Middle Class Must Not Fail or All is Lost

1974 | Taylor Caldwell

[W.]

This is 40 years old, yet the message/warning it carries needs to be repeated. I rediscovered it via the Wayback machine and did not find it on FR via search. I posted it in its entirety as it can be found numerous places online, but the original source is unknown to me.

[kaehurowing]

Unfortunately, now destroyed by Obama and the Democrats.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Do not believe for an instant that the world's conspiring elite in every nation have so much as a serious quarrel among them. They have just one object: control through tribute. Your slavery, through tribute, and mine. And they use wars for their purposes just as they use inequities, harassment, bullying, capriciousness, and extortion of their graduated income tax.

This...for the next time someone takes the McCain line.

[re_nortex]

Abolish the minimum wage! Crush unions! Defund the EPA, NLRB and OSHA! And then watch America’s mighty economic engine come roaring back thanks to the power of truly free enterprise. Red China will then revert back to its third world cesspool status.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Like I said to someone else...

Collectivism in the West benefits only the rich and the poor. The middle class bends over and takes up the rectal region from both groups (and whom the Pubbies and Dems represent) until the middle decays and disappears. Then you’re back to third world status with 99% in poverty and the rich who are still wealthy.

[okie01]

Collectivism in the West benefits only the rich and the poor.

Collectivism anywhere benefits only the rich and the poor. As Lenin explained, the first target of socialism is the middle class -- because of their ambition, mobility and success.

The bourgoisie must be destroyed before the collective can work its wonders.

[combat_boots]

Marx, the narrator of the elite, and one of them himself.

No wonder he hated the middle class. Effete snobs do like their manicures.

[B4Ranch]

Is it time to start announcing our demands from the ammo box podium yet?

[B4Ranch]

Taylor Caldwell isn’t the only one who has been preaching that the middle class is doomed if they refuse to fight for the past 40 years. When are we going to realize these “prophets” know what they are talking about?

[dr_lew]

“An effete corps of impudent snobs” ... courtesy William Safire ( written for Spiro Agnew )

[Inyo-Mono]

Bookmarked.

[Nifster]

Always loved Caldwell’s writing

[matthew fuller]

Looking at the offerings (prices) of his books on Amazon is an attention getter. Must have been a heck of an author.

http://www.amazon.com/Taylor-Caldwell/e/B000ARBIX6

[Logical me]

Middle class hanging on by a thread (credit cards).

[lastchance]

Yes she was. I loved her “Great Lion of God” and “Dear and Glorious Physician” Tales of the Apostle Paul and Luke, repectively.

[B4Ranch]

His books are considered to be collectables these days.

[lastchance]

I found this very interesting interview with Caldwell.

http://georgefsmith.blogspot.com/2009/08/interview-with-taylor-caldwell-1978.html

[Jack Hydrazine]

Getting closer all the time.

[Jack Hydrazine]

BINGO!

[GeronL]

The Middle Class has been getting a ghetto style beat down for the last 6-9 years. Savings are now nil, incomes are far behind where they should be and the future doesn’t look good.