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To: Salvey
Within 24 hours after they get their checks, they'll all be broke and the money will be back in the hands of the producers, where it came from in the first place.

While I don't buy your economic analysis - I think it would have a major negative impact on productive investment and economic activity - I came to a similiar conclusion years ago. The effects of any one-time payment would disappear within a generation and probably leave both Blacks and the country in worse condition, both economically and spiritually. The failure of the reparations program to lift people permanently out of dependency would leave resentments.

People with little experience handling money (think teenagers) would fritter it away on luxuries. There would be a boom in "African Heritage" travel packages, luxury car sales, wide screen televisions, "urban living communities" - you get the picture. Hucksters of every hue and stripe would cash in (think myriad Al Sharptons). The economy would starve for productive capital. France would surpass us in GDP. And everyone, Black, White, Other, would remember and resent it for another 10 generations.

Maybe I should write a book "How You Can Profit From the Coming Reparations Movement". Print glossy brochures offering "African Heritage Vacations", market "authentic" Africiana, invent African-themed investment schemes, think of the possibilities.

38 posted on 08/15/2002 5:53:28 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Imagine the housing boom. All those "less advantaged" given the cash to move on out of the squaller they call the hood. And in a decade, after the repossessions, bankruptcies, and mortgage defaults they would be right back where they are now. Pissed off at Whitie.


39 posted on 08/15/2002 6:10:05 AM PDT by Area51
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