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Personal Commentary ~
Many of us know the GOP
fights every day against a government For The People and, to say it quite simply, rejects the
codified Supremacy Clause which declares "the Constitution and
the Laws of the United States to be the supreme Law of the land" –
not 50 states per their individual state constitutions.
Article 6,
Clause 2
This
Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made
in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made,
under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of
the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any
Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary
notwithstanding.
I
am of the mind that rejection of that Clause is one of the
reasons we are where we are today, with GOP attacking, in one
way or another, federal institutions and programs such as the Patient
Protection Affordable Care Act, Social Security, Medicare and
Medicaid to name just a few...
I am also of the mind that
it is one of the reasons we remain unable to creatively manage a
progressive future that is likely to see more people than jobs – in
a manner that impacts The People in a positive manner going
forward.
The following article
despite alluding to the negative connotation of “free money” in the title is a
great example of the kind of problem solving we can't seriously
entertain under rule of the GOP.
( The Supremacy Clause definition courtesy of The
“Founders Constitution” )
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“Free Money: The
Surprising Effects Of A Basic Income Supplied By Government
“ … Just months before
Spencer was born, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians opened a
casino near (Scooter) McCoy’s home, and promised every one of its roughly
15,000 tribal members—among them Skooter and (wife) Michelle—an equal
cut of the profits. The first payouts came to $595 each—a nice
little bonus, McCoy says, just for being. “That was the first time
we ever took a vacation,” McCoy remembers. “We went to Myrtle
Beach.”
Once Spencer arrived, the
checks covered the family’s car payments and other bills. “It was
huge,” McCoy says. He graduated college and went on to coach
football at the local high school for 11 years. Two decades later,
McCoy still sets aside some of the money the tribe gives out twice a
year to take his children—three of them, now—on vacation. (He and
Michelle are separated.) And as the casino revenue has grown, so have
the checks. In 2016, every tribal member received roughly $12,000.
… These biannual,
unconditional cash disbursements go by different names among the
members of the tribe. Officially, they’re called “per capita
payments.” McCoy’s kids call it their “big money.” But a
certain kind of Silicon Valley idealist might call it something else:
a universal basic income.
The idea is not exactly
new—Thomas Paine proposed a form of basic income back in 1797—but
in this country, aside from Social Security and Medicare, most
government payouts are based on individual need rather than simply
citizenship.
Lately, however, tech leaders, including Facebook
founders Mark Zuckerberg and Chris Hughes, Tesla’s Elon Musk, and Y
Combinator president Sam Altman, have begun pushing the concept as a
potential solution to the economic anxiety brought on by automation
and globalization—anxiety the tech industry has played its own role
in creating.
If robots and offshoring
take all the jobs, or at the very least displace the low-skilled
ones, the thinking goes, there may come a time when there simply
aren’t enough jobs to go around. What then?
… It was here, in the
quiet shadow of the mountain range, that a team of researchers
including Jane Costello, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral
sciences at the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, decided to ground
the Great Smoky Mountains Study of Youth. Costello wanted to find out
about the need for mental health and psychiatric services for
children in rural America, and in 1993 the researchers began studying
1,420 children, 350 of whom were members of the Eastern Band of
Cherokee Indians.
… It was an awakening
for Costello, who had accidentally stumbled onto an entirely new line
of inquiry on the impact of unconditional cash transfers on the poor.
“I suddenly thought, ‘Oh my god,’” Costello remembers.
… In two studies, one
published in 2003 and a follow-up in 2010, Costello compared children
who were lifted out of poverty after the casino opened to those who
had never been poor. She scored them based on the presence of what
researchers referred to as emotional disorders, like depression and
anxiety, as well as behavioral disorders, including attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
Before the casino opened,
Costello found that poor children scored twice as high as those who
were not poor for symptoms of psychiatric disorders. But after the
casino opened, the children whose families’ income rose above the
poverty rate showed a 40 percent decrease in behavioral problems.
Just four years after the casino opened, they were, behaviorally at
least, no different from the kids who had never been poor at all.
By
the time the youngest cohort of children was at least 21, she found
something else: The younger the Cherokee children were when the
casino opened, the better they fared compared to the older Cherokee
children and to rural whites. This was true for emotional and
behavioral problems as well as drug and alcohol addiction.
Akee (Randall) also looked
at the effects of the money on education and found that more money in
the household meant children stayed in school longer. The impact on
crime was just as profound: A $4,000 increase in household income
reduced the poorest kids’ chances of committing a minor crime by 22
percent.
All of this amounted to
substantial financial benefits for the community as a whole. “This
translates to fewer kids in jail, fewer kids in in-patient care,”
Costello says. “Then there are the other costs you can’t
calculate. The cost of people not killing themselves? That’s a hard
one.”
The true impact of the
money on the tribe may not really be known until Spencer’s
generation, the first born after the casino opened, is grown up. For
the techies backing basic income as a remedy to the slow-moving
national crisis that is economic inequality, that may prove a tedious
wait.
Still, if anything is to
be learned from the Cherokee experiment, it’s this: To imagine that
a basic income, or something like it, would suddenly satisfy the
disillusioned, out-of-work Rust Belt worker is as wrongheaded as
imagining it would do no good at all, or drive people to stop
working. There is a third possibility: that an infusion of cash into
struggling households would lift up the youth in those households in
all the subtle but still meaningful ways Costello has observed over
the years, until finally, when they come of age, they are better
prepared for the brave new world of work, whether the robots are
coming or not.”
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