Thom Hartmann Program - 1 Hour Edition - 01/16/19 - The increasing income inequality in America has damaging consequences for real people, and as automation and outsourcing seem set to increase, what could be a solution? Andrew Yang argues it could be a universal basic income (UBI), conservative Julio Rivera has other ideas, and as always callers add their insights.
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 16 January 2019
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Presidential candidate and author Andrew Yang argues that a universal basic income (UBI) is the solution to many of our basic economic problems. He and Thom have a fascinating discussion. ---In today's book club, Andrew Yang's 'The War on Normal People. ---The feasibility of autonomous trucks from the perspective of Bryan in Connecticut, a truck driver. And the discussion continues with our insightful callers. ---Thom word-wrestles with conservative Julio Rivera on the question of inequality of income in America. ---Ellen Rattner of Talk Media News has her ear to the ground, and she's hearing alot of things. ---Thom tears stories from the news, now and then- from the discovery that the oceans are absorbing global warming heat, to former CIA lawyer and later US Attorney General Bill Barr's New York Times cover story from back in the day when he buried Iran-Contra. And callers join in the conversation.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman Program. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome back. |
| 0:18.0 | Tom Harman here with you. |
| 0:19.2 | On the line with us is Andrew Yang. |
| 0:21.6 | He's an entrepreneur. |
| 0:22.4 | He's the founder of Venture for America. |
| 0:24.4 | He's the author of a new book, The War on Normal People, The Truth about America's |
| 0:28.1 | disappearing jobs and why Universal Basic Income is Our Future Future and perhaps most interesting he is |
| 0:34.2 | running for president on the Democratic ticket for 2020. His website |
| 0:39.0 | Yang Y-A-N-G-20.com, Twitter handle, is Andrew Yang V F A. |
| 0:48.0 | Andrew, welcome to the program. |
| 0:50.3 | Well, thanks for having me. |
| 0:51.5 | It's a pleasure to be here. |
| 0:52.4 | Thanks so much for joining us. I was reading your book earlier today. |
| 0:55.0 | In fact, we read it as one of our book reports here on the program. |
| 0:58.0 | Fascinating stuff. You've really clearly accurately diagnosed the problem in America at least many |
| 1:04.8 | dimensions of it. First of all the Universal Basic Income why is that a |
| 1:08.6 | solution to many of the challenges that we're facing the structural |
| 1:12.4 | challenges that we're facing, the structural challenges that we're facing |
| 1:13.7 | in the American workforce and labor force right now. |
| 1:17.0 | And the follow on to that will be, and then why base a presidential campaign on that? |
| 1:21.2 | Sure, so I spent the last seven years helping entrepreneurs create jobs and grow businesses |
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