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Old 05-09-2011, 09:44 PM
 
Location: Southcentral Kansas
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How about enshrining the rights, as granted to us by the government, to a job, healthcare, retirement and housing in the Constitution?

What do you think of the following amendments?

Thoughts?
I really think that some very socialistic person wrote all this and that we just aren't to that stage yet. However, many of the people on this forum are in favor of things like this. How do we pay for all these things other than taxation? Your last suggestion called for more money than we have right now but then many people just don't understand that there is an end to what our government can get its hands on. I guess some think that constant running of the printing presses won't blow us away.
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Old 05-09-2011, 09:44 PM
 
Location: Central Ohio
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Yeah, sure is but what is scarey is the number of people who think such a thing would be a good idea.

If this line of thinking becomes prevalent thought it is time to end the country.

Obummer will succeed where tyrants have tried and failed over the past 235 years.
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Old 05-09-2011, 09:45 PM
 
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How about enshrining the rights, as granted to us by the government, to a job, healthcare, retirement and housing in the Constitution?

What do you think of the following amendments?

Thoughts?
The government doesn't grant rights, period. Our rights are endowed to us by our Creator and affirmed by our Constitution. Thus, the entire premise of the OP's post is erroneous.
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Old 05-09-2011, 09:46 PM
 
Location: Southcentral Kansas
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How about my guaranteed rights to at least one luxury car, unlimited Netflix, and a lifetime supply of pizza and beer? How about a right to unlimited ammunition and a comfy chair?

America used to be a place in which people were happy to live free and did not require the yoke of dependency through government "guarantees" in life.
So many of these people just can't understand that that dependency on government leads to socialism of some form.
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Old 05-09-2011, 09:54 PM
 
Location: Southcentral Kansas
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Ok, I was trying to make a point but the original came from 1936 Constitution of the USSR, Part I



All I changed was USSR to United States of America.

The point I was trying to make, and sad to report that so few actually caught on, was a government that is powerful enough to give you everything you want is powerful enough to take everything away including your liberty.
What a relief!!! I didn't think you thought like that but you did a great job of sucking in some of the lefties.
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Old 05-09-2011, 10:05 PM
 
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..."How about enshrining the rights, as granted to us by the government, to a job, healthcare, retirement and housing in the Constitution?"...


Your rights are not "granted" to you by the government. They are self-evident, inalienable and endowed by your Creator. They are the rights to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness and it's corollaries. The Government does not own you, it didn't create you and it is not your boss, your father or Santa Claus. You're not a dependent on a giant teat. You are a self-reliant individual with brains, guts, integrity, honor, courage and a great deal of pride in your ability to make your own way. An American.

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Old 05-09-2011, 10:06 PM
 
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Pssssst....government's charge is to protect rights, not "grant" them.
Many don't realize or think that way though.
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Old 05-22-2011, 04:11 PM
 
Location: Durham, NC
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How about enshrining the rights, as granted to us by the government, to a job, healthcare, retirement and housing in the Constitution?

What do you think of the following amendments?

Thoughts?
May as well add a right to about a 90% tax rate to pay for all that.
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Old 05-22-2011, 05:32 PM
 
Location: Southern California
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No to all of those proposed 'amendments'.
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Old 05-22-2011, 05:39 PM
 
Location: Texas State Fair
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The only one we need is a balanced budget amendment.
Rights are suspended until the budget is balanced.

Balance the budget

Vote Libertarian!
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