Comments by "wvu05" (@wvu05) on "Status Coup News" channel.

Anti-war is not pro-peace. She supports Modi. She supports Sisi. She opposed the Iran deal. She parrots the Assad line in Syria. She is not pro-peace.
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Because the poor and disabled don't get it, and they will have to pay a VAT.
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@wpease7 So, the response is to take it away from those who do?
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@troypropes1182 Let's talk automation. This past summer, my parents and niece came to visit. Among other things, we went on two factory tours while they were here (Herr's Snack Factory and Tour in Nottingham, Martin Guitar Factory Tour and Museum in Nazareth). In each one, they found that human hands caused a bottleneck in production (finding rotten potatoes at the former, lacquering at the latter), and by having machines do the work, they were able to increase the number of employees, and everyone in the lacquer department was retrained so that no jobs were lost. And these are not co-ops, but family owned companies with long ties to their communities (over 70 years for Herr's, over 180 for Martin). If workers had more control over how automation works, they would benefit. Maybe, for example, they could double their wages and cut their hours in half so they get leisure time. Yang is giving up and letting tech companies decide how it will happen, and if he gets away on how automation works, and he is right on there being no jobs in the future, he will create a world with a few trillionaires and everyone else scraping by on less than the poverty level. Oh, and the cost if living is going to skyrocket because we now have a consumption tax at the federal level. I think I'll pass.
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@certhianwonderer Because the poor and disabled don't get it or have to give up their current benefits. Since Yang has a lost of 125 programs in mind but has only bothered to share seven (TANF, SNAP, SSI, WIC, LIHEAP, housing subsidies, daycare subsidies), I have a feeling that a lot of people will be surprised to find out that not only are they not getting anything, but now they have to pay a VAT and end up in a worse position than before.
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@dougburgan1 I was at a protest against a local McDonald's that insists on paying the minimum wage and opposes raising said minimum wage. It was the local businesses that actually paid $15/hour or are phasing it in. This is just a smokescreen to pretend to care about workers, but it's just not true.
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@CooloutAC Four dollars more an hour, free college tuition, student loan forgiveness, health care, affordable housing with rent control and cleaner air, and increased Social Security and SNAP benefits. All of the sudden, that thousand looks pretty puny, especially when you factor in that Yang wants to get rid of the existing social safety net. If you are a single parent with two kids making $20K/year, daycare subsidies alone are worth $19K/year. Add in WIC and SNAP, and that person is much better off with the current system. Not only does he/she get nothing, but now that person has to pay a VAT. Now, Yanf is actively hurting that person.
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@charleswashington3973 Agreed. Either his followers are as dishonest as he is, or they stop reading after the headline. I honestly don't know which is the case anymore.
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@dougburgan1 Yang takes away the existing social safety net, and children get nothing with the freedom with 125 strings attached dividend. Do you really think $12K/year will cut it for a single parent who now has to pay for daycare and no longer gets SNAP?
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@CooloutAC That's worse than what people who qualify for the Student Loan Forgiveness Plan pay now. That exempts income up to 150% of poverty level, and if there are multiple debtors in the household, that also factors in. You know what is even better? Charging a tax on Wall Street transactions of less than 1% and using that money for free college and trade schools and to completely eliminate all existing student loans.
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@CooloutAC And if you do have a job and only get $2000/month, you are expected to pay $200. If you qualify for the Student Loan Forgiveness Program, you're paying about $40. $200/month is a pretty steep price to pay without the exemption for basic living expenses before you pay penny one.
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@CooloutAC If that's all you have to live on, it is. If you have kids, it has to go even farther. No one can live on that much money.
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@CooloutAC Then, why won't Yang give a list of the 125 programs that people have to forfeit if they take his money? And for all your college sucks talk, you are following someone who made his fortune by selling test prep software. That would be like voting for the Marlboro Man because you think he will end smoking. And as Yang structures it, he gives with one hand and takes away with another. I can't remember if I tagged you or someone else with this example, but one of the few programs that Yang has bothered to mention of the 125 is daycare subsidies. Daycare for two children in PA is about $19K/year. If you have a single parent with two kids making $20K/year, that is someone who can't afford daycare otherwise. So, this is someone who cannot take the freedom with 125 strings attached dividend. Not only does that person get nothing, but he/she now has to pay a VAT. How is that possibly beneficial?
