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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (202830)	6/22/2021 12:30:38 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Recommended By Thomas M. Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 362468

Lane, I think you expressed the error in your philosophy perfectly in that comment when you referred to what "everybody is owed". No one is "owed" anything. That's where we transitioned from a "hand-up" to a "hand-out". If one tried to establish a debt, something "owed", to another generation, there is not anyway to do that. It is not possible for me to owe money to former slaves. Based on our common knowledge of what a debt is. There is no contract, social or otherwise, between me and Kunte Kenti. Such intergenerational debts among societies are not definitionally sensible. And we sure don't owe debts to people because of their skin color. We have given black children everything but we can't guarantee them good parents. I don't even know how the left imagines such a thing. We give them food, day care, education, college, pay them to have babies, you name it. We have tried. Every conceivable social program and welfare cliff has been established. Yet, they're killing their own children daily in the streets of America. At some point you have to re-evaluate and admit that handing out cash isn't working. No people in history have ever done as much for a race than White Americans have done for Black Americans, trying to make it better. We have literally bankrupted ourselves trying support a segment of the public that is insatiable. I don't know who convinced you there is a debt. There isn't. Humans and other species alike have first a debt to take care of their own needs, and in the case of humans, the needs of their own families. Other families should do the same. We do not carry any commitment to put other humans ahead of our own families. Whether we are black, white or spotted. At the same time, if you want to contribute your money to taking care of the children of others, that is your prerogative. If you feel that you can help the situation, maybe you can do that. I'm sorry, there is simply no logic what you're suggesting.