Davy Crockett - Not Yours to Give

[lowflams123]

Lets all do our Part!

Ron Paul 2012

[thereverendwho]

Wow, look at all the support Crockett has here. Too bad that this is probably a work of fiction. There is no proof that Crockett actually made this statement. Instead it was more than likely penned by a dime store novelist.

[TheRealSimpleSimon]

@thereverendwho According to a Crockett biographer, it is true.

Pissy youtube won't let any variant of the link come through. :(

Google "davy crockett lew rockwell" it should be the first link

[thereverendwho]

@TheRealSimpleSimon The "Georgetown Fire" was actually in Alexandria. The vote was taken January 21, 1827 before Crockett was in office. Crockett did vote against the bill to give aide to Widow Brown but was not present for the discussion. Unlike Ellis' story the bill actually passed house and senate. In fact Ellis was mainly a dime novelist who was born 12 years after this speech was to take place. This is a summary of the information given by historian Ann Toplovich.

[yakyakyak69]

Libertarians HATE "welfare" because “WELFARE” IS HEARTLESS!

Forced Redistribution (social or corporate) makes SLAVES of the taxed, DEPENDANTS of the recipients & crony TYRANTS of the politicians while killing FREEDOM & competition by taking the rewards of success and rewarding failure thus destroying ALL personal responsibility and ANY sense of self-worth.

Monopolistic “Progressive” Central Planning does not provide "justice" of ANY kind!

Keynesianism = political Cronyism!

[ProtectMyLiberty]

@yakyakyak69 Amen Brother!

[killbilly2012]

4 ppl prefer socialism to liberty, except when the right to freedom of speech protects thier own personal views. those who disagree, they would demand they be silenced and thier right to freedom of speech abolished.

[JZarter]

When you suggest that Barney Frank should give his own money to people who don't have the money to buy a home, how would he react? If you suggest that Nancy Pelosi give her money to women who want their third abortion, I am wondering what she might say. If you ask Michele Obama if she would share her millions with a group of street people with drinking and drug problems, I don't have to wonder what she would say.

[sirbata]

Where are these people today? Well, for that one that made that brilliant speech i think we have 100k today on the streets of America voicing just that. Love ya for returning my hope

[1cookiegil]

@sirbata Beg to differ. OWS wants the government to support them. They want money for their education and homes. They want money for doing nothing. This video advocates what the tea party activists are working towards; Small government which=less taxes=greater personal accountability; leading to a desire to succeed=growth in small businesses=satisfaction in life=less poverty=greater charity=less violence=a better standard of living Accountability to God, your family, neighbors and country AMEN

[1cookiegil]

@sirbata Beg to differ. OWS wants the government to support them. They want money for their education and homes. They want money for doing nothing. This video advocates what the tea party activists are working towards; Small government which=less taxes=greater personal accountability; leads to a desire to succeed=growth in small businesses=satisfaction in life=less poverty=less violence=greater charity=

a better standard of living. Accountability to God, your family, neighbors and country AMEN

[jaleach123]

Four people should've died at the Alamo.

[tat2dMama68]

Liked, faved, shared... this is definitely not taught in schools!

[NewAmericaNow]

Wonderful, simply wonderful

[sniped101]

EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD HEAR THIS. It should be mandatory for each American to hear this. Hell.. most people in school don't even know that crockett was even a colonel. and why the hell does this have only 18k views?!?! The majority of americans don't have a freaking clue.

[yojimbo81]

@sniped101 Nothing should be mandatory. Where is the liberty in force? As for the number of views...how is the average YouTube user going to find this? It's the most viewed video from the user that posted it. That's a start.

[K20ej88]

It's hard not to be cynical when this video only has 17,000 views.

[grizzzlyjoe]

@K20ej88 Good point!

[nathanjcarney]

We tend to think differently when the conflagration is at our doorstep.

[waterskippers]

Did they leave off the rest of the conversation because of the 10 minute limit or what?

[sixtiksix]

This is why he banished himself to Texas. After listening to this dressing down he just kept on riding out of the state....

[tokyorose999]

how pretentious and obscure !

[driver3464]

Truth still rings loud and true long after it is first said.

[Texasisforever]

Iowa ??? LOLOLOLOLOL who ever heard of Iowa???? You never had anybody who served as President or did anything great. It's you bums who put Obamanation in the WH. LOLOLOL

[Texasisforever]

Give me  50 Tennesseans and 50 Texans and I'll clean up this mess in Washington righ now.

[AteamsMrt]

@Texasisforever or just let Iowa run it, since we're the only state with our head screwed on who's not piss poor or in debt with ass backwards laws or a former President from our State who started 2 wars.

