Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor - Free Money! But Not for You, Whitey
Aired: 2022-03-28
Duration: 09:46


=== Guaranteed Income Debates (07:47) ===

[00:00:03]  Hello, I'm Jared Taylor.
[00:00:06]  The internet is trying very, very hard to make my videos impossible to find.
[00:00:11]  So if you like what you see, I hope you'll send the link to all your Democrat friends.
[00:00:16]  I'm going to let Nicole introduce this video.
[00:00:21]  Guaranteed income programs are popping up all over the country.
[00:00:24]  Let's talk about what's new and what you may be able to get in 2022.
[00:00:29]  I'm Nicole from Low Income Relief, where we help millions of people save money and get free stuff.
[00:00:35]  You do nothing, but every month you get free money to spend on anything you like.
[00:00:40]  Do you qualify?
[00:00:41]  If you live in Birmingham, Alabama, you just missed the deadline.
[00:00:47]  Thousands apply for free monthly guaranteed income for single mothers in Birmingham.
[00:00:53]  So you have to be a single mother or...
[00:00:56]  As the fine print explains, a female-identifying head of household.
[00:01:01]  Birmingham is 72% black, so my suspicion is that, as this racist photo implies, the money is going to go to blacks.
[00:01:11]  110 ladies will be chosen from among 8,000 applicants to get $375 a month for a year.
[00:01:18]  This is a pilot program.
[00:01:21]  There's going to be a control group.
[00:01:23]  And at the end of the year, there will be scientific analysis to show how much good was done.
[00:01:28]  The money is from foundations, and the idea is that if private money worked wonders, your tax dollars will do the same.
[00:01:37]  Nicole, in the video, explains that there are more than 50 cities offering free money.
[00:01:43]  Most of them claim to be pilot programs, but do we need 50 pilot programs?
[00:01:49]  The granddaddy pilot program is already finished.
[00:01:53]  It was called SEED, which stands for Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration, which is trumpeted as an astonishing success and is the inspiration for dozens of similar programs.
[00:02:07]  SEED started in February 2019 and gave 125 poor Stocktonians $500 a month for two years.
[00:02:17]  It has a website full of stories from people who tell you how much they enjoyed the money.
[00:02:24]  Seed also put out a 25-page progress report after the first year, but it makes only one factual statistical claim.
[00:02:32]  At the start of the first year, 28% of the Seed handout group had full-time jobs, but one year later, 40% did, a 12% gain.
[00:02:43]  At the start, 32% of the control group had full-time jobs, and at the end of the year, 37% did, just a 5% gain, an increase of 12% as opposed to an increase of 5%.
[00:02:57]  The media have cited this repeatedly as proof that free money programs give people the financial leeway to go look for jobs.
[00:03:06]  But I have questions.
[00:03:08]  It has already been more than a year since the end of the second year of SEED.
[00:03:13]  But no report.
[00:03:14]  Why not?
[00:03:16]  And why is the only reported outcome the number of people with full-time jobs?
[00:03:21]  I'd like to know how many arrests, admissions to drug clinics, illegitimate births, evictions, foreclosures.
[00:03:29]  Seed is silent.
[00:03:32]  Free money programs have been tried before.
[00:03:34]  From 1974 to 1979, the Canadian government tried to eliminate poverty in the town of Dauphin, Manitoba.
[00:03:43]  Population 8,000, 80% white, by writing checks to all the poor people.
[00:03:49]  After five years, the checks stopped coming and poor people went back to living as they had.
[00:03:55]  As this HuffPost article, written more than 40 years later, puts it, a Canadian city once eliminated poverty and nearly everyone forgot about it.
[00:04:05]  That's because there wasn't much to remember.
[00:04:09]  I tried to find scholarly analysis of programs like this, but there's not much out there.
[00:04:14]  I finally found the results of Finland's basic income experiment are in.
[00:04:20]  Is it working?
[00:04:22]  A test group got the equivalent of $600 a month, and the control group got nothing.
[00:04:28]  But here, too, the results aren't in terms of actual outcomes, but about how people felt, for heaven's sake.
[00:04:36]  For example, here is a graph of a sense of financial well-being.
[00:04:42]  Handout group, blue.
[00:04:44]  Control group, red.
[00:04:46]  Stop the video and take a look if you like.
[00:04:49]  The handout group says it felt better off, but not by much.
[00:04:53]  Again, as in Seed in Stockton, the idea was that giving poor people money would encourage them to get jobs, but the free money had no such effect at all.
[00:05:06]  I'm not sure why giving people money is supposed to make them get jobs, but that's the theory.
[00:05:12]  Now, I will make a prediction.
[00:05:14]  Even if these pilot programs are complete failures, it won't make a bit of difference.
[00:05:20]  When people are determined to give money away, they don't care about data.
[00:05:25]  Take Head Start.
[00:05:27]  As its Wikipedia page explains, it's supposed to give...
[00:05:31]  Comprehensive early childhood education, health, nutrition, and parent involvement services to low-income children and families.
[00:05:40]  It's supposed to give poor, non-white children the preschool boost that they need to be at the white middle class level when they start school.
[00:05:50]  That's been the theory for nearly 60 years.
[00:05:53]  Here is First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson, dishing out headstarts in 1966.
[00:06:01]  Well, Head Start is a bust.
[00:06:04]  Sometimes there is a slight benefit while children are in it, but that doesn't last.
[00:06:09]  Ten years ago, there was a huge meta-meta-analysis of all studies, and it gave rise to headlines like this.
[00:06:18]  Head Start earns an F, no lasting impact for children by first grade.
[00:06:25]  By first grade, Head Start might as well never have happened.
[00:06:30]  Doesn't matter.
[00:06:31]  This year's budget for Head Start is up $135 million from last year to $11 billion.
[00:06:39]  Here is a brand new study in developmental psychology on the effects of a large-scale, state-sponsored pre-K program.
[00:06:48]  The 3,000 children who went to pre-K got worse test scores in grade school than the ones who didn't go, and they had more discipline problems.
[00:06:58]  Is anyone listening?
[00:07:00]  No. Democrats are still pushing universal preschool, which would cost $109 billion more over the next 10 years.
[00:07:11]  And that's why all this jabber about pilot programs and control groups is rubbish.
[00:07:17]  They're just excuses to give money to preferred groups.
[00:07:22]  Sometimes they're not even hiding it.
[00:07:25]  Georgia Guaranteed Income Program to provide hundreds of low-income black women up to $850 monthly.
[00:07:33]  If you're white, you can't even apply.

