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    Rep. Keith Ellison - There's Plenty of Money and 'Government Has a Right' To It

    Rep. Keith Ellison - There's Plenty of Money and 'Government Has a Right' To It





    CNS news uncovered this amazing video of Keith Ellison laying out his theory of property rights. Here’s a spoiler – it’s closer to Marx than it is to John Locke:

    So the bottom line is we’re not broke, there’s plenty of money, it’s just the government doesn’t have it.

    So that’s the problem – not that we spend way more than the government taxes already, or that we’re in $16 trillion in debt, it’s that we haven’t taken enough! It gets worse:


    The government has a right – the government and the people of the United States have a right to run the programs of the United States. Health, welfare, housing, all these things.

    Notice he doesn’t mention defense or infrastructure spending – the two things The Constitution actually says are the obligation of the federal government to the people. He flips this on it’s head and says that the government has a right to run social programs. Who gave it this “right”? The Founders clearly said the people have natural rights granted to them by “their Creator.” So how does a government have “rights” to the detriment of the property of the people?

    And the people who benefit from being here have a duty and obligation to support it.

    Like most Statists, Ellison gets it exactly backwards. The state has an obligation to the people, not the other way around. It’s an insult to the people of our country that such a man should hold office, supposedly upholding a constitution he fundamentally misunderstands.

    http://www.ijreview.com/2013/08/7054...a-right-to-it/

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    Sometimes, there are no words. The level of utter stupdity exemptified here in this video...............
    “In questions of power…let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” –Thomas Jefferson

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    You would think this would be enough to have his sorry butt recalled and put out of a job, but unfortunately too many agree with him and reap the benefits of his way of thinking. Sickening and disgusting. Folks, if WE don't start educating our children to what our founding documents REALLY mean, what our government's role is - and is not, among other things, we are t.o.a.s.t as a free republic.

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