Bernie Sanders must have read it and took it seriously, at least if this tweet is any indication."Republicans talk a lot about freedom and choice. But you cannot truly be free if you can't afford health care or food or medicine."
In other words, he’s saying you have a “right” that is predicated on other people paying for you.
When I first saw that tweet, the first thing that came to mind was the cartoon about the choice between “work hard” and “free stuff.”
Then I thought about the failure of nations that go too far down the path of redistribution, such as Greece and Venezuela.
And I wondered whether Senator Sanders actually understands what he’s saying. In other words, is he crazy, blind, or evil?
Or perhaps immoral? In his Washington Times column, Richard Rahn looked at the ethical implications.
"Sen. Bernie Sanders keeps repeating that “all Americans have a right to health care” — nice applause line, but what does it mean? There is no such right mentioned in the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution. Health care is not a free good — someone has to pay for it. Ask yourself — who should pay for your health care?
"…Do you have the obligation to pay for someone else’s health care? If so, how much and why? …The 13th Amendment to the Constitution prohibits “involuntary servitude” and slavery. At what point does a tax on someone’s labor — where the proceeds of that tax are largely used to provide income or services to others — constitute “involuntary servitude”? …Those who think they have the right to the labor of those they revile, i.e., the “rich,” have the same mentality of the slaveholder who also thought he had the right to others’ labor."
Talk about idiots. It is so nice to hear about item after item where that idiot Odumba did something that made absolutely no sense. He was warned not to do by experts. And the outcome causes deaths and injuries.
Now it's American diplomats assigned to Cuba.
"Staff members at the US mission, which was reopened as a full embassy in 2015 after a half-century Cold War breakdown in diplomatic relations -- began reporting sick last year.
Washington recently said at least 16 embassy employees were injured in a series of incidents in Havana that began last year, but officials have not revealed the extent of the injuries.
"Diagnoses include mild traumatic brain injury and permanent hearing loss, with such additional symptoms as loss of balance, severe headaches, cognitive disruption and brain swelling," it said."