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Liberty is taking a beating these days in America, the supposed land of the free. There isn't much the government does anymore that isn't predicated entirely upon stealing the property of one set of people, then using it to bribe another set of people for their re-election votes by paying bills for them that are their own responsibility. From education to health care to retirement pensions, Congress is proving itself to be the biggest bunch of common thieves in history. If we don't wake up and recognize this for what it is, we will soon be living under the very same Soviet system we spent 40 years fighting the Cold War to defeat.

First of all, let's start calling things what they really are rather than using the euphemisms of the left that are designed to obscure the truth. Public education is simply using force to make others pay for the consequences of your procreating. Universal health care is simply forcing others to pay your doctor bills. Social Security and Medicare is forcing others to provide your pension. The foundation of all of these is outright theft – seizing the property and assets of others to cover your responsibilities and obligations.

In the above cases, that would be payment for services rendered – be that teaching or treatment – and to save enough during your working years to be able to not work late in life. Even if this accomplished everything its proponents claim – which it absolutely does not – it would still be wrong. To use a legal aphorism, it's all fruit of the poisoned tree.

Worse yet, this thievery creates the most perverse incentives imaginable. It effectively rewards every bad behavior by insulating the perpetrator from the consequences thereof. In turn, it all but guarantees more bad behavior. After all, if everyone else but you bears the responsibility, why should you even try to be responsible? Why be careful about sex when everyone else pays your children's tuition? Why take care of your health when everyone else pays your doctor bills? Why save and invest a portion of each paycheck when everyone else will have a portion of theirs taken to provide your pension? Most of all, why do anything the right way when doing things the wrong way has been made so much more lucrative?

At best, the liberals who promote all these Marxist ideas are gravely naive and wrong about human nature, believing it to be far closer to good than the sin it truly is – evidenced by how riddled with fraud all these redistributionist programs are. At worst, this has nothing to do with a mistaken view of humanity and everything to do with a tyrannical attempt by them to seize control of every facet of all of our lives. If government is the one paying all the tuition and health care bills with all that stolen money, then it stands to reason that they will be the ones deciding what your children can be taught, what you can consume, what behavior you can engage in and so on. In an attempt to benefit from theft, your most precious asset of all will be taken – your freedom.

Rather fitting, if you ask me. You reap exactly what you sow.

The total moral bankruptcy of this is on full display in the dishonest rhetoric of the liberals who are relentlessly trying to foist it on our nation. From the tried-and-true tactic of demogoging opponents as hating children and the elderly, to apocalyptic prophecies of mass suffering if blocked, and glowing predictions of nirvana on Earth if passed, there isn't one iota of substantive logical – much less truthful – defense. Just pompous screaming by a bunch of pathological liars who are so far lost in their own egos they actually believe their own bullcrap. This actually makes sense, since there can be no logical defense of that which is inherently immoral. So intimidation, fraud and distraction are all they have left.

The only way we can remain a free people is to resist, with every fiber of our being, the temptation to devolve into a kleptocracy. That means taking care of your own moral responsibilities and freely choosing how best to do so. Shirk that duty, and your freedom will disappear with it, which is why government is so desperate to sucker you into doing it. They don't give a damn about you, they just want power. A nation sufficiently immoral to abide everyone stealing from everyone in some capacity or other is one that has forfeited its moral claim to liberty and is but a short step away from outright communism. And that's precisely what the liberal left is proffering, starting with thievery and inevitably ending with thuggery.

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