Comments by "Just Me" (@JustMe-ec2ph) on "Andrew Yang Explains His WEIRDEST Policies" video.

@Pheyora I did a search on google what the average welfare assistance is counting the check, housing assistance, food stamps, other cash like programs and a lot is more than a thousand a month but like I wrote I know people on welfare even though I'm not and they will not opt out! I'm sure some others will but it is total speculation for Yang to predict how many that he uses in his savings to go towards UBI but he's going to eliminate social and welfare even though he just "wouldn't do it all at once" which will hurt the poor more than UBI would help them! I am all for improving existing programs but not for eliminating them. I don't want his thousand bucks a month! And in fact I would NOT opt into it. I can see where people would vote for Yang if it's in their/your best interest but just don't pretend that it would help the poorest because it won't and on top of that there is no way the House and Senate would pass BOTH UBI and Medicare for all. We need Medicare for all more!
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@TruthHurts1871 Make sure you are honest about it when you talk about people that were for UBI such as Nixon being for UBI but ALSO had a work requirement attached to it even though that was after the sixties. Not sure why some Yangers leave out those small details? Maybe because the truth hurts?
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@dontaylor7315 Exactly! And considering Yang's flips just since running for president who knows what his final positions would be.
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@dontaylor7315 Bernie's consistency for decades and his voting record shows he won't go back on what he is campaigning on! The same can not be said about Yang.
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@independentCog Bias? Bernie has a solid record for people to decide if they agree with his policies or not with a voting record Bernie has that tells us he won't go back on what he is campaigning on! Whereas, Yang comes out of nowhere with no political record for us to know he would do anything he says, never having spoke out on certain issues before running for president, with many important votes in the House and Senate that we have no idea how Yang would vote on any of them with already enough flip flops that no one can really know what Yang's final position will be on any of them! You can't disseminate Yang's own words other than to try to spin them to fit whatever you want them to mean!
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@sheriaddis6573 I feel sure Bernie knows there is no way BOTH UBI and Medicare for all would pass the House and Senate and we need Medicare for all MORE! Also, Bernie has always protected social and welfare programs which I feel sure he also knows UBI would not pass while keeping existing welfare and social programs. That is why Yang would eliminate them but as Yang said he just "wouldn't do it all at once."
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@alvind5515 Wrong! Yang's UBI will not benefit the poorest people that have to make a choice while Yang gives it to all the wealthy people! But considering Yang's intentions of eliminating social and welfare programs which would hurt the poor more than UBI would help them I am not fooled by him at all.
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@NCCC2025 LOL I probably started working at a younger age than you did if you have worked any. I promote able bodied people earning their incomes by working on jobs that's not what Yang is promoting with his free money with no strings attached! You can attack my opinions that are also the same as economists and other intelligent individuals all you want! It seems Yangers think Yang is the only intelligent person in the US. I have listened to both sides while most of you have only listened to one side. Once again a yanger is not giving the entire context as there are two forms of Social Security incomes! Yang flipped on one of them to get more votes but not on the other as in someone on SSI can not get the full amount of UBI while keeping SSI. Only someone totally disingenuous would try to say Nixon's UBI and Yang's are even similar when one would give free money to everyone as in no strings attached while the other one has strings attached. As far as Bernie's proposals we need Medicare for all MORE than we need UBI and there is no way the House and Senate would pass both. Yang has acknowledged there are problems to be solved with the VAT! If you trust him to solve those problems, fine, I do NOT! Yang comes out of nowhere, never having spoken out on many important issues before running for president, no political record to know he would do anything he says, with flip flops that no one can know for sure what his final proposals would be, it's nothing but blind trust for anyone to trust him. You choose to but I don't!! In addition to my disagreeing with his policies and some of his views.
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@YourMajesty733 You are the one that has embarrassed yourself not knowing there is two social security incomes and both does not stack! Maybe if you read Yang's website it would help your comprehension on this. Directly from Yang's website unless he changed it AGAIN.... "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. Yang makes it clear people some people would have to make a choice so make sure your comments reflects that but as many flips as Yang has done who knows which one of those positions will end up being the one he goes with! One of the ones he sure hasn't flipped on at all is the one where the wealthy gets UBI regardless of what their incomes are or where it comes from! But considering Yang's intentions of eliminating welfare and social programs although he said he just "wouldn't do it all at once" then really doesn't matter what stacks to start with and what doesn't.
