Right-wing message to the sick and poor: We got ours, and you can suck it

[LuckyTheDog]

From Investors.com:

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=525716

For Congress to guarantee a right to health care, or any other good or service, whether a person can afford it or not, it must diminish someone else's rights, namely their rights to their earnings. The reason is that Congress has no resources of its very own.

Moreover, there is no Santa Claus, Easter Bunny or Tooth Fairy giving them those resources. The fact that government has no resources of its very own forces one to recognize that in order for government to give one American citizen a dollar, it must first, through intimidation, threats and coercion, confiscate that dollar from some other American.

If one person has a right to something he did not earn, of necessity it requires that another person not have a right to something that he did earn.

To argue that people have a right that imposes obligations on another is an absurd concept. A better term for newfangled rights to health care, decent housing and food is wishes. If we called them wishes, I would be in agreement with most other Americans for I, too, wish that everyone had adequate health care, decent housing and nutritious meals.

However, if we called them human wishes, instead of human rights, there would be confusion and cognitive dissonance. The average American would cringe at the thought of government punishing one person because he refused to be pressed into making someone else's wish come true.

On edit: The Freepers have discovered that article, too. They are cheering: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2466803/posts

[muntrv]

1. So, investors.com, do you think that Wall Street deserves bonuses despite

massive losses?

[muntrv]

2. "None of my argument is to argue against charity. Reaching into one's own pockets to assist his fell

praiseworthy and laudable. Reaching into someone else's pockets to do so is despicable and deserves condemnation."

So, Walter, how do you feel about my taxes going to Halliburton, Blackwater?

[opiate69]

3. I'm thinkin' it's about time to polish up the guillotine...

these selfish, immature, sociopathic fucks have absolutely no interest in being members of a society.. their idea of society is "how can I best exploit it?" ...

[kestrel91316]

4. Isn't that almost verbatim from one of Ayn Rand's tiresome screeds in Atlas Shrugged?

You know, the same Ayn Rand who practically worshipped that serial killer Hickman?

[KT2000]

5. something they forget

is that many medical advances are paid for with tax dollars and are only available to some to benefit from them. They also forget about the tax breaks allowed to businesses for R&D, advertising, lobbying and a myriad of other tax breaks.

They forget that they enjoy much from the exploitation of others - as in the people who will be changing their diapers in old age will not likely have very good health care coverage, nor will the plumber, gardener or other repair people. They wear clothes made by people who make pennies and hour.

They are just soulless.

[KonaKane]

6. What a load of bullsquish.

To argue that people have a right that imposes obligations on another is an absurd concept.

Is it now! I had it imposed on me that some of my tax money went to Halliburton in a faux war based on lies, and to Blackwater so that they could murder Iraqi innocents. I didn't hear your squeals of righteous indignation then, did I?