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Thursday, March 27, 2008

Obama: Beware Of An “On Your Own” Society

Personally, I don’t understand what is so bad about an “on your own” society.

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Presidential candidate Barack Obama, largely ignoring his Democratic rival for now, ridiculed likely Republican nominee John McCain on Wednesday for offering “not one single idea” to help hard-pressed homeowners facing foreclosure.

“George Bush called this the ownership society, but what he really meant was ‘you’re-on-your-own’ society,” Obama told a town hall meeting here, tying McCain to a president whose popularity is low. “John McCain apparently wants to continue this.”

Our founders modeled this country’s laws on the idea that all citizens had a right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Not a right to happiness, but rather a right to pursue it.

Why is that important?  Because happiness is different for each person, and isn’t something that can be dispensed by the government.  And even if it could be, it shouldn’t be because as Barry Goldwater once said: “Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies.”

Obama may have good intentions with his call for government solutions to every one of our problems, but his good intentions (and those of his fellow Democrats) will lead us to the very “hellish tyranny” Goldwater warned of.

Comments

Why doens’t Obama spend his own money helping foreclosed people.

Oh that’s right he doesn’t do charity with his own money.


What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.


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The Whistler on March 27, 2008 at 02:31 pm

Presidential candidate Barack Obama, largely ignoring his Democratic rival for now, ridiculed likely Republican nominee John McCain on Wednesday for offering “not one single idea” to help hard-pressed homeowners facing foreclosure.

Can anybody point to a federal social welfare program that doesn’t give us the exact opposite of its stated intent?

The man adamantly insists on change, but he really wants to give us the same old bigger government.

likwidshoe on March 27, 2008 at 02:48 pm

Socialist....

golfmann on March 27, 2008 at 05:36 pm

Elite collectivists like the Clintons and the Obamas have nothing but scorn for those of us who dare seek financial independence via the productive private sector!

Kevin on March 27, 2008 at 09:00 pm
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"Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be ‘cured’ against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals. But to be punished, however severely, because we have deserved it, because we ‘ought to have known better,’ is to be treated as a human person made in God’s image.”
C.S. Lewis

Ace on March 27, 2008 at 10:45 pm

This is the clearest indication of Obamoid’s contempt for America and Americans to date. America is a “on your own” society, at least until the early 1900s and the rise of socialism masquerading as “Progressivism”. And the swelling of government control under FDR.


Una Salus Victus Nullam Sperare Salutem

2Hotel9 on March 28, 2008 at 05:34 am
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