History is replete with socialist and communist leaders who have basked in opulence and luxury while their people toiled and starved.... The politicians in the USA who are pushing socialism (what I like to call 'pre-communism' because Karl Marx believed that it came before communism could be implemented), are living larger (in a lot of instances, much larger) than the people who they are trying to sell on socialism... So, in that case, yes I believe the meme, absolutely....