Feb. 10, 2009
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Star Parker's Column Whine About Socializing America Is So Far Out of Joint with Facts, History
Of course, no one can deny the egregious history of how black Americans (and other racial minorities) were mistreated for a couple of centuries. Let's not argue that point because it is engraved in our history.
Star Parker's inability even to describe a president as Democratic instead of "Democrat President" leave her analysis back about 50 years. (Link to Star Parker's column: http://townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2009/02/09/back_on_uncle_sams_plantation?page=full&comments=true).
Reality is that the poor in America have come from all corners, races, religions and otherwise. If she wants to revisit ALL of those in slums in the '20's and 30's, she will find hundreds of thousands if not millions of immigrants from Europe and elsewhere who occupied some of those neighborhoods, one in which my own parents found themselves as well.
If she is so worried right now about all this socialism, she should check in with the Bush administration in which the current so-called "stimulus" effort not only was the product of the Treasury Secretary and the Fed Chairman who promoted it like crazy but was then confusing a Republican side of Congress who did not know how to handle it all. She should also review how the usually conservative private sector is now financing swarms of lobbyists scaling the walls of Capital Hill to get chunks of the TARP money for their clients.
There is more than enough hypocrisy to go around in this brave new world of politics and economics where China now owns more than 10% of our debt, much of which was amassed in Republican administrations as well as the folks from the Democratic side. Unfortunately, Parker has some foggy memories born of times that were indeed shameful in our history, but the attempted assistance was not the fundamental cause of broken families of all races who were excluded from the good things in our society.
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Star Parker's Column Whine About Socializing America Is So Far Out of Joint with Facts, History
Of course, no one can deny the egregious history of how black Americans (and other racial minorities) were mistreated for a couple of centuries. Let's not argue that point because it is engraved in our history.
Star Parker's inability even to describe a president as Democratic instead of "Democrat President" leave her analysis back about 50 years. (Link to Star Parker's column: http://townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2009/02/09/back_on_uncle_sams_plantation?page=full&comments=true).
Reality is that the poor in America have come from all corners, races, religions and otherwise. If she wants to revisit ALL of those in slums in the '20's and 30's, she will find hundreds of thousands if not millions of immigrants from Europe and elsewhere who occupied some of those neighborhoods, one in which my own parents found themselves as well.
If she is so worried right now about all this socialism, she should check in with the Bush administration in which the current so-called "stimulus" effort not only was the product of the Treasury Secretary and the Fed Chairman who promoted it like crazy but was then confusing a Republican side of Congress who did not know how to handle it all. She should also review how the usually conservative private sector is now financing swarms of lobbyists scaling the walls of Capital Hill to get chunks of the TARP money for their clients.
There is more than enough hypocrisy to go around in this brave new world of politics and economics where China now owns more than 10% of our debt, much of which was amassed in Republican administrations as well as the folks from the Democratic side. Unfortunately, Parker has some foggy memories born of times that were indeed shameful in our history, but the attempted assistance was not the fundamental cause of broken families of all races who were excluded from the good things in our society.
| Joseph J. Honick Bainbridge Island, WA |
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