Andrew Yang’s presidential run was laughable to some, but
many will agree, he quixotically put his 2019-2020, Universal Basic Income platform
on the political radar and in his October book, Forward," Yang put four day work weeks on the employment map.
Even under Trump’s nefarious and insane leadership,
many Americans, including myself received an extra $600 in a stimulus payment.
In less than a year under President Joe Biden, many U.S. citizens including myself received an extra $1,400.
As of April 1, dozens of companies have already implemented a four day a week pilot program for their workers in the U.S. and Canada. (www.cnbc.com) Yang talks about the importance of four day work weeks in this book.
In “Forward Notes on the Future of Our Democracy.” Yang
also displays his wisdom about America’s current democracy crisis, police
brutality, the pandemic, and the punitive economy.
Also, in “Forward,” Yang said all congress members
have a 90 percent chance of getting re-elected. He details the process of how too
many members of congress remain in power for decades too long, and emphasis how
Americans need a lot more youth in congress, including the presidency itself.
“I’m under 70-years-old, I’m not an asshole, nor a
raging lunatic,” Yang joked during his 2020 presidential run.
The average age of people in congress is more then
57-years-old, and for senators the average age is more than 62-years-old, and
more than half of them are millionaires. Twenty-five-years-old is the youngest
a senator or congress person can be.
In "Forward," Yang details all the qualifications a person needs to have to run for president of the United States, and to also run for congress. It's surprisingly not much. Read this book if you want all the information or do your own research.
“Forward” consists of only 347 pages, a quick and easy
read, and should be read by all Americans in my opinion.
Yang illustrated his solid qualification to be a more
than competent U.S. President in "Forward."
Yang passed the Bar examination on his first try, so
he knows law. He ran a private company that became number one in its category in
the country, so he knows business. He worked in the health care software department
for four years, including on site in at least two states, including New York and
Florida, hence he understands healthcare. He’s worked in technology for more
than a decade, so yes, he knows tech stuff.
"Forward" illustrates how thousands, if not 100s of thousands of lives could have been saved
from Covid-19, had Trump not completely ignored a worldwide and deadly disease.
America is not even in the top 30 countries in the world for quality education, clean drinking water access, and 34 other countries have a lower murder rate then the U.S.
Trump is not the cause of our problems, but the symptom of the disease that has been building for years, Yang said.
On February 28, 2020, our then sub-moronic Fascist in Chief said the world wide Coronavirus was the Democrats new hoax, their (Democrats) politicizing Covid-19, Trump said to his warped worshipers at one of his many racist rallies in North Charleston, South Carolina on the last day of February, 2020. By April, 2020, the weather will warm up and the Coronavirus will be gone, Trump said. (Lauren Egan, nbcnews.com & CNN News)
Police mistreatment of black Americans is a reality and a moral stain that threatens to tear our county apart Yang said in “Forward.”
Yang has no problem or issues with Americans who own guns,
and he said gun owners could make use of an implemented technology that
would enable firearms that could only be discharged by their owners.
“Forward,” mentions the weaponizing of social media
and the spread of hate and violence evolving because of our gadgets and use of
the World Wide Web.
“It’s clear, false information outperforms real information,”
Yang said.
Yang didn't specify the news networks that focus more on profit then actual news, but he did point out that both the left and the right are guilty of spreading misinformation, and he praised the BBC News for being a mirror of what is going on in the world as opposed to unsubstantiated opinions.
I simply scratched the surface of the many things Yang
wrote about in his latest book. It’s a four-star read, and it’s great to learn
about politics without mental rage. MATH; Make America Think Harder.
Mark Izzy Schurr
