Alternative title: Democrats: Rights, Entitlements – what’s the difference? Democrats don’t want you to think about differences.
There are BIG differences and Grokster Beth, over on the Nashua Politics Page, made a challenge over this statement made by NH State Senator Cindy Rosenwald in this specific topic of, once again, Democrats deliberately maldefining common words to suit their political agenda:
“New Hampshire has a long bipartisan history of supporting a person’s right to make their own private health care decisions, but the reality is that if someone can’t afford to pay for an abortion, then it is a Right in name only.” – Cindy Rosenwald for New Hampshire on why she’s sponsored the Reproductive Health Parity Act.
Also in the Concord Monitor, she has an Op-Ed. She is sponsoring legislation that is a “Mini-me of Roe vs Wade/Obamacare” putting taxpayers on the hook to fund other peoples’ abortions. So, I went to Cindy Rosenwald’s Facebook page and left the following:
Senator, you have written that:
1) having an abortion as a Right isn’t one if one doesn’t have the money to pay for it. Does that outlook also extend to other Rights?
2) Like Free Speech – in order to get my speech out to the widest possible audience mean that the State must pay for air time on tv and radio as well as in the print media?3) Like the Right to Keep and Bear Arms – does this now obligate the State to continue the Positive Rights push that the State MUST purchase a firearm on my behalf?
I think not and I’m pretty sure that your answer would be no. However, as you are journeying away from our Founder philosophy that a limited Govt with our Rights as Negative Rights (what the State CANNOT do to you) to that of FDR’s Second Bill of Rights full of those Positive Rights (what the State MUST provide for you which is a staple of almost every Socialist Countries’ Constitutions), would you have to agree on as intellectual honesty that all Rights must be treated exactly the same?
E.g., if the State pays for one person to exercise their Right, it should also pay others to exercise other Rights?
Thank you,
-Skip Murphy
GraniteGrok.com
Yeah, it lasted about 30 seconds before it was taken down. That’s not the point, though. As I’ve been blogging about for a while, Democrats have an agenda and they have no problem in bending/altering / destroying the common meanings of words and phrases in support of that agenda. This is a PERFECT example of that and a question shows it:
What is the difference between a Right and an Entitlement?
The simple answer IS simple but I’ll do in a different way than I have been doing:
A Right doesn’t require money from anyone.
An Entitlement requires other peoples’ money.
Democrats, per Democrat Cindy Rosenwald herself, wish to conflate the two. Most Americans know the word “Right,” they don’t truly understand what it is because our “Dumbing down of America” Educational system no longer, seemingly, doesn’t teach what it really means:
That it is innate to you, that Government doesn’t “grant” you that Right, that the Govt can’t infringe upon that Right, but that other people are NOT obligated to help or pay for anything to support it.
An entitlement, on the other hand, is even simpler:
The government takes money from all to give it to some based on politicians’ whims
Yet, NH State Senator Cindy Rosenwald wants you to believe that there is no difference between the two – at least in a “Right” that she believes in but certainly not for other Rights which she disagrees with. Abortion – yes, you ALL should pay for. Free Speech – yes, but only for politicians that are running for election (e.g., “publicly” funded campaigns). Second Amendment Right – no, no way (in fact, I bet she’d be happy if it was repealed and only Government has that kind of force).
It’s how she (and other Socialists (I’m tired of playing the game and calling them “Progressives” – they aren’t but they are Retrogrades) are playing a dangerous game. If they continue to make language malleable as they have been doing, we all will end up with something far, FAR different than what this country was founded upon. And this is how we get Bernie Sanders and the rise of Socialism. Which may well be what the Left, including Rosenwald, want.
So what’s the solution? Pushback. Every time they speak, every time they write, pushback. Demand they define their terms. Make sure that the redefinitions are brought to the fore. Call them out on it and demand why they are trying to redefine it. Go back to our source documents – the Declaration, the Constitution, the Federalist papers (and anti-federalists where our Founders TOLD us how they viewed the Proper Role of Government). Don’t let them scoff it off – and don’t let them walk away.
Screw the gotcha politics of the day – but we need to demand of ourselves to force them to have the conversations/debates/screaming matches as to why they pick and choose, why they redefine, and why they want other than what the Founders wanted and WHY they believe that Government must be all things to all people…
…instead of stop outsourcing their responsibilities to others AND DOING IT THEMSELVES. See an injustice or a “whole”? Get your friends together, solve the problem, and take care of business. Demand that they justify starting up yet another never-ending Government program.
But that takes motivation. On all of our parts. To be willing to demand more of those that represent us even if we can vote for them – or not. But most of us aren’t. Since this has gone longer than I thought, let me end with this. When you get all scared and get the shakes over any kind of confrontation:
If I do this (e.g., speak out), what can they do to me?
I ask myself that question all the time. The answer is: not much (if anything at all). Not much at all. So then I just proceed.
Take that to heart. Now, get to work.
