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Gavin (Noisome) Newsom's reparations
Saturday, December 3, 2022 9:22 PM
SIGNYM
I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.
Quote:California reparations proposal could mean $223K per person in payments for Black residents
Sunday, December 4, 2022 12:22 AM
6IXSTRINGJACK
Sunday, December 4, 2022 8:19 AM
JAYNEZTOWN
Sunday, December 4, 2022 11:54 AM
Sunday, December 4, 2022 2:44 PM
SECOND
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Quote:The group added, "According to the economic consultant team, the $559 billion figure represents the State of California’s ‘maximum liability’ for de jure homeownership discrimination 'if all 2,550,459 Black California residents who lived in the state in 2021 were descendants of the enslaved in the United States and had spent the entire time period from 1933 to 1977 in California (or were the legal heir of a person that did).'"
Sunday, December 4, 2022 3:07 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: I've posted about this, too. But then, it was just an idea. Now, it's a product of Gavin Noisome's commission with, a specific dollar amount attached. Setting aside the fiscal irresponsibility, it's patently unjust and racist.
Quote:Also, we have to recognize that our economic system runs on exploitation. If we aren't exploiting blacks we're exploiting women, or foreign cheap labor, or illegal migrants.
Monday, December 5, 2022 10:41 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: White men have been shit on for over a decade. Where's my reparations? #MeToo /snark
Monday, December 5, 2022 11:36 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: White men have been shit on for over a decade. Where's my reparations? #MeToo /snark You weren't cheated out of money in the housing market of Indiana, 6ix, which is why nobody is talking about you receiving reparations for being cheated. From page 36 of the report: Consider Paul Austin and Tenisha Tate-Austin, who bought a home in Marin City in 2016. Three years later, a white appraiser valued their home for $500,000 less than it was worth . . . (details that 6ixStringJack won't read) . . . What does California owe the Campbells, the Shorts, the Simmonses, the Austins, and the 2.28 million Black Californians who have experienced different versions of these stories? California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans INTERIM REPORT Printed in the USA June 2022 https://oag.ca.gov/ab3121/reports The quesstimation for reparations is around a half trillion dollars because Blacks have been cheated out of about a half trillion dollars in real estate. Total value of all housing in California is several trillion dollars, just for reference. What is the total value of California real estate? $9.24 trillion According to Zillow, at the state level, California's housing market remains the most valuable in the country, with a total value of $9.24 trillion as of last December, accounting for more than a fifth – 21.3 percent – of the national total. https://www.zillow.com/research/us-housing-market-total-value-2021-30615/ The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Monday, December 5, 2022 12:36 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Oh fuck off. I earned it, and I'm smarter than most other folk of any race or sex that buy a house. I bought a house that needed a ton of work, and I got it at a steal because of a young white family that bought more house than they ultimately could afford and got evicted because of shady loans that exploded in 2008. I also spent 6 months and hundreds of phone calls gathering paperwork and evidence to purposefully devalue the home to the level it should have been, without having to pay a lawyer, saving me at least $18k in property taxes that I wasn't supposed to be paying since I moved in. My point here is that if you're a white man in America in the last decade, you're the last person to be hired at a job. That's a simple fact. You'd better be bringing a lot of extra stuff to the table with you because if you get hired as a white man, the company you want to work for won't get the racist and sexist Federal tax credits that it would get for hiring anybody else but you. You would know this if you actually ran a business, but yanno... Serial liar.
