Posted on 06/26/2019 4:59:43 AM PDT by Kaslin
They don’t deserve one penny
22 trillion. Isn’t that the current amount of our on-the-books national debt? What do we have to show for it?
Future generations enslaved to pay a debt they did not incur.
Slavery is still with us.
No one is forced to smoke.
Of course they will. There is no doubt about it.
Nobody is saying it, so here goes. Knowing the people who would receive this theoretical cash windfall, the monies would be wine poured into the sand. It would be spent on non-durable consumer goods and gone within months. No lasting productive benefit such as industrial machines or job training or permanent jobs would come of it.
Democrats are wrong about calling for slavery reparations. They should not even ask for reparations until Islam pays reparations to the USA for the damage from their 9-1-1 attacks on America. Those were direct costs to Americans, not demands made generations after the fact.
“Pay the families of the soldiers killed fighting to free the slaves in the Civil War, all 360,222 of the Union Army who died.”
That is an interesting comment; one I do not understand.
Why were Union soldiers “fighting to free the slaves”? If the north wanted to free the slaves, their Congressmen and Senators could have introduced a Constitutional amendment in 1860, or before, to do just that - peacefully.
All the killings and hard feelings could have been avoided.
We could never have owned a slave, and were not even in America during the period when slavery was legal.
My family does not own a dime to anybody that claims they are due reparations because their great-great-great-great uncle knew a slave in 1854.
As far as white privilege is concerned, one grandfather was killed in the mines, the other shot while driving a beer truck during prohibition.
What a great white advantage they had.
The call for reparations smacks of corruption of the blood which is constitutionally banned even for the most despicable crime of treason.
“As of 2014, U.S. taxpayers have spent $22 trillion on Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty (in constant 2012 dollars). Adjusting for inflation, that’s three times more than was spent on all military wars since the American Revolution.”
“22 trillion. Isn’t that the current amount of our on-the-books national debt? What do we have to show for it?”
Rule 39: “As of 2014, U.S. taxpayers have spent $22 trillion on Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty (in constant 2012 dollars). Adjusting for inflation, that’s three times more than was spent on all military wars since the American Revolution.”
‘22 trillion. Isn’t that the current amount of our on-the-books national debt? What do we have to show for it?’
Rule #39: There is no such thing as a coincidence.
More murders, more rapes, more assaults, more prison costs.
I'm not joking. Paying women to have children and raising them in fatherless families is the root of most of our crime.
But people believe this claim because it has been so oft repeated for the last 170 years or so.
Good point, but this isn’t an intellectually driven campaign. This is an emotionally driven campaign by people who want free money, and are willing to grasp for any straw to get it.
The government needs to stop subsidizing irresponsible conduct.
BTTT
Nobody in this country is eligible for reparations, and nobody is liable. This I will take to the battlefield.
I think this is the LINE IN THE SAND for which I’ll fight. I never held any slaves.
When are the Democrats going to announce that their theme song for 2020 will be “The Internationale”?
I’m afraid that the Internationale is remembered only by those who saw Warren Beatty in “Reds”.
Or maybe it’s still sung on major college campuses.
That guy needs a medal if freedom award a national treasure and a really decent person
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