My response to a Letter to the Editor in the Daily Sun (P 5):
Once again, we are confronted with either the spectre of the our educational system deemphasizing the actual reading and studying of the US Constitution or the replacement by the Progressive agenda: the replacement of the negative Rights enumerated in the Constitution barring the Government from abridging those Rights, to the Positive Rights that the Progressives demand that Government do things for you.
The former only requires one to be left alone and not interfered with; however, the latter requires that someone else’s freedom and goods be taken from them to supply to someone else.
Ms. LeClerc said "I think we lost track of what the purpose of government is. The purpose of government, is to help people when in need."
Rather, I think we have lost sight of what our individual responsibilities should be towards our friends, neighbors, and family. We no longer, as a society, are refusing to take on the responsibility that our grandparents and great-grandparents believed to be a normal part of life (or via the mutual aid societies that existed before Government crowded them out, for who can compete against taxpayer supplied Government finances and regulations?).
Instead, with the demand that Government take care of the needy, we see yet another example of "I don’t want to do this – let’s outsource our responsibility to Government". And that is exactly what Ms. LeClerc just said.
I do hope, however, that the Scripture she quoted was aimed at individuals to exhort them to action rather than as an apologist demanding that Government do more.
