Andrew Yang: We’re scapegoating immigrants for economic problems

Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang tells CNN's Chris Cuomo that automation is to blame, not immigrants, for the economic problems facing many Americans.

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    1. @Kate Linwood I work in automation..if you can be easily replaced by a machine then it wasn’t a real job to begin with. Truckers are not getting replaced any time soon. Too many variables.
      Machines can only do menial repetitive tasks that would drive a human insane. Even automated checkout lines at the store fail constantly. And are incredibly dependant on vendors to stock the shelves which is about 90 of the labor in a grocery store. What machine can identify rotten produce and reseat product in just a few seconds. Not to mention checkout is the least desired job in a store. Majority of the automated processes my former company does….doesnt replace anyone. Just makes the operators life easier. The only job at a pizza hut that can be automated with any real gain….is the checkout counter. The almost impossible…..would be a dish washer. The virtually impossible….delivery driver. There are tons of jobs too vastly complex or expensive to automate. This is just another political scare tactic.
      You call yourself a republican? But sit here and absorb CNN bullshit all day? Seriously?

    2. @cj p I don’t absorb it. I come for the comments. I rarely click on the play button for these vids.

      Truckers are already being replaced. UPS has already been sending out self-driving trucks to do their deliveries. It’s not a secret. Companies like Alphabet and Amazon aren’t sinking boatloads of money and time into FAA approvals for drone deliveries for nothing either.

      The “impossible” jobs to replace may find a way to be replaced. Remember, there was a time where self serve gas stations was believed to be impossible too.

    3. @Kate Linwood is that legit or is it a pilot program that still has a manual operator? I bet its also one of the simplest routs possible…

      I would also like to see drones handle densely wooded areas, power lines and windy conditions. That drone program sounds like a high risk operation. One mistake and now you have to cover the cost of drone recovery. If drones are so efficient… why is there no manually drone operated program running? Straight to autonomous? Sounds to me like Amazon just wants to impress their shareholders with hype.

    4. Yes he is but not as good as Bernie Sanders. I’m still glad he made it to the debates. It’s unfortunate Tulsi Gabbard didn’t. I really wanted her to be there which is why I hate this whole system the DNC conjured up.

  1. Yang is on CNN 😱 Let me find out they want to start covering this election cycle fairly and acknowledge his existence.

    1. ALEX C.F He’s Asian so he can’t be president? People like you are why shitty republican presidents keep getting elected and are running the country into the ground

    2. @陈依波 Dear Trumpster,
      *Don’t you get that your vilification of ordinary Americans and labelling them as the “far-left” is not the way forward? Don’t you get that moderate people are sufficiently rational and quite capable of thinking for themselves? Don’t you get that they can see with their own eyes, listen to Trump’s own words and deduce for themselves that he is an extremely erratic person? Don’t you get that they are quite capable of smelling his obvious bullshit? Don’t you get that his deliberately divisive rhetoric is making people sick with worry that the country they love is being torn apart for the sake of his narcissistic pride and vanity? Don’t you get that many leaders and concerned onlookers around the world are just holding their breath, waiting and hoping that a majority of the US citizens come to their senses and remove this sociopath from the position where he can and is causing great harm to the global stability and the progress so many have struggled to build over the years? If you did get that, you would realize that he very cleverly seized upon some very real issues, such as the decline of the rust belt and corporate exploitation of cheap foreign labor, but with malign intent and deceptive tactics used that to portay a common enemy in people of different ethnicities who deserve no such collective culpability. Because identifying an enemy gives people a sense that their problems are not their own and a hope that the same harbinger will overcome all their problems for them. Earth to Trumpster. He’s not your saviour. He’s an opportunist and a con-man. The only thing he has achieved in office is to give himself and all the other swamp cronies who helped put him there a billion dollar tax cut. That’s it. When he tells you the wall is going up rapidly, don’t you get that it’s a lie? It’s bullshit. He’s only done a makeover of less than 10% of Obama’s wall. That’s right Obama’s wall. By May 2011 Obama, in his own first term, had constructed 650 miles of brand new wall. Trump’s scorecard of brand new border infrastructure in places where none existed before? Zero miles. It’s a fact. Look it up. Another hard fact for you to bear; the number of trade deals implemented by Trump: Zero. Yes that’s a fact. All he has done is tear up deals. The “author” of The Art of the Deal who didn’t lift a pen or strike a key, has not been able to implement one single deal with global partners. Not one, look it up. Whether, the USMCA is even a good thing or not, it will not be passed by Congress before the next election. Nor will any other deal he manages to complete negotiating, whether it be with China, with Japan, or even the UK. You might say it’s because the Democrats are partisan hacks. Maybe its true, maybe its not, it’s certainly debatable. But what is indisputable, is that this President has destroyed any semblance of bipartisanship and good-faith bargaining between the two sides of the country. They won’t pass a thing to benefit him because he lies every single day. He falsely labels them as communists, which they don’t even come close to being. In sweeping fashion, he calls the Press fake news and the enemy of the people, while he lies himself in the same breath. If this were a dictatorship he could get away with it. But until people like you stop enabling this psycho, even the moderates will seem like extremists as they fight tooth and nail to defend their democracy. Defend it from a false prophet and foreign powers like Russia who want this divisiveness to continue. You will never ever be able to convince the ones you seek to turn by calling them brainwashed, when it is so apparent that it is the hate that is dividing people. I’m not saying people don’t have a right to be angry, there is so much injustice in this world. But Trump is the one who has weaponized this negativity and mustered it into a hateful frenzy between his own people. For that reason alone, he will not succeed. What is right is not known by many at this point in time, but what more than half know already is that Trump is what is wrong. Right, whatever form it takes, will win and wrong will lose. Adios.*

