Star Parker

Star Parker is founder and president of CURE, the Center for Urban Renewal and Education, a 501c3 think tank which explores and promotes market based public policy to fight poverty, as well as author of the newly revised Uncle Sam's Plantation: How Big Government Enslaves America's Poor and What We Can do About It. [1]

Issues

1. NAACP
   • it accuses "well meaning white conservative" Rick Santorum of being racist
   • it promotes same sex marriage as a civil rights issue.
2. Welfare
   • endless expansion of welfare programs
   • the destructiveness of welfare state programs on African Americans
   • welfare dependency
3. perverse incentives
4. socialized medicine
5. Medicaid
   • "bankrupting states and delivering substandard health care"
   • Medicaid reform
6. inner city public schools are beyond repair
   • school competition
   • parental choice
   • school vouchers
   • tax credits
7. breakdown of the traditional black family
8. the sharp weapon of racial intimidation
9. sexual irresponsibility and immorality led to "the top three social crises confronting us as a nation today": AIDS, abortion, and the entire welfare state [2]