(05-07-2023, 08:48 AM)homebiscuit Wrote: California moving forward with a plan for black reparations.

They’re going to sorely regret ever going down this road.

A task force has recommended payments in of a nebulous amount to a nebulous number of people.
But the total cost is estimated at $800 billion, which is almost 3 years worth of the state of California's entire budget.
(1) The Legislature would have to add the details of exactly whom gets paid exactly how much, then (2) the legislature would have to approve that, then (3) the governor would have to sign it.
As concerning as this task force report is, the next three steps are never going to happen.
California's budget is much more volatile than other states, fluctuating rapidly between surplus and deficit.  This is because a lower share of it comes from property taxes.  The irony is most other states have the stability of revenue to actually plan out stable allocations like this for decades.  The one state that doesn't is the one state that wants to try.
Of course my opinion is this is all foolish.  I would be less opposed to smaller payments to specific individuals who can show that they or their parents were subject to job discrimination or housing discrimination in the recent past.  But trying to specifically document stuff that happened hundreds of years ago, let alone compensate the descendants for it, that is just not feasible on any large scale.

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(05-07-2023, 10:31 AM)Sneakers Wrote:

(05-06-2023, 09:25 AM)mikesez Wrote: Great question.  In that scenario, is Christopher Wray a good guy or a bad guy? And if it was not appropriate for Wray to share this evidence about Biden with Trump in 2019, why would it be appropriate for Wray to share that evidence with Grassley today?

We already know that individuals in the FBI leak things whenever they are politically volatile.  They leaked stuff about Hillary, Trump, and Hunter.  How has Joe escaped this kind of leaking up until now?

The Director of the FBI should never disclose information about an ongoing investigation to anyone, including the sitting President, except on a need-to-know basis.  Grassley said that he believed an internal document existed, but never identified a source.  Why do you assume it was Wray?

Where did I say Wray was the source?
When are you going to start reading what I write and stop asking me to defend statements I didn't make? 

Whether or not Wray is the source, Wray would have access to any internal memo in the FBI.  So the disclosure or not of it is up to him, at least in the legal channels.  Determining if Grassley or Biden or Trump "needs to know" is up to Wray.  Right?.  But thats just the legal, proper channel.  Anyone could leak it.  Why hasn't it been leaked yet?

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