Comments by "Thump Er the Sweaty Fat Guy" (@SweatyFatGuy) on "Who Wouldn't Want Universal Basic Income? | 5 -Minute Videos" video.

  1. I am a crippled veteran. 100% service connected, and have been surviving on VA compensation since 2007. Essentially its like UBI save for the fact I sacrificed my health and youth to get it, rather than simply existing and getting a handout. They broke me, they owe me. I am limited to what Congress decides we are worth, and you can look up exactly how much money crippled veterans receive every month. I am not allowed to earn more, I cannot have stocks or investments which pay me, cannot own rental properties that generate income, I get what I get and not even a dollar more is allowed. With special permission I can get a job, if I can work around the physical and mental limitations that result from my participation in OIF. Its not likely. Last week I tried to get an appointment with the VA, my only healthcare, as I can't afford it otherwise. I called to set up an appointment, listened to the rambling computer thing telling me stuff that has no relevance to me whatsoever. It will not let me enter any numbers as it goes through that. It takes several minutes where I live. Then I go on hold, and wait until an operator picks it up. They are located at the regional VA more than 100 miles away from me. She asks if I want to go to urgent care, which means a 2 hour drive there, six or more hours waiting (the usual with the D's in control), and a 2 hour drive back. No I want to go see the local clinic that is 25 miles away, because gas is expensive and I should be able to walk in and be seen, like I did from 2017 to 2020. Who was in charge then? Oh yeah, the 'bad' guy. So she rings the clinic closer to me, it rings for several minutes, and goes back to the computer. I get a different operator more than 100 miles away, who asks the same do you want to drive for 2 hours to sit around all day and wait. No I want to set up an appointment closer. Back on hold, the phone rings for several minutes and back to the computer. So far I have been on the phone for more than an hour, waiting and listening to stuff that doesn't matter to me. I get another operator, who is 100 miles away. I went off and hung up on them. I will be making content about the way we veterans are treated by the VA when the D's are in office in the near future. In 2009 the VA funding was cut, by the D's, and cut again soon after that. There was no cost of living adjustment from 2010 to 2017. Prices continued to rise, but they left us to scrape by. No walk in appointments, I had to deal with the same run around from 09-17. 17-20 I could get in and be seen the same or next day, and there were very rarely a bunch of veterans stacked up waiting to be seen. Now it takes MONTHS to get an appointment, and that started around 21 Jan 2021. I can do some work, on a limited basis. About 4 hours per day, 3 sometimes 4 days per week. I have been investing that into becoming self sufficient, at least as much as I possibly can. I have invested in vehicles, old rusty junk with some good parts on them, which I can trade and use to keep other rusty vehicles running. My land was the big one, I bought woodland in the middle of nowhere, way up north by Canada and have paid it off with 8 years of sacrificing. I had to build my own house, because I cannot afford to pay a contractor 12 years worth of my pay to build a 24x24 garage, let alone a house. I grow my food, and am working on a greenhouse so I can grow all winter. I produce ethanol fuel from cattails to fuel my vehicles, because $5 gasoline is out of my budget, and currently 87 octane is $4 here. Some people want more from life, and are willing to endure hardship, pain, suffering, and sacrifice to get it. I am one of those people. When the money stops coming from congress, I don't want to be forced to live in a box and eat the boogs. Other people, dare I say most at this point, want an easy life where they do nothing all day and just receive things. They have no ambition, no desire, no motivation.. and apparently no foresight. Not having to decide for themselves is much easier, they don't have to think, take chances, or put in effort, they can slide by. Money is not what motivates me, what I do with my time on this planet is vastly more important to me. Sitting around waiting for old age and uselessness to overtake me, while achieving nothing, or saying what I did 20 years ago was enough, is not the way I am. those shiny old cars I have with big powerful engines in them you can see on my channel? Yeah.. I spent years building them. I did not go out and buy them, they were $100 to $1500 rusty hulks that I spend my time cutting rusty metal out, and welding new metal in, often shaping the parts by hand. My days of being able to do that are coming to an end, as I am 54 and already my hands are not working the way they should. The VA doesn't care about my hands, they just want to make sure I don't splatter gray matter on walls, because it makes them look bad.. not because they give a damn about us. When it comes to UBI, I realize that if everyone has $1000 to throw away, it has to come from somewhere, and will only serve the raise the price of every day things. It makes people dependent on it, which makes them easier to control. Very few who get it will invest it along with their time similarly to how I have invested the pittance I have lived on for nearly 20 years. The last thing you should want in life is to be dependent on whomever ends up in an oval shaped office that can decide your worth.
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  2. I like your optimism that it will take ten years. Looks more like two years until we are at $1k for a loaf of bread.. We will have money that looks like Korean Won... with huge numbers on it.
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