Don't forget the tickets.
Posted on 05/12/2016 9:59:20 AM PDT by BradtotheBone
Edited on 05/20/2016 5:04:07 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
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I’m all in favor of paying $1 billion to each living American who was a slave prior to the adoption of the 13th Amendment.
This is such a shock to my system. The same people that want to rob the public of taxes so they can get everything free now want those same taxpayers to pay reparations so they can feel better about themselves.
Did I get that right?
#BrainwashingMatters
Brainwashed nitwits.
Translation = Millennials are idiots
Of course they are, they’ve been taught that it’s supposedly the right thing to do since kindergarten. What they aren’t being told is that they are being prepared to be enslaved.
Millennials are pretty clueless about the history of “reparations” already paid: 600,000 dead to end slavery, emancipation, “40 acres and a mule”, Liberia, tens of trillions of dollars in poverty mitigation, more opportunity & resources available free than anywhere else on the planet ever, affirmative action, endless race-based grants/subsidies/etc, and nobody alive whose _grandparents_ or closer had anything to do with slavery.
Complete idiots.
Did they ask these individuals how much of their own money they were willing to contribute towards reparations?
Great post! I guess the only good thing about our country being $19 trillion dollars in debt is there is no money left to pay reparations!
Here is my response to the identical thread yesterday:
Here is a common theme among these spoiled little asswipes: somebody else should pay for any idea that comes to mind, so long as it sounds like it would be “good” or “fair.” There is never any deeper analysis than that.
WRT this issue, there is no analysis regarding whether anyone living today committed any wrongs (which is impossible, as no one alive today is old enough to have owned a slave legally in the United States), nor about who actually committed the wrongs (specifically referring to various African tribes that sold their neighbors into slavery), nor about whether anyone today actually suffered (which is impossible, as no one living in the United States today is old enough to have been legally held as a slave in or before 1865), nor about whether any of the proposed beneficiaries of such reparations might also be held partially responsible to pay such reparations because they are descended from slaveholders.
I’d also like to make mention of the fact that I know for certain that none of my direct ancestors were even present in this country until at least 1904. They were, prior to that time, being oppressed by the Czar of all the Russias, either in Russia itself or in Eastern European territory ruled by the Czar. As such, I cannot be held to bear any responsibility, nor can my mother nor my children. My wife, being a legal immigrant from Mexico, never had a single ancestor in this country, ever. She first arrived here in 1999, some 134 years after slavery was abolished. How can any of us be held to account for those crimes?
The common thread here is that the Millennials, and anyone else in favor of slave reparations, is simply not thinking. Either that, or they know all of the above quite well and seek to redistribute wealth. In that case, they are simply being dishonest. So, all of these people are either ignorant jackasses, or they are dishonest jackasses. Take your pick, but either way I refuse to pay.
Beyond that, of course, is the question of what the various so-called anti-poverty programs of the last 50 years count for. To my way of thinking, since a substantial portion of those incredibly expensive programs have gone to the descendants of slaves, these amounts should be counted as previously paid reparations. Frankly, the amount probably exceeds 1 trillion dollars. Therefore, I propose that the reparations have already been paid in full, and that such anti-poverty programs which benefit descendants of slaves should be cut off in their entirety, immediately. Let the millennials stick that one where the sun don’t shine.
They’re just planning for their future, as wage slaves.
“REPARATIONS”?
Will the DECADES of freebies and government assistance $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ be deducted from the final tally?
So, what would it be based on, a living person’s skin color? Because that means nothing.
Poll: Non-Millenials More Open To The Idea of Hanging Millenials Every Day
That makes about as much sense as me asking Egypt for reparations, as they kept my people slaves for 400 years.
They're still young and dumb, most of them don't even work yet so paying higher taxes for something like reparations doesn't matter to them, its somebody else's money. Give them another 10 year's when they're trying to make ends meet and complaining about how much money they have to send the IRS every year, then see if they still support paying for reparations....
This is based on a PBS-Marist poll and reported on Yahoo about what Millennials think?!?
And this is supposed to convince us of what?
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