March 21st, 2010, a date that will live in infamy!
During the 2008 presidential campaign Barrack Hussein Obama promised the American people change, he delivered on that promise in convincing fashion Sunday night. By a vote of 219 to 212 the United States Congress passed the Presidents controversial health care package despite heavy opposition and no Republican support. Unnoticed in all of the chaos, debating and back door politics was the fact that our congress created a "right" for the American people.
According to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, "health care is a right not a privilege." In one fell swoop, we went from a nation of inalienable rights, granted to us by God, to a nation of people that receive their rights from government. The United States of America has officially been transformed, things will never be the same again!
While most are arguing over the procedure, the language of the bill or the pending lawsuits, the majority of Americans are missing the elephant in the room. In order for a government to create a right for it's citizens that government must be the supreme authority and be endowed with the ultimate power. By pronouncing health care as a right, instead of what it really is, a good, the role of the Federal Government has shifted and along with this shift comes the supposition of supreme authority.
The Founding Fathers believed firmly that our rights were part of our humanity, "We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." These same men were disgraced by the actions of our Congress this Sunday and the ideology that that they were willing to sacrifice, life, honor and fortune for, has now been usurped by Totalitarian tactics and the doctrine of collectivism.
What is collectivism?
Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group—whether to a race, class or state does not matter. Collectivism holds that man must be chained to collective action and collective thought for the sake of what is called “the common good.”
In other words, collectivism fosters the idea that the whole is greater than the parts which make it up. It is under collectivism that socialism flourishes and individual liberty is diminished. What was once thought of as the freedom to do as you wish, is replaced with the freedom to do as you wish as long as it benefits the common good or collective. This was the driving force behind such Dictators as Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin and Mao. It is also the dominant ideology of the modern progressives that have taken over the U. S. political scene.
Although, some might add that the intention of our leaders in Washington are far from the radical exceptions mentioned above. It is important to give consideration to the fact that our representatives are creating a system which, if abused, would ENABLE a would be tyrant, after all Hitler just wanted to "diminish the distress and suffering of the German people."
.........................................................And who are we to argue with "change and compassion?"
During the 2008 presidential campaign Barrack Hussein Obama promised the American people change, he delivered on that promise in convincing fashion Sunday night. By a vote of 219 to 212 the United States Congress passed the Presidents controversial health care package despite heavy opposition and no Republican support. Unnoticed in all of the chaos, debating and back door politics was the fact that our congress created a "right" for the American people.
According to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, "health care is a right not a privilege." In one fell swoop, we went from a nation of inalienable rights, granted to us by God, to a nation of people that receive their rights from government. The United States of America has officially been transformed, things will never be the same again!
While most are arguing over the procedure, the language of the bill or the pending lawsuits, the majority of Americans are missing the elephant in the room. In order for a government to create a right for it's citizens that government must be the supreme authority and be endowed with the ultimate power. By pronouncing health care as a right, instead of what it really is, a good, the role of the Federal Government has shifted and along with this shift comes the supposition of supreme authority.
The Founding Fathers believed firmly that our rights were part of our humanity, "We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." These same men were disgraced by the actions of our Congress this Sunday and the ideology that that they were willing to sacrifice, life, honor and fortune for, has now been usurped by Totalitarian tactics and the doctrine of collectivism.
What is collectivism?
Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group—whether to a race, class or state does not matter. Collectivism holds that man must be chained to collective action and collective thought for the sake of what is called “the common good.”
In other words, collectivism fosters the idea that the whole is greater than the parts which make it up. It is under collectivism that socialism flourishes and individual liberty is diminished. What was once thought of as the freedom to do as you wish, is replaced with the freedom to do as you wish as long as it benefits the common good or collective. This was the driving force behind such Dictators as Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin and Mao. It is also the dominant ideology of the modern progressives that have taken over the U. S. political scene.
Although, some might add that the intention of our leaders in Washington are far from the radical exceptions mentioned above. It is important to give consideration to the fact that our representatives are creating a system which, if abused, would ENABLE a would be tyrant, after all Hitler just wanted to "diminish the distress and suffering of the German people."
.........................................................And who are we to argue with "change and compassion?"
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