You have a "right" to a cell phone!

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

Andrew Foy and Brenton Stransky

According to Leonard Peikoff,

"if your mere desire for something, anything, imposes a duty on other people to satisfy you, then they have no choice in their lives... your right to anything at others' involuntary expense means that they become rightless."

This is true whether the desire be for social security, health care, housing, food, cars or cell phones. Consider this example, an individual stops you on the street and asks you for one-hundred dollars for a cell phone. You decline to give the money. The person then forcibly robs you. Any reasonable person would consider this a crime because through the use of force and coercion the robber is infringing on your right to property, which you've earned through your own effort.

Now consider the federal government program, SafeLink Wireless that provides a free cell phone and airtime each month for income-eligible customers. Don't be confused by the name of the program, which implies the service is intended to help underprivileged individuals in desperate situations. It is actually just a program designed to give people cell phones because the MTV/VH1 crowd can't live without them.

Where does the government get the money to provide this service? It gets it from you and me, the taxpayers, whether we object or not. However, unlike the individual robbed on the street, we the taxpayers can't charge the government with a crime. Are we rightless? The answer is obvious.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/individual_freedom_vs_the_righ.html
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"Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim - when he defends himself - as a criminal.”
Frederic Bastiat

 

[tactful]

Andrew Foy and Brenton Stransky


http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/individual_freedom_vs_the_righ.html
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"Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim - when he defends himself - as a criminal.”
Frederic Bastiat

As long as you know your primary numbers,
it's a gimme.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Yet another mindless cut and past from Amurican Thinker.

AJ outsourced his opinions to them a long time ago, because as Sarah Palin said...Thinkin's HARD!

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

When you don't have a decent rebuttal, or reply, attack the person and the source, another typical liberal response.






In this way, you don't even have to know a single thing about the subject on hand for discussion, just how to hate.
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(((lipstick)))

 

[RobDownSouth]

When you don't have a decent rebuttal, or reply, attack the person and the source, another typical liberal response.






In this way, you don't even have to know a single thing about the subject on hand for discussion, just how to hate.
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Hey Eunuch? FUCK your "decent rebuttal"...I gave it as much thought as you gave your initial post (i.e. Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V)

Tell you what, my nutless nabob of negatism, why don't you explain exactly what you don't like about this program, then we'll take it from there.

 

[The_Trouvere]

When you don't have a decent rebuttal, or reply, attack the person and the source, another typical liberal response.

When have you ever posted a decent rebuttal?

 

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