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  • From: mdnagel@verizon.net
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  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Uncle Sam's Plantation - off topic propaganda
  • Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:14:14 -0500 (CDT)

The other disturbing thing that this all hides is the FACT that rich white men had a good 150 years head start.  Ask anyone in business if they would turn down the chance to get a 150 year head start to corner markets, I'll bet none would turn this down: and as a matter of fact, looking around, that WAS/IS the case.  Rather hard to compete when someone's already this far ahead.

It's about fair competition.  It's not enough to corner the markets and Then say "OK, everyone else, it's OK for you to come in and compete now."  Try establishing a railroad and let me know if I'm blowing hot air out!

Same way with small farmers today.  The big guys, through the magic of bribes, pushed out most of the farmers who would likely have been the farmers that we need today and for tomorrow.  The rich developers also helped out.

The problem for African Americans (should be pretty clear the situation of the native Americans) is that the playing field was never leveled.  In a way the social programs are a block, but they're a block from us recognizing the unfair head start given to the current folks in power; they programs did not go far enough: had the "40 acres and a mule" promise been kept things might have turned out different, more equitable; what's common here? racist attacks killed that program, and now today racist attacks are gnawing at the meager attempts to correct the centuries old imbalance.


-Mark Nagel
Everett, WA


Apr 15, 2010 12:29:03 PM, livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
>
>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
>listowner
>
>
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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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