Comment Re:Darn... (Score 1) 1325
I am not proposing anything other than three facts:
1. The federal government is violating the Constitution by providing for education and healthcare as well as many other things. This is clear to anyone who cares to read the document. It doesn't matter if there is a "need"... if there is a need, vote on an amendment. Once government steps out of framework laid down by the documents that provide their power, there is nothing restraining it.
2. Even if the Constitution was amended to provide for these services, the Federal Government is completely inept in its attempt to do so. Poorer healthcare and education overall so that "everyone" may have "something instead of nothing" is a poor choice. The failed attempt to provide a public education at all costs to all citizens has resulted in an overwhelming decline of the QUALITY of education that anyone can afford to obtain.
3. No government or society has the right to forcibly take from me and give to others. That is theft, plain and simple. YOU don't have the right to force me to give you $20 so you can give it to someone who has less than me... You and your entire neighborhood don't have the right to force me to ... neither does the flavor of the month in Congress/The Whitehouse and all the goobers that voted for them.
There may be inequities in education, healthcare, etc. etc. between communities, ethnic groups, sexes etc. in this nation... but I guarantee you that government involvement is the CAUSE of those inequities more than the solution.
I am not saying that as a society we don't have a MORAL obligation to provide for the less fortunate... but we simply can not tolerate a government forcing THOSE morals on us any more than we can tolerate them forcing religous or false patriotic ones. I find it quite hypocritical that the same liberal/conservative voices in this country can make a such a strong objection to such "moral legislation" simply because the morals being legislated are the ones they choose not to believe in. There is no difference between mandating that Prayer should be IN school or mandating that it should be OUT of school. There is no difference between mandating involuntary government servitude (i.e. the draft) and mandating that because I make X dollars a year, I must be forced to give money to the government to provide for something that makes X-Y dollars a year.
1. The federal government is violating the Constitution by providing for education and healthcare as well as many other things. This is clear to anyone who cares to read the document. It doesn't matter if there is a "need"... if there is a need, vote on an amendment. Once government steps out of framework laid down by the documents that provide their power, there is nothing restraining it.
2. Even if the Constitution was amended to provide for these services, the Federal Government is completely inept in its attempt to do so. Poorer healthcare and education overall so that "everyone" may have "something instead of nothing" is a poor choice. The failed attempt to provide a public education at all costs to all citizens has resulted in an overwhelming decline of the QUALITY of education that anyone can afford to obtain.
3. No government or society has the right to forcibly take from me and give to others. That is theft, plain and simple. YOU don't have the right to force me to give you $20 so you can give it to someone who has less than me... You and your entire neighborhood don't have the right to force me to
There may be inequities in education, healthcare, etc. etc. between communities, ethnic groups, sexes etc. in this nation... but I guarantee you that government involvement is the CAUSE of those inequities more than the solution.
I am not saying that as a society we don't have a MORAL obligation to provide for the less fortunate... but we simply can not tolerate a government forcing THOSE morals on us any more than we can tolerate them forcing religous or false patriotic ones. I find it quite hypocritical that the same liberal/conservative voices in this country can make a such a strong objection to such "moral legislation" simply because the morals being legislated are the ones they choose not to believe in. There is no difference between mandating that Prayer should be IN school or mandating that it should be OUT of school. There is no difference between mandating involuntary government servitude (i.e. the draft) and mandating that because I make X dollars a year, I must be forced to give money to the government to provide for something that makes X-Y dollars a year.