  2. This interview makes me want to know more. There was no bashing the other candidates and it sounds like he has a plan. More interviews like this please

    1. @Angus F Dear Hitlerjugend Antifa democrats,

      Don’t you get that your vilification of ordinary conservatives and labelling them as the “far-right”, “nazis” and “literally Hitler” is not the way forward?
      Do you think you will get more votes by labelling half the population as “basket of deplorables”?
      Was that a *_success_* for Sharia Clinton??

    2. I’m not sure how Andrew thinks that illegal immigration suppressing wages can’t have an effect on our economy? I used to think Ted Lieu was the only stupid Asian person but now I know there are two of them. 😂😂😂😂

    3. @Chadillac It absolutely WILL. And the proof in in Denmark, which has had open borders for many years. The middle class is dying, because they’re the ones paying for all the “free stuff” to muslims.

    4. he does have a plan. free money for everyone. come to Yangs America and get 3 thousand dollars month. free. that should slow down the immigration problem

    1. Morbidly rich guy 2020! Yang or trump? I love morbidly rich people that “represent” me as public servants!!!!!!!!!😒

  3. It is a Dividend. We invest our taxes, information, and data. We deserve to share the wealth as we are all shareholders of this country.

    1. @discorperted Yes, they do. Income taxes are still deducted from paychecks and, shocker, being illegal has no effect on whether you pay sales tax or not.

    2. ROFFLMFAO@U J!!!!! You pay your DUES to not live in a DICTATORSHIP!!!! Get over your fantasy. Earn a living, don’t stick out your hand.

    3. @discorperted No, just following your crippled reasoning that you think it is inevitable illegals will find a way to receive it so you don’t think UBI is worth having at all, thereby denying all Americans a greater future just to spite a small percentage of people.

  4. Yang is the only candidate that makes sense and is a unifying force in this election. All other candidates only divide.

    1. @One Man Journey This country is already divided by Trump, also Bernie been getting smeared so he have a right to protect himself. He’s the only one that’s been consistent and he don’t talk bad about the other candidates. That’s Biden, Harris and etc that be smearing folks.

    2. @One Man Journey No that’s not true because what i have seen isTulsi, and Yang getting black balled. Bernie and Warren were getting attacked (especially Bernie) so they were defending themselves. There’s a difference especially when you have network that’s trying to smear you and silence you as well. Biden, Booker, O’ Rourke, and especially Harris are the ones attacking folks.

    3. @mrcooldeadly85 You are correct, Bernie, Tulsi, and also Williamson are not dividers. I like Williamson a lot. I’m glad she’s staying with it even though she did not make the 3rd debate.

    1. @ScootMagoot46 Do you think so? I mean what other questions or scenarios do you think he should have put to him?

    1. Warren McDonald : You haven’t? Give him a minute. This is the same Mao who starved and imprisoned millions of his own people, like Stalin, so not sure where the gangcai Trump Troll is going with this, but it should be blissfully ignorant 😁

    2. Earnest Lee Sad: Trump Trolls should not pretend to understand, y’know . . . Stuff. It’s embarrassing for them, and hillaryious to us 😁

    3. @Ash Roskell You keep trying to trigger and fail miserably. But you have to be you. Enjoy. You mean nothing because you say nothing of value.

