We are entitled to food????
Sweet, the money I save from buying food can go to another gun!
The phrase "We the People" lost appeal to our elected government officials long ago. We have a Congress, whose concern is no longer "What is most beneficial to our country?", but rather, "How can our personal portfolios benefit from the passage of this legislation?"
I think that any "entitlement" to food - or any goods or services - follows ones
entitlement to work and their
entitlement to buy their groceries, etc., like the rest of us.
Entitlements are the bait and backbone of the socialist-"progressives". The only things we are "entitled" to in our democratic republic are those things specified in the Bill of Rights, and - IMHO -the
opportunity to benefit from our personal labors.
Although it sounds like an ideal worth supporting, the United Nations "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" becomes a bit disconcerting as you approach the end (Articles 29/30) of it:
Article 29. (if you want the details of "Blahblahblah", or the entire U.N Declaration see:
http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/ )
(1) Blahblahblah...
(2) Blahblahblah...
(3) These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations. (emphases added)
Between
that, and the UNs designs to impose their "global gun ban" (via elimination of privately owned firearms) on the entire world, they represent only the interests of the world-wide, socialist-"progressive" movement, whose main theme seems to be "You exist, therefore you are entitled (so long as you own no guns)!"
As Thomas Jefferson said: "A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have." That would include "redistribution". (It is not my intent to turn this into a political discussion, and I will pursue it no further. The prior introduction of the concept of "entitlement" kinda opened that door.) Pax...
P.S. But I
DO like your way of thinking on what to do with the extra money you'd have!