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RE: Unreasonable? - 12/29/2015 4:42:49 AM

thompsonx

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ORIGINAL: Phydeaux

Nice post CD.

Only the most ignorant of racists would feel so.

The case for reparations suffers some other glaring difficulties.
1. The total number of slaves imported into the united states over its entire history was approximately 400k.

One of your garing difficulties is that you wish to conflate imports with the total number of slaves in amerika.
On the eve of the civil war more than 4 million slaves lived in the usa.

The average price paid per slave over this time was roughly $500 per slave. Call it $200,000,000 unadjusted for the entire period over 150 years - and you get a value of about 2 million a year.

So you wish us to believe that the price of a slave was .50 cents each

Compare this to the cost of just the revolutionary war of $66 million dollars that the continental congresses allocated - which in itself represented a tiny fraction of the money spent by the states and an even tinier percentage of the value of all goods and services and you can see that any claim that the country was formed on the back of negro labor is entirely specious.

Only to morons who would posit such idiocy.

2. In 1860 the national debt was $60 million. In 1865 it was 2.7 billion dollars. An 1879 report put he total cost of the civil war at 8.3 billion dollars. Pension costs to soldiers were roughly 300 million dollars per year.

Would you have a source for this data? Or is it a secret?

" The total number of slaves imported into the united states over its entire history was approximately 400k".
"There were approximately 4 million slaves at that time".

Both of these statements are yours.

But in addition to capital costs, there were more than 15 million acres of land given to soldiers and slaves after the civil war.

Curiously you fail to document your opinions. Well perhaps not all that curious.

More than 91 million rations were handed out in the 15 months after the war to slaves.

91 million devided by 15 months equals (even for dumbasses) 6 million rations for 4 million people or 1.5 rations per month.

4,300 schools were built.

4 million devided by 4300 euals (even for dumbasses) 1 school per 100,000 people

So, focusing on debt alone and ignoring hundreds of millions of dollars of taxing authority spent in furtherance of the civil war, you can see that the cost the government spent on fighting the civil war - leaving out the human costs, exceeded the price per slave more than 400%. When you consider that almost a million americans died in this fight to free four million slaves one has to wonder - does that not hold weight?

Your arguement falls flat on it's face when you claim that the civil war was fought to free slaves. Lincoln said this to horace greely
"My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery."

http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/greeley.htm

(in reply to Phydeaux)