I have heard it said (Bill O’Reilly) that if Americans want socialism they should directly vote for it whereby it then somehow gains legitimacy. You cannot confer human rights, confiscate those rights or abrogate them even if you dismantle the constitution. These rights pre-existed the constitution. Catherine the Great understood this, the Magna Carta alludes to this, many Supreme Justices stated this, Locke and Burke philosophized about this, the Massachusetts Bill of Rights reflected this and so did the South Carolina Constitution. Some men, as a minority with power, or as a majority democracy with the plurality of a vote, do not have the authority to place others in bondage and when you co-op the property of others you co-op their freedom. Yes, we understand that the government needs to be financed but social engineering that actually argues against the rights of those that support it by the redistribution of their property cannot ever be tolerated and granted legitimacy. It deserves no start because it will never accept an end point.

This bill places American posterity into enormous debt and empowers the State in known and yet to be totally understood ways that trash liberty and freedom all in the name of stimulus when it is nothing more than just another big-spending pork laden bill empowering even bigger more authoritarian government.

For those who love European styled socialism I suggest you move there and try and speak above the quiet whispers of so many who are afraid to openly state what they experience and know is wrong. When you need competent medical care you better be prepared to pay big-time under the table to get less than mediocrity and learn to accept the philosophy of hospice even for those that can be cured. Europe has been denied the spirit of many who would resist because they have been removed by past failed regimes and many of those that survived and resisted moved to America where they would not be subject to lives of quiet discontent and where their posterity would not inherit the wind.

So I salute Gingrey, all the House Republicans and those democrats who stood on the side of the Constitution, on the side of the document that rightly confers order to the rights of humankind and contracts to stay away from those rights, to stay within the confines of the leash granting government limited powers and remember that government does not grant liberty and freedom to us because we already had it, as a natural right of birth, before our constitution and government even existed.

As a side note, what goes with the Politico lately. Most of us don’t have the advantage of an editorial staff so this error goes right up the line.