https://www.newsweek.com/slavery-reparations-could-cost-14-trillion-according-new-calculation-364141
The once ridiculous is now trying to be taken seriously. Such is the new political paradigm.
Gotta say, this is some interesting stuff and creates some interesting precedent. Not to mention a $14 TRILLION price tag. That's only about the entire mortgage debt in the entire US, twice. But hey, that's a bargain on what another organization called for - $777 TRILLION over five years. I know the GWP is only about $77 trillion, so even if we somehow redirected every good and service produced in the world for the next five years to this endeavor, we'd still be only half way there. Sounds doable. Of course, we are neglecting what the amounts we should pay to the American Indian who's land was taken. Or the Japanese in internment camps. Or Italians denied work. Or the Jews in Nazi Germany. Or the Polish for that matter. Or the Neanderthals in pre-historic Europe. The cro-magnon descendants should really be ponying up. As you can see, this gets really fun really fast.
That said, let's get to the bottom of what is going on, and I see that as two fold.
The first is the consistency this action has with the current Democratic party. Any action by these folks these days must always do two things. The first is it must increase the power of the party/government. In most cases this will be through asset seizure and redistribution. The second is this asset seizure must never come from the ultra rich - after all they run the party. No, the assets must come from the middle class, especially the upper middle class.
Look at every major program they've proposed. Always involves massive transfer of assets to the government, who then dole it out as if they actually earned it to purchase votes. Free health care. Free college. Guaranteed income. Now reparations. More power to the elites, but hey, free shit, right? Think about it - the ability to seize trillions of dollars, not a dime of which you earned, and then spend it in a way that preserves your power. Great gig if you can get it - no?
That all said, this lunacy tells a much funnier story. The left only offers up money for free shit when they direct it at a group that they think they need to buy. Wouldn't make sense to offer free shit to anyone you already consider part of your base - those free shit dollars could be used to buy votes more effectively elsewhere. What this latest effort tells me is the left is currently much more worried about the black vote than they are willing to admit. I have long maintained that blacks, especially black men, support Trump in numbers far higher than the mainstream media would allow you to believe. They, however, know this and are taking action in the way that the democratic party always does to the black community. Around election time promise them the world, and then ignore them for the next three years ...
The once ridiculous is now trying to be taken seriously. Such is the new political paradigm.
Gotta say, this is some interesting stuff and creates some interesting precedent. Not to mention a $14 TRILLION price tag. That's only about the entire mortgage debt in the entire US, twice. But hey, that's a bargain on what another organization called for - $777 TRILLION over five years. I know the GWP is only about $77 trillion, so even if we somehow redirected every good and service produced in the world for the next five years to this endeavor, we'd still be only half way there. Sounds doable. Of course, we are neglecting what the amounts we should pay to the American Indian who's land was taken. Or the Japanese in internment camps. Or Italians denied work. Or the Jews in Nazi Germany. Or the Polish for that matter. Or the Neanderthals in pre-historic Europe. The cro-magnon descendants should really be ponying up. As you can see, this gets really fun really fast.
That said, let's get to the bottom of what is going on, and I see that as two fold.
The first is the consistency this action has with the current Democratic party. Any action by these folks these days must always do two things. The first is it must increase the power of the party/government. In most cases this will be through asset seizure and redistribution. The second is this asset seizure must never come from the ultra rich - after all they run the party. No, the assets must come from the middle class, especially the upper middle class.
Look at every major program they've proposed. Always involves massive transfer of assets to the government, who then dole it out as if they actually earned it to purchase votes. Free health care. Free college. Guaranteed income. Now reparations. More power to the elites, but hey, free shit, right? Think about it - the ability to seize trillions of dollars, not a dime of which you earned, and then spend it in a way that preserves your power. Great gig if you can get it - no?
That all said, this lunacy tells a much funnier story. The left only offers up money for free shit when they direct it at a group that they think they need to buy. Wouldn't make sense to offer free shit to anyone you already consider part of your base - those free shit dollars could be used to buy votes more effectively elsewhere. What this latest effort tells me is the left is currently much more worried about the black vote than they are willing to admit. I have long maintained that blacks, especially black men, support Trump in numbers far higher than the mainstream media would allow you to believe. They, however, know this and are taking action in the way that the democratic party always does to the black community. Around election time promise them the world, and then ignore them for the next three years ...
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