Mike said:http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-40
badaxemoo said:Mike said:http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-40
Good.
I hope they get it.
Mike said:badaxemoo said:Mike said:http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-40
Good.
I hope they get it.
And I hope you have to pay for it. ALL of it.
In Sierra Leone, the country with the worst under-five mortality rate in the world, 262 out of every 1,000 children die before their fifth birthday.
The rate for industrialised nations is just six deaths per 1,000 live births.
Mike said:Black slave descendants today should be on their knees everyday thanking their God that their ancestors were brought over here.
don said:my guess would be that whatever comes out of this the cost will be miniscule compared to the social and financial costs of the whole slavery debacle.
That doesn't mean that the crimes against humanity that were committed against their ancestors don't deserve some kind of compensation.
Yanuck said:so Don, how do you decide who gets paid and who is to pay? 'cause I can guarantee, when my Irish ggg-grandfather got off the boat in 1849, he didn't have a whole lot more than the clothes on his back let alone was a slave owner and neither were any of his descendants, so should I have to pay just because I'm an American?
badaxemoo said:Yanuck said:so Don, how do you decide who gets paid and who is to pay? 'cause I can guarantee, when my Irish ggg-grandfather got off the boat in 1849, he didn't have a whole lot more than the clothes on his back let alone was a slave owner and neither were any of his descendants, so should I have to pay just because I'm an American?
The federal government would have to pay. I don't feel personally responsible for the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII, but I think the government did the right thing by apologizing and offering some compensation a few years ago.
Of course, the slavery question is much larger and more complicated. I'm no expert, but I believe most of the plans would not offer payments to individuals, but would require the government to make investments that would benefit the descendants of slaves.
badaxemoo said:Yanuck said:so Don, how do you decide who gets paid and who is to pay? 'cause I can guarantee, when my Irish ggg-grandfather got off the boat in 1849, he didn't have a whole lot more than the clothes on his back let alone was a slave owner and neither were any of his descendants, so should I have to pay just because I'm an American?
The federal government would have to pay. I don't feel personally responsible for the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII, but I think the government did the right thing by apologizing and offering some compensation a few years ago.
Of course, the slavery question is much larger and more complicated. I'm no expert, but I believe most of the plans would not offer payments to individuals, but would require the government to make investments that would benefit the descendants of slaves.
Sandhusker said:You Liberals don’t realize that the only money the Federal Government has is money that they’ve confiscated from citizens via taxes. For the government to write a check, they have to take money away from somebody. In this case, they’re taking some of my money to pay reparations for something that neither myself nor my family was a part of, that was even legal at the time! How about a little common sense?
So do you think the compensation given to Japanese-Americans as a result of their internment wasn't justified?
Steve said:welfare has hurt the poor (including blacks) more then slavery ever could..
I've seen many successful blacks who are descendant from slaves..
but I've haven't seen to many successful welfare families.. nor their descendants...
badaxemoo said:Sandhusker said:You Liberals don’t realize that the only money the Federal Government has is money that they’ve confiscated from citizens via taxes. For the government to write a check, they have to take money away from somebody. In this case, they’re taking some of my money to pay reparations for something that neither myself nor my family was a part of, that was even legal at the time! How about a little common sense?
So do you think the compensation given to Japanese-Americans as a result of their internment wasn't justified?
The government uses tax money all the time for things that you will never use and you weren't personally responsible for. Are you one of those Libertarian crybabies like Grover Norquist?