Ken Padgett

  Summary:  The problems that justify reparations should be solved before you start the reparations Reparations are intended to compensate African-Americans whose ancestors were slaves and lived through the Jim Crow era.  According to the NAACP, "Reparations would involve a national apology, rights to the cannabis industry, financial payment, social service benefits, and land grants to every descendant of an enslaved African American and Black person a descendant of those living in the United States including during American slavery until the Jim Crow era in1965." Opponents say is that it's "impossible to place a monetary value on the impact of slavery"   Actually some people in San Francisco have placed a monetary value on the impact of slavery: Here are some of the more than 100 recommendations made by a city-appointed reparations committee: Payments of $5 million to every eligible Black adult, the elimination of personal debt and tax burdens, guaranteed annua...

  Higher education should be free, but it's not, and not likely to be anytime soon. We're blowing a bunch of money already, so why not give these people a break? Because paying off a bunch of student loans now will only make higher education more expensive for those who follow.   Lots of deserving people are mired in debt and would love some help too. How easy will it be for Republicans to use this to divide people?  When measured by income, the poorest one-fifth of Americans hold about 8 percent of all student debt in America. In contrast, the wealthiest one-fifth of American households have a third of all student debt. If you want to fix some things, and many things need fixing, maybe don't start with a cohort that is so easily portrayed by the other side as elite, when you couldn't even keep the COVID-era SNAP payments going. As a result of Democrats failure to protect children, 30 million Americans lost the help they desperately need to feed their hungry childr...