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@yance0024 First, when talking about Social Security to say it stacks on top without ALSO saying it only stacks on top of SSA, the one you are referring to we all paid into, still because there is also Social Security supplemental income that can not be stacked on top of UBI yang supporters need to make sure they say it correctly since UBI does not stack on top of both! Oh, it most definitely was a flip on SSA because Yang saw he was losing votes by not stacking it on top of UBI but point is that is still a flip AND Yang could very well if elected go back to his original position. As for your min wage comments.... Seattle, one of the cities to more recently raise the minimum wage to $15, has seen large increases in employment and income. According to MyNorthwest.com, not only have many of the businesses who opposed the increase seen higher employment numbers, some are even opening additional locations. In 2014, a study by the Center for Economic and Policy Research found that the 13 states that increased the minimum wage saw employment numbers increase faster than states that did not, an average of 0.85 percent compared to 0.61 percent in the other 37 states. OVER 200 ECONOMISTS SIGNED A PETITION IN SUPPORT OF A $15 U.S. MINIMUM WAGE AS OF 2020 Don't think that many economists would sign onto it if it was as bad as you and others make it out to be. Please don't make excuses why Millionaires and Billionaires shouldn't pay their workers a living wage and it doesn't hurt small businesses the way it's alleged either! As far as Bernie's record. It is that record regardless if someone agrees with a candidate's record that lets people know whether or not a candidate is likely to go back on their campaign promises. Yang does not have that record so anyway you look at it it's blind trust to trust him! Tell me where was Yang when jobs were being out sourced? Before running for president did he ever say anything at all about any of the bad trade deals? NAFTA? TPP? What protests has he been in for gay rights? For civil rights? For anyone's rights? Any picket lines he has stood with workers on? When Obama and Biden proposed Social Security and Medicare cuts did Yang speak out against that? Where was Yang when Trump did cut Social Security and Medicare? I like to know if Yang has protested against any of the wars? Other than giving people jobs which is hardly a good enough resume to be President of the United States what has he done? There are many important policies that are voted on and how a politician votes on them tells me if I want to vote for them or not. So tell me what policies has Yang voted on to show exactly where he stands on the issues? Oh, that's right he doesn't have a voting record. He should had ran for local office first so we could know for sure what that man is all about other than coming out of nowhere wanting to be president. I have read some comments from some conservatives that support Yang because of Yang's goal to eliminate social and welfare programs. Without that Yang wouldn't have near the support he does from them.
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@yance0024 I haven't read all of your comments yet so hopefully you clarified your post on the freedom dividend stacking on top of social security because you do know there is more than one social security income? And Yang's does NOT stack on top of both and to start with Yang's UBI didn't stack on either of them but he flipped on SSA after he saw he was losing votes so considering what his first position was on that and the other policies he flipped on who knows but what he will go back to those but considering he would eliminated social and welfare programs which would hurt the poor more than UBI helps them then it really doesn't matter that it stacks on top of any of one of them to start with.
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@maudiojunky Bernie's policies don't just help kids going to college! But for sure Bernie has the record to show whatever he is campaigning on he won't go back on whereas Yang don't have that record at all and considering Yang's flip flops who knows what his final positions will be on any of his policies!
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J S All of you yangers want free money and if not for that you wouldn't care if he was a leader or a follower.
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@ericparker163 Bernie does have accomplishments but if you think anyone going up against the establishment is going to accomplish a lot UNTIL there is enough people behind them think again! Bernie has the people behind him now. You trust Yang, someone with no voting record to show they would do anything they say or how they would had voted on important issues fine, but don't expect everyone to!
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@m4rs12 I think we have had enough of the right side (Republicans) politics.
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@ericparker163 Of course you will vote for who you think has the solutions. I will vote for who I think has the better solutions WITH A RECORD to show they will fight for them and not go back on what they are campaigning on. On who has the best solutions we can just agree to disagree.
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@KT-rm8rc What do you mean ignoring when I was asked what the flip flops were? I replied and said exactly what they were! Maybe you can't read or see so good. I am not getting paid for my opinions like a lot of channels are! And bots don't reply or eat and I do both LOL But I know when someone hates the opinions of others it's so easy to call them a bot or troll or paid LOL I don't care about content at my channel like a lot of yangers don't have any, either, or a lot of other candidate supporters. Why not be honest and just say you can't stand someone that disagrees!?
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@redwolf915 I am a Independent and a Republican before that and would not vote for Yang in the primary or the general.
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@stuuuuuuuu Bernie has earned my vote not bought it.
