The "Reparations" Con

Reparations - forcing people who never sinned against you personally to pay money to those who were never personally sinned against. So, let's begin there...

First and foremost, it would do no substantial good - any money paid out would be spent, gone in 2 weeks, and nothing changes.

Next, it would bankrupt the national treasury - there are approximately 40 million blacks, and countless Native Americans - and that would only be the beginning. The cost to ADMINISTER reparations fairly would cost billions more, at least, and here is why...

For the first 150 years, most slaves in America were WHITE, often referred to as "indentured servants", or undesirables exiled to the New World. Do whites get reparations? And how do we track down their descendants?

3700 blacks owned black slaves - do we track down their heirs and force them to pay, also?

Native Americans held other tribes as slaves - how do we track who was who?

Tens of millions of white people in the U.S. are descended from people who emigrated to American AFTER slavery was abolished. Do all those families have to pay? And how do we sort those out?

Many Americans pre-Civil War never owned slaves - in fact, they fought and died to end slavery. Should THEIR heirs pay? And how to determine who they are? And giving up their lives to end slavery - was that not enough reparation?

And finally, what about all those people who have bloodlines from BOTH races? Do they pay themselves? Each other?

There is absolutely no way to determine who was wronged, and who wronged them, and even less possibility of finding all the heirs of each. To do any less, however, would be unfair, as it would pay many undeserving people, and cheat many who are innocent.

In spite of this, there are two (at least) Democrat presidential candidates - Warren and Harris - who are so ignorant of the issues, and so unable or unwilling to think it out (i.e. stupid) who have made reparations part of their policy platform. That, alone should disqualify them for the Presidency. Actually, it should disqualify them from any public office.

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