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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Jawando is all about policy that sounds good and nothing about understanding how to make the trains run.   So tired of his rhetoric and damaging legislation.[/quote]

There is nothing about UBI that “sounds good.”[/quote]

If I can buy a used car rather than taking three little kids on two buses to get to daycare, that sounds good. If I can buy a washer and dryer, rather than spending hours on Saturday at a laundromat during a pandemic, that also sounds good. If I can afford to take unpaid time off from work so I can get a mammogram, that sounds really good. [/quote]

If I can earn my way through life...that sounds good.

If I can use the low cost amenities like busses and laundry facilities rather than be on hook for expensive maintenance of these items.. that sounds good.

If I can use my time a health plan for heathcare.. that sounds good.

If I can care for myself and my family of my own independence and agency...that sounds good.

If you could stop belittling me with your outdated thoughts...well...that sounds really good.[/quote]

I don’t think you have ever been a 6 year old on a December school night waiting with your sick mom in the cold wind 30 min for a bus to take you from grandma’s house (where you at least had dinner) across town to home. Actually the first of two buses because you have to transfer. A car would seem like a good investment to your mom, despite maintenance costs.[/quote]

Wrong.  I gre up working poor at best in Philly taking public transit everywhere.  My cousins and silbings, and I were shuttled off to a patchwork of babysitting situations.  Mom started out hauling food trays in nursing homes taking every shift she could get.  Worked her way to an RN degree and a decent life. She worked 3 jobs to pay off the loans.  Dad started out PT at Wawa.  Then it was full time.  Then he was able to get a job with one of their destributers taking on every weekend delivery he could.  Then he went to night school to get his BSN.  Then we had one car.  Then no more laurdomat or dragging laundy to a relatives.  Then is was a small beat up row house in a safe but poor neighborhood.  Then it was 2 cars.  Then we got to do activities.  The catholic school.  Life got better with hard work.  Really hard work but it lead to better.  Why deny anyone that opportunity with the finacial pacifier.

You seem traumatized by your childhood.  Work on that rather than sentence others to your sad experience.  They money won't help.  I have worked with the truly poor and the money will go to the fast food place.  Maybe vice of one kind or another.  Maybe a trampoline for the kids.  Probably not where you think it should go.  Let them work their way up.  You appreciate what you work for and make decisions with that value in mind.[/quote]

You seem to be poisoned by conservative talk radio. I was poor. We didn’t eat fast food. My parents didn’t drink, smoke, do drugs, or gamble. Money went to rent, food, utilities, and medicine. Same for my neighbors. [/quote]

You sound naive.  I grew up in this enviornment.  I know where the extra went.[/quote]

You sound jaded. I also grew up in that environment. I watched neighbors save an extra money for a first communion or donate it to a family trying to pay for a funeral. If you saw so much drugging, is that where your parents spent any extra money? Doesn’t sound like it. Why were your parents so special and why don’t you think there could be other hard working, honest poor people. [/quote]

Hardworking people don't accept handouts.  [/quote]
That's BS.  Only too proud people don't accept handout.[/quote]

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