From: *Travis* Date: Thu, May 14, 2009 Subject: Uncle Sam's Obama plantation
*PLEASE FORWARD.* *The ability to see reality is a gift. * *Some of us are born with it.* *Others acquire it as they experience the world.* *Others never achieve it, unfortunately.* *If Star Parker’s essay makes sense, read her book.* *Then help us turn our country back onto its former track to greatness.* * -- Allan* * ------------------------------ * Back on Uncle Sam's plantation * **Star Parker - Syndicated Columnist - 2/9/2009 8:00:00 AM* * **[image: cid:[email protected]]* *Six years ago I wrote a book called Uncle Sam's Plantation . I wrote the book to tell my own story of what I saw living inside the welfare state and my own transformation out of it.* *I said in that book that indeed there are two Americas -- a poor America on socialism and a wealthy America on capitalism.* *I talked about government programs like Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training (JOBS), Emergency Assistance to Needy Families with Children (EANF), Section 8 Housing, and Food Stamps.* *A vast sea of perhaps well-intentioned government programs, all initially set into motion in the 1960s, that were going to lift the nation's poor out of poverty.* *A benevolent Uncle Sam welcomed mostly poor black Americans onto the government plantation. Those who accepted the invitation switched mindsets from "How do I take care of myself?" to "What do I have to do to stay on the plantation?"* *Instead of solving economic problems, government welfare socialism created monstrous moral and spiritual problems -- the kind of problems that are inevitable when individuals turn responsibility for their lives over to others.* *The legacy of American socialism is our blighted inner cities, dysfunctional inner city schools, and broken black families.* *Through God's grace, I found my way out. It was then that I understood what freedom meant and how great this country is.* *I had the privilege of working on welfare reform in 1996, passed by a Republican Congress and signed 50 percent.* *I thought we were on the road to moving socialism out of our poor black communities and replacing it with wealth-producing American capitalism.* *But, incredibly, we are going in the opposite direction.* *Instead of poor America on socialism becoming more like rich American on capitalism, rich America on capitalism is becoming like poor America on socialism.* *Uncle Sam has welcomed our banks onto the plantation and they have said, "Thank you, Suh."* *Now, instead of thinking about what creative things need to be done to serve customers . . . they are thinking about what they have to tell Massah in order to get their cash.* *There is some kind of irony that this is all happening under our first black president on the 200th anniversary of the birthday of Abraham Lincoln. * *Worse, socialism seems to be the element of our new young president. And maybe even more troubling, our corporate executives seem happy to move onto the plantation.* *In an op-ed on the opinion page of the Washington Post, Mr. Obama is clear that the goal of his trillion dollar spending plan is much more than short term economic stimulus.* *"This plan is more than a prescription for short-term spending -- it's a strategy for America's long-term growth and opportunity in areas such as renewable energy, healthcare, and education."* *Perhaps more incredibly, Obama seems to think that government taking over an economy is a new idea. Or that massive growth in government can take place "with unprecedented transparency and accountability."* *Yes, sir, we heard it from Jimmy Carter when he created the Department of Energy, the Synfuels Corporation, and the Department of Education.* *Or how about the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 -- The War on Poverty -- which President Johnson said "...does not merely expand old programs or improve what is already being done. It charts a new course. It strikes at the causes, not just the consequences of poverty."* *Trillions of dollars later, black poverty is the same. But black families are not, with triple the incidence of single-parent homes and out-of-wedlock births.* *It's not complicated. Americans can accept Barack Obama's invitation to move onto the plantation. Or they can choose personal responsibility and freedom.* *Does anyone really need to think about what the choice should be?* -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Allan, Chapter Director ACT! For America. New York & Long Island Chapter L A N . . A S T A S L E M I will NOT submit to islam! . __._,_.___ __,_._,___ -- *~@):~{> -- *~@):~{> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
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