Jeff Binkley -> Ed Hulett wrote:





 JB>>> I was discussing welfare today with a friend and we got onto the
 JB>>> topic of government entitlements and personal property rights.
 JB>>> We generally agreed that a government entitlement is bestowed on
 JB>>> someone by the government, although we couldn't come to an
 JB>>> agreement on why the person had the rights to the property of
 JB>>> others.  So I said I would ask you the question.

 JB>>> So the questions is simply "What gives you the right to my time,
 JB>>> energy and money that I earn ?"  Basically it becomes a
 JB>>> discussion of how your rights can possibly be greater than mine
 JB>>> to where I lose my personal property rights and are forced into
 JB>>> a life of servitude to you.  This is what I always call economic
 JB>>> slavery.  Since the left is always so indignant over their
 JB>>> rights, I felt you might be able to share a fresh perspective to
 JB>>> the discussion.

 EH>> You jest.

 JB> I await anyone on the left to answer the question.

They'll just give you some mumbo jumbo about the "general welfare
clause" in the Constitution.

Ed

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