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2022-09-21 Home Front: Politix

It's Crazy On Many Levels, But Cook County Has Launched Its ‘Free Money' UBI Program

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Posted by Mullah Richard OTR 2022-09-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 "Give away mountains of free food and the farmers grow khat instead. Then everybody in Somalia starves." An observation in Martin Stanton's autobiographical book Somalia on $5 A Day: A Soldier's Story(2009) about his experiences in Somalia.

Pay people not to work and then soon nobody works.

Posted by magpie 2022-09-21 01:21|| 2022-09-21 01:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Stimmy checks, baby!

Posted by DooDahMan 2022-09-21 02:23|| 2022-09-21 02:23|| Front Page Top

#3 Payoffs to the Democratic Party's voter base.

Posted by Snash Shairt9621 2022-09-21 04:34|| 2022-09-21 04:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Flat out buying votes with Food and Circuses.

And people are dumb enough to go for it.

Posted by CrazyFool 2022-09-21 05:57|| 2022-09-21 05:57|| Front Page Top

#5 Washington has finally figured out that the federal spending binge is helping fuel inflation, which is a primary source of the hardship being felt by the program’s recipients.

...NARRARATOR: "In fact, they had not."

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2022-09-21 06:50|| 2022-09-21 06:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Ref #4: The plan has worked exceedingly well in the past. They appear to be sticking to the plan.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-09-21 08:40|| 2022-09-21 08:40|| Front Page Top

#7 It'll work until they run our of other people's money.

Posted by CrazyFool 2022-09-21 09:10|| 2022-09-21 09:10|| Front Page Top

#8 The Gulag Archipelago is the solution to bankruptcy of Socialism.

Posted by magpie 2022-09-21 22:52|| 2022-09-21 22:52|| Front Page Top

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