Wednesday, September 19, 2012

rights? entitlements?

This may shock some, but I DO consider that ALL human beings are entitled to health care, housing and food.
Apparently Mr. Romney doesn't. Let that sink in for a while. Mitt Romney thinks some people are not entitled to food and housing.
Now of course, everyone believes that people should work for what they get. Society could not continue if most people didn't contribute to the common good. Even communism said from each according to their needs and from each according to their abilities.
But there may be many reasons why someone cannot contribute, especially now. Romney and his ilk seem to think that people who have a hard time supplying those basics for themselves will not be motivated by money, yet people who have enough to never have to work again are deeply motivated by the same. So those at the lower levels of society will choose to make less, just to be lazy.
Somewhere deep in their minds, they live in a fantasy world where everyone controls their own destiny. Don't want to be poor? Have an unwanted pregnancy? Surrounded by drug use and violence?Just rise above it!
They seem to have no concept of having such an out of control life that you need help.
And the worse thing is, they don't see how they contribute to this everyday by piling up goods they don't need and will never use. How they scoop up all the opportunity in life for themselves and their children and leave crumbs at best for the rest of us.
This is the world they call free. Ron Paul came very close to expressing this in one of the debates and the crowd wanted him to go even farther.
Sad to say this group of  'christians', rather than looking to help that beaten stranger along the road, would blame him not only for his own woes, but theirs as well and give him an extra kick or two.
This election will be very telling.

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