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years to a time when we find plantation owners that owned slaves. These
slaves were owned for the purpose of providing the necessary labor for the
land owner. The first slaves in the United States were predominately darker
skin-colored men and women.
I know this will be hard for some of you, but let's set the immoral issue of
slavery aside for a moment. Slavery was and is a very poor use of an
economical resource. Slave owners did not just pay "one-time" to purchase
the slave, but had to feed, and shelter him as well. If the slave was a
member of a family unit the slave owner had to provide for them as well.
Each new addition to the slave family had to be provided for also. Slave
owners also had to employ guards to keep his slaves from trying to escape.
Just as today, some of these guards were slaves themselves.
Malevolent slave owners that mistreated their slaves found they had a
tendency to try to escape because of the harsh and abusive treatment.
Benevolent slave owners thought that by providing better living conditions
their slaves would be less likely to try to escape. In neither case did the
slave have any say so about their treatment.
Some slaves were happy to have a good master and agreed to "stay at home,"
and do what they were told to do. Some slaves had a burning desire to be
free to do what they wanted to and no amount of "owner kindness" could keep
them from escaping.
The slaves that had any initiative at all were the ones that fled to
freedom. If the slave was successful, he could look forward to having to
work hard for the rest of his life to provide for his food, clothing, and
shelter. The paramount difference was that the escaped slave was his own
master and had the freedom to choose the items of life that would make him
most happy.
Now let's come back to the present. Today there are no slave masters with
whips and chains; however there are new age slave masters. Today it is not
any one individual that owns others as slaves; however slavery is growing in
the United States. The new slaves in the United States are not of one
particular race of people. Modern day slavery is growing not because there
is a need for "slave labor," but because the slaves themselves want slavery
to grow.
The contemporary slaves want their government to provide cradle to grave for
their food, clothing, shelter, and health care. The new slaves will vote for
whoever promises them the most benefits. These new slaves are willing to
accept whatever their government tells them is best for all. These new
slaves are true believers that their new masters in the government (local,
state, and federal) are omnipotent and can make no errors. They are
completely willing to accept what their new masters tell them is best for
them collectively.
Just like 150 years ago there are guards to keep the slaves in line. Today
you can find individuals like Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton, Charlie Rangel,
Howard Dean, George Soros and a host of Socialist Democrats continuing to
try to keep the new slaves from trying to escape from the government
plantation.
The current level of governmental spending on individuals has only gone up.
Spending has never been reduced in 20 plus years. The current slave guards
are telling the current generation slaves that their current government is
failing to provide them with more benefits simply because the current
administration doesn't care for them. If the Socialist Democrats had someone
from their party in office they would be saying the exact opposite.
The new generation slaves are simply too lazy, or too psychology insecure
with their life to try anything on their own.
Did you ever wonder why is it, when a modern day slave exhibits personal
initiative and escapes from the government's plantation and makes a better
life on his or her own that the socialist plantation owners want to
criticize them so much?
I wonder if we could trade our new slaves to Mexico for the Mexican
individuals risking everything, including their very life, simply for the
"minimum wage" opportunities in the United States.
GOTDAM CATFISH! You have made more sense with less words than anything I
have read on this gotdam problem. I am linking this and hope the whole
country reads it!
Cat, I hope you don't mind, but I threw a link to you on this myself.
I'd say that 'bout sums it up brother... Well said.
I certainly agree Catfish. You put it well.
A lot of the modern day complainers are still waiting for their 40 acres
and a mule.
Kids: those days are gone and it just aint gonna happen.
Is anyone other than me irritated by the expression "African-American" ?
The next time you hear someone describe themselves that way, ask when was
the last time they, or their parents or their grandparents visited africa,
much less were born there.
We are, I hope, all just Americans.
Now, I agree with what yer saying here. Social Hives are annoying in that
the people don't think for themselves. They rely upon the "brain" to tell
them what to do and don't really try to do anything on their own.
Damn fine piece, Cat. Damn fine.
Cat - C'mon who wrote that? It's good but it ain't your style.
Frederick Douglass - Free Man, former slave - wrote about this in his book
entitled My Bondage, My Freedom. He drew parallels back in the day of
Lincoln about an over-reaching government that would function very much as
a slave owner. After escaping slavery he wrote about this at length while
writing for several well known newspapers in the North and spoke to Lincoln
himself about these thoughts. I get chills when I read this quote:
Excellent piece, Cat. I agree wholeheartedly. I have just one little
niggling (if I can use that word) point to make. The first slaves in this
country were Scottish captives of the Vikings. Later slaves were dragooned
off of the docks in Scotland and Ireland and even the English, when they
captured Scots in battle, sent some to America as slaves. This is not to be
confused with indentured servants, which is a whole other deal.