=== Guaranteed Income for Artists? (02:09) ===

[00:07:36]  And this headline, Oakland Launches Guaranteed Pay Plan for Low-Income People, takes you to a story that explains it's open only to BIPOCs.
[00:07:47]  It's open to illegal immigrants, too.
[00:07:49]  But white people?
[00:07:50]  Forget it.
[00:07:52]  And when we learned that 800 Compton residents to get guaranteed income in two-year pilot program, since Compton is only 2% white, yep, just 2%, white people won't get any of that money.
[00:08:06]  Here's the program's homepage.
[00:08:08]  Note the fists in the upper right corner.
[00:08:11]  A few white people might worm their way in, though.
[00:08:14]  Last year, San Francisco announced it would choose 130.
[00:08:18]  Artists, whatever they are, to get $1,000 a month, but with a concentration on our BIPOC, immigrant, disabled, and LGBTQ plus artist communities.
[00:08:31]  Who got left out?
[00:08:33]  And just last month, New York State said it would pay $1,000 a month to 2,400 artists, but only to communities that are historically underserved.
[00:08:44]  We know who they are.
[00:08:46]  West Hollywood is bragging it's going to test impact of cash payments on the financial stability of LGBTQIA older adults.
[00:08:58]  Free money, but only for aging homosexuals.
[00:09:01]  And how do you prove that you are LGBTQIA, by the way?
[00:09:08]  But let's end where we began, with Nicole.
[00:09:12]  Do you see that happy, normal-looking white woman behind her with a handful of money?
[00:09:17]  It's a con.
[00:09:19]  That money is not for you, white people.
[00:09:23]  Half the time, they're open about it.
[00:09:25]  Beat it, whitey.
[00:09:25]  The rest of the time, they just rig the game to keep you out.
[00:09:30]  This is certainly illegal.
[00:09:32]  But the law never stops our rulers when they decide to ring the dinner gong for their preferred groups.
[00:09:39]  Why do we put up with this?
[00:09:41]  And how much farther do you think they'll go if we wait and find out?