I have had this thought for quite some time as I consider how their primary objective in politics is to control people by promising monetary benefits (i.e. social programs), and decrying the uncompassionate Republicans for neglecting the poor.
But when you consider that most, if not all, social programs that have been rolled out to "help" have ultimately hurt, and I would use the term "enslave", those it enrolls. As long as the food stamps and the welfare checks keep coming, it's as if the government has truly helped. It's amazing to me that the average person in these programs doesn't see how their dependence on the handouts actually keeps them chained in a vicious system of poverty and dependence.
Then I read this article today and my thoughts were affirmed by a Black journalist's personal experience. In part, she explains:
But when you consider that most, if not all, social programs that have been rolled out to "help" have ultimately hurt, and I would use the term "enslave", those it enrolls. As long as the food stamps and the welfare checks keep coming, it's as if the government has truly helped. It's amazing to me that the average person in these programs doesn't see how their dependence on the handouts actually keeps them chained in a vicious system of poverty and dependence.
Then I read this article today and my thoughts were affirmed by a Black journalist's personal experience. In part, she explains:
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....
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"...
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....
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.