    4. Earnest Lee Sad: I, “mean,” something to you, son. You just wrote to me. QED. Don’t try being smart, son. It doesn’t suit Trump Trolls, least of all you 😊

    1. It’s simple, those that failed, couldn’t beg borrow or steal enough campaign contributors!!!! But BUYING votes at a $1000 a MONTH is lucrative. Thank God there are less and less POOR people that can LEGALLY VOTE every month!!!!!!!!!

    1. Yang is not scandalous enough, not flamboyant enough to appeal to the networks who feed the more prurient tastes of a public addicted to “reality” shows. His name has not been widely known prior to this election cycle. And after all, he doesn’t even wear a tie! Eeeww! (I guess that’s a little bit scandalous?!) Lol!

      Hopefully his message will get around. I don’t think he could beat Trump, but he surely would be valuable as VP or in a cabinet position. And I really don’t care about the tie. Hehe.

  5. Yang needs more Air Time! Legit!! MATH – Make America Think Harder! He’s identified the real problem behind America’s changing economy. Instead of this tv drama horror show the country is living in.

    1. @Ash Roskell “You will be removed”???? Murdered? Thrown into concentration camps? Starved out? Are you the tolerant left? Are you why we should all vote Dramacrat? To live in mortal fear of crossing the undrawn line of “WHAT YOU DEMAND”????
      Think about that threat. Then think about that candidate. Is he as sick as you?

    2. @Ash Roskell Is that Yang data telling you that Trigger is favored? Or your personal rhetoric, totally unfounded?

    3. @G Buz Economy has been booming since Obama’s days. Unemployment also drops when people stop looking for work. There are countless farmers and manufacturing workers who continue to file for disabilities claims every day as their jobs disappear. Trump has funded factories that have cut workers and used that money to automate their businesses with machines instead. These are people who want to work, but would have to work 2-3 lesser paid jobs in order to make ends meet because their skills and experience in farming and manufacturing don’t apply elsewhere. Trump has shown he doesn’t have an answer for this.
      Democrats want immigration reform, and so do most Republicans. We can’t be okay with taxpayers’ money going into an immigration system that continues to let people’s green cards expire and fails to address people here on asylum at a rate of several million people a year. Building a wall is just billions wasted and is only something Trump wants to slap his name on as his administration continues to leave Border Patrol and ICE underfunded and undermanned. Fiscal conservatism means something to the GOP, but Trump seems to have forgotten and will continue to waste money on the wall which will be seen as a monument to himself.

    4. @G Buz He isn’t listening, Ash is planning to “remove” 60 million Trump supporters. Maybe personally. Do you think they will air his mass murder, he is a Yang supporter after all.

  6. It’s not free money. It’s our fair share from the tech companies using our personal information to generate trillions of dollars.

  7. My biggest takeaway from this interview is that Chris is able to ask Andrew the hard questions that are floating around out there (just like a good reporter should) and Andrew is able to answer them honestly and sensibly instead of treating them like an attack.

  8. Trickle up economics ……put money in the hands of the people who are going to spend it,and put it back into the economy creating more jobs

    1. People at the top (the most productive people) spend the money too. They invest in companies that hire people. Free money is a moral hazard. People at the bottom they are less productive (by their nature) so the economy will suffer. Trickle-down and supply-side works. Welfare (UBI) will not.

    2. @G Buz “by nature” hahaha thats the most stupid thing I ever heard, not everyone at the “top” worked hard, did a good investment to get there, some were born already rich, some cheats their way in and some won the lottery, there are people that invest, work long hours hard and yet they dont succeed this system is made to compete there are “winners” and losers ” and its all a fucking gamble man, if you turn tables a round make the losers winners and the winners losers nothing will fucking change people are not born lazy its not in their nature, some are made that way because of their childhood environment and bad parents, some got confortable at that low wage job cuz they are in depression and cant succeed there is too much competition, state of mind and enlightment play an important part to succeed sadly not everyone can reach their goal and these people are just left behind

    3. @Andres Cortes The “not all” argument. How did Ophray get rich? The lotto? How many people do you think Bezos has employed? Come on, make a real argument! Of course, life isn’t even and it isn’t fair. You make your life the best you can but no one owes you a thing. Some people can’t compete. It is a truly small number of people that can’t create a decent life for themselves. Drug addicts, mental patients, and some disabled. They should be helped. What is your excuse?

    4. Trickle down never works…the rich put the money in their pocket ………to laughing the the poor voter hahahahahahaha stupid Russian Republicans

  9. We love Andrew Yang. Get the word out, watch those long form interviews just like I did after I was super hesitant at first, but it took me Hoe Rogan and H3 interviews to really show me who this guy was. After that I’m checking stats every day and can see the momentum growing. People just need to find out more about Yang. #TaxTheRobots #HumanityFirst

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