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Missouri's 7th District, U.S. House of Representatives

 

 

 

Congressional Issues 2006
MORALITY AND CULTURE
Reparations



The 110th Congress should:
  • resist demands to confiscate money from Asian-Americans (who immigrated here after the abolition of slavery) and give their money to African-Americans who are immeasurably better off in America than they would have been had their ancestors remained in Africa.
  • resist demands to confiscate money from people whose ancestors were not owners of slaves and redistribute it to people whose ancestors were not slaves.
  • resist demands to confiscate money from anyone and redistribute it to anyone else.


Increasing numbers of illegal aliens are demanding reparations in the form of the return of California, Arizona, New Mexico, and other Western states to "Aztlan" -- Mexico. If it could be shown that the United States confiscated these properties under force or fraud, a legitimate case might be made for the return of these states to Mexico. But what claim do the illegal aliens have on
Hoover Dam, which generates electricity for L.A and Phoenix;
the family farms in the San Joaquin Valley, the most productive in the world,
trillions of dollars of commercial and suburban real estate development,
Silicon Valley, technology capital of the world,
and Hollywood ?
OK, they can have Hollywood.

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