Comments by "wvu05" (@wvu05) on "Andrew Yang Just PROVED He's A Total Fraud" video.

A lot of us have been vindicated. It was pretty lonely dealing with the cult on some threads that went into triple digits.
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@meltedsnowman9637 Yang specifically mentioned SSI multiple times. He also mentioned daycare subsidies, housing subsidies, TANF, SNAP, WIC, and LIHEAP. He said there were 125 total programs, but he never released the full list. He told Dave Rubin that this is a palatable way to get rid of the existing social safety net.
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@w.iraheta3769 The alternative wasn't a $15/hour minimum wage alone, but a $15/hour minimum wage and - Medicare for All and medical debt forgiveness - Federal Jobs Guarantee - Workplace Democracy - free college, trade, and technical education with Student Loan Forgiveness - Green New Deal with affordable housing - strengthening workers rights - requiring companies that had employer based health insurance to pass on the savings to the workers in the form of increased pay and/or benefits - strengthening the existing social safety net Suddenly, that scale looks a lot more tilted the other way.
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Ohio State And none of them support working people or the rights of minorities.
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@meltedsnowman9637 "Do you receive any of these 125 programs? Yes? Are you willing to give them up?" seem like questions asked to me. They also seem like strings attached. As much as you bemoan the bureaucracy and insist that such things are simple, do you have any idea thw bureaucracy needed to verify that people are getting the money? Or to get one agency to report to the other so they know to stop payment? This is to say nothing of how long the Freedom with 125 Strings Attached Dividend makes someone ineligible for the other programs. His wording to Dave Rubin of "keeping people out of the system" implies a one-way street. You'd better pray that you don't lose your job if that's the case. Funny how he has no problem with millionaires keeping their welfare, which costs way more than welfare for the poor.
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@babstra55 Don't forget that this man who told people that we need the Freedom with 125 Strings Attached Dividend because there won't be any jobs left also told Ben Shapiro that "the magic of a thousand bucks a month is that it is below the poverty level for one person, which means that people will have to work." I thought there weren't going to be jobs because the robots were taking them all.
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Yang isn't a liberal. He is a libertarian.
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@overtherenowaitthere Ron Swanson is also a person of character who lets competent people do their jobs, so his only works because it is undercut by a pragmatism that no libertarian has except the one who Michael Shur met while interviewing people in city government who said "yes, I appreciate the irony of being a libertarian with a government job."
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*Continues to prove
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@meltedsnowman9637 It is a regressive program (the poor and disabled don't get it or have to give something up) paid for by a regressive tax. Do you just not know, or are you lying?
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@oneroneen You forgot the people who don't get a penny of his benefits who still have to pay the VAT. Are the poor and disabled invisible to you Yang Gang bangers, or are they second-class citizens? The best case scenario is that he would be hitting the gas and the brakes at the same time.
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Not to mention that he told Ben Shapiro that he wouldn't increase the amount was that the "magic" of a thousand bucks a month is that it is below the poverty level for one person, so people would still have to work. The emphasis was his.
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@meltedsnowman9637 You can include them, but he doesn't. It was on his website. Social Security Disability (which part of RSDI, and based on payment) was allowed, SSI (which is need based) is not. I gave the example of a single parent making $20,000/year with two kids in daycare. At that income level, probably also getting SNAP, WIC, and LIHEAP, and maybe a housing subsidy. The total package is easily worth $2000-2500/month. You tell me which is a bigger "hassle," filling out the forms once or twice a year, or having to suddenly pay a 10% VAT?
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@killermuffins101 The big thing that hurts Yang is that he really isn't anyone's second choice. When that is the case, you need to win an outright majority or you don't have a prayer.
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@meoff7602 It doesn't have to be that way. Two years ago, my parents niece came to Philadelphia to visit me and my daughter. Among other things, while they were here, we went on two factory tours (Herr's Snack Factory Tour in Nottingham, and the Martin Guitar Factory Tour and Museum in Nazareth). Each one found that human hands caused a bottleneck in production (finding rotten potatoes at the former, lacquering at the latter), and having machines do those things increased the number of employees, and at the Martin factory, everyone in the Lacquer Department was retrained so that no one lost any jobs. If we had Workplace Democracy in place, automation could lead to more leisure. That being said, if Yang gets his way about how to deal with automation, and he is right that all of the jobs will be gone, he will leave us a world where we have a few trillionaires and everyone else scraping by on less than the poverty level. No thanks.
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@MrSkeltal268 Indeed, which is why we shouldn't just surrender to them when it comes to what automation will look like.
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That other guy looks more like Severus Snape after washing his hair.
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