Monday, December 5, 2022 1:07 PM
Monday, December 5, 2022 1:11 PM
Monday, December 5, 2022 1:17 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: ^ OR, how to cram as many strawmen into two paragraphs as possible. I really hope for the sake of anybody who has to deal with you in real life that you're not as insufferable as you are online. -------------------------------------------------- Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
Monday, December 5, 2022 1:40 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: ^ OR, how to cram as many strawmen into two paragraphs as possible. I really hope for the sake of anybody who has to deal with you in real life that you're not as insufferable as you are online. -------------------------------------------------- Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.You were the one complaining about jobs, 6ix, and yet you understood nothing. 6ix wrote: "My point here is that if you're a white man in America in the last decade, you're the last person to be hired at a job. That's a simple fact. You'd better be bringing a lot of extra stuff to the table with you because if you get hired as a white man, the company you want to work for won't get the racist and sexist Federal tax credits that it would get for hiring anybody else but you." I could tell you once again that businesses don't exist to create jobs for whinny little white boys, but you wouldn't understand. Tell me about those "racist and sexist Federal tax credits that it would get for hiring anybody else but you" because I never heard of them before today. (I answered my own question: https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/work-opportunity-tax-credit . . . the maximum tax credit is generally $2,400.) The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Monday, December 5, 2022 1:41 PM
Monday, December 5, 2022 1:45 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Who cheated blacks in real estate deals? The banks? Then make the banks pay, not the taxpayer. That's what Obana (DNC Patron Saint) shoulda done in 2008. Instead he paid off the banks and let the people suffer. Typical flimflam man. ----------- Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
Monday, December 5, 2022 1:52 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: And I'm just wondering if there's going to be a day where you don't poison every thread on these boards with your bullshit and personal attacks. You are a waste of carbon. -------------------------------------------------- Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
Monday, December 5, 2022 2:06 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: And I'm just wondering if there's going to be a day where you don't poison every thread on these boards with your bullshit and personal attacks. You are a waste of carbon. -------------------------------------------------- Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.All the Trumptards I know are whinny little white boys just exactly like you, 6ix, complaining that society doesn't respect them. They also say "Fuck Ukraine" and "Trump will be fine" exactly like you. It is pretty easy to make them sad and angry when I compare what I see them do to what bad things happen to them in life. Trumptards absolutely hate the proof that they are energetically ruining their own lives every day in every way. The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Monday, December 5, 2022 2:47 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Who cheated blacks in real estate deals? The banks? Then make the banks pay, not the taxpayer. That's what Obana (DNC Patron Saint) shoulda done in 2008. Instead he paid off the banks and let the people suffer. Typical flimflam man. ----------- Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
Monday, December 5, 2022 2:49 PM
THG
Monday, December 5, 2022 3:46 PM
Quote:Originally posted by THG: I'm against it. T
Monday, December 5, 2022 5:45 PM
Monday, December 5, 2022 11:36 PM
Tuesday, December 6, 2022 6:21 AM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Who cheated blacks in real estate deals? The banks? Then make the banks pay, not the taxpayer. That's what Obama (DNC Patron Saint) shoulda done in 2008. Instead he paid off the banks and let the people suffer. Typical flimflam man.
Quote:Table 2: Summary of Fair Value Bailout Costs Institution vs Cost Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac $311 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) $90 billion Federal Housing Authority (FHA) $60 billion Federal Reserve $21 billion Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) $10 billion Small Business Lending Fund (SBLF) $6 billion Total $498 billion Source: Deborah J. Lucas, MIT Sloan School of Management That conclusion rests on many uncertain assumptions, and the estimates presented here, individually and collectively, should be viewed as having wide error bands. (No kidding. The error bands are so wide that a real profit is turned into a theoretical loss.) Three possible approaches to cost measurement are evaluated here through the lens of a simplified Arrow-Debreu state pricing framework. The Arrow-Debreu approach clearly shows why some approaches make sense and others do not, and why different approaches lead to widely divergent cost estimates. The third approach simply adds together all realized cash flows between the government and the bailed out entity, positive and negative. This is referred to as ex post cash accounting. (In the venture capital context this is referred to as cash-in cash-out.) This approach is not theoretically justifiable for several reasons. It neglects time value and risk adjustment, and ignores the possibility that the outcome could have been different than what transpires. Nevertheless, it is most frequently how costs are calculated in popular accounts and government reports, as well as in some analyses by academics. The press typically reports bailout costs on an ex post cash basis despite the problems with that approach. For example, ProPublica, a highly regarded non-partisan news organization, created a “Bailout Tracker” that has been keeping a running tally of government asset purchases and cash receipts under TARP and from the bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In their most recent update dated September 27, 2018, they report a total net government “profit” of $97 billion. Policymakers also tend to cite ex post cash results.
Tuesday, December 6, 2022 6:34 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: I figured I'd let a smart black woman explain these "reparations" to the stupid white dude going by the handle Second here. Ted gets a pass because for whatever reason woke race based issues is the only single problem he seems to have with his party... California can't afford this. The current state budget is $308 billion and facing a $25 billion deficit. Black America should not trade one master for another.
