I am not a Communist

I am not a Communist.

I am not a Socialist.

I don’t want the government to own

everything.  I don’t want your stuff.  I’m poor and

I’ve got enough stuff of my own already.  So much

stuff that I need to sell my stuff or donate my stuff or

get rid of my stuff just to have space for more stuff.

I believe in making a buck and having a

place of my own, and I want you to

make a living and have a place of your

own.  All I want is for you to keep your

hands out of my pockets and stop

pretending that that my wallet is an

ounce and a half lighter because of

government taxes. 

The government is not out to get you.

I do not want your guns.

I don’t want any guns.

I don’t need a gun to speak my

mind or make myself heard.  If

the pen if mightier than the sword, then

my keyboard is mightier than your gun.

All the time you’ve spent afraid that the

government would try to take your guns,

did you never stop to think how

afraid I am that you would come with

your guns and try to take my life?

Did you never stop to think that maybe

it is not the government that is the

threat to you, but you the threat to us?

You say that the power to tax is the

power to destroy, and I say, so?

When have you ever seen a tax destroy

anything?  I haven’t, but I have seen

poverty and hunger march across the

land with a scythe leaving a trail of

toxic floodwaters.  You say that

taxation without representation

is wrong, and I agree, but

stop to think.  If only

one percent of all

Americans are millionaires, yet

fifty percent of

Congress are millionaires, don’t you

think that it is us, the

rest of America which is

underrepresented?

You can try to bullshit me all you

like, but I’m not stupid and neither is

the rest of us.  Working together

doesn’t make us Communists, it

doesn’t make us Socialists, it

makes us Americans.

We, the people,

are the government, no matter

how much you try to buy it.

When you’re ready to grow up,

man up, and

put up or shut up,

we’ll be out here.

I’ve read the

First Amendment.

Have you?