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@redwolf915 I came out of the Republican party and became an Independent since cross over voting is allowed in my state and have a lot in my family and in my area! Don't tell me that Independents will or won't do that I talk to! I talk to Republicans that stop by and a lot of them said they would vote for Bernie in the general if he wins the primary. None of them will vote Yang! And some of the Republicans online that I read that are supporting Yang, some of them have said it's because they believe Yang will eliminate social and welfare programs! Which is Yang's intentions but as Yang said, he just "wouldn't do it all at once". Bernie's record tells me all I need to know on what kind of movement he wants.
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@cp987 Let me help you know what I see in Bernie! Bernie pushed the Stop Bezos Act to increase minimum wage. Disney followed suit after Bernie protested in Anaheim. Six states have moved in that direction. 3 states — New Jersey, Illinois and Maryland — have enacted legislation phasing-in a minimum wage of $15 an hour. California, Massachusetts and New York are the other 3 states that have passed legislation that gradually increases the state minimum wage to $15. He recently got the vote passed for a bill to halt the Yemen War. This is the guy who wanted to break up the big banks and predicted the collapse of 2008. He was against the Bank bail outs. He wants to stop military funding increases and predicted the false-pretense war in Iraq & the rise of extremists (ISIS) 10 years ahead. He predicted the Patriot Act/NSA would break laws to invade our privacy. He wanted to prevent NAFTA/TPP He voted against the Patriot Act while just about all of the others voted for it. Don't pretend to be for our freedoms if you are not speaking out against all of the politicians that voted for it. Bernie is known as Amendment King. Those Amendments count as accomplishments, too! I'm not saying I agree with every amendment that he has helped pass. I am simply noting this because of all the people that say Bernie has accomplished nothing when he clearly has! As chair of the Senate Veterans affairs committee Sanders helped pass VA health care system reform in 2014. He also predicted the Panama Papers tax evasion scandal. He predicted the tax breaks would cut into Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and he was right. This level of intuition, and his abilities as a strategist, are what I believe we need in a president. https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/28/1453742/-5-Times-Bernie-Sanders-Foresaw-The-Future? He's been a public servant for the people for over 40 years. How many candidates do you know that have a similar congressional record? Who else brought these campaign ideas that everyone is holding into the mainstream? Bernie is a natural catalyst that incites change. And he's changing it from the ground-up, not top-down. He's walking the picket line with workers. He took a lot of people to Canada to get their meds cheaper since they couldn't afford them here. He did that years ago then again recently. Senator Sanders has the best voting record of any candidate on war and peace issues, especially on military spending. Opposing the oversized Pentagon budget, he has only voted for 3 out of 19 military spending bills since 2013. By this measure, no other candidate comes close, including Tulsi Gabbard. In other votes on war and peace, Sanders voted as requested by Peace Action 84% of the time from 2011 to 2016, despite some hawkish votes on Iran from 2011-2013. Bernie challenges the military industrial complex and HAS BEEN CHALLENGING THEM for decades. In terms of stopping the war in Yemen, Sanders has been a hero. Over the past year, he and Senators Murphy and Lee have led a sustained effort to shepherd his historic War Powers bill on Yemen through the Senate. Congressman Ro Khanna, whom Sanders has chosen as one of his 4 campaign co-chairs, has led the parallel effort in the House. Of course, Trump vetoed it. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bernie_Sanders http://www.triplepundit.com/story/2015/burlington-vermont-leads-charge-100-percent-renewable-energy/57641 https://www.mynbc5.com/article/report-vermont-ranked-as-best-place-to-live-in-america/22108021 http://www.triplepundit.com/story/2015/burlington-vermont-leads-charge-100-percent-renewable-energy/57641 Bernie CLOBBERS Opponents On Trade & Outsourcing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd65h7h5HGI Proof Bernie Is A BOSS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP194CAavys Ben Shapiro & Tucker Carlson Are 100% CORRECT About Bernie Sanders https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nko9CHjuVo8 He has always been for gay rights! He has always been for civil rights! He has always been for a woman's right to choose! He has always been for everyone's rights even before some of them were politically popular! He has always voted against any bills that would take our freedoms away such as the Patriot Act and the more recent anti-BDS Senate bill that even though he is against the movement because it threatened freedom