Posted on 05/22/2023 7:37:48 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The reparations panel in California is now recommending up to $1.2 million per resident, but Democrat Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri clearly thinks that’s not nearly enough.
She wants a cool $14 trillion in reparations payments. That’s more than half of the U.S. GDP.
Gimmedat.
Are these the same Dims who say we’re thhiiiissssss close to defaulting?
The only purpose of pushing reparations is to induce severe anger in the black community when the reparations never happen.
The game is to make it look like either Trump or some other target entity stole the reparations.
Greedy bitches ain’t they? Complaining about having been force to pick cotton and not of them ever did an honest day’s work in their pitiful greedy little lives.
So now reparations for slavery is becoming a major issue.
I know some have said these astounding sums of money can never be paid.
If the Democrats choose to pay slave reparations, they will be paid with inflated dollars. The Democrats, assuming they are in charge, will simply increase the money supply to pay reparations.
Just curious - where does that number come from? Why not 140 Trillion? Why not 900 Trillion? Why not a Bazillion?
How about none. How about an entire civil war worth of reparations was already paid in blood.
Isn’t “da Bush” one of AOC’s newer squawd members?
$15T is an opening bid. I expect it to come down some before it’s approved.
Give the money to head of each family and let them fight over it ,LOL
These people belong in a looney bin.
Seriously.
There is no proposal for us getting anything in return for reparations for slavery.
It’s just supposed to be payment for the sins of the past, so to speak.
If this goes forward, it will be some sort of entitlement program.
This is how the left works and how they win, they create the topics that dominate the national conversations and drive the politics.
The left’s topics dominate politics and shift conversations for decades resulting in countless incremental splinter legislative wins which come to shape a new America from when they were first mocked and dismissed.
bingo
this is about creating a campaign talking point
they will tell blacks they would be millionaires except
for those mean nasty republicans
all because the black vote has been trending right
I have been educated by this board. See Section 4 of the 14th Amendment.
Section 4.
The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any state shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
Reparations are UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
So get rid of the 13th and 14th Amendments (linked), or people should stop asking for them.
so blacks are the ones deciding how much they get ,LOL
How ‘bout we give ‘em a nice coat of tar and feathers?
The people have learned they can vote themselves a share of the public treasury. There are more takers than makers. The math does not favor there being tricentennial celebration for the once great Republic.
The U.S. benefited from over 222 million hours of forced slave labor, or the equivalent of roughly $97 trillion worth of work, between 1619 and 1865 during the end of slavery, the resolution estimates. But unlike the white enslavers, Bush notes, "those who were stripped of their dignity and made to work without compensation, they weren't repaid."
How do you pay dead people? Who pays? I was never a "white enslaver".
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