If it’s true that you get more of what you pay for, we’re about to have more “transgender” and “non-binary” people.
At least in Palm Springs, California, anyway.
Because that city is now going to devote $200,000 to a universal basic income program — a.k.a. a “handout” — that will give 20 residents between $600 and $900 per month over a two year period. But only MUSS (Made-up Sexual Status; in this case, “transgender” and “non-binary”) individuals need apply.
It hasn’t been reported how the city fathers (or un-sexually-defined sentient bipeds) will determine who is “legitimately” “trans” or “non-binary”; there is no physiologically oriented medical test to determine such status, after all. The “diagnosis” is based solely on feelings.
Speaking of which, the Palm Springs City Council members’ feelings are crystal clear: They voted unanimously last month for the program. The $200,000 will be given to “DAP Health and Queer Works to design the program and apply for state funding,” Fox News tells us. “The initiative, which is led by the city’s first transgender [sic] Mayor Lisa Middleton, is part of a broader effort to spend millions of dollars in state funding to help LGBTQ residents in collaboration with local non-profit organizations.”
One could ask about the “optics” of the city’s first MUSS mayor providing money to only MUSS residents. How would it go over, after all, if a locality’s first Catholic mayor provided government aid only to Catholic residents or if an avowed womanizer mayor gave funds only to fellow womanizers?
Would this be acceptable if applicants had to meet a poverty threshold, as is the case with the Palm Springs program?
Some may also wonder about California’s priorities. For the state has poor educational outcomes; rampant crime, with shoplifting common and even train robbery making a comeback; sky-high gas prices; rolling summer blackouts due to green fantasies; exorbitant taxes and an unfriendly business environment; wildfires caused by forest mismanagement; the country’s highest poverty level; and vagrancy as a way of life, among its other problems. Yet it focuses on social engineering and facilitating MUSS mental illness.
But Mayor Middleton, a Democrat, apparently finds these priorities A-Okay. “Transgender Americans suffer extremely high rates of under and unemployment,” he told Fox News, along with “enormous challenges living full and authentic lives.”
“Those challenges have increased substantially in the past few years as transgender children and their families have been targeted by extremist legislators and governors,” Middleton continued.
The mayor is, of course, alluding to measures such as Florida’s parental rights law, which prohibits teachers from discussing sex and MUSS “identities” with young children; and state efforts to prevent the child abuse of giving tender-aged kids things such as puberty blockers and hormone treatments. In other words, Middleton is projecting: The extremism lies with those who’d foist sexual devolutionary propaganda and body-rending prescriptions upon children.
The kicker is that Middleton has “‘expressed strong reservations in general to guaranteed income programs,’” Fox further reports.
“‘I specifically stated that I did not believe such programs could scale up to adequately respond to the over 37 million Americans living below the poverty line…,’ Middleton said in an email … expressing her [sic] ‘concern for the financial vulnerability of the transgender community,’” Fox continues.
Some may now wonder what the point is in a universal basic income (UBI) “test” if you believe such programs are exercises in futility. It lends credence to the bias theory, that Middleton is just looking to direct money toward a favored group any way he can.
This said, a UBI would at least be affordable if it were limited to America’s MUSS demographic, as such people constitute only 0.6 percent of the population (not counting the youths who thus identify because it’s fashionable). Otherwise, however, “It’s just too expensive,” noted radio host Jason Rantz while discussing the Palm Beach boondoggle Monday on Tucker Carlson Tonight (video below).
So what’s the rationale behind a UBI? Advocates may claim it can eliminate waste. It’s true, too, that welfare-like bureaucracies do themselves soak up much if not most of the money intended for the poor. Another factor is that with artificial intelligence/robots poised to displace a good percentage of our workforce in coming years, we may one day have massive-scale unemployment.
Yet this doesn’t mean a UBI is the solution — and, in fact, it has already failed. “For example, Finland abandoned its two-year UBI experiment in April because it failed to reduce unemployment and placed a large economic burden on Finnish taxpayers,” wrote the Heartland Institute in 2018. “On the other side of the Atlantic, Canada, citing high costs, recently pulled the plug on its three-year UBI pilot program, which lasted less than one year.”
“Ontario’s Minister of Children, Community, and Social Services Lisa MacLeod … said the UBI program ‘was certainly not going to be sustainable’ and that ‘spending more money on a broken program wasn’t going to help anyone,’” the institute added.
Just giving people free money has many inherent problems, not the least of which is moral/spiritual degradation. The sayings “An idle mind is the Devil’s workshop” and “Work ennobles man” exist for a reason: People need a sense of meaning and purpose to be happy.
We don’t want to end up, after all, like the fed and bred, apathetic and ennui-exuding Eloi in The Time Machine.
Of course, though, even the Eloi knew what sex they were. Our real-life idle minds would be more violent and often drug-addled, too. As for our Morlocks, they exist even now — they’re called statist politicians.
