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Andrew Yang

lines on the record: 87
first: 2019-12-05
most recent: 2019-12-05
sittings or episodes: 1
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“The problems are just going to get more and more serious, unfortunately, and I wanted to be one of the people solving them win or lose, I'm still going to be a parent, I'm still going to be a patriot, I'm going to help move the country forward.”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, if you think about 8%, how often does that sort of occurrence happen in sports or other environments? Every weekend. The odds of my becoming President of the United States are better than everyone except for perhaps four other individuals in this country, and they're much higher than most observers believe.”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The most effective way of measuring that probability is to look at the internet betting markets because those people are putting their actual cash behind who they think is going to wind up. Where are you in? Or the president? So I am presently”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's exactly why, to me, the onus is on the government to demonstrate that it's public option is a better choice because you don't want to pull a rug out from under millions of Americans who like their coverage, have certain providers that they need to see.”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Like, wow, that has not happened in quite some time, and this is directly benefiting me and my life. So after we get that done, then we can galvanize energy around other things that most every American agrees were overdue on, like infrastructure.”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“On the open primary, sure. Come on But it also makes me uniquely able to get things done in Washington after I'm president because folks realize that I'm not ideological. I just want to improve people's lives. And my flagship proposal of the freedom dividend is also bipartisan. The state that's had this petroleum dividend for almost 40 years, Alaska is a deep red conservative state, and it was passed by a Republican governor. Conservatives don't hate economic power in citizens' hands. What they hate is a giant bureaucracy making everyone's decisions. So after we get this dividend into our hands to make us stronger, healthier, less stressed out, mentally healthier, it will start to knit together our political culture because Americans will look up with this very unfamiliar feeling, this feeling where the government did something you love.”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm proud to say that A poll came out that showed that 10% or more of Donald Trump voters would support me in the general election going forward, which makes me the best candidate to take on Donald Trump and beat him next year.”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Make maximal profits for the drug companies, the device companies, and the private insurers. So we need to realign the incentives of our healthcare system towards our own well-being and try and integrate mental health into physical health because those two things go hand in hand. I am for many of the principles behind the Medicare for All plans that are out there. To me, the challenges for us to outcompete private insurance and push it out of the market over time without just banning it wholesale.”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The biggest misconception around healthcare right now is this question of quote unquote how are we going to pay for it? Americans know we're already paying through the nose for healthcare in so many ways. It's the number one cause of bankruptcy. It raises all of our prices. Millions of us are in jobs that we might want to change but we can't leave because of health insurance. It's much harder to start a business. It's one reason why business start rates are at multi-decade lows and 80% of the country. And so there are all of these costs associated with our current health care system. Plus we're spending twice as much as other countries, 30% of its waste and the incentives around the system are all designed not to make us stronger and healthier. What are they designed for?”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because our wealthy are much more eager to pay taxes So we should reckon with what has worked and not worked in other societies. And to me, there's a joke that Willie Sutton, the bank robber, why do you rob the banks, because that's where the money is? Right. To me, who are the massive winners? It is the Amazons and the Facebooks and the Googles. So if you get a toll there, it's a much more effective way of harnessing the gains of the economy, especially if you're putting the money directly into our hands.”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I admire both Bernie and Senator Warren a great, great deal. And I think they are trying to drive in the right direction and they're trying to solve the right problems. We are in the midst of the greatest winner-take-all economy in human history, and we need to balance it out. But to me, if a policy like a wealth tax has been tried in Germany, France, Sweden, Denmark, and half a dozen other developed countries, and they all ended up repealing it because of implementation problems, and it did not generate anywhere near the revenue that you were projecting. That is a very, very compelling set of data points. And so if you're going to pursue that policy in the United States of America, you need a really robust explanation as to why it would work here in a way to not work in any of those countries. And so to me,”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Following the wrong measurements off a cliff, we have to acknowledge that we're in a mental health, depression, we're in a wellness, depression. The last time America's life expectancy declined for three years in a row was the Spanish flu of 1918, a global pandemic that killed millions of people. It is not normal for life expectancy to decline in a developed country once, let alone three years in a row. This is nearly unprecedented emergency status in terms of the measurements of how we're doing, but instead we have talking heads just telling us about stock market prices that have nothing to do with most of our lives.”