IF I WERE BLACK

...I would never have voted for Barack Obama for President, as 95% of black voters did, because I would have known:

* that the person voted the most liberal U. S. Senator would use the power of his office to implement the most massive entitlement programs in our country's history;

* that there are apple trees and pear trees and all sorts of trees, but there are no entitlement trees to pluck to pay for the entitlements;

* that the other side of entitlement is requirement, and that if you are entitled to something, others will be required to provide it to you;

* that the entitlement/requirement scenario is the essence of slavery, even when invoked by the government...the slave required to work at his master's behest, and the master entitled to the fruits of the slave's labor;

* that any program that contains the element of slavery is abhorrent and contemptible and dead wrong no matter what other perceived benefits to the program there might be;

* that when Obama talks of requiring everyone to have health insurance that others will be required to provide or pay for, that is slavery;

* that when Obama wants to dictate what medical care you are entitled to, that is slavery;

* that when Obama says everyone is entitled to a college education by increasing taxes on some others, that is slavery;

* that when Obama talks of taxing you extra if you don't use certain forms of energy, that is slavery;

* that when Obama says that everyone is entitled to a fair share of the bounty of this country and wants to redistribute your wealth, that is slavery;

* that when Obama wants to dictate what compensation CEO's of private companies are entitled to, that is slavery.

If I were black, I would have sought out and been attracted to an ardent advocate of limited government and of each individual's freedom...and of the idea that the 13th Amendment to the Constitution means what it says:

"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States."

I would have voted Libertarian.

If I were white, I'd feel exactly the same way.