Ten or fifteen years ago and Economist added up all of the money spent on the war on poverty.
the amount was enough to buy all of the common stock of all of the Dow Jones index; every company every single share.
and there was still enough money left over to buy every acre of arable Farmland in the USA.
“Ten or fifteen years ago and Economist added up all of the money spent on the war on poverty...”
And that was before Obama. I’ve always said that we’ve already paid reparations, that’s what our $20 Trillion national debt went to.
What do you think about the Charles Murray “living wage” idea? - transfer $10,000 into every (all races, only documented citizens) over-18 person’s bank account; delete every welfare program and bureaucrat. Some amount would be a voucher for basic health insurance.
My 2 cents:
- get the Feds out; let each state run it (gather the money to pay for it, and determine (hopefully less) amounts)
- if they make it taxable, working people will send most of it back to the treasuries anyway
Was any left over to buy the mules needed to pay off on that "40 acres and a mule?" If so, then I'd say that seals the deal. Game over, payoffs/payouts are done - start pulling your weight. Trump is sending the job-sucking illegals home and work is there to be done. Choose one baby mamma and stop fornicating with every willing coochie that will hold still for the act. Figure out that honest work better supports the children you've produced. Give those kids a model of reality rather than letting them pick unacceptable models like the NFL and the NBA that are merely the publicly well-paid thugs that are just like the drug-dealers that infest your neighborhoods.