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around the country; 42 equality under the law (derived from equal rights) – and
so it goes.
For more information on our rights as penned by Jefferson, you may
wish to refer to www.etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/jeff0950.htm
But how do I determine what a right is? Don’t get confused between rights
and goods
Many people confuse “rights” with “goods.” It’s critical to
differentiate the two. Here’s an easy way to look at it 43 : If a ‘right’ depends on
someone else’s service, work, or money, it’s not a right, it’s goods, and it’s
certainly not a God given or Constitutional Right.
FDR for instance, tried to create a second bill of rights. In that bill, he
wanted to include things like the right to a good education, the right to
healthcare, the right to your own house, the right to a good paying job, and the
right to adequate food, clothing and recreation. 44
But, if you have your thinking hat on, you’ll immediately realize that
while these are nice things, they all violate the very concept of God given
unalienable rights. Why? Because while you may have the right to not be
prevented from having an education, you don’t have an entitlement to that
education. Why? Because that education will be dependent on someone else
providing the labor to give you that education. Same for the food, someone had
to grow that food. Someone had to harvest it and clean it. As soon as
something is a product of someone else’s work, it becomes a good, not a right.
You always have a God given right to your own goods, but you have no right
to someone else’s goods. That’s called stealing. And if goods are what you are
promising to someone, however noble those goods are (like healthcare or a
home), eventually you’ll have to enslave some men to guarantee those goods to
other men. Our founders were not idiots. They understood quite well, why
rights were not goods and why they could not write a constitution that
guaranteed goods to anyone, unless they were the fruit of your own honest hard
work.
Notice the difference
The right to bear arms is not an entitlement to a free firearm. The right
to free speech is not an entitlement to a free printing press or radio station. The
right to the pursuit of happiness is not the entitlement to or a guarantee of happiness.
And of course the right to own a home is not the entitlement to a free
home. I hope you see the great difference. This is critical, anytime you vote on
something, ask yourself, “Is this law acknowledging a true right or is it mandating
goods that are a result of someone else’s hard work?”
Notice too, that the constitutions that have a bill of rights for educa
42 Wait…is this really a right or just a Southwest Airlines commercial? And do you have to wear a
seatbelt when you move around the country?
43 My sincere thanks to Judge Andrew Napolitano of Fox News. I was looking for an easy way to
articulate this when he explained it so well, while hosting the Glenn Beck show. I have elaborated a bit.
Some people use the concept of negative rights and positive rights, but I got confused by that. This is
much simpler to understand it seems.
44 www.worldpolicy.org/projects/globalrights/econrights/fdr-econbill.html
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