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| Uncle Sam's Plantation: How Big Government Enslaves America's Poor and What We Can Do About It |
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Synopsis: America has two economic systems:
capitalism for the rich and socialism for the poor.
This double-minded approach seems to keep the poor enslaved to
poverty while the rich get richer. Let's face it, despite its $400
billion price tag, welfare isn't working. The solution, asserts Star
Parker, is a faith-based, not state-sponsored, plan.
In Uncle Sam's Plantation, she offers five simple yet profound
steps that will allow the nation's poor to go from entitlement and
slavery to empowerment and freedom.
Parker shares her own amazing journey up from the lower rungs of
the economic system and addresses the importance of extending
the free market system to this neglected group of people.
Emphasizing personal initiative, faith, and responsibility, she walks
readers toward releasing the hold poverty has over their lives.
capitalism for the rich and socialism for the poor.
This double-minded approach seems to keep the poor enslaved to
poverty while the rich get richer. Let's face it, despite its $400
billion price tag, welfare isn't working. The solution, asserts Star
Parker, is a faith-based, not state-sponsored, plan.
In Uncle Sam's Plantation, she offers five simple yet profound
steps that will allow the nation's poor to go from entitlement and
slavery to empowerment and freedom.
Parker shares her own amazing journey up from the lower rungs of
the economic system and addresses the importance of extending
the free market system to this neglected group of people.
Emphasizing personal initiative, faith, and responsibility, she walks
readers toward releasing the hold poverty has over their lives.
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It is no surprise that government attempts at social engineering
have proven costly, counter-productive, and oftentimes disastrous.
Look no further than the 1960's War on Poverty programs of the
LBJ administration, which instead of "winning" the war on poverty,
only served to exacerbate the plight of the poor, creating three
generations of dependence, laziness, irresponsibility and
psychological nihilism - a cycle that has only started to be undone
with the Welfare Reform Act of 1996.
But don't take my word for it. Just ask Star Parker, president and
founder of the Coalition of Urban Renewal and Education (CURE)
and self-proclaimed "former welfare queen." Picking up where she
left off in her blisteringly honest memoir Pimps, Whores and
Welfare Brats (Pocket Star, 1997), Parker takes big government to
task in Uncle Sam's Plantation: How Big Government Enslaves
America's Poor and What We Can Do About It (WND Books). If
there is anyone who knows first hand the degradation and moral
bankruptcy that comes with perennial dependence on "Uncle Sam,"
it's Ms. Parker - she lived it.
The author lays out her own categorical definitions of poverty and
recounts the hard lessons she learned as a welfare mother. In
discussing how liberals have hijacked history and used the poor as
pawns for political purposes, Parker describes the typical
government safety net as simply a way of covering up the social
pathologies associated with the bad choices of the underprivileged.
Arguably the most harmful effects of massive government
intervention have been the breakdown of the family unit. This is
especially true in the black community, where according to the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services roughly 70% of black
children are born out of wedlock. According to Parker, radical
feminism has helped to produce this horrible state of affairs. The
author shows in surgical detail how buying into the radical feminist
party line (i.e. that men are "the enemy," marriage is "prostitution
and slavery in a different form," and "money is power") has not
only contributed to high rates of illegitimacy and abortion in the
black community, but has also rendered many black women
"unpaid whores and old maids."
The last third of Uncle Sam's Plantation outlines the author's
proposed solutions on weaning the poor off of government
dependence and liberal mind control. From analyzing the
wastefulness of our current tax system and the counter-productive
economic effects of minimum wage and rent control laws, to
outlining how Social Security can (and should) be privatized to
benefit all those who pay into it, the author displays erudition far
beyond the average layperson and an iron-clad compassion born
out of the experience of a woman who has indeed "been there, done
that."
Star Parker's life is a shining example that individual freedom and
self-reliance are indeed possible for those who desire and are willing
to work for it. A person's income does not determine his/her
outcome, and those desiring a better outcome for their lives should
heed this extraordinary woman's words of redemption and
deliverance. She is a true inspiration, and this book is a great read.
*****__A Customer
have proven costly, counter-productive, and oftentimes disastrous.
Look no further than the 1960's War on Poverty programs of the
LBJ administration, which instead of "winning" the war on poverty,
only served to exacerbate the plight of the poor, creating three
generations of dependence, laziness, irresponsibility and
psychological nihilism - a cycle that has only started to be undone
with the Welfare Reform Act of 1996.
