I was born in North America. Does that mean I get some money? Cool!
And after they have blown that, Then What?
50k to scratch that grievance off the list permanently? Do it. In five years, the money will be back to the people who earned it anyway.
Democrats should pay.
We gave at Gettysburg under the Gop banner.
Taxpayers have been paying reparations to the lazy in the form of welfare checks for decades.
Why do we need to pay reparations for slavery?? Slavery ended in 1865. All who were slaves and all who owned slaves are long dead.
And if we actually did something like this writer proposes, would it do any long term good? Giving large sums of money to people with ghetto attitudes and outlooks on life will probably not turn their lives around. Its more likely they will spend it foolishly and be broke eventually.
Reparations?
It is already happening and has been happening for a long time.
There are so many programs that sound reasonable on the surface but are nothing more than sneaky, stealthy ways to provide free money or something else of value to Holders People.
Start with the Pigford settlement and college grants to Affirmative Action students and go on from there.
It’s pretty sad that many of the American black community have been trained/conditioned to always dream of “free” money.
Blacks need to do two things to increase both their income and their wealth. WORK hard and then do that weird thing called SAVING PART OF YOUR EARNINGS. Both these things will pay off big, both for folks who engage in such behavior and their following generations.
A lot of them already get $25,000+ a year in welfare. Let’s just take it out of those checks.
The ones in prison cost us more than that too. We can just apply the checks to their cost.
Blacks and others received $22 TRILLION since LBJ’s failed War on Poverty started in the 1960’s. It accomplished nothing. Then’s there’s “affirmatice action,” set asides, etc.
How ‘bout we use white people’s tax dollars to send the blacks one way to Liberia if they’re not happy here in America?
I’m tired of their complaining.
Let’s tax blacks and give the money to the present-day relatives of Union soldiers.
It’s cruel to say but the luckiest day for today’s Afro-Americans was the day their ancestors were captured by an African tribe and put on a ship to America. Their ancestors paid the dues by slaving away at cotton and other agricultural work...... Paid the dues of today’s perpetually aggrieved, mouthing off and complaining African Americans. The ones crying racism at the drop of a hat.
They would be living in Ebola-land and Africa if not for their slave ancestors. Slavery was the best thing that ever happened for today’s black complainers.
**** Not all but too many
If this happens, I am investing in gold chains, fancy Vietnamese nail painting and long leather overcoats. I’ll make a killing.
Black would-be thieves openly express their intention to employ the government as their personal stick-up man.
Nothing shocking here; they’ve been doing the same thing since the Sixties with an endless variety of Leftist scams.
Poverty is a state of mind. If every single black American was given $50,000 then what? Would that mean we cancel ALL welfare payments to the black community finally? Would lifelong, generations long, welfare recipients give up all their freebies for a one time payment?
I have rented my house out to welfare recipients. They were paid WAY more than $50,000 per year in government handouts they never had to pay back. The rent, utilities, medical care, and food were all paid for by us taxpayers.
Anyone who is on welfare will be on welfare in a couple months even if they get a $50,000 check.
At 35, after some bumps in the road, my net worth was a MINUS $10,000. Twenty-five years later, I have much more than average net worth.
Why should I have to pay money to people who, with a 15 year head start, can’t catch up to me because they didn’t make good choices?
Ok we give them 50K, they blow it on stupid choices- do we then give them another 50k.