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1 posted on 03/02/2009 9:43:12 AM PST by jwb0581
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Very well said!


2 posted on 03/02/2009 9:59:54 AM PST by Infralutheran
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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.


3 posted on 03/02/2009 10:07:56 AM PST by RonF
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