As the Sesquicentennial of Reconstruction progresses and the popular press debates whether slavery merits reparations, few students of the era realize that Southerners have already paid a form of reparations; if not for slavery, then as a penalty for the war.
As the table below illustrates, for at least twenty-five years after the war three items represented more than half of the federal budget: (1) budget surpluses to repay federal war debt, (2) interest on federal war debt, and (3) Union veterans pensions. Former Confederates derived no benefit from such items, yet they had to pay their share of federal taxes to fund them. If the Confederacy had been an independent defeated foe such payments would have been reparations.
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There is no reason for reparations because there is nothing wrong with having slaves. It is a regular part of Torah Law. You cant pick and choose. If you believe in Torah then slavery is apart of it
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DeleteWe've been paying such 'carpetbagger taxes' for a century and a half. They just change the name from war drugs, to war on terror, to what ever fits their greed. The nation subsidizes all rail fair tickets to the tune of $35 a passenger, and something like %80 of rail services are in the north east. Would it be any surprise to find out the vast majority of military supply manufacturers are in the north east. But when we invade Iraq, it's the sandhills of NC that loose their income. Here is an example of insurance extortion: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jun/19/congress-renews-tria-terrorism-insurance-bill
ReplyDeleteIn order to succeed, we need to SECEDE!
In order to succeed, we need to SECEDE!
DeleteThank and yes indeedy. :)
Update: http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2016/05/25/hearing-confederate-monument-case-today/84882002/
ReplyDeleteWithout question, the so-called "patriot" movement is nothing but a lesson in how
to lose, lose, and lose again; following all those lessons in losing "patriots"
will teach American citizens one more lesson
in losing for good measure, along with how to suck it.
I assume you are referring to Southern Patriots in this instance.
DeleteNo.
DeleteI am referring to all of us, myself included.
Granted, some of the guilty are shameless
scumbags that are wholly deserving of their
shitbag status.
However, my previous comment is the
honesty of the anger that I feet, after reading
about another victory by communist shitbags, and the realization that the majority of us have
so cheapened our manhood, citizenship and
our Republic.
We have become such a disgrace
that we will not even rise to
stop the treasonous destruction of our
history, Republic, and the sacrifices of
our ancestors.
Seriously, what the fuck is it going to take?
Take for example, your post regarding the Judical Watch article, about the treasonous crime of DHS transporting illegals directly from the non-border directly to a Greyhound station
in Phoenix.
Really?
Regardless of whose AO this occurred in, does
any genuine Payriot, citizen and man not expect one of us to finally say, open and honestly, that we don't add up to dry shit blowing in the wind.
Really?
We were sitting around the campfire at the PATCON and I mentioned that there was no way possible to return to the Republic of old without a revolution like 1776/1861 and a reply of lets go was met with another one of, all six of us...............?:(
DeleteI thought to secede made sense 8 years ago and I wrote as much on my blog a few times. But now with Trump as a possibility I see no reason for the South to secede.
ReplyDeleteI doubt seriously he can get us back to a Republic, but I'll wait and see.
DeleteI am more than willing to pay to ANY of proven direct decedents of slaves as soon as we pay the same to the Scott-Irish indentured servants who were forced into slavery in America. http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-irish-slave-trade-the-forgotten-white-slaves/31076
ReplyDeleteGood luck..........:)I've posted that before and is quite good as are others. Thanks.
DeleteWell, it matters to me
ReplyDeletethat you know my comments
are not cheap shots at you,
or the content of your blog.
We already worked out my past
issue of being hyper-sensitive
while reading it, and you got me
over that bump in the road.
Thank you.
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