Originally Posted by Missileer

Most of you know Col. Davy Crockett was a Texas hero who died in the siege of the Alamo. He was also a Congressman and I have posted a link to a speech he gave on the floor of Congress about a bill that would have appropriated money for a widow of a Naval officer and why he voted against it.

I wish people like him were still in Congress.

http://patriotpost.us/histdocs/crock...rs_to_give.asp

Not Yours to Give

Col. Davy Crockett
1884
From The Life of Colonel David Crockett
Member of the U.S. Congress 1827-31 & 1832-35
Compiled from The Life of Colonel David Crockett
by Edward S. Ellis (Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1884)