Reparations By Another Name

Editorial - August 8th, 2008 - Investor's Business Daily

Barack Obama says Washington shouldn't just offer apologies for slavery, but also "deeds." Don't worry, he says, he's not talking about direct reparations. Relieved? Don't be.

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A few days later, he clarified his remarks, saying he's not calling for direct cash payments to descendants of slaves, but rather indirect aid in the form of government programs that will "close the gap" between what he sees as white America and black America.

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In other words, reparations by another name.

This is one article that came out recently explaining even more clearly the Marxist goals of Barack Obama. In this case it targets 12% of the American population for special aid based on the actions of "honkies" (the preferred term by those who advocate reparations) who ensalved some of the black population's forebears in the 18th and 19th centuries. The aid will benefit recent immigrants from Africa who have voluntarily come to our nation long after these actions had ended and could not have thus been harmed by these ancestors. Interestingly it will also target for taxation descendants of the 360,000 whites who died in the Civil War to free the slaves, along with the millions of abolitionists who fought to end this scourge, to pay for this special treatment. How is this just? Haven't their families paid the price already? How many times do they have to pay a price for something they not only did not do but actively opposed?

Another article shows exactly how little love Obama has for this nation.

"America Is No Longer What It Could Be, What It Once Was." - Barack Obama

"And I say to myself, 'I don’t want that future for my children.'” --Barack Obama, 8/7/08, in response to the question of a 7-year old on why he was running for president.

Study that for a moment. Let it sink in.

Ask yourself "What could Barack Obama possibly mean?"

At least one question you have to ask Obama is what is the period he is pointing to when America was "what it once was"? Nothing in his program for change will return us to a period from the past. Everything in his program is taking us further down the road to Marxism, something that has never been what America stood for. When is redistribution of wealth expected to be anything but the tyrannical disaster for us that it has been for every country that has ever tried it?

The reality is that Obama is a charlatan, hiding devious wealth redistribution programs for our nation under ambiguous rhetoric of soaring unattainable idealism. Idealism he does not begin to believe because he is in fact a hard nosed left wing politician who plays the political game with a viciousness not seen in years.