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Cocoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 04:16 PM
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Conservative black brings SLAVERY into the Social Security debate
while Bush and McCain call for "conciliation", the RW media machine sinks to a new low...

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/sp20050322.shtml

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Whereas Bush is selling his reform under the theme of an "ownership society," I would call the Democratic alternative the "plantation society." The "plantation society" is characterized by a wealthy class of owners who want to limit the choices, opportunities and freedom of working-class Americans.

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When America's political class debated emancipating slaves, an issue that dampened enthusiasm for the idea was the thought that these slaves could simply walk off the plantation and integrate into the nation and live as free people.

The owner/masters of today's Democratic plantation reject all attempts to roll back government and give working Americans more choice and freedom. The response is the same whether it's personal retirement accounts or choosing where to send your kid to school. Anything reducing government control gets rejected.

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Social Security reform, with a crucial central component of personal retirement accounts, is being threatened by elitist Democratic liberals. They preside over a government plantation over which they do not want to relinquish control. It's time to let the slaves free. Transforming taxes into ownership is an important way to do it.
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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 04:22 PM
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1. OK. And when you have a *PLAN*, give us a hollar.
Edited on Wed Mar-23-05 04:25 PM by meegbear
These dipshits should wait until their fuck-head at least has a clue on what to do, which is destroy it.
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Tux Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 04:31 PM
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2. Plantations?
Sounds like they got the wrong party and work in the house.
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Ms. Clio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 04:59 PM
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3. Just when you think these people can't possibly sink any lower
I so hope this incredibly twisted bullshit just completely backfires on them.
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