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm proposing an American scorecard that includes GDP, but also includes environmental sustainability and mental health, wellness and life expectancy. If you saw the real measurements, you would see that we have record high levels of anxiety, depression, stress, student loan debt, financial insecurity, suicides, drug oversteer at record highs or multi-decade highs.”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And so, if this is what it's like for the winners in this system, imagine the people who are kicked to the curb looking up. This is why we need to rewrite the rules of the 21st century economy to work for human beings as quickly as possible.”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And depression and anxiety are all at record highs? Or should we be measuring how our kids are doing, whether our environment is sustainable, our mental health and freedom from substance abuse? One of the things I said in my book, you all are here at the University of Chicago. You are at like the tippy-tippy top of the educational pyramid. To the extent that winners exist in our quote-unquote meritocracy, you are it. And I know that you do not walk around feeling like a winner like 100% of the time. That you're anxious, you're stressed, you feel like you're in a race, you're not even sure what you're racing towards, but everyone seems to be running their asses off.”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We are in this position where we're actually arguing that we should turn coal miners into coders because we have confused economic value and human value. Where if the market says you have no economic value, then you are valueless, and then we have to try and find some other way to plug you into the machine for you to have any value. And if your town has no value or your occupation has no value, then that's on you because we live in a quote-unquote meritocracy and it's up to you and your hard work and your character. And when you have something in your family that lets you know how ridiculous all of that is and how we need to evolve in the way we think about why we're human, what this country should be all about, what we should be measuring in terms of our economic progress, should we be measuring GDP and corporate profits as our life expectancy is declining because suicides and drug over”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I love this question so much, David, because this is really the underpinning of why I'm running for president. So if we let the market value us, what is the market going to value your daughter or my son at?”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You're a first time parent, so then when something's happening, you think, well, maybe this is normal, maybe this is how two year olds react, maybe this is how three-year-olds react, and you're confused, you haven't been through it in a real way. And one of the reasons why I'm for free marriage counseling for any couple that wants it is that the divorce rate for parents with children who have special needs is 80%. And I saw the stress I lived the stress. Just makes me very, very grateful for Evelyn, but also really passionate about trying to strengthen what's going on with families around the country, because I talk to parents who have special needs children and they are getting nowhere near the support that they deserve”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My wife's a superhero, too. And I remember when we found out Christopher is autistic, it was this huge relief because there had been so much stress and confusion and anxiety in our house leading up to that.”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Incarceration, homelessness services, emergency room health care, things that we're spending right now a trillion plus on. And then number four, this is the human element, this is the magic. Studies have shown that if you were to put this money into our hands, we would increase the size of our economy by 700 billion just because of better health outcomes and better education outcomes. This is before you factor in the fact that we'd be free to be more creative, take risks. It would actually reward the kind of work that my wife does at home with our two boys, one of whom is autistic. It starts recognizing the uncompensated and unrewarded work that happens every day in our families and communities.”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because again, Amazon, the trillion dollar tech company, paid zero in taxes. So they develop AI, they get rid of hundreds of thousands of jobs, we still see zero. So we have to change that. We get a slice of that. That number starts at 800 billion plus and just keeps on going up. That's step one. Step two, you put this money into our hands. It grows the economy and all of the new economic activity, the multiplier effect would generate hundreds of billions of dollars in new tax revenue because of all of the economic activity. Number three, a corrections officer in New Hampshire said this to me. He said we should pay people to stay out of jail because it costs so much when they're in jail. This was a prison guard who said this. He knows what's happening when someone hits our institutions. We think we're somehow being smart by not investing in our people. We're paying in much more expensive and inhumane ways when they hit our institutions. We can save hundreds of billions of dollars on”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I know a bunch of you are the magic. First, if you put in a mechanism or we actually share in the gains of the 21st century economy generates 800 billion plus in value with a big up arrow attached to it because right now if AI comes out and gets rid of some of the 2.5 million call center jobs in this country, how much value are we going to see?”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, you'd put the value added tax across the economy, but then you'd ramp it up on things like AI and then exempt things like toilet paper, milk, diapers, and the like.”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“If we put a value added tax in place that gives us our fair share of every Amazon sale, every Google search, every Facebook ad, eventually every robot truck mile, we generate hundreds of billions of dollars.”