[10thAmendmentGuy]

My favorite factoid being the black 1867 Louisiana Reconstruction Legislature. It spent about $267,000 on Christmas hams for its membership. If this recent report is true then nothing has changed but the names of the people involved.

If they were once slaves, then I don't really begrudge them some Christmas hams. It's the entitlement mentality that I object to, where descendants that were never slaves themselves think that they are entitled to compensation for what their ancestors went through.

[RipSawyer]

I’m very skeptical on that one, do you know how much ham $267,000. would buy back then? Even now it would be an astronomical sum to spend on hams for the members of one state legislature.