Asclepias
Diamond Member
Well yeah it was.
Even moreso that the military got involved in clear cutting and building infrastructure.
no, it was not.
if you have to WORK on a land to actually survive - that is not a handout.
let's give all the welfarists of nowadays a piece of land - there are tons of land in federal ownership - so they can repeat the easy life of those receiving it decades ago.
I am all for THIS TYPE of "handout".
Are YOU?
The government gave away land for years after the Civil War, and there was no rule that said blacks couldn't participate. Complaining that whites got welfare in the form of free land is just pure bullshit since blacks could have had a share of the same land.
There was no rule but the KKK rampaged with impunity. More white handouts resulted because of that.