Gabbard urges giving Americans $1,000 monthly relief during pandemic

[Resurgence]

US Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has called for introducing a universal basic income (UBI) of US$1,000 a month for each American during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

The US government is obliged to pay UBI as financial relief as long as coronavirus "presents a public health emergency," Gabbard told The Hill in an interview on Friday.

“Yesterday I introduced HRes 897 to provide an #EmergencyUBI for every American," she tweeted.

Gabbard warned that most Americans did not have the economic means and resources to manage themselves and their families through the crisis.

"Most Americans don't have that safety emergency bank account even for a short term, what to speak of if you're talking about weeks, or in this case people are looking at potentially months," Gabbard warned.

House Resolution 897 would provide an income of $1,000 a month to every American “until COVID-19 no longer presents a public health emergency,” the 2020 presidential candidate said.

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Yet another reason for the establishment to dislike her and try to silence her.

Of course the establishment won't allow this to go anywhere, but it is very important for her to introduce this because it highlights the lack of concern for the citizens by the status quo politicians.

They will only give the citizenry crumbs from the table and truth be told, they even resent doing that.



https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/03/1...-Americans-$1,000-monthly-relief-during-pandemic

[Executive]

Andrew Yang already tried that before the Corona epidemic ! UBI in itself is fine but not from a candidate for President, because it comes off as bribery. My vote can't be bought!

Regarding House Resolution 897, as with worthwhile legislation to help ordinary Americans, Mitch McConnell won't let it go to a vote in the Senate.

Tulsi Gabbard would be wise to get out of the race at this point.

[Resurgence]

Andrew Yang already tried that before the Corona epidemic !  UBI in itself is fine but not from a candidate for President, because it comes off as bribery.  My vote can't be bought!

Regarding House Resolution 897, as with worthwhile legislation to help ordinary Americans,  Mitch McConnell won't let it go to a vote in the Senate.

Tulsi Gabbard would be wise to get out of the race at this point.

The establishment candidates buy votes, do they not?

They make promises about saving money on taxes. They speak of cutting this or that budget to save taxpayer money. They always mention running the government more efficiently. They formulate one scheme or another to appeal to voters in regard to finances.

Mind you, they rarely fulfill those promises, but they are "bribing" the voters nonetheless.

Money is a deciding factor in the decision a voter makes.

[Executive]

Andrew Yang already tried that before the Corona epidemic !  UBI in itself is fine but not from a candidate for President, because it comes off as bribery.  My vote can't be bought!

Regarding House Resolution 897, as with worthwhile legislation to help ordinary Americans,  Mitch McConnell won't let it go to a vote in the Senate.

Tulsi Gabbard would be wise to get out of the race at this point.

The establishment candidates buy votes, do they not?

They make promises about saving money on taxes. They speak of cutting this or that budget to save taxpayer money. They always mention running the government more efficiently. They formulate one scheme or another to appeal to voters in regard to finances.

Mind you, they rarely fulfill those promises, but they are "bribing" the voters nonetheless.

Money is a deciding factor in the decision a voter makes.

Actually those candidates are the sellers.  It's the lobbyist organizations on K Street in D.C. who are buying them.

As an entrepreneur I don't rely on government for the most part.  But for those who do,  the candidates who have the best ideas that appeal to working Americans have the best chance of getting elected.   Unfortunately it's not looking good for Bernie Sanders now vs. Joe Biden.  But we'll see....

[Executive]

Sure enough Gabbard dropped out of the presidential race.

[Resurgence]

Gabbard also endorsed Biden which proves she was not true to her convictions.


There was a good write-up on her recent decisions.



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Reported March 19:



Tulsi Gabbard lost her political future & moral high ground with Biden-2020 endorsement



Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard has dropped out of the 2020 presidential race to endorse her ideological opposite, establishment darling Joe Biden. It's political suicide – for her, and for the idea of a progressive Democrat.

Gabbard's decision to bow out on Thursday may have made sense from an electoral perspective – with just two delegates from her native American Samoa, she wasn't exactly a serious challenger to the much-more-popular Biden or even Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, whom she supported in the 2016 race.

Shut out of the primary debates by a Democratic Party establishment afraid she might do to the frontrunner what she had done to California Senator Kamala Harris, whose juggernaut campaign began taking on water after Gabbard exposed her heinous record live on stage, Gabbard had little hope of an eleventh-hour electoral rally.

Gabbard's erstwhile supporters feel betrayed, and justifiably so. A candidate who built her campaign on opposition to the business-as-usual Democratic policies of cloaking foreign military intervention in humanitarian jargon, Gabbard instead called for taking the trillions spent on the slaughter and plunder of hopelessly-outmatched Middle Eastern nations and using that money to rebuild the crumbling American homeland. It was a message that resonated across the partisan divide, even attracting some disillusioned 2016 Trump supporters who had voted for the president based on his promise to end the endless wars in Syria and Afghanistan, then watched in horror as he stepped up the bombing and tried to open another front in Iran.

For the young Hawaiian to throw her support behind Biden – a man with nearly a 50-year track record of supporting Wall Street, the military-industrial complex, Big Pharma and the rest of the ruling establishment “because he has a good heart” is spitting in the face of the hundreds of thousands of supporters who have contributed to her campaign, made phone calls on her behalf, packed town halls, and otherwise poured their precious time and money into supporting a long-shot candidate.

It's no surprise they aren't taking it well. How are voters supposed to trust any future “progressive” candidates after such turncoat maneuvers from not only Gabbard but Sanders, who in 2016 turned on a dime to stump for establishment pick Hillary Clinton after a coterie of unelected superdelegates declared her the winner following a primary process which leaked emails revealed beyond a shadow of a doubt to be rigged? Gabbard's political seppuku should force progressive Democrats to come to terms with the fact that there is no room for reform within their party.

On the bright side, those same pundits who screamed themselves hoarse warning that Gabbard was working for Vladimir Putin to sow discord among the American electorate and swing the nation to Trump now have to quietly revise their apocalyptic visions. Will they admit the congresswoman is not the Russian wrecking ball they claimed she was, or will they carry the fantasy to the finish line and say Gabbard has infected Biden's campaign with Russian ‘malign influence’?



https://www.rt.com/op-ed/483535-tulsi-ga...exit-fail/