Comments by "Just Me" (@JustMe-ec2ph) on "" video.

@witcherschoolofthefox5941 I call them flip flops but yes they are changes. How Would Andrew Yang's UBI Proposal Impact People on Social Security? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3oZr6arNhw Around 2:50 in the video Mike: "But that still begs the question why would someone for example on Social Security disability HAVE TO CHOOSE why would they not get as much as someone whose making a hundred thousand a year do you kind of see so there's just the disconnect and I'm hoping you can fill me in on that if I'm genuinely misunderstanding?" Yang replied, "No no well your understanding of it is CORRECT" "...Does it do as much for someone who's already receiving Social Security and other benefits? It does not do as much for those households and to me that's like a separate PROBLEM we have to tackle and solve which is that Social Security is suppose to go insolvent..." End of quote. Yadda Yadda Yadda. Lift the cap and that problem is resolved! Yang is definitely wishy washy on Medicare for all, too! "Such a plan — Medicare for All alongside private health insurance — has received support from former Vice President Joe Biden, Reps. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii and Tim Ryan of Ohio, entrepreneur Andrew Yang and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who dubbed the proposal "Medicare for All who want it." https://www.salon.com/2019/07/07/medicare-for-all-single-payer-expanding-obamacare-whats-the-difference/ Medicare for all for those that want it is not Medicare for all. He had at his website for awhile that he supported Medicare for all OR some new health care system so he's definitely wishy washy on Medicare for all. https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/436162-medicare-for-all-where-2020-dems-stand Yang, a former tech executive, supports moving “in the direction of a single-payer system,” either through expanding Medicare or “creating a new health care system” entirely.
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@torrok0118 Call it whatever you want! A record of consistency is the only way to know for sure a candidate if elected will do what he or she says.
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@chetgaines1289 In the beginning Yang wasn't stacking on any Social or Welfare programs! His flips to cover whatever percentage doesn't discount what his policies were to start with and there is no way to know for sure he won't go back to what his original positions were or even new ones!
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@chetgaines1289 EXACTLY what I am opposed to is the policies that don't give the best solutions that would really improve everyone's lives! Well, except for the top one percent. Seems like Yang supporters are opposed to people that want someone that has been and is strong that hasn't and doesn't waiver on Medicare for all that would put an end to people dying due to not having the money for healthcare AND put an end to those that make billions off of sick and dying people? Also, seems like Yang supporters are opposed to people that would WANT jobs under a FJG! No one has to take them! it's for people that WANT them. Also, seems like Yang supporters are oppose to all those that want student debt and medical debt eliminated? Also, seems like Yang supporters are opposed to those that would strengthen social and welfare programs instead of risk eliminating them and yes, with UBI that risk would be there!
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@zachr4526 MLK was also for a form of FJG! And I seriously doubt he would make the poorest people choose between some programs and UBI but since he is not alive to ask there is no way you can know that MLK would support Yang's VERSION of UBI! Just like Yang has made it sound like Nixon would support Yang's version of UBI when Nixon had a WORK REQUIREMENT with his and only for couples with children so they are not the same version as Yang's, either! Really disingenuous to imply that someone would be for Yang's UBI when they are not the same version! I disagree with the VAT, too! Too much controversy on it and even Yang had at his website there are problems that would have to be solve with a VAT. If you trust Yang to solve those problems, fine, but don't expect everyone to.
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@Blasto2x There are disabled people on SSI not just on SSA. Make sure to know when UBI would stack and when it wouln't. Directly from Yang's website......... "SSDI is based on earned work credits. SSI is a means-tested program. You can collect both SSDI and the Freedom Dividend. Most people who are legally disabled receive both SSDI and SSI. Under the Freedom Dividend, those who are legally disabled would have a CHOICE between collecting SSDI and the Freedom Dividend, OR collecting SSDI and SSI, whichever is more generous." end of quote. But as many flips as Yang has done who knows which one of those positions will end up being the one he goes with! Once the safety net is eliminated then they won't have a choice, either! One of the positions Yang sure hasn't flipped on at all is the one where the wealthy gets UBI in addition to their incomes regardless of what their incomes are or where it comes from!
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@Blasto2x You said it stacks with "disability" and there are people on SSI that are disabled that it won't stack on top of! That was my point.
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@Blasto2x Yes, they can choose but they shouldn't have to choose! UBI should be stacked on all of those programs, period. If someone on them if they want to opt out of them let it be their choice to opt out, don't force them to choose! People on SSA, some of them are also disabled and they get that because they worked long enough to qualify for SSA but a disabled person that didn't work long enough to get SSA if they qualify they get SSI. Some disabled people don't have to choose others do and that was my point.
