Broken Not Crushed living life as a statement, not an apology

One sentence clearly spells out where liberalism – including the “Religious Left” – begins to stray off course.

See if you can find it for yourself in this article:

1.3 million unemployed won’t get benefits restored

How’d you do? Here’s the One Sentence (OK, it’s two sentences):

“I challenge you to look people in the eye and tell them that you voted no,” said Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga. “Tell them as they swallow their pride that you don’t care, that you don’t have a heart, that you don’t have any feeling.”

So there you have it. If you don’t support a government solution, if you don’t support spending money that isn’t there, if you don’t support paying people for almost two years to NOT work, if you believe that people are capable, creative, and intelligent enough to do what they have to do to take care of their families, if you believe that local communities are better qualified than DC to diagnose and solve problems, then you don’t have a heart.

Never mind the track record of government “aid”. Never mind the moral hazard. Never mind the time-tested principle of subsidiarity. Never mind the perverse disincentives to employment. Never mind the utter destruction of the black family brought on by the “Great Society”. Never mind the condescension and arrogance required to believe that people can’t care for themselves. Never mind the deficit, and the disproportionate effect it has on the poor.

What matters most is having a heart, and only those who support creating and sustaining dependency have one.

And therein lies the problem of governing by feeling.

Best definition of entitlement I’ve ever seen:

the very essence of an entitlement is a claim by those who lack a value against those who have earned it. And government is the only agency that can enforce such a claim.

Every time you think about a Government “benefit”, run it through this filter.

Remember, if you wouldn’t pull a gun on your neighbor and demand he pay for your “needs”, then you can’t support Government doing it AND be intellectually consistent.

Read the full article at the Ayn Rand Center.

The media loves stories of courage.

Kudos to Matt Parker and Trey Stone for living it.

The media loves stories of courageous journalists.

Shame on Comedy Central and Jon Stewart for NOT living it.

There are a few moments in life when we truly are at a crossroads, times when we will show either courage or passivity. Swallow the red pill or the blue pill. Stand up for right, or opt for the status quo.

When “Oh, my God! They killed Kenny!” has become “Oh my God! They killed Theo Van Gogh!”, or could become “Oh my God! They killed Parker & Stone!”, the stakes are high.

In a media world of feigned outrage and faux “courage”, South Park’s creators showed true courage. Well done.

Wow.

Sometimes the comments are more illuminating than the article.

Take this Wired article, about another app the Apple has rejected from the App Store. These articles always prompt cries of censorship, which doesn’t surprise me, but this comment stopped me in my tracks:

tell me, why, when a government censors something we call it evil, especially if it is foreign government, but a company can get away with that? What is the difference between a corporation and a government, especially in times when corporations are more powerful than some of the nations.

This, more than any paper I could ever write, demonstrates why our economy is going down fast, along with our hard-won freedoms.

When a US American can’t distinguish between a private company, with private funding and private risk, that makes money only when people freely choose to buy, and the US government, bound by the Constitution, funded solely by money taken coercively from others, we are in trouble.

Big trouble.