We Americans seem to get this strange idea that we have a “right” to all sorts of different things. We have a “right” to health care, we have a “right” to government programs, and we have a “right” to __________. When asked, people will usually say that it comes from the Constitution. I ask, “Where does the Constitution say that?” The founders never had or supported the idea of the citizens of America having a “right” to anything. We don’t have rights to things, we have rights from things. A “right” is supposed to protect citizens from government infringing on our “unalienable rights” that are “endowed by their Creator”. The founders believed that our rights came from God, and we the people lend them to the government. Rights NEVER come from government. Any rights enjoyed by one citizen can never infringe on the rights of another. For example: in order for citizens to receive Welfare, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, etc., the civil government needs to come and take money from someone, to give a handout to someone else. How can one person have a “right” to a program that the government mandates someone else pay for. If I were to walk up to you on the street and say, “give me your money,” I’d be a criminal. How come those same people can vote in politicians to do just that and it’s called “social justice”. Dr. Rogers had a good quote on this back in 1984 when he said, “Friend, you cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. And what one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government can’t give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody. And when half of the people get the idea they don’t have to work because the other half’s going to take care of them, and when the other half get the idea it does no good to work because somebody’s going to get what I work for. That, dear friend, is about the end of any nation.”
They are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable rights
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