Posted on 03/10/2019 7:43:48 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro on Sunday hit Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) over his 2020 rival's position on reparations.
"What he said ... the other day was he didn’t think the best way to address this was for the United States to write a check." Castro said during an interview on CNN's "State of the Union."
"However, it’s interesting to me that when it comes to 'Medicare for all,' health care, you know, the response there has been, ‘We need to write a big check.’ That when it comes to tuition-free or debt-free college, the answer has been that we need to write a big check," the former Housing and Urban Development secretary added.
Castro Tweet: "“If, under the Constitution, we compensate people because we take their property, why wouldn’t you compensate people who actually were property?" 2020 Democratic candidate @JulianCastro says about reparations.
Castro's remarks come after Sanders's comments earlier this month during an interview on ABC's "The View."
“I think that right now, our job is to address the crises facing the American people and our communities, and I think there are better ways to do that than just writing out a check,” Sanders, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, said at the time.
Other Democratic presidential candidates, including Castro and Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Kamala Harris (D-N.Y.), have said they are open to reparations for black Americans who are descendants of slaves.
Castro reaffirmed Sunday that, if elected, he would appoint a task force to look into reparations.
"If under the Constitution we compensate people because we take their property, why wouldn’t you compensate people who actually were property?” he said.
For a monthly check and medicare... they sell your souls and those of their own children, as long as their money rolls in.
“Where the hung the jerk that invented work in the big rock candy mountain...”
And felons can’t vote.
They would take the deal, and then crawfish it.
I’m good with paying reparations to blacks with a slave heritage provided illegal aliens pay back all the social service money they have embezzled from us in the past. Neither of these things will happen.
“Free stuff” while it last.
The other problem would be the next generation would say, 'I never agreed to this. Where's mine?'
It would never end.
What will be proposed is more programs for minorities. We are already paying reparations through a multitude of liberal programs aimed at black Americans, now states are floating monthly stipends of 600 dollars with no strings attached. And now we are hearing reparations for slavery. I am sick of this
The reality is that this BS will never end no matter what you do...so...the Hell with them now and forever.
Precisely.
Fidel or Raul?
Great meme mind blowing question. I am amazed too.
Maybe but you have to admit it is going to be fun watching the rats eat each other.
why wouldn’t you compensate people who actually were property?”.....because they weren’t, never could be property. Solved.
Not for nothing...that’s about the silliest idea I’ve read in a while...
I CHALLENGE Castro to FIND & SHOW US any person who was a slave.....
I am betting they all are dead.
Blacks make up the Democrat margin of victory. If blacks stayed home, democrats would lose most of their seats.
That video anbd song is a perfect portrayal of what the Donks are about. And THAT’s not enough to ever beat President Trump.
Castro is just posturing and hoping to defang “The Bern” before the Primaries..
“and his mother is a flaming Communist Latina”
Who is the daughter of an illegal
immigrant.
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