From June 24, 2019
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Looneyland) wants “the government”–that means you, the taxpayers–to pay reparations to “gay” and lesbian “couples” who weren’t able to get the tax benefits of marriage until “gay marriage” was gaveled into existence by five lawyers on the Supreme Court (https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/23/elizabeth-warren-reparations-same-sex-couples/).
Remember, from seventh-grade civics, that thing about the Constitutional protection against ex post facto laws–that is, you couldn’t be tried for doing something that wasn’t against the law at the time you did it? Oh, you had no seventh-grade civics; never had civics at all… Well, if you were better educated than Sen. Warren, you’d know it’s unconstitutional to punish anyone for a) things they didn’t do, b) things that weren’t illegal at the time, or c) things they didn’t have the power to prevent.
But then we are talking about a woman who jump-started her whole career with a totally false claim that she was a Native American.
Speaking of which, Pocahontas wants reparations for them, too.
Let’s see… reparations for blacks, homosexuals, Native Americans… who’s gonna feel hard done by, if they get left off the list? Trannies, surely. Illegal aliens. Gang members. And let’s not forget the biggest aggrieved minority of them all–women! Definitely reparations for women, who were kept down, who were second-class citizens, for centuries. Go ahead, tell me they weren’t.
While we’re at it, I would like some reparations money, too. My ancestors on both sides of the Rhine were enslaved and tormented and massacred by the Romans. I should get some dough for that!
But there’s also atheists, pagans, short people, tall people, ugly people who couldn’t get dates in high school, fat people who always got picked last when choosing up sides, stupid people, silly people, highly intelligent people who got called names…
Where do we stop?
And don’t worry about what it’ll cost! Like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez always says, we can just print up more money whenever we run out! And she’s got a degree in economics.
Think she might be entitled to a refund?
I want reparations, too. I want everyone to pay me money for never having paid me money before.
Those Romans owe me, big-time!
“ex post facto laws” – there is the answer. Slavery was legal in the 13 colonies. Then the slave trade was illegal in the early 1800’s. How can Thomas Jefferson & Geo Washington be held accountable when they were not breaking the law? Case closed 🙂
These leftists makes me sick…
A good book to read on the subject of slavery is Thomas Sowell’s “Black Rednecks and White Liberals.” Sowell is a brilliant economist (who happens to be black), and in part of this book he discusses the enormously complex social, economic, and political problems involved in the West’s efforts to end slavery, first the worldwide slave trade and then domestic slavery within nations.
The irony, of course — and Sowell keeps pointing this out — is that the British Empire and its offshoots (e.g., the newly created United States) were the only people in the whole world throughout all of history who DID work to abolish slavery. And these are the people who the Left say should pay reparations.
I’ve read several of his books. His colleague, Walter Williams, holds the same position on that subject but is even more forceful.
I din’t know what to say. Everybody can look into their ethnic history and find some injustice. I’ve never felt the need for reparations, especially for things which happened hundreds of years ago. Considering that my ancestors managed to find their way to the US, and that among my cousins, there were some startling success stories, it would be hard to claim victim status.
I agree, but you are not a grifter looking for something for nothing.
When people get something for nothing, it’s common for them to spend profligately, with little, or no regard for ongoing future costs. When the money runs out, they usually end up as bad off s they had been before receiving the money, if not worse.
Just read the histories of some of the lottery winners.
There is, allegedly, a fellow in a small town, nearby, who won the lottery, and bought a $100,000 + Mercedes SL600 Roadster. After the lottery winnings were depleted, which pretty much always happens with lottery winnings, the Mercedes required repair to its elaborate air-ride suspension, and the proud owner couldn’t afford to repair it, so this car sat locked in a barn, ever since.
That also happens to be my dream car, but I know that the price of purchase is only a speed bump on the way to licensing, insurance and maintenance costs. I could easily afford a used one, two decades after the fact, but wouldn’t even consider it, because I know that the most expensive car you will ever own is a cheap, used, Mercedes. 🙂
Lee had a friend with another luxury car (used ) and it could barely make it up the hill to the place were he taught school.
I love fine automobiles. Not being wealthy, I’ve never owned a Mercedes or BMW, I have owned some fine automobiles of a slightly lower price tier, and appreciated the quality and reliability. The problem is, repair costs can be astronomical. I’ve driven Japanese cars for most of the last 45 years, because they tend to be very durable and reliable.
Like my 21 year old focus.
One of the better, more reliable cars out there.
They will have to rip the steering wheel from my cold dead fingers.
Ford did ok with both the Focus and its forerunner, the Escort. Both were very good, very reliable vehicles.
I also had a Ford Aspire which was another good small car. That was the car that had the accident and was totaled by some ying yang who rear ended me and destroyed the car. He hit me so hard he knocked the chassis sideways on the frame. It really traumatized me. I was never the same attitude-wise after that. Never saw him coming.
At least for a while, Ford seemed to have a gift for making reliable smaller cars. I was a Ford man for many years, but the Ranger pickup I used to own and its voracious appetite for automatic transmissions made me into a Toyota man. 🙂
Lee’s Dad was a manager at the Ford plant and we got cars with very deep discounts while he was alive.
That was a nice thing to have. I had an uncle who did contract work for Ford, but he was never an employee.
It was an enormous benefit for the whole family.