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["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

That lovely piece comes from a fanatic fringe website at  
http://townhall.com/columnists/starparker/2009/02/09/back_on_uncle_sams_plantation
 .
which promotes nothing but 100% partisan attacks from the likes of Ann 
Coulter and Thomas Sowell, and promotes the rightwing corporate agenda 
against the rest of America.

Besides being completely off topic that perpetuates several obvious myths 
used by the elites to keep the rest of us conned into supporting their 
ripoffs. It demonizes Carter, Johnson, and Obama - all democrats - with no 
mention of Reagan and baby Bush who raised taxes on the middle class, cut 
taxes for the rich, and ran up the highest deficits since WW II.

Then the myth of government taking over the economy. It's the opposite as 
anyone reading the fine print in all these bills can see. It's Wall Street 
and corporations taking over government, outsourcing millions of good jobs, 
crashing the economy, and impoverishing the middle class. And the nonsense 
about socialism, straight out of Rush Windbag and the brain dead ex-governor 
of Alaska who's already raked in twelve million dollars (from wealthy 
corporate criminals) propagandizing against government help for the millions 
of victims of this corporate engineered recession.

Socialism has been defined as
   "An economic system of government which advocates state ownership of the 
means of production with equal distribution of goods among the people. In 
practice the government owns the banks, railroads, farmlands, factories, and 
stores, and is the only employer.”
And no one in the administration ever hinted at such a thing. The windbags on 
AM radio and Fox know it; they're just paid to lie.

You really want to kill our Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, VA benefits, 
and starve millions? They're all "socialist" programs aren't they???

For more in depth refuting that blatantly racist propaganda piece, see
http://justanothercoverup.com/?p=616 .


paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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On 4/15/2010 at 10:53 AM Andeanfx wrote:

>The more I think about this the more applicable it comes to Living on the
>Land.
>
>
>"When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at
>all."
>
>
>
>
>                This is one of the very best commentaries, that I have
>seen written, on the present situation!  If a white person had written it,
>it would be considered extremely racial, but since Star Parker is black
>and admittedly a product of the "welfare state," it is acknowledged as a
>person speaking from experience, I hope that it gets widely circulated.
>
>
>
>                 Back on Uncle Sam's plantation
>
>                Star Parker - Syndicated Columnist
>
>
>
>                     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 by Democrats, 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 which was passed by a Republican controlled Congress.
>
>                     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 now 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?
>
>                    "The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run
>out of other people's money."
>
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