Democracy & Good Governance

 

 

Ask Your MP For Their Thoughts

On The Ideas Below

 

The Measure all projects must be

“How Does It Benefit Cayman?”

 

Fair Share for all

 

 

Basic income, also called universal basic income (UBI), citizen's income, citizen's basic income, basic income dividend, basic living stipend, guaranteed annual income, or universal demogrant, is a governmental public program for a periodic payment delivered to all adult citizens of a given population without a means test or work requirement.

Basic income can be implemented nationally, regionally, or locally. An unconditional income that is sufficient to meet a person's basic needs (i.e., at or above the poverty line ) is called a full basic income.

A number of countries have implemented a citizens basic income, with the most recent being Spain, and Germany (by way of a high court ruling). Citizens are shareholders in the government, as they would be in a corporation and as such are entitled to a dividend paid in monthly installments.

Universal Basic Dividend is a brilliant idea', here's why.

Yanis Varoufakis

  https://youtu.be/O8B4U7o9kvg

Yanis Varoufakis is the former finance minister of Greece and the cofounder of an international grassroots movement, DIEM25, that is campaigning for the revival of democracy in Europe. He is the author of And the Weak Suffer What They Must? and The Global Minotaur. After teaching for many years in the United States, Britain, and Australia, he is currently a professor of economics at the University of Athens.

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Why we should give everyone a basic income

Rutger Bregman / TEDxMaastricht

https://youtu.be/aIL_Y9g7Tg0

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, by Rutger Bregman who studied at Utrecht University and the University of California m Los Ange/es, majoring in History. In September 2013 Bregman joined the online journalism platform De Correspondent. His article on basic income was nominated for the European Press Prize and was published by The Washington Post.

Sir Richard Branson feels that UBI is inevitable

https://youtu.be/Fj72cWJTZIY"

Sir Richard Branson states that Universal Basic Income will come because AI will make many jobs redundant.

The Commons - An Explanation

When William (The Norman (French) Conqueror) <https://bit.ly/33VtpTL> first set foot on English sand in the Eleventh century, he proclaimed to his men: (I have seized England with both my hands) From that moment on, a new logic bound England, the logic that saw the vast majority of its inhabitants barred from its lands, the logic that fenced fields, walled parkland and removed the rights of citizens to all that was necessary for their survival.

But under Anglo-Saxon rule, all tracts of land had been recognised as the vital source of subsistence for all peasants or commoners of the country and were governed by strict localised customs. Commoners, the people who used these commons, had long-established rights not just to graze their cattle and pigs, but to take wood (estovers), dig peat and gravel (mrbary) and fish the ponds (piscary). The commons provided everything needed for survival.

Hugo Grotius was a Dutch statesman and jurist writing in the early seventeenth century. He worked from the principle of Eden — that all land was given to all people.

The land had provided subsistence and the so called Royals and the Elite’s removed this right.

This is the basis for demanding a Minimum Basic Income, the right of all humans.

This is where we have come from. This is what I remember when I stepped off the Kirk Trader in January 1966.

This is when many Caymanian seamen shipped out with shipping lines like Ludwig’s National Bulk Carriers.

If you look closely along Cardinal Avenue you can almost see Miss Gwen’s office on the right at the end of the block.

My question is “Where are we going from here?”

We desperately need new and sustainable sectors of our economy. Here are a few suggestions;

• Enhance Medical Tourism by legalizing cannabis growing and production for local medical  use,  as well as export.
• Encourage organic agriculture by offering training in Agro-Ecology / Permaculture to enhance food security.
• Initiate a training exercise to send suitable civil servant candidates abroad for post-graduate (MA) degrees, utilizing Harvard Kennedy School of Governance https://bit.ly/30YHCyj and the Lee Quan Yew School of Public Policy  at the National University of Singapore https://nus.edu/3h4JR8N  
• Negotiate trade agreements with our island neighbors  to purchase healthy, non-GMO  crops  and other agricultural products at lower costs to reduce the cost of living.
• Start a proficient, professionally managed initiative to construct low cost housing. An organization similar to Singapore’s Housing Development Board. https://www.hdb.gov.sg/cs/infoweb/homepage