Uncle Sam's Plantation

Star Parker wrote the book Uncle Sam's Plantation

I saw this gal in 2001 at a Dupage County woman's luncheon, I just love her perspective.

By Star Parker:

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 mind sets 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 SynfuelsCorporation, 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."

Joke of the Day

My brain is awash with sinus issues today, but this oldie but goodie brought a smile to my face. Thanks for sharing EH.


SOCIALISM You have 2 cows. You give one to your neighbor.

COMMUNISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both and gives you some milk.

FASCISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both and sells you some milk.

NAZISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both and shoots you.

BUREAUCRATISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both, shoots one, milks the other, and then throws the milk away...

TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income.

SURREALISM You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons

AN AMERICAN CORPORATION You have two cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. Later, you hire a consultant to analyze why the cow has dropped dead.

ENRON VENTURE CAPITALISM You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows.

The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island Company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company.

The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. You sell one cow to buy a new president of the United States , leaving you with nine cows. No balance sheet provided with the release. The public then buys your bull.

A FRENCH CORPORATION You have two cows. You go on strike, organize a riot, and block the roads, because you want three cows.

A JAPANESE CORPORATION You have two cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. You then create a clever cow cartoon image called 'Cowkimon' and market it worldwide.

A GERMAN CORPORATION You have two cows. You re-engineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month, and milk themselves.

AN ITALIAN CORPORATION You have two cows, but you don't know where they are. You decide to have lunch.

A RUSSIAN CORPORATION You have two cows. You count them and learn you have five cows. You count them again and learn you have 42 cows. You count them again and learn you have 2 cows. You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka.

A SWISS CORPORATION You have 5000 cows. None of them belong to you. You charge the owners for storing them.

A CHINESE CORPORATION You have two cows. You have 300 people milking them. You claim that you have full employment, and high bovine productivity. You arrest the newsman who reported the real situation.

AN INDIAN CORPORATION You have two cows. You worship them.

A BRITISH CORPORATION You have two cows. Both are mad.

AN AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION You have two cows. Business seems pretty good. You close the office and go for a few beers to celebrate.

Conspiracy Theory?

I think this topic was covered in an earlier post during election season, but it begs repeating since we just passed a bill that brings us one step further into government control. Thanks for sharing Ed.

Gang, in case you haven't noticed the Senate just voted in the scamulous bill, 61 to 37. We're getting screwed by the very people we voted into office. This is the most expensive government spending program in the history of the planet, and even worse the Congress/President in less than a month are about to push our country over a slippery slope to Socialism/Communism from which we may never recover. What's ridiculous is that Arlen Spector (one of 3 Republicans supporting this in the Senate) was on Fox News this morning being questioned about some of the healthcare provisions which he admitted he had no idea were in the bill. As a matter of fact, it was evident that he hadn't even read the bill.

Don't think that all of this was something that was just dreamed up since Obama was elected. I, for one, think what's happening is a more sinister plan the Democrats (and some Republicans) have been planning for years. All they needed was a Democratic President, control of the House and Senate, and an economic crisis (which they created while the Republicans were asleep at the wheel with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) to get 'er done. Well guess what? Why do you think they say this has to be done NOW, it CANT WAIT. That's because they're pushing this through without open debate and hope to keep the details as much as possible under the radar of the general public.

So, it's done. What you're witnessing is a hostile takeover of every aspect of YOUR life by the government. It's a "coupe de tat", which is often called a "coup" defined as the sudden unconstitutional overthrow of a government by a (typically small) part of the state establishment (usually the military bt not in this case-yet) to replace the branch of the stricken government, either with another civil government or with a military government. All done very peacefully without a shot fired.

There's nothing you or I can do about it until the next time we vote for members of the House and Senate; however, the President in the past day or two has just changed how the next Census will be managed (instead of going through the Commerce Department it will now be managed directly out of the office of the President) so the Democrats can reapportion how the districts are laid out, assuring them they will maintain a majority position in the government.

In case you've never read the 10 Planks of the Communist Manifesto per Karl Marx (as shown in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Communist_Manifesto) here they are:
1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public
purposes.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
3. Abolition of all right of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
5. Centralisation of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank
with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
6. Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the
State.
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the
bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil
generally in accordance with a common plan.
8. Equal liability of all to labour. Establishment of industrial armies, especially
for agriculture.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of
the distinction between town and country, by a more equal distribution of the
population over the country.
10.Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's
factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial
production.[6]

According to the Communist Manifesto, all these were prior conditions for a transition from capitalism to communism.
Any of these look familiar? Did you see the front page of the Newsweek magazine yesterday? "Whether we like it or not—or even whether many people have thought much about it or not—the numbers clearly suggest that we are headed in a more European (aka Socialist) direction." http://www.newsweek.com/id/183663

If you really want to get scared go google "End Game" or "Civilian Inmate Detention Camp" or look at http://blog.puppetgov.com/wp-content/2008/11/r210_35.pdf

Newsweek

Our home boy Jon Meacham has a new edition of Newsweek out that I have got to actually buy. It puts into words a reality that fueled the passion that drove me this past election. Socialism is a word that inspires visions of the depths of hell in my political worldview.

From Politico Playbook:

THE BIG IDEA – Newsweek editor Jon Meacham: '[W]ithout a great deal of fanfare, the America of 2009 has become a more socialist country ... Harvard economist Ken Rogoff predicts the United States will move toward 'a more centralized, redistributional health-care system, as Europe already has,' with a greater emphasis on the environment, higher regulation and increased protectionism. Rogoff's conclusion: 'I take the 2008 U.S. elections as marking a turn toward continental Europe.'

Meacham and Evan Thomas, in their 'violin' introducing the cover package: 'History has a sense of humor, for the man who laid the foundations for the world Obama now rules is George W. Bush, who moved to bail out the financial sector last autumn with $700 billion. Bush brought the Age of Reagan to a close; now Obama has gone further, reversing Bill Clinton's end of big government.'