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Thread ID: 20064 | Posts: 8 | Started: 2005-09-07
2005-09-07 16:26 | User Profile
Yep, thats right. All those negros in the houston "afrodome" are worth millions! Think of the revenue the state of Texas is missing out on! [img]http://www.lewis-clark.org/media/images/yo_slave3.jpg[/img]
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2005-09-07 23:51 | User Profile
Due to inflation one healthy adult male would be worth about $120,000. Since this is obviously a luxury item we will have to apply a 30% luxury tax. Add to that an 8% sales tax and a 14% property tax and were talking approx. $192,000.
2005-09-08 13:45 | User Profile
[QUOTE=BlueBonnet]Due to inflation one healthy adult male would be worth about $120,000. Since this is obviously a luxury item we will have to apply a 30% luxury tax. Add to that an 8% sales tax and a 14% property tax and were talking approx. $192,000.[/QUOTE]
Buying one would be a losing proposition because they would do ten times the amount in damage in a year and very little work would be done.
2005-09-08 13:47 | User Profile
[QUOTE=skemper]Buying one would be a losing proposition because they would do ten times the amount in damage in a year and very little work would be done.[/QUOTE]
Thats why you need "strict management".
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2005-09-08 13:58 | User Profile
skemper,
You are most Right.
[QUOTE]Mary Boykin Chesnut:
"The negroes would be a good riddance. A hired man is far cheaper than a man whose father and mother, his wife and his twelve children have to be fed, clothed, housed, nursed, taxes paid, and doctor's bills all for his half-done, slovenly, lazy work. So for years we have thought negroes a nuisance that did not pay."
"Sixteen more Yankee regiments have landed on James Island. Eason writes: "They have twice the energy and enterprise of our people." [To which I answer]: "Wait awhile. Let them along until climate and mosquitoes and sand flies and dealing with negroes take it all out of them."
"I began to read [a letter] aloud. . .and I broke down. Poor Cousin Betsey Witherspoon was murdered. . .by her own people. Her negroes." She goes on to explain how the servants took the old lady out of her house one night and lynched her from an apple tree.
"I remember when Dr. Keitt was murdered by his negroes." (Keitt, while lying on his sickbed, had his throat cut by negroes.)
"They are not really enemies of their masters and yet I believe they are all spies for the other side."
Robert E. Lee:
"You will never prosper with the blacks, and it is abhorrent to a reflecting mind to be supporting and cherishing those who are plotting and working for your injury, and all of whose sympathies and associations are antagonistic to yours. I wish them no evil in the world on the contrary, will do them every good in my power, and know that they are misled by those to whom they have given their confidence; but our material, social, and political interests are naturally with the whites."
"The question of supplying labour to the South is one of vital importance in which all classes are concerned and particularly the agriculturist, inasmuch as regular and constant work is more necessary to his prosperity than in most of the other industrial pursuits. I believe this can only be secured by the introduction of a respectaable class of labourers from Europe, for although a temporary benefit might be derived from importation of the Chinese and Japanese, it would result I fear in eventual injury to the country and her institutions. We not only want reliable labourers, but good citizens, whose interests and feelings would be in unison with our own. . ."
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2005-09-08 14:58 | User Profile
Every so often one can speculate whether or not George Wallace, in his halcyon days of the 1968 election, and some of the turn of the century "separate but equal" black leadership, saw a solution to racial friction far more clearly than other policy makers.
The unresolved question, the insurmountable obstacle to be over come was, of course, who would be dispossessed of a state, of land, to create the "separate but equal" homeland? 40 acres and a mule did not work out, for one reason or another, and the migration from the farm to the cities of the north during the 20th century put paid to any element of that policy's long term hopes.
No one raised their hands to volunteer their state as a new homeland, and I doubt anyone would, or ever will.
So, hypothetically, would it be a bold policy move, would it be reasonable, now that Louisiana has its most significant commercial center rendered unusable and must be rebuilt anyway, for Louisiana to be redesignated a homeland as envisioned by turn of the century black leaders, or by a man such as George Wallace?
I realize how abhorrent that idea would be to many people, particularly those who own land and whose ancestors are buried in Louisiana, or who run businesses there. This idea would amount to confiscation and dispossession, and significant recompense would be due. Since the billions so glibly tossed about as "aid" are apparently available, just compensation should be available. (Yes, I understand, it ain't all about money, land is land, and there is a bond between the blood and the land that is immensely powerful.)
Remaining on a theoretical basis, a logical Marshall Plan like policy could then be undertaken as a foreign aid package, and the sovereign Nation of Louisiana, or whatever new name is preferred, could be proclaimed. Give them a seat on the UN General Assembly. Secession, with a twist. Devolution?
Why Louisiana? I admit, I am not from Louisiana, so please, native Louisianans, be gentle with me. New Orleans is not all there is to Louisiana, and an excellent counter argument is "well, now that we have a bunch of folks forced to emigrate, a newer and better Louisiana can arise, Phoenix like from the ashes of Katrina." True enough.
Louisiana is the one state not adhering to the Uniform Commercial Code, it is the state still bound by some of the Code Napoleon, and it has, in its major port city and off shore reserves, the capacity for commercial success.
Treaties for oil royalties could be duly drawn up, and for natural gas.
And then, a "homeland?" Would that not appease some of the irate pundits who continually rant on the lost dreams and opportunities of those for whom the American Dream is denied due to their color/culture?
Probably not. And of course, for the dispossessed, what real solace a forced migration elsewhere? None, probably. There is no free lunch, neither in physics, nor in politics.
Such a secession/peeling off move would require, significant, as in billions, in compensation, reparation, and re settlement costs to be paid out to those who do not wish to remain in such a homeland, and a BRAC like reshuffling of the various federal installations in Louisiana to move their capability to other states.
OK, this may be a completely whacko idea, heresy even.
Native Louisianans, I mean no insult to you in this conceptualization, but given the consistent rhetoric in many threads regarding the incompatability of the races to live together, and assuming that genocide is not the solution to the problem, folks have to live somewhere.
I realize I may incur flame for this, and a logical counter would be "Hey, AE, if you are being so free with someone else's land, why not Texas? " Well asked.
This brain fart represents some out of the box, and possibly completely out of my head, thinking.
AE
2005-09-08 15:03 | User Profile
We have to keep the ports and total control of the Mississippi.
This is essential for our economy. NOLA is one of the most vital ports in the world. A huge amount of American exports pass through NOLA.
The best place to send the blacks is to Liberia. We could rebuild Liberia and do good not only for our own blacks but for native Liberians.
This is Lincoln's program, forward with it.
2005-09-08 15:07 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Walter Yannis]We have to keep the ports and total control of the Mississippi.
This is essential for our economy. NOLA is one of the most vital ports in the world. A huge amount of American exports pass through NOLA. Strategically, I have to agree with your assessment on the importance of New Orleans. Since, however, NO is going to be down for a while, or at significantly reduced capacity, other port cities will shoulder their commercial throughput. You think any of them will give it back . . . ?
But practically, you are most likely right on that score.
Population transfer to Liberia? I don't see that as any more practical now than when George Wallace was at his most vocal. Liberia can hardly support its current population.
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