The Pursuit

Last time I checked, nowhere in our Constitution did our founders expect or require the government to provide rights and privileges to one group by plundering from another. The Declaration of Independence mentioned three 'unalienable rights': life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. These rights are based upon the tenets of a free society that enabled its citizens to succeed or fail by their own hands. These rights do not infringe upon the rights of others by nature. Our Constitution provided protection for its citizen's rights(and states rights, for that matter) from other citizens AND from the federal government. In fact, the tenth amendment, which I will dig deeper into in a different post, states that rights not 'delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited to it by the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.'

Our founders found it necessary to protect citizens not just from themselves, but especially from their own government. They laid the groundwork for a nation that could provide endless opportunity for those who worked to achieve. This also means that the groundwork was laid for people to land flat on their faces in failure. That is the essence of freedom and liberty. Today, our government is taking this basic right away by robbing the achievers and handing out their wealth to the moochers of society as tokens to control them.

The key word to the phrase from our Declaration of Independence quote is PURSUIT. It is not a guarantee of happiness. It is not a guarantee of success. We are not free from failure and we never will be, regardless of what our esteemed President may lead us to believe. Furthermore, we are enabling massive numbers of citizens to exist solely to loot from their neighbors. And the saddest part is that they can do it legally.

This did not start with ObamaCare, but this law brings to light many facets of today's America that are so wrong and detrimental to our lasting success. Without a reward to be had, who is going to pursue? Who is going to achieve? We are being rewarded for laziness, incompetence, and stupidity. We are providing the foundation for my generation to step into our most productive years robbed of any reason to do more than we are, because our efforts will be rewarded by being stolen from us.

We do not need our government to protect us from failure and hardship. It is an impossible task, and it has never been their job. Our leaders today would have us believe that this health care bill and others like it will make our lives perfect and easy. Many are going to learn the hard way that this is simply not true or feasible. Better late than never I guess.