Class Warfare

One primary goal of any “good” socialist is class warfare. Subversively encouraged by individuals with an agenda, people with similar socio-economic backgrounds group together and begin to look at people with circumstances other than their own as the enemy. As the people of this “group” begin coming together with others of like mind, they feel emboldened to make demands on those of another socio-economic circumstance, feeling that those of other classes owe everything they have to their class. Rather than directing their energy to improve their own circumstance, they begin making demands on the other classes to improve their lives for them. An effective socialist leader will then take that energy, and use it to bring the other groups more in line with the living conditions of those in the lower class. This is realized, usually through the oppressive taxation of the upper classes, bringing their income down to an “equitable” level, and the increased money gleaned through this taxation is then used for social programs to be enjoyed by all.

The goal of the socialist is not really to bring the wealthy more in line with that of the poor, though they will make the claim of that being their objective. They would insist that their modus operandi is to take a “fair” amount from the wealthy, as they can afford it, spread that to the lower classes, bringing all the groups more in line with a perceived equality in circumstance. The true goal of the socialist is to do away with the “middle class”, leaving only the poor and the powerful.

Not Yours to Give by Col. David Crockett

Statesman, Congressman, Frontiersman, Humorist, and Patriot

One day in the House of Representatives a bill was taken up appropriating money for the benefit of a widow of a distinguished naval officer. Several beautiful speeches had been made in its support. The speaker was just about to put the question when Crockett arose:

“Mr. Speaker–I have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the suffering of the living, if there be, as any man in this House, but we must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not go into an argument to prove that Congress has not the power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member on this floor knows it.

We have the right as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money. Some eloquent appeals have been made to us upon the ground that it is a debt due the deceased. Mr. Speaker, the deceased lived long after the close of the war; he was in office to the day of his death, and I ever heard that the government was in arrears to him.

“Every man in this House knows it is not a debt. We cannot without the grossest corruption, appropriate this money as the payment of a debt. We have not the semblance of authority to appropriate it as charity. Mr. Speaker, I have said we have the right to give as much money of our own as we please. I am the poorest man on this floor. I cannot vote for this bill, but I will give one week’s pay to the object, and if every member of Congress will do the same, it will amount to more than the bill asks.”