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Oakland launches guaranteed pay plan for low-income people
AP via msn ^ | 23 Mar 2021 | Adam Beam

Posted on 03/23/2021 10:54:59 PM PDT by blueplum

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To: blueplum

omfg, illegal and unconstitutional


21 posted on 03/24/2021 1:39:56 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: cranked

totally racist

imagine the response if they program was only for poor whites


22 posted on 03/24/2021 1:40:54 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: cherry
a “privately funded” program aimed at whites only would cause a major riot and threats from the federales....

The program would have to start issuing Ariernachweise ("proofs of Aryan ancestry"), to "prevent misuse" (i.e., people claiming that they were entitled although they don't LOOK White), and you could be sure that it would trigger fire-bombings.

Funny how that works, huh?

The interesting thing is, a few people willing to invest a little time and effort (and contend with the inevitable fire-bombings) could actually pull this off!

Step 1: Found your non-profit ("The Human Fund" or what-not).

Step 2: Raise $50,000 (optional, since you'd probably never actually get to the point of having to "distribute payments").

Step 3: Get a few unemployed statisticians and/or sociologists on board to publish a report on "White poverty." (Did you know that MOST poor people in the U.S. are WHITE?)

Step 4: Make the announcement! Explain that your organization will be issuing "Proof of White Ethnicity" free of charge to all comers.

Step 5: Sit and munch popcorn while Liberals explode!

Regards,

23 posted on 03/24/2021 2:14:18 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Secret Agent Man
omfg, illegal and unconstitutional

It's privately funded.

Private funds can shovel their $$ out of helicopter windows, give them only to people of mixed Bosnian-Eskimo-Navaho heritage, or distribute snow plows to the residents of Tampa, FL, if they want.

Regards,

24 posted on 03/24/2021 2:18:42 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: blueplum

Reparations by another name.


25 posted on 03/24/2021 3:20:12 AM PDT by LambSlave
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To: blueplum

Crack, Newports, and OE 800 prices to spike.....


26 posted on 03/24/2021 3:21:14 AM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

with no rules on how they can spend it. Lotto, booze, drugs,sneakers, bling and prostitutes. They know they wont use it to invest, get a better apartment, save for a house,


27 posted on 03/24/2021 3:22:42 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: dragnet2

Are Asians “people of for?”. Which Asians? Rus? Han? Kazhaks? Thai?


28 posted on 03/24/2021 4:42:39 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: blueplum

Why can’t I choose my race to be black so I can qualify? I can now choose my gender, right?


29 posted on 03/24/2021 4:53:34 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (I do not regret my decision to cut all ties with Fox News, except for Tucker. )
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To: blueplum

So they won’t have to work, but will get money that will be confiscated from Whitey, and they will hate Whitey.

BLM is a terrorist organization.


30 posted on 03/24/2021 5:15:26 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The nation is in the grips of incurable hysterical insanity, as usual.)
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To: blueplum

This is putting the economic theory of “we can all make a good living washing each other’s clothes” into actual practice. However, it ignores another economic principle that somebody somewhere needs to make the clothes. We already supply these same recipients a free smart phone with unlimited talk, text, and data, so why not give them another $500/month? After all, it is just money rolling off a printer at the Treasury Department 24/7/365. What can possibly go wrong?


31 posted on 03/24/2021 6:28:51 AM PDT by Saltmeat (69)
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To: alexander_busek

Yep, you’re right, and I did notice that.

I wonder how long it will remain privately funded, and if they already have a scheme figured out to segue over into gimme your tax money...I doubt this will last long if it remains fully privately funded. I can’t see too many people just giving away that kind of money month after month for years.

$500 a month for 600 families, just doing it in my head seems like $300,000 a month. $3.6 mil a year.

Lotta bucks to just give away. Corporations often give politicians half that much per year...


32 posted on 03/24/2021 6:42:31 AM PDT by Paleo Pete (I survived the great Texas freeze out. I may not survive biden...)
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

Drug dealers are rejoicing in Oakland.


33 posted on 03/24/2021 7:48:13 AM PDT by ridesthemiles ( )
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To: blueplum
a privately funded program that will give low-income families of color

LOL - obviously a joke. Note the use of "families," as in mom + dad + kids. Are there any of those in Oakland?

34 posted on 03/24/2021 7:56:13 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: alexander_busek

Absolutely they can. But no local, state, or Federal government agency should be involved in such a program in any way. If the city is running so much as a website to promote this thing, then the city is providing funding for a racist program.

If your local church wants to give cash to black families in the community, more power to them. When the government gets involved, it had better be a level playing field.


35 posted on 03/24/2021 10:30:42 AM PDT by 2aProtectsTheRest (The media is banging the fear drum enough. Don't help them do it.)
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To: blueplum

Oakland opens another branch of Hotel California.


36 posted on 03/24/2021 10:35:09 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: blueplum

Broakland


37 posted on 03/24/2021 10:37:27 AM PDT by Eddie01
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To: alexander_busek

My remark is perfectly relevant. Don’t agree? Refer to a dictionary.


38 posted on 03/24/2021 1:49:23 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: blueplum

The point where people need to stop paying taxes.


39 posted on 03/24/2021 2:23:40 PM PDT by SERE_DOC ( The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it. TJ)
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To: SERE_DOC

Why is it up to the producers to pay the lazy a loafers?


40 posted on 03/24/2021 2:30:11 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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