82 states across 29 states in America have been funneling around $350 billion in cash from the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) into funding guaranteed income or universal basic income (UBI) programs and pilots, with 70 of them reportedly created in 2022 alone. The group called Mayors for a Guaranteed Income and municipal officials nationwide are strongly advising cities adopt UBI.
The Epoch Times explains that ‘the mayoral group was established by Michael Tubbs, former mayor of Stockton, California, in June 2020 after the city began and later extended an experiment in which 125 residents received $500 monthly in a program financed by the Economic Security Project, a nonprofit that supports guaranteed income experiments.’
During a virtual roundtable discussion on December 15th, 2022, a handful of municipal officials claimed that there is increasing support for guaranteed income structures, and expanding them via a mixture of federal, state, local, and private equity.
During the meeting Amanda Kass, an Assistant Professor at the School of School of Public Service at DePaul University, said that ARPA is the first federal program “that has ever produced this amount of highly flexible aid to nearly all governments in the United States—to tens of thousands of governments.” She added that because of “the unprecedented nature” of the events in 2020 and thereafter – the repercussions and costs are piling up and local governments are spending the money in a variety ways, making how they plan to spend it a “tricky question,” she says; adding that there are “many different stories” in how cities and counties “with unique socio-economic conditions” are using the money to address “unique needs.”
There are different examples of these UBI systems being implemented.
For instance, the same day this virtual conference was conducted, Governor Gavin Newsom and the state of California announced that they will boosting their guaranteed income program – a program that was announced earlier in 2022. According to a press release from Newsom’s website, currently ‘1,975 Californians will receive between $600 and $1,200 per month for 12 to 18 months.’
As people across the country struggle with global inflation, this guaranteed income pilot program provides some much needed support and breathing room for the most vulnerable Californians.
This public-private partnership will accelerate our ability to get money to these individuals and families, showcasing Californians coming together to support one another.
Governor Newsom said
When families have the resources they need to meet their basic needs and to achieve the dreams and goals they have for their future, they can live a healthy, dignified life.
The Guaranteed Income Pooled Fund provides us with the opportunity to invest in a first-of-its-kind statewide initiative that creates a path to economic security, and one that ultimately leads to greater health equity and well-being in communities where it is needed most.
Asma Day, Program Manager of Economic Security and Mobility at the Blue Shield of California Foundation added.
On the other side of the country Baltimore, Maryland, is sponsoring an UBI pilot program that allows 200 “18- to 24-year-olds who have children” receive $1,000 per month in additional income for two years, Chief Recovery Officer Shamiah Kerney explained.
We’re hoping that will inform the dialogue on a national basis.
Kerney said during the roundtable, cohosted by the National League of Cities and the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC), a watchdog panel created by the U.S. Office of Inspector General (OIG) to monitor federal pandemic allocations.
‘By fall 2024, according to Kerney, the city suspects data collected from the pilot program will “demonstrate the need” for sustaining, if not expanding, the program,’ The Epoch Times added.
The ET added, ‘the Baltimore Young Families Success Fund has earmarked $4.8 million in ARPA money for the program. It began dispersing $1,000 per month to 200 recipients with incomes at or below 300 percent of the federal poverty level—$26,200 for a family of four—in August.’
Moreover, last month the city is also looking into a program that says “potential criminals would pay hundreds of dollars to try and keep them from committing crimes,” said a local media station. These would-be criminals are planned to be paid $375 a month “not to shoot people.”
Moving more towards the Midwest, St. Louis, Missouri, will also begin shelling guaranteed stimulus to test an universal basic income program that will provide 440 families with $500 per month for 18 months.
Cook County, Illinois, (where the city of Chicago is located), officials approved the nation’s largest guaranteed income program by gifting 3,250 households at or below the federal poverty line for the next two years a monthly $500 check.
The WinePress reported last year that other countries like Wales are already implementing UBI payments for a select group of young adults for the next two years. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has also been advised to seriously consider installing an universal basic income system as well.
Other polarizing figures have endorsed UBI as well, such as Twitter and Tesla owner Elon Musk, or the newly-minted Fox News pundit Tulsi Gabbard.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.
Proverbs 12:24
Whelp, happy new year everyone: we’re gonna pay people hundreds of dollars a month not to shoot people! In that case, where do I sign-up for that?!
We’re done. We’re finished. I cannot express the utter insanity and mental retardation of this: literally shelling-out good boy checks for not blowing people’s brains out; and so they can go and spend their chump change on crack, fentanyl, booze, and hookers…
[10] For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. [11] For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies. [12] Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread. 2 Thessalonians 3:10-12
People keep asking why there is such a labor shortage that presented itself in 2020 – this a hue reason why. When the federal and state governments put practically everything into forbearance and deference, coupled with stimulus checks, unemployment benefits, loans, tax credits, and more; don’t be shocked when people decide to not want to work and scrape off the top from those that DO work. And then you factor in gas prices in many places forcing some people to not even wanting to travel to the office, coupled with remote offices and working from home. Then you have so many Gen-Zeros and Millennials making TikToks and selling their bodies on OnlyFans, earning revenue from those platforms, doing literally nothing. Furthermore, the Covid death shots also have to be taken into account, considering just how many of them are dying, and how even more of them feel like dirt on a very consistent basis now, forcing them to take more sick days.
But instead of working for a living, cities and nations would rather just hand out UBI. Of course, we know this is yet another integral part of the social credit score and central bank digital currency system.
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
Proverbs 13:11
Expect a TON more of these to pop-up this year around the world, and moving forward. This is how, I believe, they will entice a lot of people to jump on the CBDC and social credit score bandwagon.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Well, all of those cities are old strongholds of Rome & her Jesuits….what coinky-dinks. Pelosi’s father was part of the Baltimore political mob machine & it goes back to when Maryland was founded in honor of bloody Mary & the Queen of Heaven, back to the colony & the Carroll’s, well before the Founding of the nation, & long before men forgot & the actor w/ the witchcraft wife, Reagan, normalized relations with the Pontifex Maximus Caesar (then the Polish actor who also cut his teeth in WWII propaganda production & promotion, the ‘solidarity’ thing that took back Poland to old Romanism after the cleansing behind the Iron Curtain….like Reagan here for the military industrial complex & craft out in Hollywood/holy rood & Laurel Canyon) & gave MYSTERY diplomatic immunity.
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It’s not like it was unpredictable once the Lord saved us out of the world & its riots of excess, diversion & folly….the false churches, confusion of the word & everything else…& we started seeing with scriptural eyes & the mind of Christ. Just nobody was listening to any of that negative stuff, exhortation & warning. It was like Solomon’s son Rehoboam all over again with his peer advisers rejecting sobriety, humility & constant vigilance warring against sin, flesh & the devil with all of his ministers.