Comments for Same as the Old Boss: Obama Ratchets Up Unlawful Powers at http://www.rcreader.com , comment 1 to 4 out of 4 comments http://www.rcreader.com Thu, 23 May 2013 11:03:09 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.rcreader.com/commentary/same-as-the-old-boss-obama/#comment-2282 I live in a very affluent area where most folks hold post college degrees. I was enjoying a cocktail at a holiday party speaking with my dear friends mother-in-law, a Mensa and self proclaimed liberated PHD graduate of Wayne State University who, when I exclaimed my shock that the TARP bill was unconstitutional beyond belief, gave the Treasury powers not granted by the constitution, told me it was probably time to update it anyway, because it was so old. Fascinating I thought. At the time I didn't have the understanding that America was the only country in the world where the citizen was a sovereign, so maybe this is something that would have helped me englighten my conversation partner. I'm regularly flabbargasted that people don't really care about where our standard of living, culture or freedom come from. I think someone should publish, sovereignity for dummies. I'd give it as a Christmas Present. - Buddy Holly Sun, 12 Dec 2010 16:25:39 +0100 http://www.rcreader.com/commentary/same-as-the-old-boss-obama/#comment-1608 Over 4500 Hits 6 months later, not bad, but only two comments. The err of our ways lies in the most basic fundamental understanding of rights vs. priviledges. I find it absolutely amazing that we run around screaming about our rights all the time, when in reality almost all of these people cannot tell you; 1. Where rights come from. 2. How do to define a right. 3. Government's proper role regarding rights. For Example, I laugh everytime I hear someone talk about the right to healthcare. There is no situation where healthcare exists in the world as a right. Healthcare can only exist three ways in the world, and all three examples are a priviledge. 1. Through charitable donation from someone else. 2. Through wealth or employment 3. Through political influence All three require someone else to be involved and in some cases control over your life. Could healthcare exist if you were the only person on the planet? No. What about actual rights? If you were the only person on the planet would you have the right to self defense, speak your mind, own property, develop land or business, worship, travel, build a car and drive it around, etc? Yes. In fact the only thing that changes once you start adding more people to the equation is the need to ensure everyone's natural rights are secured through a contract with society, or what we call government. Why in the world, would we ever want to allow a machine we created through contract to decide our fate and dictate to us what we can and can't do with our own body, mind and soul? Any government that starts to criminalize the very rights it was created for to protect is a government that is in dire need to be altered or abolished. The only crime that is a justifiable crime is one where someone else's rights were infringed upon. I can tell you, the direction this country has been headed in for a long time now, can only start to change direction, once the people start to learn the fundamental difference between rights and priviledges. Then we will start to have a fighting chance. We are in a political revolution of ideas, and if we can't win, then we will live in a world where we will have to bow down when the president walks by or we will be beaten in public as an example. Sound far fetched... we're almost there. - Michael D. Elliott Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:23:30 +0100 http://www.rcreader.com/commentary/same-as-the-old-boss-obama/#comment-1354 My guess would be that a few of the 700+ viewers of this article read the first paragraph and had no idea what it meant. If they got past that, then it might have been the grouping of names in the second paragraph that made them turn away. Guilt? Maybe a small portion of them (and I'm hoping its small) have no idea what the Constitution is or believe the Bill of Rights is an invoice! We are fast approaching the type of government that lead to our War for Independence. - Carol Strohbehn Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:03:06 +0100 http://www.rcreader.com/commentary/same-as-the-old-boss-obama/#comment-1353 I can't believe it. After 708 hits, no one has commented on the above essay. Face it, folks, the US is well on its way to becoming a police state and it seems that most people are just ACCEPTING it as a matter of course. Wake up! 1984 is upon us, and it's the duty of every concious American (though I doubt there are many more than 1%) to resist this tyranny. - Eric Wala Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:24:53 +0100