Posted on 11/26/2007 7:10:26 AM PST by 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.
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Those quotes are priceless! I hadn’t seen them before - thanks for sharing!
"No person or entity has as a right to any material good or service produced by another and as such, the government and all people and entities acting on behalf of the government are prohibited from compelling one to give up his assets, goods or services for the benefit of another."
Hillary’s job will be to put locks on our shackles.
The New New Deal.
Glad you liked them. I thought they were apropos to the thread. P.J. is a smart guy. I love his books.
We are already there. As things stand now, anyone who shows up in a hospital emergency department, MUST receive care, regardless of ability to pay. As a condition of my appointment to the medical staff, I am required to provide coverage to the ED. I am compelled to provide my services, regardless of whether I ever get paid. For the “privilege” of having done so, I am fully exposed to any lawsuit they can convince a lawyer to pursue.
As a society, we may decide it is unAmerican to let someone die in the ED just because they can’t pay. But, if we as a society are going to impose that mandate, let that same society pick up the tab.
There is NO right to food, shelter or medical care that you can’t pay for. The only “right” any of us have, that others are bound to pay for, is to legal representation in a court of law.
Nationalize the Laywers!
AMEN TO THAT!!
And while we are at it, ban ads that say things like, "Have you been injured?" or "Did you take the drug ..... call this number." That would be a great start. Then close about half of the law schools!
And have a lottery for the trial lawyers - losers get exported to the PRC and the Middle East.
“But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.”
“Then abolish this law without delay, for it is not only an evil itself, but also it is a fertile source for further evils because it invites reprisals. If such a law — which may be an isolated case — is not abolished immediately, it will spread, multiply, and develop into a system.”
“The person who profits from this law will complain bitterly, defending his acquired rights. He will claim that the state is obligated to protect and encourage his particular industry; that this procedure enriches the state because the protected industry is thus able to spend more and to pay higher wages to the poor workingmen.”
“Do not listen to this sophistry by vested interests. The acceptance of these arguments will build legal plunder into a whole system. In fact, this has already occurred. The present-day delusion is an attempt to enrich everyone at the expense of everyone else; to make plunder universal under the pretense of organizing it.”
from “How To Identify Legal Plunder”...(much more) here...
http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G1434
Thanks to FReeper raygun for the link.
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