There are two ideas of government. There are those who believe that if you just legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, that their prosperity will leak through on those below. The Democratic idea has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous their prosperity will find its way up and through every class that rests upon it." (Nothing like a little redistribution of OPM-other people's money!)
Thus the idea of legislating against the rich and for the poor, the rise of the entitlement era began with Jennings in 1898. The idea of taxing the people for government programs was so popular with the Dhimmicrats that Jennings was swept in as the Dhimmicrat nominee and we all know how it turned out. America dodged the bullet until Socialist FDR rolled in with his Raw Deal. But let's take a gander at class warfare quotes from the libs over time.
1. John Leftwards: "We can build one America where we no longer have two health care systems: one for families who get the best health care money can by, and then one for everybody else rationed out by insurance companies, drug companies, HMOs. We shouldn't have two public school systems in this country: one for the most affluent communities, and one for everybody else. None of us believe that the quality of a child's education should be controlled by where they live or the affluence of the community they live in. It doesn't have to be that way. We can build one school system that works for all our kids, gives them a chance to do what they're capable of doing." (Really John? When would THAT be considering liberals OWN the NEA?)
2. Julian Bond: NAACP Chairman (On the Republican Party) "Their idea of equal rights is the American flag and Confederate swastika flying side by side."
3. The haughty and nuanced John Kerry: "We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block." (Speech To Massachusetts Democrat State Convention," May 31, 2002) Dear Hanoi John: Social Security returns 1-2% on your investment, the stock market 7% even WITH the Depression factored in.
4. Tom Daschle: (Mr Pork) "Unfortunately, last spring, Republicans chose exactly the wrong solution. They made a huge tax cut their No. 1 priority -- ahead of everything else -- and discarded the framework of fiscal responsibility." (Thank GOD this idiot is out of a job in government.)
5. Saint Goreacle, High Priest of Gaia: "Any child born into the hugely consumptionist way of life so common in the industrial world will have an impact that is, on average, many times more destructive than that of a child born in the developing world." (It's evil America don't you know!)
6. Howard "George Wallace" Dean: "Here’s what I say to people. You have a choice. Do you want to have the president’s tax cut or would you like a health-care program that nobody can ever take away?" (Meet The Press 6/22/03).