of speech he voted against it. He spoke out against the peaceful Natives being brutalized at Standing Rock when none of the other candidates did except Tulsi. He has always spoken out against Social Security and Medicare cuts! Even when Obama and Biden proposed it with just about every Dem on board. He has always been against bad trade deals. He has always been for Medicare for all. He has always been for raising the min wage. He has voted for the least Military Budget increases than the other politicians have! That looks pretty consistent to me. Seattle, one of the cities to more recently raise the minimum wage to $15, has seen large increases in employment and income. According to MyNorthwest.com, not only have many of the businesses who opposed the increase seen higher employment numbers, some are even opening additional locations. In 2014, a study by the Center for Economic and Policy Research found that the 13 states that increased the minimum wage saw employment numbers increase faster than states that did not, an average of 0.85 percent compared to 0.61 percent in the other 37 states. OVER 200 ECONOMISTS SIGNED A PETITION IN SUPPORT OF A $15 U.S. MINIMUM WAGE AS OF 2020 https://www.sanders.senate.gov/download/15-minimum-wage-petition?inline=file
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@neptune9443 Tell me where was Yang when jobs were being out sourced? Before running for president did he ever say anything at all about any of the bad trade deals? NAFTA? TPP? What protests has he been in for gay rights? For civil rights? For anyone's rights? Any picket lines he has stood with workers on? When Obama and Biden proposed Social Security and Medicare cuts did Yang speak out against that? Since some of you yang supporters seem to think he is not going to eliminate social and welfare programs how about pointing me to when he has spoken out to protect them? Where was Yang when Trump did cut Social Security and Medicare? I like to know if Yang has protested against any of the wars? Other than giving people jobs which is hardly a good enough resume to be President of the United States what has he done? There are many important policies that are voted on and how a politician votes on them tells me if I want to vote for them or not. So tell me what policies has Yang voted on to show exactly where he stands on the issues? Oh, that's right he doesn't have a voting record. Some leader! He should had ran for local office first so we could know for sure what that man is all about other than coming out of nowhere wanting to be president.
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@liamhumphreys9011 Polls for years have showed Bernie beats Trump!
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@Pheyora And as far as the VAT even Yang admitted there are problems to be solved with the VAT. You trust him to solve those problems and it will only be on luxury items (can't wait until that's defined by Congress) fine, I don't trust him to solve those problems in addition to not being for his other polices.
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@TheSolamnic You missed my point! My point was don't just say Nixon was for UBI as in he would be for the same version as Yang because there was a WORK REQUIREMENT attached to Nixon's UBI that a lot of Yang supporters leave that out when quoting Nixon being for UBI.
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@TheSolamnic And just remembered it was not just a work requirement but Nixon’s FAP was very moderate: it only applied to families with children (childless couples and individuals were out of luck), included a work requirement for householders considered “employable,” So childless couples were out of luck, too! If you are going to imply someone is for Yang's UBI make sure it's the same version if you want to be honest about it.
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@greghelton4668 I am sure UBI will help some while leaving out others but I stand by all of the points I made on why I won't vote for Yang.
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@greghelton4668 Dang if I did anymore research my head would explode LOL I listened to every video, read every link I posted. I watched the entire UBI debate between Jared Bernstein and Charles Murray. Even trying to read all of a recent UBI report that has both pros and cons in it but it's so long don't know if I will get all of it read, looked up people that were for UBI to compare their version to Yang's so don't tell me I didn't research LOL Thing about Yang supporters most all of you quote ONLY the sources you agree with whereas I have read BOTH! You are the ones that most of you don't do any research outside of what Yang says. You would be surprised how many Yang supporters I have corrected them giving out the wrong information with my proving it with the words from Yang's own website or his own words in his own interviews. And sometimes his supporters don't give the full context such as saying Nixon was for UBI when he had a work requirement with his!! And not for childless couples so that is a HUGE difference in Nixon's and Yang's! And then there's Yang flip flops. Yes, I have done my research.