Tuesday, December 6, 2022 9:03 AM
Tuesday, December 6, 2022 9:07 AM
Tuesday, December 6, 2022 9:57 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Reparations is never going to happen. Idiot Newsom just lit up a powder keg by putting a figure on it.
Tuesday, December 6, 2022 10:27 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Reparations is never going to happen. Idiot Newsom just lit up a powder keg by putting a figure on it.I was watching the live-action version of Pinocchio. What does that got to do with this? 6ix, you would be enraged at Pinocchio's "wokeness" because the Blue Fairy was played by a Black actress. The Blue Fairy told Pinocchio that he would become a real human if he proves brave, truthful and unselfish. Many Americans can't do even two out of three: brave/truthful/unselfish. Even more Americans go to Pleasure Island, where Pinocchio almost became a jackass working in the salt mines. It is inevitable that Americans who can't even live up to Pinocchio's standards would NOT pay for reparations because they are uncontrolled raging jackasses. By the way, Pinocchio killed Monstro the Whale because many problems can only be permanently solved when somebody who stands forever in the way of a solution dies. Killing Monstro was the final step in making Pinocchio a real human. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4593060/ The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Wednesday, December 7, 2022 5:56 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Hey Ted. Your buddy Second wants to take your money and give it to some black person who wasn't a slave to alleviate his own guilt for being a waste of carbon. You down with that? -------------------------------------------------- Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
Wednesday, December 7, 2022 9:48 AM
JONGSSTRAW
Wednesday, December 7, 2022 10:34 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Hey Ted. Your buddy Second wants to take your money and give it to some black person who wasn't a slave to alleviate his own guilt for being a waste of carbon. You down with that? -------------------------------------------------- Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.Social Security, passed and signed by President Roosevelt in 1935, left out most African Americans for the first quarter century of its existence. Southern congressional representatives heavily influenced the Social Security Act with devastating results. The federal government gave the power to control benefit levels, eligibility, and administration of such programs to the states and excluded occupations mostly held by African Americans. At the time, sixty-five percent of African Americans fell outside of eligibility for the Social Security program — and between 70 and 80 percent fell outside eligibility requirements in different parts of the South. For example, in 1940, the year Social Security payments for seniors began, the Social Security Board identified nearly 2.3 million Black workers as eligible for old age insurance, but the majority of those identified were disqualified because they were farm or domestic workers. These exclusions continued until 1954, when the occupational exclusions were eliminated. From page 460 of the 2022 Interim Report of the Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans https://oag.ca.gov/ab3121 The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Wednesday, December 7, 2022 11:28 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: So what is your fucking point again? Don't bother answering. The question is rhetorical.
Wednesday, December 7, 2022 11:32 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Hmmmmmm... And yet, the conclusion wasn't to limit reparations to only the people who worked a majority of their working lives prior to 1954, in occupations "mostly held by African Americans". How many of THOSE black individuals are still alive today... In California? How many non-blacks who were denied the same benefits are still alive today in California and will they get these reparations as well? So what is your fucking point again? Don't bother answering. The question is rhetorical.U.S. government policies, as discussed in Chapter 5, Housing Segregation, penned African Americans into poorer neighborhoods with polluting industries, garbage dumps, and other sources of toxic health harms. Local governments zoned Black neighborhoods as industrial instead of residential specifically to segregate Black residents from white residents. White neighborhoods frequently were zoned by local entities to explicitly ensure that few industrial or polluting business could locate within them, again pushing environmental pollution into Black neighborhoods. Redlined and segregated Black neighborhoods were cheaper for polluting industries to build on. This became a downward spiral: the more garbage dumps and sewer treatment plants a neighborhood had, the cheaper the land was, and the more likely that other polluting industries would move in. Without access to the mortgages and loans available to white Americans, Black homeowners also had less money to maintain and improve their homes, which made housing conditions worse and prevented African Americans from moving away from polluting sources. From page 250 of the 2022 Interim Report of the Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans https://oag.ca.gov/ab3121 The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Hmmmmmm... And yet, the conclusion wasn't to limit reparations to only the people who worked a majority of their working lives prior to 1954, in occupations "mostly held by African Americans". How many of THOSE black individuals are still alive today... In California? How many non-blacks who were denied the same benefits are still alive today in California and will they get these reparations as well? So what is your fucking point again? Don't bother answering. The question is rhetorical.
