Posted on 03/02/2009 9:43:12 AM PST by jwb0581
Sean,
I was in New Orleans a few years ago and passed a small group of demonstrators wielding signs in support of the government housing authority. The message, in effect, was "Housing is a fundamental right and should be free". Basically, "where's my free house?"
It occured to me that if everyone did that, nobody would have a house.
100% of American success, the things you and I take for granted such as sitting at our laptops in a climate-controlled setting arguing politics, likely only a few minutes away from stores where you can buy anything and everything, in an astonishing array of sizes, flavors, and models, is due to the efforts of private enterprise.
The idea that you can work hard and make a better life for yourself and your family: who would want to change that? The better question Sean is why would someone be a liberal?
Just a little insight into why I'm a conservative.
Very well said!
Owning a gun is my fundamental right. When is the government going to buy me a gun? Freedom of the press is a fundamental right. When will the government buy me my printing press?
When the left speaks of rights, what they really mean is “entitlement”. If you have a “right” to something, they really mean that you are entitled to it regardless of your own efforts to be productive or not. Whereas what a right means under our Constitution is that no one has the right to prevent you from attaining the object described if you are productive enough to obtain the resources necessary to get it using your own resources.
The left says, “What good is having a right if you can’t exercise it?” and therefore the “government” (meaning the taxpayers, meaning you and me) must buy it for people who can’t afford it themselves.
We live in a crazy upside down world ... where things are the opposite of what they are called.
Under the guise of “planned parenthood”,
ABORTION GREW INTO A HUGE BUSINESS ... MAKING MANY RICH.
and creating whole generations of missing (gone forever, children,
God have mercy and help us.
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