Originally Posted by
Eager Beaver
Truer words were never spoken. It was never right for one human being to own another human being. EB
A very good moral principle there but completely discarded when it comes to welfare, social security, medicare and a government run health care plan.
Outright slavery is accepted as abhorrent for a rational and moral human existence yet totally accepted for the government or a messiah to come along saying the productive must give to the unproductive as a moral unaccepted duty or obligation.
That one individual must exist for the sake of some other individual. That results in a slave master relationship with the productive working for the nonproductive. The rights of the individual are now seen as inferior to the rights of some aggrieved class or group. How one can accept as moral a right for one individual that is a negation of rights for another is beyond my understanding. Any rights claimed by one can't infringe on the rights of another.
The big question of today is will this country uphold this countries founding fathers principles where the individual exists for his own sake with the government instituted to protect those rights. The first time in the history of mankind where the individual was not subjugated to a king or conquerer but to live under the rule of law and not some arbitrary edicts of some individual ruler.
If those individual rights aren't upheld here our future can be foretold by a very long history replete with past human failures of misery, suffering and wants.
The people that settled this country didn't have social security, medicare or health care they went forth and made this country the greatest wealthiest and most noble country to have ever existed in the history of mankind.
“There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism—by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.” Ayn Rand