Wednesday, December 7, 2022 11:51 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Read the fucking article from Kira Davis I posted above, and stop insulting black people.
Wednesday, December 7, 2022 11:56 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: The blacks that didn't have mortgage options available to them did not have those options because they had no money or means to ever pay it back. Not because they were black. Plenty of fuckin' white people didn't have access to mortgages either, and still don't to this day. Are you going to give them your money too?
Wednesday, December 7, 2022 12:04 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: The blacks that didn't have mortgage options available to them did not have those options because they had no money or means to ever pay it back. Not because they were black. Plenty of fuckin' white people didn't have access to mortgages either, and still don't to this day. Are you going to give them your money too?Black Californians have also been forced to live in substandard housing, sometimes as a direct result of government action. One historical example is the federal government’s building of public housing in Richmond to accommodate ship workers during World War II, which was officially and explicitly segregated. As part of those efforts, the federal government put programs in place that enabled white workers to access permanent, residential housing, but offered Black workers no permanent housing. While some Black workers were able to find low-quality, long-term housing in areas of the East Bay, others lived in barns, minimal shelter like tents or cardboard shacks, or even without any shelter in open fields. Historically, federal public housing was explicitly created to segregate Black Californians into areas with greater pollution burdens due to immediately adjacent polluting sources. For example, when the federal government built public housing in Richmond to accommodate ship workers, as discussed above, it placed the temporary housing for Black workers by the railroad tracks and shipbuilding areas, subjecting them to particulate matter (e.g., small cancer-causing particles associated with diesel exhaust) and industrial pollution, but built higher quality housing for white workers further inland. Many areas within California still demonstrate racial disparities traceable to state and federal government action. Studies throughout the 1990s have found that largely Black and Latino people in Los Angeles are the most heavily impacted by pollution and toxic waste sites. Neighborhoods that were explicitly redlined by federal agencies in the 1930s — ranging from South Stockton to West Oakland to Wilmington in Los Angeles — continue to have some of the highest average pollution levels in the state. From page 252 of the 2022 Interim Report of the Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans https://oag.ca.gov/ab3121 The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Wednesday, December 7, 2022 12:14 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Tough shit. Plenty of black people are successful in America today. Including in California. The amount of white people born with a silver spoon up their asses in America is slim to none. Everybody has problems. Deal with them or die. We don't want to hear a bunch of whiny, needy cunts crying anymore. No free fucking money for anybody. Short of that, under no circumstances is anyone to get any benefit that others don't get because of the color of their skin or whatever fuck parts they have hidden behind their underwear. If you feel so bad about what happened to blacks in California before most people alive on the planet were born, then YOU go to California and give them YOUR money. Otherwise, get fucked and stop infantilizing and insulting black people.
