy so you can live in a basement to decide your gender
Hard to imagine Mr. Yang being able to successfully run on a platform that actually gives power of any kind back to the people. I would love to see it though.
The phrase we need to remember here is: "the full-time working poor." People who work full time should not be impoverished. We also need to note "the full-time working homeless."
AI is starting to affect my industry. I am a translator and now with all the translation software that's available, many people prefer to use that to translate documents which means that what I mostly just do is editing (correcting the translation done with that software). In a few years, I probably won't even be doing that. It doesn't matter that much to me since I'm almost 60 and hope to retire soon but young people who hope to enter this profession will not have the same opportunities I had when I was first getting into it.
True no one should be poor! By starting not buying BS things that you don't need!
FINALLY! Someone who understands! We need this guy in office! OMG $1000.00 a month would be huge! He’s got my vote!
Wouldn't that cause more inflation?
@@ImVeryBradYang has a BA in Economics from Brown and inflation is one of the first things he's thought about. He does not believe inflation is a concern with UBI, and explains why here (timestamped) th-cam.com/video/87M2HwkZZcw/w-d-xo.html
And sheep like you will vote for him because he is giving you money, that’s literally communism. Look forward to gas prices at $10 a gallon, $20 for a dozens eggs.
@@ImVeryBradno
@@ImVeryBrad 🤣🤣🤣
As a conservative, I like Andrew Yang. He comes across as honest and well meaning, definitely not a politician type. I don't agree with UBI because I don't think it will take long for good ol American greed to figure out how to extract that from us and nullify it completely, but I do like him.
we as family's are having it very hard😢
Probably because you don't know how to spell the plural of family.
I love love love this idea. Pumps money into the actual economy and gets people off the streets
It would put more people on the streets
@@janordanu2008why you so negative?
I had voted for him in the primaries and I would still vote for him for president. He is the most logical person I've ever come across in politics.
No one should be allowed to work 0 hours a week and live better than those of us who work 70+ a week.
I wish he could keep going, like being a mayor or being a senator. His constituents will reap the benefits.
I like his realistic approach. There’s something special about him. I hope he run again. I would vote for him.
Why does it feel like they cut a piece of this at the end?!
Please post this video as much as you can!!!!
Pleasw run for president in this election! We need someone young and sensible like you Mr.Yeng😭 i get to finally vote this year🎉
I have no political affiliation but I'll vote for this guy now!
I am apolitical as well, Yang might change that. THEY will probably get rid of him though.
We had a chance 😕. I'd like for him to run again.
The Forward Party is for the apolitical so we can gather strength and change the broke system 🧢🌀
I wished there was a viable way for people like him to win, since the rest of the party decided Biden was better. I don’t understand why they would choose Biden over someone like Yang.
@@lamorthonyfairyfriend4082increased participation in the primaries would be a step in the right direction. I think people's issues with Trump and Covid following after overshadowed all of the other candidates' policies.
This guy gets it!
Andrew Yang as president would be so refreshing. He actually has solutions and isn't even 80 years old. Blows my mind how so many argue about which grandpa should be president.
No one bargains harder than the house. His theory that having your basic needs met gives you better staying power in job negotiations seems fine but the house always has more resources, more staying power, and other people lining up to take what you won’t. But the phrase: “no one should be working and be poor”, I like the spirit of that and I agree. Some of the most physically exhausting jobs pay so little, and create a culture of working overtime to really make ends meet. We do need a change, but for the life of me I don’t have any great ideas and I’m open to listening and exploring.
I thought that by having a full-time job meant a person lives like a decent human being.
I agree. If you're working a full time job and working good amount of the day; you shouldnt have to struggle. You work, you eat. That's fair.
Ok but you realize some people have ridiculous car payments and give most of their paycheck to their parent to help some people have to buy food for theirselves constantly put gas in their car drive 25 min to work and wake up every morning tired in a bad mood to skip breakfast being at work in 80 degree weather for 7 hours with low energy about to pass out dont want to move back in with mom cause she'll stress you out and give you a hard time
Why does the US government want the hard working citizens poor? I don’t understand… I’ll never understand