American Freedom Party PLatform

Hello,

is this thing on?

Okay,

now I have your attention. I'd like to introduce myself,

my name is chance.

I'm the winner of the primary for the american Freedom Party.

Ah And today I'd like to talk to you a little bit about

what we're all about um and why you should vote for us.

So

as we can see here the platform, we got five major issues that we're gonna, you know,

talk about and each of these issues,

of course we could talk about for an extended amount of time,

but I just try to give a brief overview

and you know, we can talk about

the problems that are going on uh in the United States,

of which there are many and talk about some of the solutions.

Okay, so first of all, let's talk about Medicare for all.

So Medicare for all,

why do we need Medicare for more?

Currently this is some of the health, health outcomes of the United States.

The United States spends the most

uh in the world on healthcare yet has some of the world's health outcomes.

Uh so as you can see here, the lowest life expectancy, 78.6 compared to 80.70 E C.

D average. And now the for anyone who doesn't know the O. E C. D.

Is the Organization for Economic

Cooperation and Development.

Um so it's a number of very

highly industrialized countries in europe south America and

asia like Japan France Britain and so on how to use this measurement because,

you know, it's more accurate um in comparison because you know,

we're not comparing the United States which is a very

rich country to you know a very poor country.

We're comparing

countries that are about similar.

And so whenever you see these averages know that it's

um in comparison to O. E. C. D. Countries. Okay.

So we also see the United States has the highest suicide rate. 39.9. Excuse me.

13.9 deaths per 100,000 people compared to 11.5

for the rest of the oecd

US citizens visit the doctor less often and have fewer physicians as we can see.

And the US has the highest rate of obesity. 40% of adults

are obese.

Um

I know I know you might be thinking

man,

this guy is handsome.

No,

I mean besides that you're probably thinking

Chance. This is you know, a study from 2019. What about you know, more recent data?

I'm glad you asked.

As it happens, there was a

rather large test

to our health care system in the recent years

With COVID 19. And so let's let's see how how the US handled that.

Um let's see how how did it.

This is from two days ago.

Okay.

Um That's that's probably not working.

So what should we do

instead?

Well the solution is Medicare for all

Medicare for all describes a single payer

government healthcare system in which the government

is the primary customer which uh purchases

and negotiates on behalf of the citizenry.

So as it currently stands, you know,

either you as a private person without insurance will go and

pay whatever rate you know for your medicine or your for your

uh operation that you need.

Or you have an insurance company pay on your behalf, right?

And you pay them some set amount with single pair. The only

payer would be the government, right?

So the government is able to use that large

negotiating purse that it has in large purchasing power

in order to drive down prices in order to you know have more efficiency in the system.

And in fact, all of the countries who the United States performs worse than

um have this type of healthcare system.

And so I think that is the appropriate direction we ought to go.

Um I think that would be the best um

moving forward, but also it's gonna save us

a ton of money.

Okay, so that's Medicare for all

The 2nd 1. All businesses are co op. So what is a cooperative?

A cooperative is a business owned and controlled by the people who use its services.

Um So for example if you weren't um at a pizza hut or something like that,

um You know usually how it works is you make a pizza right?

You make a product and then you'll get paid some,

you know

Poultry salary like $10 an hour.

Um and then the rest of the money will go

right to the operation and maintenance of the business

and then the other surplus will go to the boss, right?

We'll go to the owner, whoever runs the store in a cooperative business.

Everyone who works in the store uh,

will get to decide what to do with all of the profits.

Uh, and how it's divided up.

And so what are some of the advantages and disadvantages of a cooperative?

So let's look at the advantages.

Um

on the one hand,

so here's a

another pizza example here. Um They did exactly what I just said.

So this pizzeria owner gave his staff the entire profits instead of, you know,

like skimming some off the top for himself.

And that effectively meant that all the workers got a $70 an hour a day,

which is pretty good and probably a lot more than they normally get.

Um So what are some of the benefits? Well, obviously higher pay, right. Um

now you get democratic control of the workplace, this means, you know,

voting on what to produce, how much of it to produce,

what to do with the profits and so on.

