Sunday, January 11, 2009

You Have the Right to Remain Helpless


Welcome to the Obama Era. You should no longer worry about taking care of yourself. You should no longer expect to clean up your own messes.  Your bailout is on the way.  You have the right to remain helpless.

Now that Obama is your ruler, you can expect the government to evolve into a more dynamic and transformative element of your life.  Here's Obama complaining about our old fashioned Constitution:  "...the Constitution is a document of negative liberties, says what the states can't do to you, says what the federal government can't do to you, but it doesn't say what the federal government or state government must do on your behalf."  

Obama wants you to demand more!  So, what has the government done for you lately? You have rights...have you cashed in?

"Time was, rights were defensive. They were to prevent government from doing things to you. Today, rights increasingly are offensive weapons wielded to inflict demands on other people, using state power for private aggrandizement. The multiplication of rights, each lacking limiting principles, multiplies nonnegotiable conflicts..."


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