[moulingalette]

The main problem now is that most of us don't live in local, church communities anymore. So the issue of giving becomes more difficult when we are all living in our little bubbles which often do not include any very needy people. Maybe with the internet we could get more people connected, going beyond the old religious based dynamics.

[driver3464]

@moulingalette bullshit. Big or small it is not in the goverment to make things better. ANd so far when they hve tried the gentleman was proven right. We have a cesspool of corruption and favorism that feeds on its self and does next to nothing for those in need.

[moulingalette]

@driver3464 corruption and favoritism have always existed in government and in all areas of life. You are delusional if you think things are any worse now than they were before.

[SuedeSkillz]

@moulingalette its worse today because the government is bigger. You will never eliminate corruption and favoritism, but we should seek to limit it. The only way to that is to keep federal government small and concentrating on a few key national priorities.

[moulingalette]

@SuedeSkillz I will accept that it is 'worse' today in the government because the government is bigger, but only worse overall, not on a per person basis. It is actually better in that regard because things are monitored more. As for what the government concentrates on, that is the only fair debate. What do you think they do now that they shouldn't? I assume you don't think they should do welfare, so would you rather have people riot in the streets and more theft/violence?

[SuedeSkillz]

@moulingalette not sure I follow the logic that its worse overall, but not per person. As for what the government shouldn't be doing, welfare is the least of our troubles. I would start with corporate subsidies and useless departments. As for being better because things are monitored, you can't be serious. If they only monitored, the Gulf Oil spill could have been prevented..the financial crisis could have been prevented. They don't monitor because they concentrate on too much other stuff.

[moulingalette]

@SuedeSkillz There is more corruption/favoritism because there are more people involved. But people are not able to get away with as much today because of news, wire tapping, etc. People in the public eye are more observed than they have ever been and can't get away with as much. As for the gulf oil spill etc. that would create even bigger gov. if you wanted better monitoring of that stuff. I do agree with less corporate subs. such as the oil companies. Not sure what dep. are useless though.

[SuedeSkillz]

@moulingalette Right more people in government = bigger government. Let keep government small!!! I don't want to grow government!!!! I just want them to concentrate on what the need to be doing. Kill the department of Education and put more inspectors on the ground. Kill the EPA (or most of it) and hire more folks in the SEC. Concentrate on what we count on them to do.

[moulingalette]

@SuedeSkillz I think the expansion of government did have a role in the changing dynamic of charity and giving from local communities being drastically reduced. But that kind of giving was almost exclusively centered around religious institutions and dynamics, which can be just as corrupt as governmental institutions.

[SuedeSkillz]

@moulingalette Difference being one is voluntary and one is not.

[SuedeSkillz]

@moulingalette History shows that every dollar of government giving, offsets more than a dollars worth of private giving. There was more private giving before the reforms of the new deal than after. This is a historical fact.

[moulingalette]

@SuedeSkillz I don't have the statistics, but I would agree you are probably right that there was more private giving before government started getting involved. But I think it is pretty clear that most of the giving was tied up with religious institutions, where corruption and favoritism also play a role. That is why I had the suggestion that maybe with the internet people could start finding ways and causes to give again without the gov. being involved, but I would prefer gov over religion.

[SuedeSkillz]

@moulingalette even if it creates a large corrupt government that has the force of law and an army? Can't say I agree with that line of thinking.

[moulingalette]

@SuedeSkillz corruption is going to be there whenever humans are involved. The only thing we can do is try to monitor these institutions as much as possible. I do agree we should be able to decide who to give to on our own without laws and armies dictating what we do. But the dynamics around doing what is best for the public good is complicated and why we have needed institutions in the past. Maybe now, in the information age, we could do it ourselves.

[bartmansan]

Excellent! Five stars.

[MoinMoin222]

This is incredible!

[hkrommer]

It is no less stealing when the gov takes what is not theirs and gives it away than if I stole from my neighbor and gave it to a charity of my choice

[forexrobots212]

I think we can guess what Crockett's constituent would have said about the feds giving relief aid to those caught up in Huricane Katrina. Though a self reliant person would have walked out of New Orleans if need be to get away from the hurricane. There was enough time to leave on foot.

[TheCaptainSlappy]

YOU people act like your money (Federal Reserve Notes) are actually worth anything...or actually even YOURS. A fake fiat dollar worth nothing given to YOU by the loan the Federal Government took out ON YOU from the Non-Federal Non-Reserve...and you get MAD over it? Give me a break. Redistributing NOTHING is still giving and taking NOTHING. Geeze....get a grip....AND a clue.

