The real class war, Gazette
August 11, 2011 by Don Surber
In today’s editorial, the Charleston Gazette trots out a century-old argument made by socialists and communists that the rich are oppressing the proletariat.
Not every person on welfare is a moocher.
Those who riot are.
The Charleston Gazette’s editorial board rationalizes and justifies the looting of stores, the stripping and robbing of people on the streets, the brutalization of students and other hooliganism by marauding packs of welfare bums — those on welfare who do not deserve it.
From the Gazette:
But social workers say Britain’s upheaval flared among left-out jobless people because the gulf between affluent and poor has grown to intolerable proportions — especially in congested sections where “haves” and “have-nots” live close together. Britain’s Reuters news service reported:
“This ever-widening and very visible gap between the rich and poor has exacerbated tension in recent years, especially as government cuts to welfare payments have started to bite.”
Although the riots started over a police shooting (as they usually do), the destruction rapidly mushroomed from London to other poverty-racked cities. Reuters quoted an articulate-but-unemployed young man in a damaged neighborhood:
“They call it looting and criminality. It’s not that. There’s a real hatred against the system… There are two worlds in this borough. More and more middle-class [people] are coming, and we’re being pushed out. The shops are pricing stuff like it’s the [rich] West End. We can’t afford the rents. We’re the outcasts. We’re not wanted anymore. There’s nothing for us.”
Baloney.
The “articulate-but-unemployed” thug is a violent criminal who is oppressing shopkeepers and the working class who pay taxes.
The real class war is between those who work and pay taxes and those who mooch off the system that was set up to help the Truly Needy.
70% of the British national budget now goes to welfare programs — roughly $600 billion a year.
That is $10,000 a year per British citizen transferred from the wallets of the workers to the “articulate-but-unemployed” looters who are terrorizing London.
Shops that survived the Blitzkrieg are ruined 70 years later by these thugs.
And the editorial board of the Charleston Gazette sides with the violent criminals.
Violent welfare recipients beat honest, hard-working people because British gun laws protect criminals.
Even if you somehow have a legal gun in Britain, if you shoot an attacker, you go to jail.
This is the world the Gazette wants for Charleston, West Virginia.
The real class war is between the 53% of us who pay federal income taxes and the 47% who mooch. Siding with the moochers are limo libs; more than a few of them live off their rich wives or some trust fund from great-grandpa.
Remember this chart:
Why work?
What is the difference between poverty and being rich?
I mean besides the fact that you have to pay the taxes to keep the moochers from looting.
78% of the poor have air conditioning. My mother has worked all her life and raised 5 children as a factory worker, and yet at 87 she does not have air conditioning. Still, even in retirement, she duly pays taxes to help keep the welfare state going.
We were poor but never on welfare.
63% have cable or satellite TV. Taxpayers are cutting back. In the last quarter, for the first time, Pay TV lost 200,000 customers nationwide.
Social spending has skyrocketed in America under Obama. What do we get? Flash mobs that loot stores.
The Gazette incredibly concluded:
Britain’s torment offers a grim warning for America, which has an even-worse gulf between privileged families and left-out people. Conservatives in Washington are demanding severe cuts in “safety net” programs that sustain lower rungs of society and offer hope for advancement. If the conservatives succeed, they could be jolted by what follows.
The Gazette should be ashamed of siding with the violent criminals who beat, rob and steal from people who work their tails off to keep the shops open.
But then again, the Gazette disdains those of us who live “in the hinterlands.”
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