A society lives or dies by its people. If they can take on responsibilities and make good decisions, then it can grow and be strong. If they can't, then it decays.
And everything else is just bread and circuses.
Sultanknish (aka Daniel Greenfield ) nails it again.
The Right to be Better People
Thursday, February 09, 2017
Posted by Daniel Greenfield
https://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-right-to-be-better-people.html (excerpted - entire article is commended to your reading pleasure.)
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Ted Cruz defines what a right is. A right is the freedom to make decisions for yourself.
Bernie Sanders ridicules that. You can make decisions for yourself, but what good does that do you if the government doesn't give you the things you need and you can't afford to pay for them.
Sanders says that rights are entitlements. Cruz argues that they are freedoms.
And that is what the debate comes down to. Freedom or entitlement. And the tricky border where we try to combine the two. But that is what our government does.
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Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good ...
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