It's Mea Culpa Week
By Michael Reagan
August 1, 2008
Page 2 of 2
It took years for the wave of Irish emigrants fleeing from harsh British rule and a famine that killed an estimated million and-a-half of them before it was over to lift themselves out of grinding poverty. And they did it on their own, without any help.
Where are my reparations?
As for making reparations to Native Americans, millions of our fellow citizens are doing that already, filling the swollen coffers of the host of gambling casinos thriving on Indian reservations. Long-gone Americans drove them off their ancestral lands. Today's Americans are paying for it at their roulette tables or playing slot machines.
If there is any apologizing to be done, the Democrats in Congress should be doing it, atoning for $4-a-gallon gas that's the direct result of their refusal to allow us to tap the billions if not trillions of gallons of oil lying untapped here, in Alaska and in the Gulf, because they won't let us go after them and free ourselves from dependence on foreign oil.
If they want to chant "mea culpa," let the guilt-ridden Democrats pay us reparations out of their campaign war-chest for getting us into this mess.
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Mike Reagan, the elder son of the late President Ronald Reagan, is heard on more than 200 talk radio stations nationally as part of the Radio America Network. Look for Mike's newest book, "Twice Adopted" and other info at www.Reagan.com. E-mail comments to Reagan@caglecartoons.com.
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