Does it anger you when other communities in our country get government help for certain reasons?

[OddBeMe]

Like past sins of slavery and the Trail of Tears?

Could you look past that and see a more economic reason to help struggling communities?

Yes

No

[Leopard23]

Who pays for this? There's a lot of people struggling to put food on the table regardless of race. What usually happens is that upper middle class African Americans and native Americans get this money and get the free rides to college. I was at college with kids who's parents were millionaires and they were attending college on free scholarships. What about all the white trash living in trailer parks? What do they get?

Also a lot of this free give away is being pushed because its figured by companies that like the covid stimulus checks they will be blown on Nike air Jordans and other over priced products.

https://youtu.be/J76zOC6tSFc

[OddBeMe]

That’s an interesting clip. What podcast is that? That yt channel only had this cropped clipped.

[Leopard23]

Dr umbar Johnson
https://youtu.be/DOqHPLpRgUs

[OddBeMe]

I like his style.

[Leopard23]

Apperently spends a lot on air Jordans lol

[OddBeMe]

He can probably afford it. I don’t agree a lot but enough to add his name to Google alerts. He doesn’t have a YouTube channel, does he? He’s more a roving guest on other shows.

[Sevenpointfive]

that was great. get away from me snowbunnies!!!

[Miristheiss]

Maybe, to a degree depending on what it is.

When it is a hurricane or tornado or flood and a geographic community is helped out when their city/town is damaged or destroyed.

Dividing us up into "groups" based on race, sex, religion and then giving one money and help... that is somewhat evil. We are all Americans and we all have the same rights under the law. It isn't the government's place to selectively pick groups to "reward".

[OddBeMe]

It’s not somewhat evil if there’s actual evidence of previous discrimination that has dominoed.

Don’t you agree that slavery led to Jim Crow which led to civil rights that we’re still not done fighting about?

[Stoner710]

Yes because that’s not the governments job, that’s your family jobs or your local government. I get natural disasters, but for the most part communities should rely on each other not the government. This is the problem with you atheists you think the government is god “government needs to do this government needs to do that”. Government sucks at everything governments isn’t god.

[OddBeMe]

Communities have no power. We literally sign onto the “social contract” to give power to local, state and fed govts to handle that for us. Where should your tax dollars go?

[Stoner710]

Tax dollars should go to local governments and state governments if we’re going to be taxed at all not the federal government. If the federal government is going to collect taxes at all, it should only be a sales tax the 16th amendment should be abolished.

[OddBeMe]

So what happens when states have issues with each other? War?

[Stoner710]

That could happen yes, This was actually part of the federalist vs non federalist arguments. Yes if you have a country full of states where the federal government isn’t allowed to collect any taxes might fall into war or conflict over resources. I’m not saying the federal government should have no power just significantly less power then it does now. Im talking pre-civil war (without the slavery of course). Let California be California and let Texas be Texas. Right now we rely on the federal government for pretty much everything and states are worthless more like a centralized government rather than federalist government. The issue is every state has its own culture there even different cultures within states. Washington for example west side looks like California and east side looks like Texas culturally speaking. But that’s for my state do deal with not the federal government. Right now the federal government is trying to make every state be California or every state be like Texas which is a recipe for a Civil War and not good for the constitution of the United States has a whole.

[jshm2]

Only a shitstain person would cry over the reparations to the wronged.

[gorydetails]

only a complete fucktard would think that people who were never wronged deserve money from people who weren't around when the wronging happened.

[OddBeMe]

@gorydetails your inability to see the domino effect of racism is staggering.

[exitseven]

Everyone should get the same opportunities. Giving preference to certain communities only causes more division in an already divided country.

[OddBeMe]

That’s an issue because we’re not magically equal. So giving everyone the exact same incentives wouldn't do shit. Economically it’s required to research and compartmentalize communities that need more help versus those that don’t.

[exitseven]

So who decides who is more deserving? Does one political party use tax dollars to buy votes? I know for a fact if I lost my job or had some kind of debilitating injury so that I could no work I know for a fact that if I asked the government for some help i would be met with blank stare and a bunch of excuses.

[OddBeMe]

Science!

Literally look up which communities suck this year. Ain’t hard bud.

[exitseven]

Science like what, The communities that have the highest instances of covid get more money

[OddBeMe]

Yeah that would be a good policy. Send Covid protections and funding to where it’s the worst. You disagree?

[exitseven]

@OddBeMe maybe the democrats run cities are all shit holes because of their liberal policies should get most of the money, It looks like that is where all the "infrastructure money" will be going. I bet when it is, all over Bethlaham, Ohio will end up with squat.

[OddBeMe]

Yawn…oooh! A list of Covid hot spots:
Texas, Georgia, Alabama, Kansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Florida…
www.usnews.com/.../these-are-the-top-25-covid-hot-spots-in-the-u-s

[exitseven]

Florida had one of the lowest covid rates. Mich lower than NY and California. I dont think Texas had a big infestation either.

[OddBeMe]

Again…simple google search. I charge you fcks money. Texas is second. Florida is third. Followed by the rest of the red states. But yeah cali is first. Big state.

www.statista.com/.../

[NathanDavis]

it doesn't bother me, it's not my business either

[OddBeMe]

It does if you’re apart of a society.

[NathanDavis]

not really, no... I have my own to take care of, lol

[Juxtapose]

I am against giving money for any sort of reparation where everyone originally involved is dead.

[OddBeMe]

So we should stop handouts to native Americans?

[Juxtapose]

Absolutely! Everybody sits on top of stolen land.

[gorydetails]

I’m more pissed off we’re sending a billion a day to Ukraine to be laundered back to the democrat party.

[OddBeMe]

Your anger is very misplaced. That isn’t happening. Ukraine isn’t in a position to give the Dems anything, lol

[msc545]

It depends on why they get the help. Disasters? no problem. Reparations? Big problem.

[OddBeMe]

What about native Americans? Stop all the benefits to them?

[msc545]

No don't stop anything to them, but perhaps don't add tremendous sums.

[OddBeMe]

African American communities do suffer more. Perhaps give more incentives to education and businesses? Just don’t call it reparations?

[TheAfrikan]

No way