Beautifully stated!!!!!
JoanB
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 10:26:09 -0800
(PST) From: Nancy Casey <case3083@uidaho.edu>
To: Robert Probasco <rcp@uidaho.edu>
Cc: vision2020@moscow.com
Subject: Re: The Bill of NO RIGHTS.....
from David Peckham
On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, Robert Probasco wrote:
> The Bill of NO RIGHTS.....
>
>
> ARTICLE IV: You do not have the right to free food and housing.
> Americans are the most charitable people to be found, and will gladly
> help anyone in need, but we are quickly growing weary of subsidizing
> generation after generation of professional couch-potatoes who achieve
> nothing more than the creation of another generation of couch potatoes.
Sorry to wake you from your dream, but Americans are not the most
charitable people to be found. Our charitability per capita is well below
that of many European countries of more modest means.
>
> ARTICLE VII: You do not have the right to the possessions of others. If
> you rob, cheat or coerce away the goods or services of other citizens,
> don't be surprised if the rest of us get together and lock you away in a
> place where you still won't have the right to a big-screen TV or a life
> of leisure.
>
"Some will rob you with a six-gun, and others with a fountain pen." Woody
Guthrie said that. Somehow in America different forms of theivery have
been justified. Corporate down-sizing, automation and accompanying
lay-offs for fattening CEO salaries and shareholders is theft by my
definition. So is buying politicians who then vote tax-breaks for the
rich.
The common people have a right pursue decent meaningful lives and there
has always been an element of rich and powerful, under some guise of
"rights" and "justice" who would take that away.