If You Have a ‘Right’ to Goods and Services, then Hillary Can Make Me a Slave

North Star Writers Group ^ | November 26, 2007 | David Karki

[Invisigoth]

We often hear liberals refer to a “right” to housing, or health care, or education. Of course, they always make you pay for these “rights” rather than break out their own checkbooks.

The truth is, there is no such thing as a right to any material good or service. If there were, then someone else must provide that good or service whether they want to or not. After all, to refuse is to deny someone their right. And if someone must be forced into that provision, they are at best being stolen from and at worst made into the recipient's slave.

[Puppage]

We have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Everything after that is what WE make of it. Period.

[wildbill]

What about my right to quality of life issues in my old age (67)?

I think I’m entitled to a couple of 20 year olds to keep my old bones warm at night and my outlook bright.

[CholeraJoe]

If there is a “right” to goods and services, Hillary, why aren’t there any Wal-Marts in NYC? Riddle me that one, huh?

[Sgt_Schultze]

Over the passage of time, a "right" to health care has to result dimished quality as prices will have to be held down as demand for free services is infinite. Prices are reimbursements to service providers. They can either settle for lower incomes or longer work hours.

As conditions diminish for health care workers, fewer highly qualified people will elect to enter a government controlled workforce. Longer hours and deployments to fringe areas will compel ever more people to avoid health care employment. Until one day, nobody want to become a doctor.

And then, what of the peoples' right to health care? Will the government have to start selecting youngsters with the capacity to learn medicine and track them into lifetime servitude as government physicians? I don't see how thay can avoid it.

[Quick Shot]

Being a compasionate government they in turn, so as not to risk a heart attack at your age, send you a couple 80 year olds to keep you warm. Just looking out for your heart.

[CholeraJoe]

I’m certain you could find a couple of 20-year-old Nancy-boys to keep you warm and cater to your carnal desires. Otherwise break out your Visa.

[randog]

You’ve just described social security in a nutshell.

[Dick Bachert]

Sorry, FDR made slaves of your folks and all who came after way back in the 1930s.

Hillary’s job will be to put locks on our shackles.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

One of the worst problems is government housing is it the
breading ground for every vice!
The few people who are truely needy, their needs would be met
by local charity and not by federal or state government.

Bring back the local poor house for the truely needy.

[Sherman Logan]

Sounds like the later Roman Empire, when most occupations were hereditary.

[chrisser]

We have a right to an affordable higher education. College professors should accept lower wages and be transferred to where most of their students are.

Or, we have a right to affordable news. “Journalists” should submit to a fixed pay scale.

Better, we have a right to affordable government. Politician salaries should be limited to the median income of their constituents, with no additional income streams allowed for the duration of their term in office.

Lets put all of the above three “rights” into place before we start monkeying around with the “right” to affordable healthcare.

[Sgt_Schultze]

With Congress and the presidency, it seems those jobs are already so.

[Bogtrotter52]

“why aren’t there any Wal-Marts in NYC?”

There are none there? I am stunned like a mullet. I thought they were everywhere and unavoidable.

[pallis]

You want the old King David treatment, and it sounds like you might be in the right place for it.

[mc5cents]

There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as "caring" and "sensitive" because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to try to do good with other people's money. Well, who isn't? And a voter who takes pride in supporting such programs is telling us that he'll do good with his own money -- if a gun is held to his head." -- P.J. O'Rourke

"Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not entitlement. An entitlement is what people on welfare get, and how free are they? It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights - the "right" to education, the "right" to health care, the "right" to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery - hay and a barn for human cattle." -- P.J. O'Rourke

[massgopguy]

Life is no longer a right in MA. Because if you don’t purchase health insurance, you either get punished or have to leave the state.

[CholeraJoe]

Nope, not a one. The City Fathers have kept them out.

[samm1148]

The trouble is that rights have become special privileges. Money taken by force from others and given to others (with the thief politician and poverty pimps keeping most). Special rights in hiring one group over another; the list goes on and on.

[relictele]

George Will has deemed them “freshly minted rights” (of course he means they aren’t rights at all).

However, I plan on marching on Washington in order to exercise my rights and receive a Mercedes, plasma TV and new house.