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@CooloutAC You already said that. Why are you repeating yourself? That is the same period that the existing Student Loan Forgiveness Plan offers to those who qualify, and it is a much lower payment. The mere fact that Yang and his supporters can't grasp this simple point proves a total indifference to the question of progressive and regressive tax, which is evidenced by supporting a plan whose benefits are regressive (because the poor and disabled don't get anything) and the tax is regressive (by definition, you can only make a regressive tax less regressive). So, those who qualify make a lower payment for the same amount of time than the one that your hero offers. That is hardly a plan to help people.
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@CooloutAC At this point, I have to wonder if you are intentionally being dumb, or you really have a comprehension problem and I shouldn't mock the slow. So, not only does that person have to use part of the money for higher rent and the VAT, but now they have to use it to pay more for student loan payments, too? So much for the money being "life changing." And God forbid that person has a medical emergency. At $1000/month, they might be able to pay it off in ten years.
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@CooloutAC It takes time to save for first month, last month, and a security deposit. If someone still is barely scraping by after the freedom with 125 strings attached dividend, good luck saving for that. And this argument about mobility assumes that everyone has no roots anywhere and can just rip them up at any time, especially ironic considering how many time Yang Gang bangers have to use a hypothetical extended family in order to make it sound generous. And people move for things like jobs. If there is no job waiting for someone, they aren't moving. And the idea of buying a place with your buddies might sound appealing to college students or young people, but asking people to get along for 15-30 years in close quarters and none if them needing to move for a job is an unbelievably big ask. The more you type, the worse it makes the freedom with 125 strings attached dividend look.
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@CooloutAC Again, tell that to the single parent with two kids in daycare who makes $20,000/year and gets nothing and now has to pay a VAT. Funny how the people who get nothing are invisible to Yang Gang bangers when you talk about who is affected.
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@CooloutAC Now, you're just lying. Yang has specifically said that daycare subsidies that daycare subsidies do not stack. At least I don't have to make stuff up about my candidate in order to make his plan look more generous than it is. You also seem to feel the need to constantly compare the one thing Yang is offering to one of many that Bernie is offering. I guess that is par for the course when you follow a con artist with a penchant for dishonesty and saying one thing to left-wing audiences and the exact opposite to right-wing ones.
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@CooloutAC I see that you are repeating the Big Lie from Yang that everybody gets it no strings attached. People have to give up other benefits in order to get that money. That sounds like a string to me. He has 125 programs in mind, but he has only listed seven (TANF, SNAP, SSI, WIC, LIHEAP, housing subsidies, and daycare subsidies). If Art Garfunkel has a list on his website of every book he has read since 1968 (which is about 1400), then it should be nothing for Andrew Yang to list 125 programs. Then again, maybe he doesn't do that because that list will cover a lot more people than the Yang Gang bangers think, and they won't be getting anything. Funny that the rich don't have to give up their mortgage interest deduction. And Bernie realizes that there are some programs that have specific needs, and other programs that should be universal. Yang claims to want universal programs, but he opposes a real Medicare for All. Keep painting with your brush if desperation. Non-viable candidates tend to lose about 2/3 of their entering votes in Iowa, so if he's in the 1% range when all is said and done, the notion that he is going to suddenly rise to power will all go away.
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@CooloutAC I have to ask, why are the poor and disabled invisible to the Yang Gang?
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@CooloutAC Okay, you are such a liar. Of course, you said they stack! What else does "That single parent [my example being someone with two children in daycare] would get $12k a year more" mean? I said they didn't, and used a single parent with children in daycare as an example of someone who would be hurt by the freedom with 125 strings attached dividend. Support a liar, start spouting lies, I guess. Good-bye! I don't waste my time on YouTube with dishonest people.
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@CooloutAC That parent making $20,000/year and giving that up to stay home and get $12,000/year will not benefit. Are you not bright or are you a bot?
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Yes, Pelosi met with Assad and JFK met with Khruschev, but they didn't parrot their line after meeting with them.
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How is she working with Bernie? If she wanted him to win, she would be doing what Nina Turner and To Khanna are doing.
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