The biggest problem I have with government generally and Democrats specifically is this: They don't ask me what I think, or why, or anything. They just tell me how I should feel about some "social injustice" and then tell me what they plan to legislate so that I can contribute to fixing the "problem" they've identified. And their "fix" always involves a tax on my earnings, or limiting the earnings of someone who has made a comfortable living in the "free market."
It seems to me like they think they're bigger than any problem anyone has, and that they're well able to fix any problem anyone has. In fact, they appear to believe that they are BETTER able to fix any problem than anyone else could ever hope to imagine they might possibly be under the best circumstances. Worst of all, they appear to think it's their job to fix my problems!
What they appear to not realize is that my problem is mine to solve. If they have a suggestion for me, I'd welcome it if they would first welcome my explanation of how I feel or think about something.
But they don't, so I don't share with them anything about how I feel.
But I'll share it with you.
First (and I've said this before - just ask Shawn), the government cannot give anyone anything without first taking it from someone else.
Second: if the government legislates that health care is a right (it isn't), then that means that they are telling doctors that they do not have a right to choose how they'll use their expertise. They are in fact requiring doctors to provide health care (which is a "right" according to government) to anyone who needs it.
Okay; let's go with that for a minute: I have a right to the effort, energy, work, product, service of another.
Let's go one (not two, but one) step further: I have a right to your money. (According to the government, I do, if you make more than a certain amount and I make less than a certain amount.) And the government will take it from you if you don't freely give it to me.
Here's the problem with all this: The government defines me as a "victim" if I make less than a certain amount, and defines the wealthy as "greedy" if they posses more than a certain amount. But if I claim money that you've earned as my own and use the government to transfer that wealth, doesn't that make me greedy and make the wealthy the victims?