But don't take my word for it. Just ask Star Parker, president and
founder of the Coalition of Urban Renewal and Education (CURE)
and self-proclaimed "former welfare queen." Picking up where she
left off in her blisteringly honest memoir Pimps, Whores and
Welfare Brats (Pocket Star, 1997), Parker takes big government to
task in Uncle Sam's Plantation: How Big Government Enslaves
America's Poor and What We Can Do About It (WND Books). If
there is anyone who knows first hand the degradation and moral
bankruptcy that comes with perennial dependence on "Uncle Sam,"
it's Ms. Parker - she lived it.
The author lays out her own categorical definitions of poverty and
recounts the hard lessons she learned as a welfare mother. In
discussing how liberals have hijacked history and used the poor as
pawns for political purposes, Parker describes the typical
government safety net as simply a way of covering up the social
pathologies associated with the bad choices of the underprivileged.
Arguably the most harmful effects of massive government
intervention have been the breakdown of the family unit. This is
especially true in the black community, where according to the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services roughly 70% of black
children are born out of wedlock. According to Parker, radical
feminism has helped to produce this horrible state of affairs. The
author shows in surgical detail how buying into the radical feminist
party line (i.e. that men are "the enemy," marriage is "prostitution
and slavery in a different form," and "money is power") has not
only contributed to high rates of illegitimacy and abortion in the
black community, but has also rendered many black women
"unpaid whores and old maids."
The last third of Uncle Sam's Plantation outlines the author's
proposed solutions on weaning the poor off of government
dependence and liberal mind control. From analyzing the
wastefulness of our current tax system and the counter-productive
economic effects of minimum wage and rent control laws, to
outlining how Social Security can (and should) be privatized to
benefit all those who pay into it, the author displays erudition far
beyond the average layperson and an iron-clad compassion born
out of the experience of a woman who has indeed "been there, done
that."
Star Parker's life is a shining example that individual freedom and
self-reliance are indeed possible for those who desire and are willing
to work for it. A person's income does not determine his/her
outcome, and those desiring a better outcome for their lives should
heed this extraordinary woman's words of redemption and
deliverance. She is a true inspiration, and this book is a great read.
*****__A Customer
Prior to her involvement in social
activism, Star Parker was a single
welfare mother in Los Angeles,
California. After receiving Christ, Star
returned to college, received a BS
degree in marketing and launched an
urban Christian magazine. The 1992
Los Angeles riots destroyed her
business, yet served as a springboard
for her focus on conservative activism.
As a social policy consultant, Star
Parker gives regular testimony before
the United States Congress, and is a
national expert on major television and
radio shows across the country.
Currently, Star is a regular
commentator on CNN, CNBC, CBN,
FOX News, and the United Kingdom's
BBC. She has debated Jesse Jackson on
BET; fought for school choice on Larry
King Live; defended welfare reform on
the Oprah Winfrey Show, debated
Michael Moore regarding healthcare
reform on The View, and spoke at the
1996 Republican National Convention.
Star has written three books,"Pimps,
Whores & Welfare Brats", "Uncle
Sam's Plantation", and "White Ghetto:
How Middle Class America Reflects
Inner City Decay".
Star is a syndicated columnist for
Scripps Howard News Service, offering
weekly op-eds to more than 400
newspapers worldwide, including the
Boston Herald, the Dallas Morning
News, The Orange County Register,
San Diego Union, Arkansas Democrat
Gazette, the Washington Times, and
the Star and Stripes, the largest paper
serving the men and women of our
Armed Forces.
activism, Star Parker was a single
welfare mother in Los Angeles,
California. After receiving Christ, Star
returned to college, received a BS
degree in marketing and launched an
urban Christian magazine. The 1992
Los Angeles riots destroyed her
business, yet served as a springboard
for her focus on conservative activism.
As a social policy consultant, Star
Parker gives regular testimony before
the United States Congress, and is a
national expert on major television and
radio shows across the country.
Currently, Star is a regular
commentator on CNN, CNBC, CBN,
FOX News, and the United Kingdom's
BBC. She has debated Jesse Jackson on
BET; fought for school choice on Larry
King Live; defended welfare reform on
the Oprah Winfrey Show, debated
Michael Moore regarding healthcare
reform on The View, and spoke at the
1996 Republican National Convention.
Star has written three books,"Pimps,
Whores & Welfare Brats", "Uncle
Sam's Plantation", and "White Ghetto:
How Middle Class America Reflects
Inner City Decay".
Star is a syndicated columnist for
Scripps Howard News Service, offering
weekly op-eds to more than 400
newspapers worldwide, including the
Boston Herald, the Dallas Morning
News, The Orange County Register,
San Diego Union, Arkansas Democrat
Gazette, the Washington Times, and
the Star and Stripes, the largest paper
serving the men and women of our
Armed Forces.
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