It won't happen.
They'll keep this rhetoric going up until the 2024 elections just to get the black vote.
African "Kings" sold them into slavery so the reparations can come from those Africans.
Legally you can't make people pay for something they're ancestors weren't a part of so you'd have to find the descendants of slave owners and make them pay.
Are they assuming tax dollars will pay this?
And if they get a payday...does that mean every black descendant of slavery gets a cheque after birth?
Also, Asians were slaves as well as whites so why can't they get paid too?
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20 Dec 22
@booger saidDon't be too sure, Calif has a 100 billion dollar surplus and Newsome is eager to spend it on something to buy votes:
It won't happen.
They'll keep this rhetoric going up until the 2024 elections just to get the black vote.
African "Kings" sold them into slavery so the reparations can come from those Africans.
Legally you can't make people pay for something they're ancestors weren't a part of so you'd have to find the descendants of slave owners and make them pay.
Are they assuming ...[text shortened]... a cheque after birth?
Also, Asians were slaves as well as whites so why can't they get paid too?
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/13/california-gov-newsom-unveils-historic-97point5-billion-budget-surplus.html
I don't see how a state run so poorly can have that kind of surplus.
20 Dec 22
@jj-adams saidSilly if true CA never had slavery unless you count the AmerIndians in the missions (I don’t but some call that slavery but it wasn’t Blacks anyway or the USA)
And the blacks are saying a quarter million dollars apiece isn't enough, they want $800,000 "or else".
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11544937/Deon-Jenkins-California-senate-candidate-warns-backlash-reparations-debate.html
20 Dec 22
@jj-adams saidDon Jenkins is one guy not “the blacks” and there’s no indication CA is paying out anything. They have a Task Force to study the idea that’s all.
And the blacks are saying a quarter million dollars apiece isn't enough, they want $800,000 "or else".
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11544937/Deon-Jenkins-California-senate-candidate-warns-backlash-reparations-debate.html
20 Dec 22
@jj-adams saidWe have an incredibly strong economy
Don't be too sure, Calif has a 100 billion dollar surplus and Newsome is eager to spend it on something to buy votes:
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/13/california-gov-newsom-unveils-historic-97point5-billion-budget-surplus.html
I don't see how a state run so poorly can have that kind of surplus.
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@athousandyoung saidThen why is every city in Cali swarming with homeless people?
We have an incredibly strong economy
The Reagan years started this phenomenon...and as neocons got more extreme it kept getting worse.
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2021/06/08/1003982733/squalor-behind-the-golden-gate-confronting-californias-homelessness-crisis
Homelessness wasn't always this bad. "In the 1970s, there was an adequate supply of affordable units for every low-income household that needed one — and we really didn't have homelessness," Roman says.
By the 1980s, homelessness emerged as a chronic issue. There were many factors, including the federal government deciding to slash the budget for affordable housing. By then the California state government had significantly cut taxes and gutted social programs, including for state-funded mental institutions, resulting in thousands of people with mental illnesses and other difficulties struggling to make it on their own.
From Some Call it a Sling Blade (2:26 in link below)
MARSHA Can I ask you a question? If he's so troubled, why are you letting him out? What if he does it again? It happens all the time.
WOOLRIDGE You talk to the State and the doctors about that!
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20 Dec 22
@athousandyoung saidYou're blaming California's problems on conservatives?
Because right wingers insist all the money go to the rich people and they have enough influence in this state to make it happen.
https://communityliteracy.org/which-state-has-the-most-millionaires-2021/
@jj-adams saidYep
You're blaming California's problems on conservatives?
There were many factors, including the federal government deciding to slash the budget for affordable housing. By then the California state government had significantly cut taxes
That's Reagan as governor of CA who cut those taxes and Reagan as President who slashed the Federal budget. Neocons have taken his example and run with it as fast as they can and they are succeeding. That's why we have so many billionaires and so many homeless.
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@athousandyoung saidYour thinking is so convoluted and backwards I can't stand it.
Yep
There were many factors, including the federal government deciding to slash the budget for affordable housing. By then the California state government had significantly cut taxes
That's Reagan as governor of CA who cut those taxes and Reagan as President who slashed the Federal budget. Neocons have taken his example and run with it as fast as they can and they are succeeding. That's why we have so many billionaires and so many homeless.
There weren't homeless people by the thousands everywhere until after the Democrat/Libtards took over, and even then it took a while for them to screw things up.
Look at Nancy Pelosi's district before she took over versus now.....with Dems in control all over the state from the governor on down.
But you claim it's Republicans that did all the damage?
Your mind needs to be studied, preferably in a jar on someone's desk.
21 Dec 22
@athousandyoung saidHas anyone found any connection between drug addiction and homelessness?
The Reagan years started this phenomenon...and as neocons got more extreme it kept getting worse.
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2021/06/08/1003982733/squalor-behind-the-golden-gate-confronting-californias-homelessness-crisis
Homelessness wasn't always this bad. "In the 1970s, there was an adequate supply of affordable units for every low-income househ ...[text shortened]... the doctors about that!
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I'm just spit balling here. I have no idea if addiction could possibly contribute to the homelessness problem.
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@techsouth saidIt can contribute, especially if a society insists on making drug addiction a matter for the police and courts, as opposed to doctors and counselors. In the former instance drug use (not even necessarily addiction -- just mere use) leads directly to a criminal record that makes one unemployable, even if the drug is only used at home, off the clock. Without a paycheck, homelessness and a possible descent into true addiction is a common outcome. A truly destructive approach, and there's over half a century of data to demonstrate its utter failure.
Has anyone found any connection between drug addiction and homelessness?
I'm just spit balling here. I have no idea if addiction could possibly contribute to the homelessness problem.
Perhaps you've heard of how other countries have approached the issue. Around two decades ago Portugal boldly decriminalized* all drugs, thereby making addiction a matter for counselors instead of cops. And since then? Drug use is significantly down in Portugal, so as to now be lower than in any democracy that I'm aware of. In two decades Portugal when from being among the most drug addicted nations in the world to among the least, and all it took was removing the policeman's nightstick from the equation.
* This does not mean legalized.