(August 3, 2022 at 6:10 am)Doug1943 Wrote: So, if there are going to be reparations, let them be like food stamps, which, in theory, can only be spent on food, not on drugs or alcohol. (Note: the operative phrase there is "in theory".)That's one of the major problems with the snap program. Cash assistance worked better. Turns out, as counterintuitive as it may be, poor people make better decisions about how to spend money than people observing from afar would make for them.
Quote:Here's how I think the reparations should be used: getting inner-city Blacks out of their terrible high crime environment, where the murder rate has shot up in the last two years, for some reason.Why would it matter how you think they should be used?
Quote:Let's think outside of the box here!Mhm.
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