You know, voting on different hours and, you know, different

bargaining and negotiating power for yourself.

Get better hours.

Like I said in the business is more resilient to recessions and other forms of,

you know, economic downturn.

So that's uh, business cooperation. What are the disadvantages?

No 3rd vacation homes for wealthy investors. Um

Yeah, that's tough,

Right?

I mean, if you've got, you know,

most of the people in the business deciding where the profits are going,

they're probably not gonna decide democratically.

Hey, let's give 90% of it to one guy right there.

Probably gonna decide just live out more evenly.

Ah

Yeah, we've got some more issues ready to go here.

We'll make some time infrastructure as we can see from the stats. Um

Pitiful 36% of us bridges

need repair work, 70,000,

almost should be replaced entirely as their quote structurally deficient.

Okay, in poor condition,

167 million

people

crossing these structurally deficient bridges every day.

And the solution

in my opinion

is to invest in government funds and to create job opportunities.

Um And so here's a look at some of the statistics here.

This is the American Society of Civil Engineers.

They give their report card every year

about infrastructure and you know,

uh kind of what's going on in the world.

And so this is what they rank the US in a number of different categories as you can see.

Um Not very good, cumulative average of a. C.

Um And here's some of the areas where we're finding, you know, deficiencies.

Let's take a look at that.

Let's move on here.

I'm sure you can all we've all seen examples of, you know,

crumbling roads and bridges and

Um you know, infrastructure here in San Antonio and Texas more generally.

Now, the 4th plank is jobs for up.

So the U six unemployment rate which is a more accurate measure

than the one that is typically reported which is the U.

Three

U six unemployment

is quote unemployed.

All people who are unemployed marginally attached

and part time for economic reasons.

Individuals as a percent of the civilian

labor force plus all marginally attached workers.

So what that means is uh you know, anyone who doesn't have a job,

anyone who was looking for a job but then gave up

or anyone who is in a job which is currently under there

um you know

capacity and under there

qualifications, they're underemployed.

So the U- six unemployment rate is currently sitting at 6.9%,

which means that a total of 22.7

million people are either unemployed or underemployed.

Um and so yeah that's obviously that's pretty devastating.

We know all the negative things that come along with being

unemployed

and here's just a little chart about the last three years.

So as you can see there's a huge bike

um during the,

you know, the kind of the pinnacle of the coronavirus pandemic and it's

um leveled off here,

It's around like I said 7%.

Um but it still means, you know, there are tens of millions of people who are

underemployed

and had no job at all.

Okay, so the last plank is abolishing homelessness.

Now, I chose the word abolish very specifically,

because to abolish something means to um

get rid of by law, a certain system or institution or practice.

And homelessness is not a natural phenomenon.

Okay, It is a policy decision that we choose to make

uh and we can choose to reverse it.

And so there are currently over 500,000

people experiencing homelessness in the United States,

Yet there are over 15 million vacant homes or properties

in the us.

So what's the solution?

So I'll give you

five seconds to think about it.

Okay,

so the solution is drum roll, please,

the

just give them homes, just give the people houses,

put the homeless people in the vacant houses

and that's just the simplest way. Um

Yeah, I don't know, they know what else to say.

This is experiment has been tried in a number of

different countries and has had a ton of success.

Um and so I don't think that it's

a large leap of logic to assume it to work here in the US. Um,

here's some proof

you're gonna see my,

you know, my sources,

but that's pretty much it. Um I think these are some of just some of the issues.

Um, you know, we're facing here in the US

and

I think neither the Democratic or Republican parties

are doing a good job adequately addressing these issues

and therefore,

if you want to see Medicare for all,

if you want to see uh democratic control of your workplace,

if you want to be rebuilt bridges, infrastructure, if you want to see jobs for all,

and if you want to see an end to homelessness

and one of them,

the solution is clear.

Cast your vote for the American Freedom Party.

Thank you.

American Freedom Party PLatform

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