Obama; Reparations by any other name? (health care, voters, polls, military)
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He says government should offer "universal" programs — such as universal health care, universal mortgage credits, college tuition, job training and even universal 401(k)s — that "disproportionately affect people of color."
In other words, reparations by another name.
Obama knows that if he pushes too hard on reparations, he might scare off white voters. So he couches race-specific welfare as "universal" social programs that appeal to broad-based political coalitions — "even if they disproportionately help minorities," he confides in his book, "Audacity of Hope."
Obama has a name for his scheme: "universal strategies."
"An emphasis on universal, as opposed to race-specific, programs isn't just good policy," he wrote. "It's also good politics."
He's learned well at the feet of revs Wright and Pfleger, who have long advocated "payback".
The politics of grievance at work. Alive and Well. Most people think Obama is divorced from this thinking but if they would do their research . . . they might be very surprised.
Between Universal Programs, Economic Justice and Windfall Profits Tax, Obama's policies and beliefs seem far left of Karl Marx. All code words for Income Redistribution.
universal - Definitions from Dictionary.com
u·ni·ver·sal Audio Help /ˌyunəˈvɜrsəl/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[yoo-nuh-vur-suhl] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective 1. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of all or the whole: universal experience.
2. applicable everywhere or in all cases; general: a universal cure.
3. affecting, concerning, or involving all: universal military service.
4. used or understood by all: a universal language.
5. present everywhere: the universal calm of southern seas.
rep·a·ra·tion Audio Help /ˌrɛpəˈreɪʃən/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[rep-uh-rey-shuhn] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun 1. the making of amends for wrong or injury done: reparation for an injustice.
2. Usually, reparations. compensation in money, material, labor, etc., payable by a defeated country to another country or to an individual for loss suffered during or as a result of war.
3. restoration to good condition
synonym - Definitions from Dictionary.com
syn·o·nym Audio Help /ˈsɪnənɪm/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[sin-uh-nim] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun 1. a word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another in the language, as joyful, elated, glad.
2. a word or expression accepted as another name for something, as Arcadia for pastoral simplicity; metonym.
3. Biology. one of two or more scientific names applied to a single taxon.
English teachers forgive them for they knoweth what they do, but do so out of a call to distort for their collective sense of something.
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