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.












