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The Reparations Boondoggle: How Is It Going To Work?
Townhall ^ | 02/27/2019 | Nicholas Waddy

Posted on 02/27/2019 8:33:20 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind
Hey y'all! You miss one big point. Not only are we $22 Trillion in debt and unable to fund such nonsense, BUT ALSO, since LBJ, we have spent precisely $22 Trillion on anti-poverty programs. Those dollars ARE the reparations!
61 posted on 02/27/2019 10:36:55 AM PST by MrChips ("To wisdom belongs the apprehension of eternal things." - St. Augustin, and I have never heard Booc)
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To: SeekAndFind
Talking about ancestry, a while back my wife and I sent a saliva test off to ancestry.com for DNA testing. While my ancestry was pretty much what I expected, I was surprised to note that I had 2% Jewish ancestry. (Well within the margin of error, as was duly noted in the report.) Hey, but I was happy to have it.

Anyway, a few months back, they updated the report. Jewish ancestry disappeared, to be replaced by, ta-da, sub-Saharan African.

Now, I can trace my lineage back 5 generations, and there are no Africans there. The sixth generation would give a 1.56 percentage African blood. I figure I have as much chance of being partially African as Cleopatra. Which just goes to show, they haven't got this thing down as tight as they like to say.

Nevertheless, if this reparations thing passes, I'm putting in for my share. LOL!

62 posted on 02/27/2019 11:05:51 AM PST by chesley (What is life but a long dialog with imbeciles? - Pierre Ryckmans)
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To: SeekAndFind

Interesting article. In the end though, we all know what they really mean...

Whites have to give money to blacks.

IRS Form 666: Skin Color Declaration for Determination of Credit and/or Penalty.


63 posted on 02/27/2019 11:30:14 AM PST by VinnieCCT
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To: SeekAndFind

I think this whole reparations thing is bogus & completely unworkable, but since some feel otherwise then how about reparations for poor paying jobs? That could be a discrimination issue. I felt that my pay was “undernourished” for most of my approximately 60 working years of my life so I’d like reparations, too. Now,this is for me personally, not some long-gone ancestor. It definitely affected me, personally.


64 posted on 02/27/2019 11:48:12 AM PST by oldtech
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To: ealgeone

“This is how the Left advances their narrative and agenda.”

That, almost more than anything, is what really bugs me. THEY set the agenda - GND, reparations, hate crimes, trannies, LGBTQXRYZ, high speed trains, socialism, global warming, health care. You name it, they control the agenda, they control the media narrative of their agenda, and we are forced to participate in discussion of THEIR CRAZY LEFIST / MARXIST SCHEMES.

Do you ever hear of a single agenda item being set by Republicans or conservatives? Unfortunately, “leave me alone” and “get out of my life you GD busy bodies” isn’t an agenda.


65 posted on 02/27/2019 12:38:13 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: SeekAndFind

Nicholas Waddy, the author of the article, is over-thinking the reparations fiasco. He simply doesn’t take into account the reaction of other select democrat voters, like legal Mexican immigrants and American born Latinos.

When these groups discover that they are required to pay blacks reparations, the entire carefully constructed democrat meme of victims will blow the rat party to pieces.

Ain’t no way in heaven or hell that Latinos are about to consent to pay blacks reparations.

I know few people are listening, but there is a barely contained war going on today between Mexicans and blacks, especially in California. A demand for reparations will push this war onto the front pages.

I’m not about to get into an analysis of black-Mexican relations in America, but it ain’t good.


66 posted on 02/27/2019 3:55:09 PM PST by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: BBQToadRibs

Easy one...Only those who own or have owned slaves owe reparations to those slaves...

All parties to slavery are dead...Therefore...Nobody owes, and none deserve to receive any “reparations”...

Much too simple to understand for a Leftard...


67 posted on 02/27/2019 5:14:26 PM PST by elteemike (Light travels faster than sound...That's why so many people appear bright until you hear them speak)
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To: SeekAndFind

1,000,000 to each of the 300,000 approximate slaves, apportioned to each descendant. Should be about 10k each. Boost the economy better than Cash for Clunkers, because it will get spent. End welfare, SNAP, all of it. Actually saves money. $300B one time lump sum. Use the money saved for infrastructure, including walls...


68 posted on 02/27/2019 8:40:01 PM PST by cqnc (Don't Blame ME, I voted for the American!)
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Give each African American their choice of 1) 10K worth of mutual funds in an individual IRA.... that can be withdrawn from at age 59 1/2.... or 2) a new pair of nikes for each member of the family. Their signature of acceptance of either also agrees that they have been completely reimbursed for any injustice in their families past.


69 posted on 02/28/2019 12:42:13 PM PST by kjam22
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