Andrew Yang 2020

[Recursion]

https://www.yang2020.com/policies/

Medicare For All

Universal Basic Income of $1000/month

Bring back earmarks in Congress

Relocation assistance for job seekers

USPS banking

Promote vocational education and training

Have the NCAA pay athletes.

My God, I love this, and he's absolutely doomed.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Another businessman with no government experience. Nope.

[Recursion]

3. As long as he's the only one talking about UBI, he's got my vote

We need to get serious about the End of Jobs soon

[democratisphere]

2. Free, free, free, free, free!

[Dem_4_Life]

4. Robo Call Text Line

That is AWESOME!

https://www.yang2020.com/policies/robo-calling-text-line/

He has some really amazing ideas. I look forward to learning more.

[Recursion]

5. I do love that. Also: NCAA paying athletes

And his health plan would actually work, for once.

[Dem_4_Life]

7. I agree he has super fresh ideas!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

6. No political or public experience, no chance.

I'm glad that he's not there as an independent to disrupt things, but no way are we going to go for a private sector businessman who's never had the benefit of a constituency in his life, nor should we.

If he wants to run for Congress or a State seat and then consider the Presidency, fine.

But he's not even a blip on the radar at this point.

[Hortensis]

8. Let's see the numbers run past the economists.

After only 2 years of Republican gutting, we're in much worse shape now than the Obama administration left us in. The Republicans have emptied/stolen trillions from our national kitty, slashed taxes, let our infrastructure decay, and run up huge debts with nothing to show for them.

Hillary ran on giant progressive promises she proved she could fulfill with adequate legislative backing, and she fully intended a UBC asap, but our 2020 candidates are facing very different realities. The deliberately emptied treasury and enormous debt the Republicans left Bill Clinton to make progressive advances impossible was nothing like this.

[IronLionZion]

9. Control cost of higher education, pathway to citizenship, DREAM Act

increase teacher salaries
Puerto Rico statehood
MJ legalization


I love his bold liberal platform and hope he gets some exposure for these ideas. Or the RW hate media will tell us his Schenectady, NY birth certificate is as fake as Obama's.

[Recursion]

10. Oh Christ his campaign accepts bitcoin

If this is a piece of performance art I'm going to be very sad

[shanti]

11. No. n/t