Gimme, Gimme, Gimme!

I was skimming through the channels earlier and paused on CSPAN's live broadcast of the "Black State of the Union. "Some angry looking freak of a woman with bulging eyes was gesticulating wildly. You'd think that community would be happy now that a half-black man was elected President. I had it on mute but it looked to me as though she wanted something, I guess it was money: more welfare, more federal housing, more food stamps, Medicaid and Medicare, gimme gimme gimme! I think I was onto something because, then as if on cue, the Master of the Art of the Shakedown, Jess Jackson, stood and took a bow.

The mainstream black leaders are anything but mainstream. That label should belong, at the very least, to a more moderate cohort, not these radical leftists. These people have moved beyond Marxism. As embodied in Obama's budget, the mantra "To each according to his need" has been replaced by "To each according to his want." And they have also discarded, "From each according to his ability." Obama is leaning heavily on 5 percent of taxpayers to pull the wagon bearing the rest of society.

This is not a formula for a stable and prosperous democratic Republic.