To translate for Obama supporters, our Creator only guarantees three rights - life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. This list does not include collective bargaining, happiness (only the pursuit thereof), a job, a house, a car, an iPod or iPad, a television (plasma or black & white), or anything else not specifically listed! Therefore, when any government-instituted privilege is granted, consider it a gift. And, if it is not granted, remember that it was never guaranteed in the first place, regardless of who promised it. Likewise, when a government-instituted privilege is taken away, remember that IT IS NOT RIGHT to have even received it in the first place, let alone to have enjoyed it for even one nanosecond (for Obama supporters, that's not very long).
Got it???
I totally agree.
The other little fact is that with “rights” come responsibilities.
I just know that libs, socialists and union goons aren’t quite up to speed on that concept, though.
Haven’t you heard of life, liberty and the pursuit of other people’s money???
Are you SURE it doesn’t say “and 99 week welfare and free healthcare and the right to not be offended and the right to feel good about yourself and the right to a 4.0 GPA”?
Got it? For someone who can not read as far as through the First Amendment, you sure got confused fast.
Collective bargaining is nothing more than an agreement between two parties based on corruption, therefore, in the minds of Democrats it is an unalienable right from their creator Satan. ;-)
Collective bargaining is a PRIVILEGE granted by an employer.
There cannot be a right to something that has to be taken from another person.
amen
don’t let them manipulate the language
I mentally search and replace “collective bargaining rights” with “collective bargaining powers”
The PEOPLE have a Right to be secure in their possessions, and in their homes, EXCLUSIVE of Union thugs or confiscation of earnings.
I agree with you in spirit, but I think you're a little bit off the mark.
If you re-read what you posted, Jefferson (and Adams and everyone else who edited the DoI) is saying that God gave us certain inalienable rights -- rights which cannot be taken away from us absent due process -- and "among" these inalienable rights are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Because of that "among," what Jefferson is saying, then, is that life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are only some of our inalienable rights, not the only ones that God guarantees. In modern times, he might have slapped that clause in a parenthetical with an "e.g." for example.
No master list exists of all our rights. God granted us a sh*tload of inalienable rights, and to spell them all out in a laundry list would be an exercise in human fallibility, for there would be no way (1) we'd ever nail down the entire list, and (2) everyone would agree on all points.
But you're right in that collective bargaining is NOT a right because of one simple thing: God does not give the gift of rights to a collective. He gives them to the individual. A collective has no rights; only powers given to it by law (e.g., a government).
The distinction is subtle but important because rights come from God and exist regardless of human government. As a gift from God, rights extend to all human beings in equal measure, and therefore cannot be deprived of any man absent due process. Power derives from human government and therefore exists only within a civic structure. Power does not extend to all human beings in equal measure, and because power is a creation of man, it can be given to or taken away from man by man.
Conservatives believe in inalienable rights because most conservatives believe in the Creator. Leftists create all others sorts of “rights” because their god is government.
You’re preaching to the choir. Try telling that to the DUmmies.
As much as we like the idea that God gave us these “rights”, we must understand that the application and enjoyment of life, liberty, and being able to pursue happiness is done so only by His grace and mercy.
We are sinners, fallen creatures, deserving of His wrath and destruction. When these acts of grace and mercy by Him are taken for granted, even to the point of shaking a fist and demanding them, He has shown in the past that death, bondage, and misery are also His to bestow to us.
Likewise, so it is with any other so-called “rights” one may feel he is entitled too, such as, the ability to assemble together, collectively, and voice freely the desires of our hearts to our employers.
In the Revisionist Obama Declaration of Independence, everything they have ever wanted for 50 years of wet dreams is written in it. They just do not have it in print format. the Republican House of Representatives voted on the 61 Billion in Budget Cuts thus rendering it to be unfunded. Obama asked the Democrat Senate to seek a compromise and darn even the Democrats could get enough money saved to make up the difference to get it printed.
maybe obama will have to get the money from the Union. Thats Right he was waiting for the 14 WI Democrat Fleebaggers to stay away for quite awhile and he would got printed by their saving untold millions of disposable pocket change. Notice Obama has been silent about the Wisconsin Senate and Assembly Passage. - Tonight he is secretly crying and he may have destroyed the only copy of His Revisionist Obama declaration of Independence.
Who knows maybe he has downloaded it in TOTUS
“Let’s Get Something Straight - Collective Bargaining is NOT a Right!!!”
It’s not an unalienable right, but there are other kinds of rights of which it may be one.
But then, you didn’t define “right” at all.
“Likewise, when a government-instituted privilege is taken away, remember that IT IS NOT RIGHT to have even received it in the first place, let alone to have enjoyed it for even one nanosecond...”
Do you mean to say that “the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury...” is a privilege, not a right (actually, a privilege is a sort of right by some definitions) and that it is not right to have even received “the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury...” in the first place?
I think your rant needs more work.