Reparations: The grift that keeps on giving
American Thinker,
by
H.P. Smith
Original Article
Posted By: Hazymac,
4/11/2023 9:44:29 AM
Reparations — the political gift (or grift, if you prefer) that keeps on giving — is, yet again, back in the news, and of course the looniest ideas are coming out of California, that bastion of slavery we all know from our American history classes. Huge numbers are being tossed around by the rabid left and the race-baiters (redundant, I know). If only we can give enough money, the left moans, then all will be fixed, all will be healed, and we can live in racial harmony.
Think of the absurdity and mental gymnastics of reparations. Who gets them? Who gives them?
Reply 1 - Posted by:
PChristopher 4/11/2023 9:57:50 AM (No. 1445613)
How about you get nothing and like it!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Hazymac 4/11/2023 9:59:47 AM (No. 1445614)
This week Real Body Cams posted the videos from a Target store (October 22, 2022) that showed a woman with $1,000 worth of groceries trying to take them without paying for them, believing herself to be owed reparations by Target, or by whoever would pay. She got rather loud and pushy--it was her "Rosa Parks moment"--and the police were summoned. Then, still in the bulldozer mode, she pushed a cop through the doorway into the Target back room and got decked with a punch to her face. This was not the way it was supposed to turn out. She didn't get her reparations or the groceries she didn't pay for, but she did wind up spending two nights in County jail and being fined $500. She'll probably try it again at Wal-Mart, having worn out her welcome at Target.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 4/11/2023 10:00:27 AM (No. 1445615)
After all the reparations have been spent, then what? Do you think there will be satisfaction? Are you sane? The answers to these questions are: more reparations, no, yes.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DVC 4/11/2023 10:04:31 AM (No. 1445623)
It's a scam. There are NO people alive who were slaves. There are no people alive who owned slaves. That law ended 155 years ago.
It is OVER, and no amount of screetching about "harm" which occurred 150 years AFTER slavery ended is legitimate.
It's a SCAM, a fraud, a lie, and has zero legitimacy. People who were never slaves are owed NOTHING.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Dino Sayer 4/11/2023 10:25:58 AM (No. 1445636)
There is no way the country could afford reparations for every single person who believes they deserve them. So how about a free monthly lottery where the entry is controlled by your genetic proof of minority status? Say 100 million or a billion dollars a month.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
MrDeplorable 4/11/2023 10:31:28 AM (No. 1445641)
The debt for what Black slavery built
Was paid in White blood that was spilt
So spare me your chatter
About Black lives matter
‘Cause I don’t have White liberal guilt
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 4/11/2023 10:32:57 AM (No. 1445643)
Re #5, sure we could afford it. Give every black person who can prove slave relatives 35 cents and be done with it. Yes, that's massively overpaying, but we could afford that.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Venturer 4/11/2023 10:56:05 AM (No. 1445676)
There is no amount of money no lowering of standards, no promotion, no mansion that will satisfy blacks.
And then when we pay this generation off and they are still not satisfied, who will pay off the next generation when they cry for reparations.
Why is this generation entitled anyway. How about the previous generation or the one before that ,or the one after.
The whole idea is coming from a pack of greedy low lifes.
Blacks who have become successful by their own hard work are not the ones screaming for this.This is coming from those looking for a free ride , and politicians looking to get and keep their cushy Gubmint largesse.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
slipstik 4/11/2023 11:08:32 AM (No. 1445696)
Reparations:
One way airfare to the country which agrees to take you, using a one time passport which expires upon your arrival. No right of return. No visa will be granted. You and all your family wishing to participate. Your loot will be shipped by sea to the address you specify.
You will NEVER be happy or satisfied in this country so go somewhere you will be happy, with our blessing, at our expense...please
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
moebellini3 4/11/2023 11:09:00 AM (No. 1445697)
Think about it, how much more should be done when so much has already been done. Time to end this talk about reparations. Think about it, the 2008 market crash was caused by democrats who controlled Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. They forced banks to provide loans to people who were not qualified, people who they knew, could not pay the loans back. It destroyed the country, destroyed the economy. All because of a form of reparations created by the idiot democrats who are again proposing some idiotic ideas to get votes. Total insanity.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bamboozle 4/11/2023 11:57:02 AM (No. 1445750)
40 acres and a mule?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
davew 4/11/2023 12:39:50 PM (No. 1445792)
The greatest attempt at reparation payments in history was the Versailles Peace Treaty at the end of WWI. It required the Axis Powers to pay the Allied Powers about $500 billion for war damages. Other than Germany, none of the other Axis Powers paid anything. Germany only ever paid about $21 billion before the Great Depression hit much of Europe.
The German Weimar Republic had to buy the Reparation bonds by printing Marks and converting them to gold. This created a massive inflation that destroyed the German economy well before the Depression hit. The suffering this caused was exploited by the National Socialists who took power in the early '30s with Hitler as their populist demagogue leader.
Conclusion: Reparations are not a good idea.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
nwcudagal 4/11/2023 12:56:35 PM (No. 1445808)
I've been paying my share for 52 continuous years. I get $1,300/month for my trouble.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
udanja99 4/11/2023 4:37:14 PM (No. 1445948)
As has been posted before - all of the slave holders were democrats. The Republican Party was founded in part specifically to end slavery and the party’s first elected president was Lincoln. So send the tab for every penny of reparations paid anywhere in the US to the DNC and every registered democrat voter in the country.
Then sit back and watch all those blue states turn red.
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