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Kenny B.'s avatar

I'm sorry, but there isn't anything that anybody is ever going to say to convience me that Guaranteed Basic Income is OK. The government doesn't have any money, so what it gives to one person, it has to take from another. I feel sorry for those in poverty, but sometimes they're in that situation because of irresponsible decisions they've made in their lives, and I don't feel others, those that had nothing to do with that persons decisions should be held financially responsible for those peoples mistakes.

Perhaps this is good time to present some 'Tough Love', rather than gingerly dancing around sensitive issues. For example: early on in High School, we could have required attendance to lectures and presentations on what your life might look like if you get pregnant at an early age without the babies father there to financially provide for you and your new baby. Fact is, without that father there to provide for you, your life is likely to be one in poverty. Bad Choice, but it was your choice not your neighbors.

As far as activities to keep young kids busy and off the streets in a safe enviroment, not only should we be thinking on how we might do that, but perhaps ways we could reward kids for learning to be model citizens and lifting each other up rather than talking smack and threatening each other. Try to make outcomes more win win, rather than we win, you lose.

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Mary Pattock's avatar

Thank you, Terry. So sane a perspective. I hear zip from the Youth Coordinating Board these days. Could it be strengthened to create guiding policies and true coordination to achieve them?

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