10/8/2008, 1:13 am
Everybody knows that healthcare is a right! The proof of this, according to resourceful progressive logic, lies in the fact that capitalist ideologues do not consider it a right. So, obviously, it must be just the opposite! Just look at the quote below:
Health Care Is Not A Right
Heartless capitalist propagandist Leonard Peikoff wrote:I do not agree that socialized medicine is moral and well-intentioned, but impractical. Of course, it is impractical—it does not work—but I hold that it is impractical because it is immoral. This is not a case of noble in theory but a failure in practice; it is a case of vicious in theory and therefore a disaster in practice. I want to focus on the moral issue at stake. So long as people believe that socialized medicine is a noble plan, there is no way to fight it. You cannot stop a noble plan—not if it really is noble. The only way you can defeat it is to unmask it—to show that it is the very opposite of noble. Then at least you have a fighting chance.
What is morality in this context? The American concept of it is officially stated in the Declaration of Independence. It upholds man's unalienable, individual rights. The term "rights," note, is a moral (not just a political) term; it tells us that a certain course of behavior is right, sanctioned, proper, a prerogative to be respected by others, not interfered with—and that anyone who violates a man's rights is: wrong, morally wrong, unsanctioned, evil.
Now our only rights, the American viewpoint continues, are the rights to life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. According to the Founding Fathers, we are not born with a right to a trip to Disneyland, or a meal at McDonald's, or a kidney dialysis (nor with the 18th-century equivalent of these things). We have certain specific rights—and only these.
Why only these? Observe that all legitimate rights have one thing in common: they are rights to action, not to rewards from other people. The American rights impose no obligations on other people, merely the negative obligation to leave you alone. The system guarantees you the chance to work for what you want—not to be given it without effort by somebody else.
Read more of this insane ranting here- and keep in mind that this was uttered in 1993 during the Hillarycare debates.
Luckily for progress, McCain shares Obama's views on morality, so defeating him is only a matter of pointing out his inconsistencies. Because nobody can share the progressive morality and be consistent at the same time. The difference is that we know this and he doesn't. And that answers the last question in the tonight's debate: "what you don't know and how will you know it?"