Jackson and his crowd have gotten a high pecaentrge of black people dependent on government help while letting government spending get out of hand. Now he's bringing up slavery when people are trying to trying to balance the budget.Not to be insulting here, but are you innumerate? How do you simply ignore the immense debt being heaped on people too young to be given a say in it? We're at about $50,000 per person and Jackson & company want to keep adding $5,000 or more to that a year. Servicing the debt is taking up 9% of federal taxes already and that number is going up, not down. When you're borrowing money to service your debt, you've got a spending problem.And yes, I get angry at the sheer chutzpah of bringing up slavery to defend the financial enslavement children. Or are you okay with them refusing to pay debt they had no say in amassing? What happens to the government-spending addiction then? The black community was rapidly closing the education gap before Johnson's Great Society scheme. The more government has done for blacks, the more that gap has rewidened. Urban black families have fragmented with fatherless homes all around, due to government policies. Bill Cosby took flack years ago for pointing out these sorts of things. He did it because he genuinely wants improvement for his community, and he's smart enough to know what works.Again, if I hated blacks and wanted to keep them marginalized or cared about them but thought they were genuinely inferior, poor dears I'd adopt many of the same policies progressives have pushed.I neither hate blacks nor think they're inferior. But nor will I willingly take part in this enslavement of children. The federal government is routinely spending 40-60% more than it takes in? Then it's time to cut government by at least that amount. Even if we raised taxes the government needs paring by a third. Time to pay down this debt, not increase it with ever-rising interest obligations.

by Wisaam 11:00:29 AM 2012.10.03