Friday, January 25, 2013

Something to pass around

But where in the Constitution is it written that the Government is in charge of determining “needs”? And note that the president did not say “I have more money than I need,” but “You and I have more than we need.” Who elected him to speak for another citizen?
It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs. One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. “One-size-fits-all,” and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is “slavery.”
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He has just passed a bill that extends to him and his family protection, around the clock and for life, by the Secret Service. He, evidently, feels that he is best qualified to determine his needs, and, of course, he is. As I am best qualified to determine mine.
For it is, again, only the Marxists who assert that the government, which is to say the busy, corrupted, and hypocritical fools most elected officials are (have you ever had lunch with one?) should regulate gun ownership based on its assessment of needs.

Lots more, well worth reading and passing along.

2 comments:

markm said...

And I don't see him returning his $400K salary, let alone explaining how he became a multimillionaire in a succession of jobs that paid much lower salaries. It's no wonder he doesn't feel the rich earned their money - he's rich and he knows *he* didn't.

Kalashnikat said...

...needs....needs...where have I heard that before...

oh yah...
"From each according to his abilities...To each according to his needs...and the Apparatchiks will decide what those needs are....and you will only get what you need...like...seems to me you need 1100 calories a day, one pint of water, enough work to wear you out, and a whiff of Zyklon-B when we decide you're not getting enough work done for the calories invested...?"