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H.R. 40: Commission To Study Reparation Proposals For African-Americans Act (Reparations For Slavery
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Posted on 04/01/2009 7:26:29 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist

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To: Fast Moving Angel

there is no legitimate claim.

Since when has legitimacy stopped the lying, putrid, leftist, democrats from doing what they want. They need to be out of government and FAST!


21 posted on 04/01/2009 7:36:14 AM PDT by Bitsy
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

Don’t forget about affirmative action and the many other race based organizations in our country.

If reparations were paid do the states that were not states have to pay them? What about the states that didn’t hold slaves? I strongly believe that any American living today that took part in slavery should pay.


22 posted on 04/01/2009 7:36:43 AM PDT by rfreedom4u (Diversity causes division and resentment.)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
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23 posted on 04/01/2009 7:36:48 AM PDT by Canedawg (Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny- M. Levin)
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To: roaddog727

Good precedent .... the “wronged” get reparations. Wait till I send them the bill for a few trillion dollars they are taking away from me and my friends. Our “bill” will be a helluva lot bigger than this “reparation” bill. (’course we’ve got to get a conservative or two to get into office first).


24 posted on 04/01/2009 7:36:54 AM PDT by DHC-2
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
Everyone, regardless of their ancestry, can demand reparations from one country or another if they look back in history far enough.

This reparations crap is nonsense. No black person alive was ever a slave, and to claim they were somehow effected by that period of our history is nothing but an EXCUSE for their own failure to make something of themselves.

25 posted on 04/01/2009 7:37:17 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: OB1kNOb

It isn’t.

Obeyme and even more Dems are now in charge of the Hill, so this bill most likely will pass now - given that the sycophantic liberal media will look the other way, and the White House is so adept at diversion.


26 posted on 04/01/2009 7:38:00 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist (Keep working! Welfare cases and their liberal enablers are counting on you!)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Wow - I never would have seen this coming...

Tipping point, perhaps?


27 posted on 04/01/2009 7:38:12 AM PDT by islander-11 (Save Nantucket - Vote Republican!!!)
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To: OB1kNOb

Who knows any more...I thought everything this administration did so far was an “April Fools”!

I guess they’ll overlook the most persecuted groups in all history and still today:
-Jews
-Christians

If only the American public new the TRUTH about slavery:
-White Christians died to save them
-Muslims enslaved and brutally murdered 90% of them.
-Blacks had slaves
-Americans treated slaves as family

Try this link:
http://www.truthandgrace.com/muslimslavery.htm

The total liberal bias BS in the text books is enough to make me sick!


28 posted on 04/01/2009 7:39:18 AM PDT by mikelets456
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To: DCBryan1
With the endless barrage of Dim ideas/taxes/radical change to America - and my first thought is to flee to an abandoned tropical island somewhere. But, I love my country. Perhaps we could just split it down the middle and put Libs on one side (Unamerica) and Conservatives on the other (America). No really.
29 posted on 04/01/2009 7:39:35 AM PDT by Heartland Mom ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." - Ronald Reagan)
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To: bboop

That is what kills me about all these “race doesn’t matter” folks. It is about race and there will never be “enough” till whitey is subjugated and poverty stricken.


30 posted on 04/01/2009 7:39:50 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Reparations are already in the “Stimulus” Package.


31 posted on 04/01/2009 7:41:05 AM PDT by ryan71 (TERM LIMITS!!!!)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

So, not enough white blood was shed during the Civil War ?

A Minority’s Minority is NOT in charge here, I hope. The Majority is going to perform repreations on Congress for anyone who votes on this .


32 posted on 04/01/2009 7:41:24 AM PDT by 4Speed
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To: Fast Moving Angel
"Wrong. Until the claimant can specifically prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that (1) s/he served as a slave and that (2) the payer (i.e. you and me) specifically owned slaves, there is no legitimate claim. Game over."

Doesn't matter to Blacks. If your white, you should pay. Doesn't matter if you are Polish, Ukrainian, or some other white person who was never involved in slavery.

I sure would like to see them include Muzziers on their reparations list. Enslavement of blacks is still legal in the sandbox where the Koran is the order of the day.

33 posted on 04/01/2009 7:41:29 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: rednek
Does indentured servitude count!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
34 posted on 04/01/2009 7:42:07 AM PDT by jedi150
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To: All

To all reading this:

How many times have you heard in the last few years, “Congress will never do that, ot vote for that, or make that a law,” or “No way will they push for that,” or something to that effect.

Don’t be too sure that they won’t try to pass this.


35 posted on 04/01/2009 7:42:42 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist (Keep working! Welfare cases and their liberal enablers are counting on you!)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Who will benefit from this though? They have already wrapped up all the votes the money would go to, and it will throw the moderates to the right so fast it will make their heads spin.


36 posted on 04/01/2009 7:42:53 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
How many slaves do we have in the US right now?

Other than the tax paying workers who will be forced to support this.

Get em off their lazy a$$e$$ and put them to work.

37 posted on 04/01/2009 7:43:05 AM PDT by sniper63 (Silent and stealthy - one shot - one kill)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
Our dear Leader is the engineer of the train to destruction!!

Our only hope is a catastrophic train wreck!

38 posted on 04/01/2009 7:43:08 AM PDT by LADY J
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To: bboop

And, what about all those Irish immigrants who were brought in to dig the canal and died in New Orleans because the slave owners didn’t want their slaves to die? Where is the reparations for their toil and death? I want my money and I want it NOW!


39 posted on 04/01/2009 7:43:17 AM PDT by Bitsy
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To: bboop

And, what about all those Irish immigrants who were brought in to dig the canal and died in New Orleans because the slave owners didn’t want their slaves to die? Where is the reparations for their toil and death? I want my money and I want it NOW!


40 posted on 04/01/2009 7:44:16 AM PDT by Bitsy
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