evilteabagger:

pantslessprogressive:

Sen. Rand Paul: Right To Health Care Is Like Believing In “Slavery”

Has the Senator ever cracked open a history textbook, or has he been too busy pining over Atlas Shrugged? This comparison is blatantly idiotic.

Rand Paul probably knows more about the philosophy and the history of liberty than you even care to learn.

I’m currently going to school to be an educator. I take great pride in my future as an educator and my influence on the minds of thousands in the generations to come. But if you think I’m going to do this career without proper compensation, you’re kidding yourself. Healthcare is not a right in the same sense that education is not a right. It is a privilege that must be assessed with the same cost/benefit analysis as everything else on this planet. To do otherwise is to create an unsustainable system that will make it impossible to deliver healthcare (or education) to the most people.

To make something a right is to make the people entitled to it. You are ONLY entitled to your life, your liberty and your property. That’s it. You’re not entitled to the property (OR LABOR) of others. This means the labor of doctors, the labor of teachers, the labor of laptop manufacturers, the labor of plumbers, the labor of anything. To say otherwise is to endorse slavery, which is the point Rand is making here.

Education should be a right. I have a right to learn, to read, to write to do anything. You spout off about these socialist actions that you see as slavery, yet you forget that without socialized education (that is indeed in desperate need of reform) you would, most likely, not have this blog. Why? Because you would not have been required to attend school, therefore, one can speculate that you would never have learned to read or write. You absolutely cannot deny that an educated person is indeed a free person. Look at history before education became a requirement, people were easy to oppress, easy to indoctrinate and therefore were easily accessable slave laborers or grossly underpaid workers. I have read many, many of your posts, the ones where you express your personal beliefs I may not agree with but I can at least respect most of the time. However, I cannot believe that someone who has grown up in the system we have, would want to go into education and yet be so against having education being accessable to all.

(via antigovernmentextremist)