Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2020 20:02:06 GMT -5
Feb 5, 2020 6:36:51 GMT -5 @gregr said:
I`m no fan of social Security/Medicare, but, no, it is not socialism. What it is, is a government run, government mandated retirement account. Both I and my employer have paid into those all my working life. I`d be more than glad to get out of both, so long as I get all the monies I and my employer were compelled to put in, plus interest.As for the military and infrastructure, those things are the very limited things the federal government are supposed to be taking care of. Everything else then is supposed to taken care of by the states. We`ve long ago lost sight of what the proper role of government is. Government is not supposed to be our provider, or, our dictator. We are supposed to be free men, sinking as low, or soaring as high as our work, motivation, and best efforts take each of us.
As for being free, our Constitution is designed to protect our freedoms and individual liberties from both a mob majority, as well as government. Period. Since the Constitution is the Law of the Land, the wishes of a majority may not supercede the rights enumerated within it, your rights are intact, exactly as stated. And never forget that the Constitution was formed to restrain government, not We the People. The Founders stated that our rights are unalienable, that is, granted by God. Government did not bestow these rights upon us, and therefore, government may not take these rights away, or, limit them.