Medic24":2frnfyy5 said:
Well, slanting this thread a bit.............hope not to offend..........but based upon the REAL history of America, I believe that if we (modern Americans) owe anything to anyone.......it is the American Indian.
The only problem I have with this is most Indians today are not full blooded, most are not even 1/2 blooded. So if you have a 1/2 Indian and 1/2 White. That means that 1/2 of their ancestors were taking the land from the other half. And if you figure lots are 1/4 Indian and 3/4 white then it is even worse. I consider it a wash! But believe every full blooded Indian deserves a few million and everyone else nothing.
Personally I believe we only owe those that we personally owe. Lots of terrible things happened years ago, lots of wars, lots of things taken, given, things sold and bought. We can not be paying for everything our ancestors did hundreds of years ago. There has to be a statue of limitations on this stuff.