This column was posted this week, at World Net Daily…
“Health care is a right!” That’s the swank mantra from the new class of progressive Democratic presidential candidates. Some also suggest that private health insurance companies be shuttered and the government shoulder health oversight services instead.
How long before we hear one of them declare that food is a right? After all, one needs nourishment to live. The stock soundbite might proclaim, “It’s shameful to think that humans should have to purchase their sustenance from corporate-owned grocery stores and for-profit farms
And, if government is to provide health care and food, certainly housing for all must be a right as well.
Cue the cheering simpletons, like the one I overheard at the gym recently. A young millennial was complaining to a guy with whom she shares a college history class, “The only history I like is the one on my Instagram.”
And I’m thinking, those who don’t know their history are destined to repeat it.
Our rights do not come from the government; they come from God. America’s founders understood this, as dictated in the Declaration of Independence, drafted by Thomas Jefferson. This brilliant apology for revolution contains a theory of rights dependent on a Supreme Being – not government – for its validity. The Declaration states that “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Whereas the Declaration justified a rebellion against the king of England to secure God-given rights, the eventual Constitution (which is religiously neutral) is a blueprint for stable and effective republican government in a free country.
And, if government is to provide health care and food, certainly housing for all must be a right as well.
Cue the cheering simpletons, like the one I overheard at the gym recently. A young millennial was complaining to a guy with whom she shares a college history class, “The only history I like is the one on my Instagram.”
And I’m thinking, those who don’t know their history are destined to repeat it.
Our rights do not come from the government; they come from God. America’s founders understood this, as dictated in the Declaration of Independence, drafted by Thomas Jefferson. This brilliant apology for revolution contains a theory of rights dependent on a Supreme Being – not government – for its validity. The Declaration states that “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Whereas the Declaration justified a rebellion against the king of England to secure God-given rights, the eventual Constitution (which is religiously neutral) is a blueprint for stable and effective republican governement in a free country.
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