Posted by
ConservaTease on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 7:51:30 PM
The Socialist stimulus bill currently being fine-tuned by Congressional Democrats is a direct affront to your unalienable rights as an American. When this bill becomes law, it will move America from a country based on individual rights, called democratic individualism, to an America based on majority mob rule, called democratic socialism.
What is the difference? Obama summed it up in two words, when he was “negotiating” with Republicans about the current stimulus bill: “We Won.”
A politician elected by a majority of the public is not given total power over the government, the country and her citizens. A President, by his elected status, does not have the power to change our way of life and create his own socialist utopia. Our President is morally bankrupt when he decides to take unlimited power from the American people. In this country he is only given limited power, which, no matter how many votes he receives, Constitutionally CANNOT infringe upon your individual rights.
Yet he is.
Because the “we won” mentality doesn’t recognize your individual rights. The “we won” mentality only recognizes the rights of the majority and their interests, over yours and over your family’s interests.
Ayn Rand explained the “we won” mentality decades before Obama even entered the political arena:
“Today, the word ‘democracy’ has become a sloppy, rubber term that can be stretched to mean anything. Most people use it to mean some vague form of freedom. But the collectivists are now trying to cash in on it’s original meaning, and many people are confused, wondering whether one is morally obliged to accept anything that a majority may choose to decree. One is not, and should not be, and should realize that that is a doctrine of pure collectivism.”
Socialism/Collectivism only has one weapon that it uses to fight free people: altruism. As Ayn Rand explained in 1963: “Altruism claims that man has no right to exist for his own sake and that self-sacrificial service to others is the only moral justification of his existence.”
In other words, you work your entire life for the benefit of others, to make yourself feel better. Isn’t that why you go to work? In order to give your paycheck to your neighbor?
Look at the beneficiaries of altruism, who used Obama’s Florida townhall meeting to beg the government for a handout.
Julio asks for more benefits. Henrietta wants the government to give her a car, a kitchen and a bathroom.
By asking for help from the federal government these people have given up their individual rights, given up their motivation to take care of themselves and their families. They would rather that Barack Obama determine how much they will be paid, through unemployment payments, or what kind of house they will live in, through government housing. They have traded their humanity for the dishonorable life of a parasite. They have traded the pursuit of their own happiness for the bonds of slavery.
But it is not their freedom or our freedom alone, that we are risking, by accepting the terms of the stimulus package. When we take something from the government, we are putting our hands in our neighbor's pockets. Because the government has to take from someone else, to give to us. Not having the money available to pay for this bailout, the government will be taking from our children.
Julio, by printing more money at the Treasury, and giving it to you, the government is telling your children that they will have to pay for your handout. You are asking the government to enslave all our children because the government will have to raise their taxes to pay for the deficits you are demanding that we generate today.
What would you call parents who willingly sell their children into slavery? I call them mad, and evil. And I refuse to be one of them.