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Gregory Martinek I don't agree with his policies! From the beginning such a turn off that he would give UBI to all the wealthy people in addition to their incomes but make seniors and veterans on social security choose. I have the video with his words to verify that was his position to start with AND YES HE FLIPPED when he saw he was losing a lot of votes. Some yang supporters say well it's good he listened to the people BUT how many candidates ran on doing what people wanted and then went back on it? That was a big turn off to me from the start. He shouldn't had to see he was losing votes to know he shouldn't had that position to start with! Then even though he changed on SSA he didn't on SSI and other welfare assistance having to choose UBI or their current incomes. As I have stated I am not on welfare but I know people that are and they won't opt out. Yang said some of the savings from those that opt out would pay for some of the costs of UBI. No doubt some will opt out but it's total speculation on how many that he is using to determine how much of that will pay for UBI. Then while in some interviews he says he won't eliminate social and welfare assistance then in another one he does say he would eliminate them but just "not all at once." UBI could hurt poor people more than it helps! I am totally against UBI for the wealthy! He has flipped on other issues. Wishy washy on Medicare for all which we need more than we do UBI and I do not believe both would pass. I think it would end up being like Charles Murray's version of UBI. I don't trust Yang and that's just about the nicest way I can say it. He should had ran for local office FIRST and got a record so people could know what he is really all about. Yang even acknowledged there are problems to be solved with the VAT. I don't trust him to solve them. I disagree with him not being for raising the min wage. There is more but this is long enough lol
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Gregory Martinek Totally disagree! And I know they are two different programs and many people on welfare assistance get more than a thousand dollars a month counting the check, food stamps, housing assistance, and other cash like programs and I can tell you if we don't get Medicare for all then that thousand dollars a month will mean nothing to people that have to pay for their own health care. It is still totally speculation for Yang to say how much savings there will be from those that will opt out!
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Gregory Martinek Well. obviously if I name the amounts those I personally know that wouldn't be something you could verify since I won't give their names out but as far as the averages I have below keeping in mind it also depends on how many is in a family on what the welfare assistance is such as a single parent with two or three children would not be getting UBI for the kids only himself whereas welfare assistance would be based on the children, too, and if it's a couple with several kids the $2,000 for both of them would not be anymore for the children that they would be getting additional welfare assistance based on the children, too, when UBI would not be allowing more for the children..... https://www.cheatsheet.com/culture/states-welfare-recipients-paid-more-minimum-wage.html/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7SZI9BDcEY HOW MUCH WELFARE CAN SOMEONE GET? THIS IS B S!!! Something else that really remains unclear as if I understand correctly Yang said those opting out of welfare assistance would keep their Medicaid BUT I know in my state SSI (I'm NOT talking about SSA) is attached to Medicaid so if they opt out of SSI for UBI seems like that would automatically take their Medicaid away, too.
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Gregory Martinek Yes, some of those are extreme cases on how much welfare they get but some still get that much and I gave a website that gave the averages, too, not just the extremes! I'm not sure what the site you gave figures into what they wrote the average monthly payments are but most likely including those that have incomes from other sources which would make welfare assistance a lot lower for them! But I know for a fact JUST SSI can be a lot more than that for someone that has no other income and of course depending on family size how much they get and if any other income that other family members get that live in the same house! That's not counting food stamps, energy assistance, housing assistance, transportation allowances, someone social services sends in the home for those that qualify for that, and other cash like programs so there is a lot of families that get a heck of a lot more than what is quoted there. The more accurate average payment should be based on no other income, families with children and/or other family members in the same house with no other income to get an accurate picture of what they would have to give up to opt into UBI. Now, I'm not going to keep on debating that when no matter how you put it, it is totally speculation on how many will opt out that Yang is using to say what the savings will be towards UBI when he should just give it on top of their incomes regardless! I don't like Yang's version, don't believe that will pass AND Medicare for all and we need Medicare for all more. He's wishy washy on Medicare for all as well as with his flips who knows what his final position will be on whatever he would propose! There is many reasons why I won't vote for him. You have centered on one and I have gave my reasons why I am not for that one but so many other reasons I have already posted. Tell me where was Yang when jobs were being out sourced? Before running for president did he ever say anything at all about any of the bad trade deals? NAFTA? TPP? What protests has he been in for gay rights? For civil rights? For anyone's rights? Any picket lines he has stood with workers on? When Obama and Biden proposed Social Security and Medicare cuts did Yang speak out against that? Since some of you yang supporters seem to think he is not going to eliminate social and welfare programs how about pointing me to when he has spoken out to protect them? Keep in mind I am talking about BEFORE he started running for President. Where was Yang when Trump did cut Social Security and Medicare? I like to know if Yang has protested against any of the wars? Other than giving people jobs which is hardly a good enough resume to be President of the United States what has he done? There are many important policies that are voted on and how a politician votes on them tells me if I want to vote for them or not. So tell me what policies has Yang voted on to show exactly where he stands on the issues? Oh, that's right he doesn't have a voting record. And then there's all of the flip flops Yang has done, too, since he started running for president. He should had ran for local office first so we could know for sure what that man is all about other than coming out of nowhere wanting to be president.
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@maudiojunky "Uncontrolled tuition costs" but forget about the rent or anything else that goes up with UBI.
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