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Clinton: We take your things for the common good
By: Steve Adcock | Submitted on: 04/03/07
EDITORIAL - Speaking in 2004 to a crowd of wealthy democratic supporters during a fund raising event in San Francisco, Hillary Clinton spoke the very words that illustrate the intentions of the government so very well. "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."
While those words were spoken three years ago, they are just as important today. They represent not just the Democrat party's strong commitment to the redistribution of wealth rightfully earned by the American people, it provides insight into the focus that our politicians have in running our nation. It highlights the precise arrogance that Hillary, and many other politicians, have. Our property is not the federal government's to take. The people are not here for the federal government to milk.
Governments are meant to provide protection for their people. Whether that means standing guard at the border, interpreting intelligence data from around the world, monitoring the actions of hostile nations or providing domestic police forces to ensure obedience from the people, governments provide the necessary protection that most Americans simply cannot provide for themselves.
These ideals are especially true at the federal level with any nation. Federal governments need not involve themselves in the day to day activities of its people, as it will quickly get absorbed by a monstrous legion of citizen activists, rules, regulations and bureaucracy, each of which requires money and resources to manage.
Local governments, on the other hand, are best suited to deal with the suffering of its citizens and to provide the necessary services within the guidelines of the state and federal Constitutions. Local governments and communities, after all, know first hand what the needs of their localities are and how best to address those needs quickly and efficiently.
In the United States, federal politicians see the local governments as a threat to the federal government's ultimate power and influence. Our federal government is large. It has established federal departments for virtually every facet of our lives, social entitlement programs under the guise of compassion and an outrageously complex tax structure that requires some Americans to purchase software or the expertise of skilled accountants to wade through their earnings to determine just how much money they still owe the federal government.
Truer words have never before been spoken by a politician in America than the words uttered by presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton. “Taking things away”, after all, is what the government does best. Redistributing wealth to those people that the government believes are more deserving is the very trait of a Marxist society.
Clinton might as well have said, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need”.
While the federal government deserves to be financially supported for the rightful services it provides, such as the protection of the American people from foreign and domestic threats, they are under no constitutional authority to establish a class-based society where the tax dollars from one class flow straight downhill to the people of another class. Simply, that is not their job. It is immoral and unethical, and the implications of that kind of control are downright frightening.
The government has no right to take “things” away from the American people on behalf of the “common good”. And who defines what common good is? Politicians? Is robbing a bank on behalf of a homeless person for the common good? Could I use that defense in a court of law? Of course not. I would be thrown in jail for robbing a bank, even if I were to give 100% of the stolen funds to a homeless person. The federal government, on a daily basis, gets away with the things that you or I would be jailed for committing.
Unless you want your things taken away from you, we as Americans need to fight back for our freedoms in this so-called free society in which we live. Listen to what politicians are telling you. Consider their words and match those words against the constitutional and ethical obligations of the federal government. If those words do not correspond to the kind of society that you wish to live in, as I certainly hope they do not, then demand change. Fight with your vote the next time that you are at the polls. Refuse to vote for the politicians that crave a weak society of dependence, a welfare state and a complete lack of accountability among our representatives.
Fighting back in America is not difficult to do, but understanding that the federal government was never designed to be our nanny seems to be a concept difficult to instill. Our children are indoctrinated into the big government mentality from an early age in government-funded schools. They are taught to never question the government, to assume the government has our best interests at heart and to believe that our guiding principles (the Constitution) is nothing more than a “living concept”, meant to be interpreted and rationalized as to provide for the very programs and federal social entitlements that are in place today.
No, Mr. federal government, you do not have the right to take things away from the people. You have the right to do your job, such as establishing a nation where an attack like Sept 11th never has a chance of succeeding.
Steve Adcock is the founder and developer of SmallGovTimes.com.
http://www.smallgovtimes.com/story/07apr03.clinton.common.good/index.html
Clinton: We take your things for the common good
By: Steve Adcock | Submitted on: 04/03/07
EDITORIAL - Speaking in 2004 to a crowd of wealthy democratic supporters during a fund raising event in San Francisco, Hillary Clinton spoke the very words that illustrate the intentions of the government so very well. "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."
While those words were spoken three years ago, they are just as important today. They represent not just the Democrat party's strong commitment to the redistribution of wealth rightfully earned by the American people, it provides insight into the focus that our politicians have in running our nation. It highlights the precise arrogance that Hillary, and many other politicians, have. Our property is not the federal government's to take. The people are not here for the federal government to milk.
Governments are meant to provide protection for their people. Whether that means standing guard at the border, interpreting intelligence data from around the world, monitoring the actions of hostile nations or providing domestic police forces to ensure obedience from the people, governments provide the necessary protection that most Americans simply cannot provide for themselves.
These ideals are especially true at the federal level with any nation. Federal governments need not involve themselves in the day to day activities of its people, as it will quickly get absorbed by a monstrous legion of citizen activists, rules, regulations and bureaucracy, each of which requires money and resources to manage.
Local governments, on the other hand, are best suited to deal with the suffering of its citizens and to provide the necessary services within the guidelines of the state and federal Constitutions. Local governments and communities, after all, know first hand what the needs of their localities are and how best to address those needs quickly and efficiently.
In the United States, federal politicians see the local governments as a threat to the federal government's ultimate power and influence. Our federal government is large. It has established federal departments for virtually every facet of our lives, social entitlement programs under the guise of compassion and an outrageously complex tax structure that requires some Americans to purchase software or the expertise of skilled accountants to wade through their earnings to determine just how much money they still owe the federal government.
Truer words have never before been spoken by a politician in America than the words uttered by presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton. “Taking things away”, after all, is what the government does best. Redistributing wealth to those people that the government believes are more deserving is the very trait of a Marxist society.
Clinton might as well have said, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need”.
While the federal government deserves to be financially supported for the rightful services it provides, such as the protection of the American people from foreign and domestic threats, they are under no constitutional authority to establish a class-based society where the tax dollars from one class flow straight downhill to the people of another class. Simply, that is not their job. It is immoral and unethical, and the implications of that kind of control are downright frightening.
The government has no right to take “things” away from the American people on behalf of the “common good”. And who defines what common good is? Politicians? Is robbing a bank on behalf of a homeless person for the common good? Could I use that defense in a court of law? Of course not. I would be thrown in jail for robbing a bank, even if I were to give 100% of the stolen funds to a homeless person. The federal government, on a daily basis, gets away with the things that you or I would be jailed for committing.
Unless you want your things taken away from you, we as Americans need to fight back for our freedoms in this so-called free society in which we live. Listen to what politicians are telling you. Consider their words and match those words against the constitutional and ethical obligations of the federal government. If those words do not correspond to the kind of society that you wish to live in, as I certainly hope they do not, then demand change. Fight with your vote the next time that you are at the polls. Refuse to vote for the politicians that crave a weak society of dependence, a welfare state and a complete lack of accountability among our representatives.
Fighting back in America is not difficult to do, but understanding that the federal government was never designed to be our nanny seems to be a concept difficult to instill. Our children are indoctrinated into the big government mentality from an early age in government-funded schools. They are taught to never question the government, to assume the government has our best interests at heart and to believe that our guiding principles (the Constitution) is nothing more than a “living concept”, meant to be interpreted and rationalized as to provide for the very programs and federal social entitlements that are in place today.
No, Mr. federal government, you do not have the right to take things away from the people. You have the right to do your job, such as establishing a nation where an attack like Sept 11th never has a chance of succeeding.
Steve Adcock is the founder and developer of SmallGovTimes.com.
http://www.smallgovtimes.com/story/07apr03.clinton.common.good/index.html