Freedom is Hard Work (ObamaCare makes it harder)
Freedom is Hard Work (ObamaCare makes it harder)
Grant Ellis | American Thinker
The Founders were endlessly concerned about giving ordinary Americans an unprecedented measure of liberty as offered by the Constitution they were drafting. They wondered if regular folk could muster the sophistication necessary to make rational, intelligent decisions at the polls and they wondered if citizens would be able to self-regulate their activities in the absence of rigorous governmental oversight. As we now know, when finally offered nearly unbridled liberty Americans of the day did not disappoint.
Fast forward to 2009 and it’s easy to see why the Founders were so worried. In spite of various streams of round-the-clock news and data, most of our electorate is misinformed, blissfully ignorant or simply apathetic with respect to the means by which they are governed. Meanwhile, the civil, moral and ethical margins of our society are ever more deformed by a widening cultural belief that liberty means “anything goes”. Where the “anything goes” belief intersects the notion that “the state should meet individual needs”, we have real trouble. That’s where we are now.
What follows in this article is a very good summary of many points made by author and talk show host Mark Levin, whose book “Liberty and Tyranny” is the perfect text on the subject. The conclusion by Mr. Ellis is a sound one …
Our government has no right to confiscate the fruit of individual accomplishment for the purpose of meeting the personal needs of any other person or group. Wealth redistribution is not only bad for liberty it’s immoral. It’s as immoral as imprisoning someone without due process of law. It must stop. We must finally draw the line and when we have finally made that line impassable, we must find a way to reverse course. Freedom hangs in the balance.
Continue reading this story … at the link above.
If you’ve not purchased your copy of Levin’s book, please get one here. You’ll thank me later.
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