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It is a small part of the city budget, but is a concerning.
Every bum looks for a handout and those communities offering "reparations" will be flooded with grifters looking for a handout. Ever wonder why SF has so many homeless? If you feed the birds, you will get birds.
US cities are becoming prisons without walls, in which minorities and criminals are "warehoused" and maintained by democrat policy.
Okay with me- I live in a rural area and am fine with all the dems staying right where they are.
Edmunton's budget is around $300,000,000 per year. The $10M in reparations is spread over 10 years, so its basically $1M per year, or .33% of the budget. Another way of looking at it is that it will cost every person in the city a $13.33 per year. I'm not a fan of reparations in general, but if this is all it costs to make folks happy, it sounds like a bargain.
Except when giving people free ****, they always want more. They will never be “happy”
Taking money from immigrants from Asia and giving it to immigrants from Africa makes total sense.
Or put another way, taking money from people who never owned slaves, to people who never were slaves.
Though I note that in the article there is no mention of slavery, but lack of access to all the goodies "white people" supposedly have/had, just by virtue of skin color.
Edmunton's budget is around $300,000,000 per year. The $10M in reparations is spread over 10 years, so its basically $1M per year, or .33% of the budget. Another way of looking at it is that it will cost every person in the city a $13.33 per year. I'm not a fan of reparations in general, but if this is all it costs to make folks happy, it sounds like a bargain.
Well, if you read the article it says up to $25k/person. So to say it will be forty person per year is incorrect. I wonder what would make one eligible for the whole $25k?
Also, some good points brought up here. My father's parents immigrated here from Poland in the early 1900's, dad was born in 1916. My mother's family were northerner's, one was the first in his county to sign up for the Union army in the Civil War. So if this were to become national, I should be exempt, right?
It's nothing more than a $ 25,000 down payment assistance loan for home buyers. That's 6 percent down on a typical Evanston home. That should help the white owners or landlords who want to sell. It doesn't help renters.
Edmunton's budget is around $300,000,000 per year. The $10M in reparations is spread over 10 years, so its basically $1M per year, or .33% of the budget. Another way of looking at it is that it will cost every person in the city a $13.33 per year. I'm not a fan of reparations in general, but if this is all it costs to make folks happy, it sounds like a bargain.
Yes, Evanston has a smaller black population and it is "up to" $25K to be used with housing.
Here is the deal. You think it sounds like a bargain. Bribes to appease people upset for something that didn't happen to them and those that don't benefit didn't commit the crime.
Don't we need reparations for women? Native Americans? Asians?
What if I live in Evanston and I am as black as Elizabeth Warren is Native American? Should I get it? Where does it end?
Not to mention we are talking about a city with debt in a county drowning in debt, in a state dying with debt. Yet here we are with more free money vote buying programs.
Will black people also be paying their $25K reparations to other blacks? Not even liberal Wikipedia's locked page about slavery forgot to mention black slave owners
Quote:
Slave owners included people of African ancestry, in each of the original 13 colonies and all later states and territories that allowed slavery;[342] in some cases Black Americans owned white indentured servants.
An African former indentured servant who settled in Virginia in 1621, Anthony Johnson, became one of the earliest documented slave owners in the mainland American colonies when he won a civil suit for ownership of John Casor.[343] In 1830 there were 3,775 such Black slaveholders in the South who owned a total of 12,760 slaves
In my experience of 67 years, that is SO true. Takers are NEVER happy. Maybe because deep down inside, they know that those who always take and never give anything in return are just despicable people.
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