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To: Libloather

Where ya gon find 40 acres and a mule in NY?

Upstate kinda cold in the winter. Mules will need a blanket...


14 posted on 03/10/2024 9:07:28 PM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: Regulator

Actually several websites discuss forty acres and a mule (aside from it being Spike Lee’s film corporation).

“The value of 40 acres and a mule today is a matter of debate, but some estimates put it at over $6 trillion. This is based on the assumption that the land would be worth the same as it was in 1865, adjusted for inflation and that the mule would be worth the same as a modern tractor.”

When the real program in the 1800s was offered they didn’t even give the mule but some Union soldiers gave away mules anyway after the government didn’t follow through.


28 posted on 03/10/2024 9:52:18 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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