Wednesday, December 7, 2022 12:21 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Tough shit. Plenty of black people are successful in America today. Including in California. The amount of white people born with a silver spoon up their asses in America is slim to none. Everybody has problems. Deal with them or die. We don't want to hear a bunch of whiny, needy cunts crying anymore. No free fucking money for anybody. Short of that, under no circumstances is anyone to get any benefit that others don't get because of the color of their skin or whatever fuck parts they have hidden behind their underwear. If you feel so bad about what happened to blacks in California before most people alive on the planet were born, then YOU go to California and give them YOUR money. Otherwise, get fucked and stop infantilizing and insulting black people.That same argument can be reworked against Social Security and Medicare. It goes something like this: many people are successful and don't need the Federal government paying to them retirement money or paying their doctor and hospital. These successful people can pay for themselves. Social Security and Medicare are "infantilizing and insulting" to successful people. The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Wednesday, December 7, 2022 12:50 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Yeah? And I've made that argument before too. People who need it in retirement are told every year they might get only 70% of it unless Congress changes the law. Meanwhile, I know old people who only paid a paltry portion of their salary into it most of their working lives compared to what is taken out of paychecks today that don't need the benefits in retirement and use that is their "fuck you" money to burn up and lose at the gambling boats. I've already suggested my two-step fix for that. 1) Don't tax SS/Medicare on anything under the Federal standard deduction for anyone. ($13,850 for single filers and $27,700 for married filers in 2023). 2) After the Standard Deduction, there is no cap. If you want to get real spicy, then add a Step 3 and also affix a SS/Medicare tax on the REAL RICH PEOPLE who don't actually have any working income and make their money through capital gains above a reasonable threshold. I don't see a problem with Social Security and Medicare. Somebody who worked all of their young lives should not have to worry about starving to death or dying in a cold house when their body is old and frail. And since it's not based off of race or sex or any other IDpol Democrat bullshit, it has the possibility of being a fair system if somebody finally implements it right. -------------------------------------------------- Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
Thursday, December 8, 2022 12:12 AM
Thursday, December 8, 2022 6:31 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: We've already had this discussion. I didn't say to not tax everyone. I said to not tax anybody for a penny on the Standard Deduction. And then to put no cap on it so every dollar earned after the SD is taxed. -------------------------------------------------- Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
Thursday, December 8, 2022 11:08 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Since the average Social Security check at age 62 is $2,572
Quote:The maximum initial monthly benefit for 2023 by retirement age: At age 62: $2,572 At age 65: $3,279 At age 66: $3,506 At age 70: $4,555 These figures assume a worker had steady earnings at the maximum taxable level since age 22. For 2023, maximum taxable income is $160,200, a number that usually rises each year.
Thursday, December 8, 2022 11:17 AM
Thursday, December 8, 2022 12:56 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Quote:Originally posted by second: Since the average Social Security check at age 62 is $2,572 No it isn't dummy, but I know exactly how you got that. Looks like Google lied to you again. Click on the bankrate.com article that Google used to provide those fake numbers and actually read it. The Average check today for ALL recipients, of any age, including disability payments and survivor benefits payments is only $1,550.48. Here's the part that Google grabbed and presented as the answer to your question: Quote:The maximum initial monthly benefit for 2023 by retirement age: At age 62: $2,572 At age 65: $3,279 At age 66: $3,506 At age 70: $4,555 These figures assume a worker had steady earnings at the maximum taxable level since age 22. For 2023, maximum taxable income is $160,200, a number that usually rises each year. This isn't only hilarious, but is a great example of how you lack any critical thinking skills whatsoever, and why it is so easy for the Legacy Media to make you believe whatever they tell you to. Have a nice day!
Thursday, December 8, 2022 1:22 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Quote:Originally posted by second: Since the average Social Security check at age 62 is $2,572 No it isn't dummy, but I know exactly how you got that. Looks like Google lied to you again. Click on the bankrate.com article that Google used to provide those fake numbers and actually read it. The Average check today for ALL recipients, of any age, including disability payments and survivor benefits payments is only $1,550.48. Here's the part that Google grabbed and presented as the answer to your question: Quote:The maximum initial monthly benefit for 2023 by retirement age: At age 62: $2,572 At age 65: $3,279 At age 66: $3,506 At age 70: $4,555 These figures assume a worker had steady earnings at the maximum taxable level since age 22. For 2023, maximum taxable income is $160,200, a number that usually rises each year. This isn't only hilarious, but is a great example of how you lack any critical thinking skills whatsoever, and why it is so easy for the Legacy Media to make you believe whatever they tell you to. Have a nice day! The California Reparation is completely unlike Social Security because everybody gets their check when they reach 62. There is no delay until you are 65 or 68 or 70 to get a bigger check. All checks are exactly the same amount for everybody who reached 62. And the checks stop once you reach $262,000 total checks. That's the end of reparations for you, once you hit that amount. You don't get more money if you have more African DNA or have a sadder life story before your checks started arriving. Everybody gets the same amount because that is the only way the California Reparations would ever become law. Obviously, all the California millionaires would oppose the California Reparations because the millionaires are paying most of the reparations with their income taxes. And 62 is not a sacred number. The checks could start for everybody at a younger age, but the checks still stop once the Californian has received $262,000 total checks or dies. There is no way for a solo grandchild to poison his grandparents and parents in order to receive in the future 6 times $262,000 as an inheritance from those 6 adult murders. The checks stop at death. The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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