Pay reparations? You have some bizarre ideas. I understand why Al Sharpton would want something like that. Why would anyone with an IQ above room temperature support that?
Why should people have never held a slave pay money to people who have never been slaves? My family didn't exist in this country until the late 1950s. And the first ones here were all blue collar people. Why should we pay a dime.
Also, the entire social welfare system we have in this country is arguably already a reparations system. We have spent TRILLIONS on poor people, who are disproportionately black. Why should we pay more money on top of that? Also, how much and when does it end?
Someone posted a thread about how the USDA is being scammed by 4.4 Billion in claims that vastly exceed the actual cost of past discrimination. How awful do you thing the scamming would be on a reparations program? The program would NEVER end and the money would NEVER be enough. The race hustlers in the Democratic party would see to that.
We are already broke. Where would we find the money?
You had the ridiculous idea that the US should give the Palestinians $100B. Now you have this even more ridiculous idea to give away trillions in reparations to people who were never slaves because their great grandparents were slaves.
You like to give away taxpayer money. Are you a Democrat?
Originally Posted by ExNYer
I agree that the money paid in social welfare programs, giveaways like the Pigford boondoggle, and every other stupid scheme by the Democrats essentially is a type of de facto reparations. However, the programs were not explicitly stating they would be the end of it. My program is a tradeoff - take the money, no more welfare, no more affirmative action, no more legitimate complaints about past discrimination and slavery, because you and your people have been made whole. The legacy of slavery argument goes away. As a bonus, if I support reparations for blacks, I cannot be considered a racist!!
You wouldn't pay it - the government would, and it prints the shit anyway. No one has any intention of paying off the debt as long as foreign countries keep using our currency like it is safe. Think of the good in the economy for (insert stereotypical black loved item here) Only descendants of slaves would get it - no one who came here of there own accord gets it.
As far as your family coming here in the 1950's, well, take the good with the bad in this country you love so much and make up for the sins of the past. What made them come here was a mixture of good and bad. The Japanese got reparations!!
I'm a Libertarian now - but I don't follow any philosophy other than Israel first. Since I'm stuck in this country for now, might as well extract as much as I can from it for myself and Israel, and get rid of annoying programs like affirmative action.