[driver3464]

@TheCaptainSlappy I take a federal reserve note and give it to someone and he gives me something in return. That means it is worth something.

[Lbfent2]

"Jesus, its like you morons like to claim this as a Christian nation, but when it comes to charity, "screw you commie."

babygurlic93- Let's see what the Bible says about charitable giving --

"Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. EACH man should give what he has DECIDED in his heart to give, NOT RELUCTANTLY OR UNDER COMPULSION, for God loves a cheerful giver." 2 Corinthians 9:6-7

[babygurllc93]

minds....

party*

[babygurllc93]

if Crockett would have lived to be an old man, older than he was, he would have seen that the culture he helped create (that later thrived) was and is by all means worthy of charity by all taxing bodies (federal, state, and local). He couldnt have seen that America was going to grow as it has. Racist Tea Pary morons like to try and make everything theirs... Jesus, its like you morons like to claim this as a Christian nation, but when it comes to charity, "screw you commie".. idiots, make up your

[fzqlcs]

@babygurllc93  The mistake you socialists make is that charity is an individual act of giving, not the act of overlords taking the rightful property of one citizen and simply giving it to the recipients of their choice. That is theft. Perfectly legal but morally bankrupt. Are you a recipient of this stolen property? Let's see how using the twisted notion that such theft is a Christian act holds up on judgment day.

[1RationalMind]

@babygurllc93 Charity is done by volitional choice by an individual giving their morally earned resources to another because they value the other person. I have no "right" to take my neighbor's resources against their choice and give those resources to another because I feel it is morally good to do so.

When the use of force negates the free will of the individual, it cannot be called "charity", it can only be identified as what it is- evil.

The TEA party only wants to keep what is theirs.

[1RationalMind]

@babygurllc93 A friend of mine pointed out to me that the use of the term "evil" is an overly harsh term to be used to describe government redistribution of resources. After thinking about it, I agree it is harsh because of one freedom that has not been compromised- the freedom to leave the government that is practicing the redistribution.

Individuals who don't wish to be stolen from can leave the US. The sad fact is there is no "free" country to go to- the US had been that place, & is no more.

[shurtleffhal]

@babygurllc93 There is nothing charitable about the welfare state. Calling folks racists and morons doesn't help your case. The welfare state has created several generations of a permanent class. As Franklin Roosevelt once said but failed to adhere: "To dole out relief is like a narcotic-a subtle destroyer of the human spirit. I have witnessed this firsthand working in a federally controlled housing project.

[ronpaullerboy]

Nice.



[PineappleCowgirl]

This video is wonderfully eloquent & refreshing- thank you!

[VailPatriot]

Government is not a charity, and spending other people's money is not philanthropy.

[Illusenfan35]

I agree with the farmer that congress should not give money away, if the peoples wants to give money to someone else in need they can do it themselves without the government. I do not however, agree with the anti-liberal and anti-conservative comments on the page.

[Ilovewinter]

@Illusenfan35 I too agree with the Farmer, and I believe that if I can get ahead in life, and gain a good job so that I am not on Government hand outs I will do all I can to allocate my money back to the nation either in form of service, or in form of helping national infrastructure. I can not stand this system much longer.

[Wylff]

She does not strike me as the average american :)

/watch?v=AHKGOcUyQ-M

[gfreakj]

This is great. Thanks for posting it.

[XCritonX]

Time to use the RICO act to sue the government for racketeering. Any citizen can bring a RICO act lawsuit.

[Ilovewinter]

@XCritonX but who will pay for it the Government will use Our money to defend against us, they will attack the people with their own finances, and drive us from their courts if only we could. I believe more strongly in Lincoln's statement, ( We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.)

[AristotleBratwurst]

5 Stars and favored

[Girls4RonPaul]

"You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas." Davy C.

[frasmus]

Expropriate someone's money at the point of a gun and give it to someone else. That's exactly what a mugger does. But we urge the state to do it all the time. They are both crooks. Our system is collapsing around us because we allowed twisted ideas like this creep in. The welfare state: where productivity is punished and sloth is rewarded.

[ThePenWolf]

@frasmus So often I have to explain how similar organized crime syndicates are and governments are that I wish I had a nickel every time I did. Taxation beyond legitimate and necessary government functions is theft. Every time I say that people would scoff at the notion, because they've become accustomed to the theft, and just because it's legal.

[Ilovewinter]

@frasmus I seek a Job, and I am punished my children will starve, but if I do as little to seek a job as set forth by the Government, I am safe, and my children eat. My current life is an exact proof of the welfare state. I can not get ahead at this point with out great cost to my children, so I am drawn between whats right, and whats right. I can not let my children starve, but I can not live on Government welfare. Then what must I do, for as a good man I am confused.

