Exposing Africa's Part In The Slave Trade
A Day In History
I wouldn't bother but there are a lot of white people who are really willing to throw people like me under the bus, even though I don't beleive I have much of a historical relationship with what is accused by others to us as a crime.
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]]>And the people who have African genetic heritage often have genetics from slave owners, not all of whom were so called "White".
If they want reparations, then they need to go to Africa and see if they can get payments from the descendants of the people who took their African ancestor as slaves and then sold them to Arabs and Europeans. Not that no Europeans or Arabs never took slaves themselves, but the history is much more complicated than the powers with hidden agendas have struggled to tell a false story of.
As Kdb512 has said, many people died. That is plenty of payment. Endless numbers of Europeans were abused the same way by Arabs, and other non-European players over time.
It was the nature of the world that if you had a war, the losers might be killed or enslaved. That came to an end in a large measure because of the workings of peoples of European descent. And also, other peoples.
You should not play by their color code. Put your hand on a white sheet of paper. Are you white in color relative to that?
Neither are people who have African genetics typically "Black".
Other phrases "People of color". Well, what color?
Hispanic, Latino, and so on.
Anyone who is Hispanic or Latino might be asked what reparations they are obligated to for the history of Native Americans and indeed people of African heritage. And yet the agenda people roll them into this "People of color" category.
And next then when they have taken those measures, they try to extend the NAZI label to most of the people they call "White".
And what does this resemble? It resembles African tribal warfare and slaving. (Indeed, Europeans and Asians have some such histories also).
But it is a hatred stirred up to justify a demand for tribute.
It is bullies trying to take lunch money off of the other kids.
It is not right. It is extremely immoral.
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]]>Here's what California's radical reparations plan will cost taxpayers
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/heres-w … -taxpayersWill California Do Reparations Right?
https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-just … -implement
California is closer than any other state to realizing reparations for Black people.
How do you compensate someone who has been dead for over a hundred years? And who pays the compensation? The slave owners have been dead for the same amount of time. The blacks alive today have equal rights and equal opportunities. So there is no grounds for compensation. Equal opportunities will not produce equal results of course. But that is a different problem.
]]>Will California Do Reparations Right?
https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-just … -implement
California is closer than any other state to realizing reparations for Black people.
Most states have income tax, sin taxation covering alcohol and tobacco products, consumption taxes as room and meal taxes that cover ready to eat foods or restaurants, property taxes, registrations of all forms and types ect
So, unless the write offs disappear then all its going to do is shift them elsewhere....as state-to-state cost of living is different as well as to the wages that one might earn even for the same jobs and not at just the minimum wage or federal wage.
]]>The Post has reported that Ennis’s office levied unprecedented penalties against more than 100 disabled claimants, then sidelined two senior officials who exposed the practice, they said. The Post reported that Social Security is struggling to provide basic customer service to disabled claimants following prolonged pandemic closures — and described the forces that led to a backlog of more than 1 million pending disability claims in the state offices that adjudicate initial applications for benefits. In addition, The Post found that Social Security relies on a list of obsolete jobs to deny thousands of claims each year. And The Post disclosed that a senior leader overseeing 9,000 employees in the disability system was found by investigators to be routinely impaired on the job.
Reality of a changing times is that jobs that once were of high demand no longer exist.
He had made it through four years of denials and appeals, and Robert Heard was finally before a Social Security judge who would decide whether he qualified for disability benefits. Two debilitating strokes had left the 47-year-old electrician with halting speech, an enlarged heart and violent tremors.
There was just one final step: A vocational expert hired by the Social Security Administration had to tell the judge if there was any work Heard could still do despite his condition. Heard was stunned as the expert canvassed his computer and announced his findings: He could find work as a nut sorter, a dowel inspector or an egg processor - jobs that virtually no longer exist in the United States.
He was still hopeful the administrative law judge hearing his claim for $1,300 to $1,700 per month in benefits had understood his limitations.
But while the judge agreed that Heard had multiple, severe impairments, he denied him benefits, writing that he had "job opportunities" in three occupations that are nearly obsolete and agreeing with the expert's dubious claim that 130,000 positions were still available sorting nuts, inspecting dowels and processing eggs.
My own wife went through this got benefits only to lose then since I began working and made to much....
]]>within the first 12 months of her original filing, she could have had another option available: She could have withdrawn her filing application from Social Security, and paid back the benefits that she had received up to that date.
Social Security would have been effectively wiped clean, and she could refile at any point in the future that she wants to. But this is only available during the first 12 months from your original filing. After that time passes, it’s no longer available.
Actual age of retirement to prevent early retirement punishments, based on birth year:
1943-1954 - 66
1955 - 66 and two months
1956 - 66 and four months
1957 - 66 and six months
1958 - 66 and eight months
1959 - 66 and 10 months
1960 or later - 67 will only claim seventy percent of their total benefit amount if they opt to retire early at age 62.In comparison to last year, you need to be working an extra two months after your birthday to receive your full state pension, if your 66th birthday is this year.
continuing to change the goal posts....
]]>Not even close to enough with that fact that the inflation is not slowing down with eating into what you might have saved.
Social Security was never meant to be a stand-alone support source for seniors or even to provide the bulk of the income retirees require. The benefits were intended to work in conjunction with a pension from an employer and with savings the worker amassed over the course of their career.
So much for carriers and the employer having pensions
Together, these three income sources were supposed to replace about 80% to 90% of preretirement funds, which most experts suggest retirees need to maintain their standard of living.
401k chips ins is not a pension either
If you're far from retirement, the good news is that you have time to course-correct if you anticipated Social Security would provide most of your support in retirement. You'll want your savings to replace about 40% of preretirement income to supplement the 40% Social Security replaces, so set a goal to save a nest egg that will do that at a safe withdrawal rate.
to many flavors of how to not have enough income to live on
https://transamericainstitute.org/docs/ … report.pdf
ouch 300 plus pages...
One more challenge to making the funds work is to stay away from These 13 States Could Take a Bite Out of Your Social Security Benefits
Here are the 13 states where you may lose some of your Social Security income to taxes:
Colorado
Connecticut
Kansas
Minnesota
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
New Mexico
North Dakota
Rhode Island
Utah
Vermont
West Virginia
I am sort of curious as to the status of social security and other such supports that seem to be missing.
Good for the son helping.
]]>Sorry to hear about unemployment woohs.
I too have spent a year plus trying to get work in the past with all of the reporting of efforts to the unemployment office just to be able to get a hundred dollars. Taking even parking cars at a fairgrounds.
All those rich people have already received our tax money, whether we get a dime of stimulus money or not. My wife remains unemployed, as she has been since July. Despite that, we've yet to receive a dime of that "stimulus money", nor do we ever expect to. Why are you so anxious about who's receiving our tax money now? I have a better question, though. How long do you think that money will last you, relative to having a better paying job? Those same people who make money off of us after voting their cronies into office are laughing all the way to the bank. I don't know about you, but I'm not sure I or my children will be able to afford the tax bill after this looting of the treasury is finished.
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