Free Michelle Obama's Slaves
By Daniel Greenfield
SultanKnish.Blogspot.com
At the DNC, Michelle Obama put on her victimhood hat
one more time and declared, “I wake up every morning
in a house that was built by slaves.”
But
that’s too past tense. Michelle’s house continues to
be built and maintained by slaves. Her lavish
lifestyle of endless vacations, parties and public
appearances is funded by millions and millions of
slaves.
Michelle Obama lives a life that is more lavish and
luxurious than that of the average plantation owner.
She has 26 staffers that are part of a White House
staff of thousands. That’s more than many crowned
heads of state. Compare that to 12 servants for
Thomas Jefferson.
Michelle has more directors than some corporations.
And working for her is a Marie Antoinette
experience. “The First Lady having the wrong pencil
skirt on Monday is just as big of a f___ up as
someone speaking on the record when they didn’t mean
to or a policy initiative that completely failed,”
one former staffer said.
Of course that’s their business. Michelle’s staffers
chose their jobs and they get paid. It’s the
taxpayers who have to pay for it all who are forced
to be her unwilling slaves.
Michelle’s house, her luxurious lifestyle, is built
by taxpaying slaves who are forced to turn over
their money to fund her pleasures. She spent more
money on one night in Morocco than the average
American family will see in five years.
In Dublin, Michelle Obama and her entourage took a
sightseeing trip that cost over $250,000. Michelle's
people bought up 30 rooms at the five-star
Shelbourne Hotel while she stayed in the Princess
Grace Suite which has more living space than most
American homes. The Shelbourne Hotel wasn't built by
slaves. But it was funded by them. So are all of her
jaunts, excursions and parties.
When she shops around Paris and then flies over to
London in a 757 to see the sights in London, her
slaves pick up the tab. When she and her husband
decide to fly out for a “date” to New York while the
city is shut down, it’s her slaves in the big city
watching the motorcade pass who have to pay for it.
Their Africa trip cost millions. American slaves
paid for it with their blood, sweat and toil.
Maintaining the Obama lifestyle cost $1.4 billion a
few years ago. It’s unknown what it costs today.
Obama’s White House parties cost anywhere from
$200,000 at the cheap end to over $500,000.
Americans have no more freedom to decide whether to
pay for another Obama vacation or event than slaves
did in deciding how to serve their masters and
mistresses.
All they can do is watch from a distance while their
masters stuff their faces, gallivant cheerfully on
tours through foreign countries while staying at
posh hotels and then make them work to pay for it.
In the last election, Obama told Americans that they
weren’t responsible for their accomplishments. “You
didn’t build that,” was his message to his slaves.
They didn’t build that. He did.
But they did build that.
Slaves built the Obama lifestyle. Slaves who
struggle to get by. Who scrimp and save to have a
few hundred dollars on hand in case of an emergency.
That’s the cost of a single dish at a dinner to
their masters in the White House. Slaves who fear
losing their jobs and being unable to provide for
their families watch their hard-earned money being
squandered on another vacation and another party.
America’s slaves have watched the nation’s wealth
become concentrated around the Washington
Versailles. At the peak of Obama’s misrule, the
Beltway area boasted 7 of the 10 wealthiest counties
in the country. Obama won 8 of the 10 wealthiest
counties in the country in the last election.
It’s not hard to guess why.
The Obama lifestyle is just the tip of the iceberg.
Tens of thousands of more modest government
plantation owners cling to their skirts living off
the stolen toil of the government’s slaves.
Government, like slavery, is an institution. Like
slavery, it claims to civilize its dependents. In
reality it exploits them. It promises them security
in exchange for freedom. It takes away the products
of their toil and then tells them that they didn’t
build that. It claims a false moral authority to
exploit them.
Michelle Obama is a slave-owner lecturing her slaves
about slavery. And Michelle and Barack are the tip
of a very large institution which is built on
depriving Americans of their political and economic
freedoms.
Slavery was based on the notion that some people are
superior to others. That same idea runs through
Obama’s speeches. It is the lifeblood of the twisted
thing that the left has turned liberalism into.
The Obamas have the right to enslave us because they
are on “the right side of history”. They can exploit
us because they know what is better for us. They can
take the work of our hands from us because we didn’t
build that, they and all the rest of our government
masters did the real building.
At the Democrats circus of hate in Philly, it ought
to be remembered that this was where Thomas
Jefferson wrote that “Life, Liberty and the pursuit
of Happiness” were inalienable rights and that
governments derive their just powers from the
consent of the governed. Governments do not gain
their authority from any innate superiority, but
from consent. The Obama theory that government gains
power in proportion to its historical moral
superiority is slavery wrapped in hypocrisy.
It is time to end slavery all over again. It is time
to free Michelle Obama’s taxpaying slaves.
The first step to ending slavery is to recognize its
fundamental injustice. It is unjust that a working
family ought to work its fingers to the bone so that
Michelle Obama can enjoy yet another sightseeing
tour. It is unjust that a class of parasites
claiming to be public servants can draw unlimited
amounts of money on the credit of people trying to
make ends meet. It is unjust that Michelle Obama can
own hundreds of millions of people as slaves.
And it is an injustice that must end.
Nineteenth century slavery ceased to be an issue in
the nineteenth century. Twenty-first century slavery
is the issue that we must tackle today.