-PJ
We have already been paying reparations for four years now. As long as the government keeps printing up new money and handing that money out in the form of EBT cards and Obamaphones, the value of the money I earn is diminished. So when I go to the grocery store, I can only purchase two-thirds the groceries I could purchase before. The other one-third ends up in the cart of someone with an EBT card.
Palm plant.
...I expect these bills to pass...
I’m not a history scholar, but I was under the impression President Monroe got them their own freakin’ country, already. If they want, buy any who wants one a one-way ticket to Liberia and bon voyage.
But be careful. The descendants pf the original freed slaves who went back, also went back to eating people. No kidding. Google it.
Heck you'd float a goofy bill like this if your Wife i.e. Monica Conyers was finally let out of the Pokey! Man she is a piece of Work...
Can you believe it, a sitting Congressman with a wife that is a Convicted Felon and just served 37 months, Beem Me Up Scotty......
The complete destruction of our economy isn’t enough for you, Conyers?
This is satire right? Right?
Damn I loathe these people..... The very things they are creating more rules and laws to get “justice” for, are the very same things THEY THEMSELVES are doing to US. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Doesn’t the House have a rule that require that every bill introduced have as part of it proof that it is constitutional?
Doesn’t he pull this stunt almost every Congressional session?
Wonder if he’s read his own resolutions.
I can’t begin to post what I want to say.
These “reparations” would thrill tens of millions of “needy” Americans; I would think Boehner could be coaxed on board for this. Maybe we could try to get the money from Germany, who never paid its World War I reparations, but I doubt Ms. Merkel would agree. Oh, well, just add it to the national debt. That always pleases the “American” people.
Repatriation of former slaves would be less expensive.
Liberia needs more peolpe
Sure, why not. But add an amendment subtracting all forms of welfare to blacks up until now, plus ban all forms of affirmative action from now on. From the moment reparations get paid, the whining stops forever, and the slate is clean.
I think that 49 years of affirmative action and other racial preference quotas, along with tax payer funded entitlement programs is way more than enough reparation. They have been given opportunity and financial support long enough for the ones that will rise up to do so, while the others continue to blame whitey for their own self made life choices.
Nope.
Ok, so the amusing thing here is that as a powerful Congressman, Conyers can actually order up the exact “study” he’s asking for from either the Congressional Research Service or the Government Accountability Office.
He wants a separate “commission” because it can be packed with reparations supporters and conveniently overlook the “reparations” that have already occurred in the form of Affirmative Action and a ~50 year “War on Poverty”.
CRS and GAO would be likely to weight (or at least heavily caveat) any such study along those lines ... which might actually show that we’ve already passed the breakeven point on providing reparations.
How about a mule and a plot of land in Kenya?