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, and what is the oil of the 21st century technology, data, AI, self-driving cars and trucks. Who got their data check in the mail last month? They got our data checks what they're doing in Alaska with oil money we can do for the entire country with technology money.”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, part of it is that by making it universal, you destigmatize it, everyone gets it, it's not a rich to port transfer, it's just seen as a universal”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, the way I would fund this is through tax that follows most heavily on the people that win the most in our society. So if you're the Jeff Bezos of the world, you're going to be paying millions of dollars into the system. And if I try and send you a thousand bucks a month to remind you you're an American, it's essentially immaterial. Thousand dollars a month is going to be much more meaningful to the 78% of Americans who are living paycheck to paycheck, the 47% who can't afford an unexpected $500 billion.”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Money into people's hands is just about the money. It's actually about the economy that results from a trickle up Configur”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I couldn't agree more that the goal has to be to try and create fulfilling jobs and pass forward for people. But here's what most people miss. If you put $1,000 a month in the hands of everyone in a town in Missouri, let's say there are 10,000 adults, that's $10 million more in disposable income every single month. Where will the money go? It will go to car repairs and daycare expenses and Little League sign-ups and local organizations. It will end up creating new jobs right there in the community that actually reflect the needs and the values of that community. And one of the examples I use is if there was someone in that town who thought about starting a bakery, maybe the bakery was a bad idea before the dividend, but then with another 10 million dollars in buying power, they decide to open that bakery, they hire two people to work at it, and they know if the bakery fails, they don't die, they don't starve. The big misconception is that”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So he was the head of the biggest labor union in the country for a generation, and he said, labor is screwed, we need a universal basic income as quickly as possible. And he was proposing $1,000 a month for every American. And this, to me, was a shell shock because this was the first time it wasn't a technologist saying, hey, technology is going to eat all the jobs. It was the labor leader saying, hey, technology is going to eat all the jobs. His rooting interest would have been for the opposite. And this confirmed what I saw in the numbers. This confirmed what I saw over seven years in the Midwest and the South. And so I said, we need universal basic income as quickly as possible. And that's when I decided to run for president.”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Interested in it when I was reading books about the future of work while I was CEO of Venture of America. So I was Mr. Job Creation, helped create several thousand jobs, read books about the future of work, and a lot of them are concerned about the impact of technology over time, and conclude that at some point you're going to need something like a universal basic income to help people have a path forward. Now, what really hit me, in addition to Donald Trump's victory, was a book by Andy Stern, who used to run the SEIU. You probably know Andy.”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's everyone starting at age 18 until the day you expire. And this is not a new idea, it's not my idea. Thomas Paine was forward at the founding of the country. He called it the citizens dividend. Martin Luther King fought for it and championed it, called it the guaranteed minimum income for all Americans. It is what he was fighting for when he was assassinated in 1968. I had the privilege of sitting down with Martin Luther King's son in Atlanta after the last debate, and he said that this was the vision that Dad was fighting for. Can you believe calling Martin Luther King dad? But yeah, it was the dad. So, this is not a new idea, it's a deeply American idea. And”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Sounds like most of you know Universal Basic Income is a policy where every member of a society gets a certain amount of money to meet your basic needs, in my case $1,000 a month.”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's alright, you all go to an excellent school. You'll be in the top. So, this is what we need to invest in to actually create stable livelihoods for more Americans.”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's easier actually to automate away the job of an entry-level insurance agent or a job that's going to be occupied by a college graduate. That's one reason why the underemployment rate for recent college graduates right now is 40 to 44 percent, where almost half of college grads are doing a job that does not require a high school or does not require a college degree. So we are doing our...”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That is where the big opportunity lies, David. Only 6% of American high school students are in. Trade programs or apprenticeships or vocational tracks. In Germany it's 59%. Think about that Gulf, 6% 59%. Meanwhile there are millions of unfilled positions that would be lucrative, stable jobs for years and years to come. It is very hard to automate away the job of a plumber or an HVAC repair person. Can you imagine what a robot plumber would even look like?”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But that 33% of Americans who graduate from college is a relatively stable number. That number has not shot up in recent years. The six-year completion rate at four-year universities is only 59%. 41% of people who are starting school are not finishing within six years, and many of them are never going to finish. So if we insist that everyone's going to go to college, we're missing the point because not everyone is going to go to college.”