This constant notion from the left that someone can “deserve” the work of another person, is another way of saying they can “take” the work or property of one to give to another. It’s not charity if your resources are taken without your consent. If I steal your wallet and give the contents to the RedCross is that not still theft? Obama is selling the same plan here. Theft for a “good cause” apparently isn’t theft in his eyes.

The left has never understood the simple concept of TRADE. The simple truth that nothing produced by the work of humans is free. It inherently has cost; the time it took to make it, the resources used, the opportunities lost while producing it, etc. To think that just because things exist, that they should be free is the looter’s (or Marx’s) mentality. (or Obama’s in this case.) It’s a logical fallacy- not a moral issue. It undermines how the very resources supposedly “deserved” came to exist in the first place.

What does it mean for one to sit alone in the middle of the desert and deserve water? It means nothing.
What Obama is selling in his quote above is theft, plain and simple. It’s Obamanomics 101; take from the rich and give to the poor so the poor will vote for you. It is the opposite of encouraging a healthy productive society. It encourages taking, not making. If we don’t start focusing on making, there won’t be anything left for the “deserving” to take from those who produce. You can deserve a new car all you want, it doesn’t make one exist, nor does it convince a seller who paid for one that he should give it to you without being compensated.

To “have” in this world you can make, trade, or steal. These are the only 3 options. Obama, like a lot of modern Americans is unfamiliar with the first option, The second is hard, so he jumps right to the third; theft. It’s much easier to deserve (steal through taxation) a college education than it is to work two jobs to pay for one. It’s much easier to convince people that they “deserve” something than to convince them that they should have to work and trade for it.

I am sick of the fundamentally flawed thinking that the left and even much of the right is based on. We need to go back to a few first principles. Man is free. Man is productive. Man owns himself and the products of his labor and is free to trade with others. The rule of law exists to keep theft from discouraging human creativity(making) and trade. (murder is theft of a life) Then theft is the central function of law, we have lost our way entirely.

Caleb C