[carroj9]

@frasmus welfare state is an example of the tradition of caring for your neighbour as part of a community a great christian (and native american ) tradition. However in England it has been abused by taking from those who work hard and aloowing foreigners to come in and take benefits they never put in over 40 years from the elderly who have pais and are now robbed of it and medical care, not very christian and very unfair. Welfare when used right is a humanitarian thing.

[Willaev]

@carroj9 What you're talking about is "Charity", not welfare.

[DjuraHedonism]

Jim, this is the one I've talked to you about. Great one, indeed.

Greetings from Serbia.

[noscogen]

Vote all the traitors out of office coast to coast!

Remove all electronic voting devices - all elections are pre-determined by their use

Paper Ballots only - counted by Americans Only

[noscogen]

Vote all the Bastards out of office & coast to coast eliminate the controlled outcome of ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES! - All elections are controlled

[StopFear]

Hi guys. I am a supporter of Ron Paul and fan of Milton Friedman (just to get it out of the way)

I want to bring up an issue which shows we have some personal liberties at conflict with Constitution. Ron Paul believes Constitution should be the guiding document for the federal government. But what do we do if there is a real war that congress votes for, and young men are being drafted for war? It seems a violation of personal libertry, even Milton Friedman says he sees no way around it.

[33ItHappens]

Thank you for posting this, great lesson!

[1RationalMind]

I had sent this story to my Father, a devout liberal, some years ago, in an effort to give him some understanding of what I felt this country was supposed to be. The point of the story eluded him, but in reply to my message he told me I seemed to be "channeling Ayn Rand". I had not heard of her at the time. Ironically, in his distaste for individuality, he introduced me to one of my most respected teachers on the subject!

I thank him for that occasionally.

Thank you for this post- great work!

[fzqlcs]

You will forever be in his debt. Ayn Rand is among the greatest minds the human race has produced. For that reason, she is extremely threatening to snake oil salesman of all ilks, but for those fortified with the courage to seek out truth, she is the brightest of all literary beacons.

[1RationalMind]

@fzqlcs

She is threatening indeed, I agree!

[undercover343]

You have 2 boys and you wish you had a daughter too?

What's wrong? Haven't fucked up right?

[lenny380]

We need to send it to Congress - ASAP.

[1RationalMind]

@lenny380

I doubt they'd get it, but it doesn't hurt to try!

[usgop]

Little wonder what would this farmer say about Congress today?

[mallardhead]

Awesome! Where can I find a written copy?

[fzqlcs]

This is a sockdologer!

[Nintendomanwill]

Thus enlarged the snowball of expropriation! Let politicians see what their policies do to use, have them redeem government bonds and pay for government welfare. Let them see how encroachments of government power must encroach on freedom of volitional exchange and therefore the fundamentals of the economy. If this were not so, then we could have all the tariffs on imports, and redistributions to government industries that we like. But it IS so, and government must stop wrecking the economy.

[onvan25]

that farmer is lucky he's already dead...can you imagine his reaction to what's happening now? Congress is giving out money that he doesn't even HAVE! and a lot more than $20,000...at least back in the days they had some money in the treasury so it wasn't that bad...but HOW can you give money that aren't yours and you don't even have to some other country! ie Haiti

Bring back the common sense!!

[StopFear]

I choose Bible first as sacred document , then constitution

[shamgar001]

I second steam0001's question.

[StopFear]

where is the question? it does not appear anywhere around here

[steam0001]

@StopFear Is this question directed to me? If it is you should use the reply link. Unless you are trying to be cowardly of course. I see no inference in this video to the constitution of the U.S. as a sacred document in this video. Only as it being referred to as the highest law of the land. Since it is you that brought up the Bible then pray tell what conflict do you find between the bible & the constitution if any? That is what you were trying to infer wasn't it?

[StopFear]

@steam0001

I dont know. Does it look like I am asking you a question? I dont think I was.

As far as my mention of Bible being more important than constitution I believe people have a right to life and pursuit of happiness which means abortions should be illegal, while some libertarians will say that woman should have a liberty to abort whatever she likes.

The problem is the constitution doesn't define what life is but to real Christians its obvious conceptions means its a person.

[shamgar001]

@Stopfear:

No, the whole "life begins at conception" is not obvious in the Bible at all.

[StopFear]

ugh the narrator's voice hurts a lot

[WSOR4025]

That is one smart farmer. He should have ran for congress. If only there were several of those people currently in congress.

[woodsofodin]

This reminds me of Ayn Rand. :)

It's rare that something so thoughtful and sound is posted on YouTube.