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“China, at Mexico. Robots It is easier, but it's also incorrect. And when you go to the factories in Michigan or Ohio, you see wall-to-wall robots and machines. Same thing in every Amazon fulfillment center. At this point, you see them in just about every CVS or grocery store. All you have to do is go through the most common jobs in the U.S. economy. Administrative and retail, including call centers, sales clerks, food service and food prep, truck driving and transportation and manufacturing. Those are half of American jobs.”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Revolution included the origination of labor unions, the implementation of universal high school in 1911, and mass riots that killed dozens of Americans and caused billions of dollars worth of damage. McKinsey, MIT, the Obama White House all project that this industrial revolution will take place two to three times faster than that one and disrupt a larger number of jobs. So what I said to Krugman was, look, man, like you have your graphs, I have my graphs, but come with me to the manufacturing communities in the Midwest and tell them with a straight face that automation is not a problem. As a matter of fact,”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Did you talk to him We've had informal exchanges and I've actually asked him to just make a joint public appearance so we can go through the data together. He has yet to take me up on that. But a majority of economists who looked at it after that CNN debate said that I was right, that automation is responsible for the vast majority of the job loss in the manufacturing sector, that our labor force is not adjusting and adapting. Labor force participation has declined to 63%, a multi-decade low, which is not the sign of people adapting. Interstate migration rates have plummeted to a multi-decade low, also a terrible sign of people were adapting. So the numbers tell a very clear story. And one of the great frustrations I have is that otherwise intelligent people will actually refer to the first industrial revolution a hundred years ago and say that this is a relevant fact pattern. The first industrial”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What Andrew Yang is talking about. Has based his whole campaign on the premise that automation is destroying jobs en masse and that the answers to give everyone a stipend. We'll get to that in a second, one that would fall short of what decent jobs pay. As far as I can tell, he's offering an inadequate solution to an imaginary problem, which is...”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“After all late 1940s, America had about 7 million farmers, 12 million production workers manufacturing. Did take over. Of the work of those Americans were doing, and people at the time wondered where the new jobs would come from, yet the generation that followed was a golden age for American workers who saw dramatic increases.”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The fact is nothing happens to the folks in DC if our communities fall apart. They don't lose their jobs. There's a reason why the DC metro area is the richest metro area in the country. They succeed whether or not we succeed or fail.”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And number three, we must educate and retrain all Americans for the jobs of the future. And I said, that sounds responsible, but I looked at the studies. The success rates for government-funded retraining programs for the manufacturing workers in the Midwest who lost their jobs were approximately 0 to 15 percent. Half of those people left the workforce and never worked again, and of that group half filed for disability, and we then saw surges in suicides and drug overdoses to a point that America's life expectancy has declined for the last three years in a row. And their response to that was I guess we'll get better at it.”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I want to commend David's colleagues at CNN because I think they were responsible for helping push this conversation to the forefront. It's again a question of incentives. What are the incentives among politicians or media figures to talk about the fact that we are gutting the most common jobs in this economy? Unfortunately, they have negative incentives attached to this, and there's no accountability if they don't talk about it. I went to Washington, D.C. and I said, how are we going to help our people manage the fact that we're going through the greatest economic transformation in our history, the fourth industrial revolution? And the three things that folks in D said to me were these. Number one, we cannot talk about this, Andrew. Number two, we should study that further”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Intrusions. They don't want to hurt a guy, David. I mean that in a positive way. I mean, I want to commend interventions.”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Where your incentives in everyday lives are very, very different. And also your town generally is 25 years behind the curve in technology because you got rid of the Office of Technology Assessment in 1995.”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't think you will have experienced them as directly, particularly if you've been in an environment, let's call it Washington, D.C., where just a quick one at random.”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'd say it's not 2025 yet Second, I would say we should be incredibly proud of the 4,000 plus jobs and counting that we've helped create and that half of the people that went to these cities did stay. But bigger picture, if we're going to make things work for communities around the country, we are going to have to rewrite the rules of the 21st century economy in fundamentally different ways. And that's why I'm running for president.”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“States he needed to win and did win. And what we did to those jobs we are now doing to retail jobs, call center jobs, fast food jobs, truck driving jobs, and on and on through the economy. It's hard to be celebrated as Mr. Entrepreneur, Mr. Job Creation when you feel like the changes are destroying communities much, much faster than any of the positive work you're doing. It was a very hard lesson.”
2019-12-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 359 – Andrew Yang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source