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@chetgaines1289 I know you wanted to imply what I am against but couldn't take my implying what Yang supporters are against Got it. As for facts! I have plenty on my side the policies I am for from a associate professor of economics to economists. But you are right there's no point in continuing because we would be wasting each other's time.
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Yang is wishy washy on Medicare for all.... "Such a plan — Medicare for All alongside private health insurance — has received support from former Vice President Joe Biden, Reps. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii and Tim Ryan of Ohio, entrepreneur Andrew Yang and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who dubbed the proposal "Medicare for All who want it." https://www.salon.com/2019/07/07/medicare-for-all-single-payer-expanding-obamacare-whats-the-difference/ Medicare for all for those that want it is not Medicare for all. He had at his website for awhile that he supported Medicare for all OR some new health care system so he's definitely wishy washy on Medicare for all. https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/436162-medicare-for-all-where-2020-dems-stand Yang, a former tech executive, supports moving “in the direction of a single-payer system,” either through expanding Medicare or “creating a new health care system” entirely. And here are some facts that show Yang's UBI won't do everything he says..... CORE CONCLUSIONS CHAPTER NINE Taking account of the evidence and arguments set out above, we come to the following conclusions. ▪ Making cash payments to individuals to increase their purchasing power in a market economy is not a viable route to solving problems caused or exacerbated by neoliberal market economics. ▪ There is no evidence that any version of UBI can be affordable, inclusive, sufficient and sustainable at the same time. ▪ There is no evidence that UBI will help to increase the bargaining power of workers and trade unions, or solve problems of low pay and precarious work. ▪ Rapidly changing labour markets, inadequate welfare systems, poverty, inequality and powerlessness are complex problems that call for complex changes on many levels: there is no “silver bullet” of the kind that UBI is often claimed to be. ▪ The campaign for UBI threatens to divert political energies – as well as funds – from more important causes. ▪ It is necessary and possible to raise funds to bring greater security, opportunity and power to all people, but the money needed to pay for an adequate UBI scheme would better spent on reforming social protection systems, and building more and better quality public services. ▪ Many (although not all) proponents of UBI see it as a means to fix problems that unions care about. Thus the UBI debate creates important opportunities for unions to advocate for quality public services, progressive labour and welfare reform. ▪ However, unions should be careful when intervening in these debates that they do not unnecessarily alienate those proponents of UBI who are potential allies. 144 references are mentioned at the end of this report! http://www.world-psi.org/sites/default/files/documents/research/en_ubi_full_report_2019.pdf UBI debate..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFVr7Ku0KQk&feature=youtu.be By the way it is the progressive that is AGAINST UBI while the conservative some say he's Libertarian is the one for UBI.
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@eg14000 Excuse me but it was at YANG'S WEBSITE for a long while about the Medicare for all or “creating a new health care system” entirely. So I stand by my comment, Yang is wishy washy on Medicare for all. Maybe you missed that part of my comment what he had at his website. I know more quotes from yang himself or from his website than you think I know! I say nothing? You idiot, that report had 144 references in it and I am not one of them, Feel free to dispute them all one by one. Good luck with that. Also, feel free to argue with the economists that support BERNIE'S Medicare for all bill or the over 200 economists that are for raising the min wage to $15 that Yang is against. Good luck with that, too! If you want to give me sources from economists that support YANG'S AND HIS VERSION of UBI have at it but don't give me any economists that are for a different version of UBI like most Yang supporters have tried to do!
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@eg14000 "Access" is not the same as Medicare for all. We do not need to create a Medicare for all program. We already have Medicare and expanding it is all we need to do. Over 200 economists are supporting BERNIE'S Medicare for all bill. Your opinions don't counter the facts that were in that report, all of the facts, not just cherry picking the pros like you did. The report is also giving facts on better solutions. You did not prove with any facts that they are wrong on what the BETTER solutions are. Nice try though. Even Yang has said there are problems that would have to be solved with a VAT but you totally ignore that. You trust Yang to solve those problems, fine, but don't expect everyone to. Those people as you referred to them studied UBI into every country and it's impact, pros and cons. That is something you didn't do and only take UBI on it's surface of what you think it will or won't do. Don't even think you came close to disputing those 144 references.
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@Blasto2x SSA is what people get from Social Security Administration when they retire OR become disabled with a work record long enough to get it. FJG is for people that WANT those jobs! As far as disabled people they are either already getting SSI or SSA or they can apply for it. Bernie will expand Social Security which will be higher incomes for those on SSA and/.or SSI. Increasing Min wage is for people that want to work for their incomes but need the wages to be higher.
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I credit Tulsi Gabbard even though I'm not voting for her, for Harris going down in the polls where Yang would poll higher than her now. I'm not on board with decriminalizing Heroin since that can kill users but I would get them help instead of putting them in jail unless they gave it to someone that caused their death and then I would be for putting them in jail. I'm definitely not a Yang supporter!
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