Hence my advocacy of reparations instead of affirmative action, and the government paying, not individuals.
Originally Posted by DSK
"the government" doesn't pay anything.
A HUGE problem with "government people" (people who work in our government (whether elected, appointed, or hired) is they view the money (or credit) existing "in the government" as being "government money" like it is THEIRS TO SPEND. It's not THEIRS TO SPEND.
At the same time I've heard "government people" say about spending the money "budgeted" to them: "It's not my money!" as a "justification" for useless squandering on frivolous matters and "things" ... aka toys.
If you give me $5 to go to the store to buy a loaf of bread, I will go to the store buy the loaf and bring you back the change. "Government people" don't do that. At a minimum they spend your change on some "Twinkies," if they buy the loaf of bread at all.
Reparations is not an alternative to "affirmative action" ... it is an alternative to extended payout welfare checks.
I will give you a realistic example: Katrina evacuee/refugee relocation/housing grants and loans to acquire housing for families who lost their homes in Louisiana from the hurricane.
The got "packages" to provide them an opportunity to have a nice home (most were HUD foreclosures) at low upfront payments with grant money to sustain them until they could obtain employment and settle into their new life (many in the Houston area). They didn't get jobs and lived off the grant money (buying new high dollar vehicles, etc.) and when the grace period on the low payments ended and the grant money was gone they didn't have the income or money to make even the reduced payments, so their new home was RE-foreclosed ... and they left most of those homes trashed worse than section 8 vacancies.
The "government help" they got was a waste in most instances. They pissed off the "free money"!
For what are you paying "reparations"? How big a check does she get?