[Smokin' Joe]

Bundy used the forbidden word. "slavery".

Despite the de facto welfare slavery of the Democrat Plantation, even the Pubbies don't want to admit the truth: when they were picking cotton, or hoeing the crops, or harvesting, they worked for the food, housing, clothing, and rudimentary medical care provided--they (perhaps more than) earned their keep or there would have been little point having them around.

Now, stripped of work ethic and sense of achievement, the same things are provided by the government, extracted from their benefactors at gunpoint (or threat thereof), only there is no sense of accomplishment (unless it's 'gettin over on the man'), no sense of self worth, nor work ethic.

There is no way the latter is more beneficial, as generations are being stripped, culturally and socially, of the tools which might lead them to success above and beyond the projects (slave quarters).

Sure, the little cabin has been traded for a nicer (well, sometimes) apartment, or Section 8 housing, and the place is better lit, the chains aren't drab iron, but gold filled, and they can come and go as they please, but it is what it is, regardless of nicer trimmings, and the illusion of 'freedom'.

Far too many are too blind to see it.

[awelliott]

Well said. Bundy was as right as rain - his only mistake was in restricting his comments to “the negro”. A slave could have initiative, dignity, and a sense of honor. Regardless of race, the welfare recipient, particularly the multi-generational variety who considers it an “entitlement” have none of that...

[khelus]

Bundy used the forbidden word. "slavery".

Despite the de facto welfare slavery of the Democrat Plantation, even the Pubbies don't want to admit the truth: when they were picking cotton, or hoeing the crops, or harvesting, they worked for the food, housing, clothing, and rudimentary medical care provided--they (perhaps more than) earned their keep or there would have been little point having them around.

Now, stripped of work ethic and sense of achievement, the same things are provided by the government, extracted from their benefactors at gunpoint (or threat thereof), only there is no sense of accomplishment (unless it's 'gettin over on the man'), no sense of self worth, nor work ethic. There is no way the latter is more beneficial, as generations are being stripped, culturally and socially, of the tools which might lead them to success above and beyond the projects (slave quarters).

Sure, the little cabin has been traded for a nicer (well, sometimes) apartment, or Section 8 housing, and the place is better lit, the chains aren't drab iron, but gold filled, and they can come and go as they please, but it is what it is, regardless of nicer trimmings, and the illusion of 'freedom'.

Far too many are too blind to see it.

Applause. I would add to afraid to see it.

Bundy's stand against the encroachments of big government and the erosion of rule of law and property rights have obviously hit a nerve on both sides of the aisle.

Harry Reid has given the eGOP PC cover to abandon Bundy.