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“You know, it's been a point of confusion because I don't look much like a white nationalist.”
— Andrew Yang, Transcript: Andrew Yang on "Face the Nation," August 18, 2019
Tagged: White Nationalist
“I say to people around the country, I'm the son of immigrants. I believe that immigrants make our country stronger and more dynamic.”
— Andrew Yang, Transcript: Andrew Yang on "Face the Nation," August 18, 2019
Tagged: Immigrants
“78% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. 57% can’t afford unexpected $500 bill. Our economy is not working for more and more Americans. And now I'm running for President to help change that and make us not the underdogs in our own land anymore.”
— Andrew Yang, Transcript: Andrew Yang on "Face the Nation," August 18, 2019
Tagged: paycheck to paycheck, Economy, Underdogs
“I am getting many, many Trump supporters to join in support my campaign as well as conservatives, independence, libertarians, and of course, Democrats and progressives. I am the candidate to beat Donald Trump because I'm focused on solving the problems that got him elected in the first place.”
— Andrew Yang, Transcript: Andrew Yang on "Face the Nation," August 18, 2019
Tagged: Donald Trump, Democrats, Progressives
“What I've been saying is the opposite of Donald Trump is an Asian man who likes math.”
— Andrew Yang, Transcript: Andrew Yang on "Face the Nation," August 18, 2019
Tagged: Donald Trump, Asian, Math
“Well, I'm a huge fan of unions, but we have to face facts where union membership has declined by almost 50% over the last number of decades. And their power has diminished accordingly. And so if we say, look, we're going to magically revive an economy of the 70s, where union membership is back to those levels. That's going to be a very, very steep hill to climb. I don't think we have the time to remake the workforce in that way, we should just start distributing value directly to Americans. And this would have a byproduct of making workers and unions stronger.”
— Andrew Yang, Transcript: Andrew Yang on "Face the Nation," August 18, 2019
Tagged: Unions
“The goal should not be to save jobs. The goal should be to make our lives better.”
— Andrew Yang, Transcript: Andrew Yang on "Face the Nation," August 18, 2019
Tagged: Quality of Life, Goals
“We have to face why Donald Trump won the election of 2016. He won by the numbers because we'd automated away four million manufacturing jobs in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa, all the swing states he needed to win and did win, and I have many friends who work in technology. And they know that what we did to the manufacturing jobs, we are now going to do to the retail jobs, the call center jobs, the fast food jobs, and most disastrously the trucking jobs in the days to come.”
— Andrew Yang, Transcript: Andrew Yang on "Face the Nation," August 18, 2019
Tagged: Donald Duck, Manufacturing Jobs, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Automation
“Intelligence and character aren’t the same things at all. Pretending that they are will lead us to ruin. ”
— Andrew Yang, The War on Normal People
Tagged: Inrelligence, character
“There’s a big distinction between humans as humans and humans as workers. The former are indispensable. The latter may not be.”
— Andrew Yang, The War on Normal People
Tagged: Universal Basic Income, Automation
“The idea that poor people will be irresponsible with their money and squander it seems to be a product of deep-seated biases rather than emblematic of the truth.”
— Andrew Yang, The War on Normal People
Tagged: Universal Basic Income, Poor People, Bias
“The future without jobs will come to resemble either the cultivated benevolence of Star Trek or the desperate scramble for resources of Mad Max.”
— Andrew Yang, The War on Normal People
Tagged: mad max, Star Trek, Automation
“Our fixation on college readiness leads our high school curricula toward purely academic subjects and away from life skills.”
— Andrew Yang, The War on Normal People
Tagged: Education, College, Academic, life skills
“Time only flows in one direction, and progress is a good thing as long as its benefits are shared.”
— Andrew Yang, The War on Normal People
Tagged: Free Market, Time, Progress
“Grit, persistence, adaptability, financial literacy, interview skills, human relationships, conversation, communication, managing technology, navigating conflicts, preparing healthy food, physical fitness, resilience, self-regulation, time management, basic psychology and mental health practices, arts, and music—all of these would help students and also make school seem much more relevant. Our fixation on college readiness leads our high school curricula toward purely academic subjects and away from life skills. The purpose of education should be to enable a citizen to live a good, positive, socially productive life independent of work.”
— Andrew Yang, The War on Normal People
Tagged: Free Market, Grit, Persistence, Adaptability, College, life skills
“Scarcity will not save us. Abundance will.”
— Andrew Yang, The War on Normal People
Tagged: Free Market, Scarcity, abundance
“The market doesn’t care what’s best for us.”
— Andrew Yang, The War on Normal People
Tagged: Free Market
“Are we not, as the citizens of the United States, the owners of this country?”
— Andrew Yang, The War on Normal People
Tagged: Free Market, United States, Government For The People
“The market rewards business leaders for making things more efficient. Efficiency doesn’t love normal people.”
— Andrew Yang, The War on Normal People
Tagged: Free Market, Business Leaders, Efficiency, Normal People
“Out of 193 countries, 160 already have a VAT or goods and services tax, including all developed countries except the United States. The average VAT in Europe is 20 percent. It is well developed and its efficacy has been established. If we adopted a VAT at half the average European level, we could pay for a universal basic income for all American adults.”
— Andrew Yang, The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future
Tagged: Taxes
“So what’s normal? The normal American did not graduate from college and doesn’t have an associate’s degree. He or she perhaps attended college for one year or graduated from high school. She or he has a net worth of approximately $36K—about $6K excluding home and vehicle equity—and lives paycheck to paycheck. She or he has less than $500 in flexible savings and minimal assets invested in the stock market. These are median statistics, with 50 percent of Americans below these levels.”
— Andrew Yang, The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future
Tagged: America
“The Obama White House published a report in December 2016 that predicted 83 percent of jobs where people make less than $20 per hour will be subject to automation or replacement. Between 2.2 and 3.1 million car, bus, and truck driving jobs in the United States will be eliminated by the advent of self-driving vehicles.”
— Andrew Yang, The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future
Tagged: Self-Driving Vehicles
“The test is not “Will there be new jobs we haven’t predicted yet that appear?” Of course there will be. The real test is “Will there be millions of new jobs for middle-aged people with low skills and levels of education near the places they currently reside?””
— Andrew Yang, The War on Normal People://www.amazon.com/War-Normal-People-Disappearing-Universal-ebook/dp/B075CRY4TZ/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1554813879&sr=8-1
Tagged: New Jobs, Middle Class
“The logic of the meritocracy is leading us to ruin, because we are collectively primed to ignore the voices of the millions getting pushed into economic distress by the grinding wheels of automation and innovation. We figure they’re complaining or suffering because they’re losers.”
— Andrew Yang, The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future
Tagged: Meritocracy, Economics
“The challenge we must overcome is that humans need work more than work needs us.”
— Andrew Yang, The War on Normal People
Tagged: Work, Meaning of Work
“America is starting 100,000 fewer businesses per year than it was only 12 years ago, and is in the midst of shedding millions of jobs due primarily to technological advances.”
— Andrew Yang, The War on Normal People
Tagged: America
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