Entitlement

During this season of healthcare debate the morons incapable of checking the sum of their ideas for logical consistency tended to whine about entitlement, painting an image of lazy greed, a sort of working class fat cat.

I’ll be blunt, I do feel entitled to government healthcare, and indeed a paycheck. Here’s a list of why.

1. They make it illegal to kill myself, which means my living is forced on me by the state, therefore the state is responsible for it.

2. The state of intellectual property law and economic regulation generally makes competition by improvement impossible. Innovation is illegal.

3. Protection from death from outside sources is already an accepted government responsibility, from seat belts, to the FDA, to the Army, regulation and expenditure to protect us from death is everywhere.

4. The state has the authority to kill us if it so chooses, therefore they have the responsibility to keep us alive.

5. They have far more power over me than they have responsibility to me already. From telling me who I can marry, to which plants I can eat, to what color I can paint my house, the state intrudes on virtually every aspect of our lives to the point that it may simply be easier to make a list of legal activities and assume all else is illegal.

6. Our taxes and labor keep the state alive, we deserve a share of the profits.

7. I am prevented from exiting, as Ruby Ridge and Waco and the countless other examples of social abstinence being disallowed demonstrates.

8. I do not actually own my land, my home, or my body. I rent via taxes.

9. Congress and convicts gets free healthcare.

10. And perhaps most importantly, I didn’t break the law today, which serves one and only one purposes, to keep those in power, in power. I didn’t execute a multimillionaire, I didn’t black out the eastern seaboard, I didn’t drive a truck full of explosives into a federal building, in short I didn’t behave just like the government does and help myself at the expense of someone else, just because I can.

They owe us.

The people that whine about entitlement typically are doing so out of fear, insecurity, and callousness coupled with a Horatio Alger self serving mentality that they through pluck and determination earned what they have, which is based on willful ignorance of civics, economics, and sociology, plain and simple.

They are afraid like daffy duck’s rendition of Ali Baba, that some of their precious wealth is going to be taken away to care for the unwashed masses. And so they hoard and block and whine and cry. They also deeply fear the angry lower classes being made healthy, and so they should given their rapacious exploitation.

But ours is a government built on rebellion, and they have made themselves little better than the kings we fought and died to be free of, and now they don’t even have the common decency to protect the peasantry from the plague, unless of course its virulent and lethal enough to begin to temporarily interrupt their gluttonous accumulation of wealth.

Oh then its time for a barely tested vaccine. Because they care about us just so much.

LIFE, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. What part of “life” is unclear?

If they make it impossible for me to live by “legitimate” means, not even be rich, just live remotely comfortably, I naturally like anyone else will seek other means.

If they are smart, if they want to add a few decades onto the life span of their hold on this rotting corpse of a system, they’ll start handing out medical care.

See also: http://underlore.com/islanders/