Holy crap! Where do I begin?

This will be like walking through a field of human eggshells. The chances of offending someone are at least 100%. I’ll probably even offend myself. This is long so if you think you’ll need the bathroom; now is the time to go.

ENTITLEMENTS:

1) LIFE.

With exceptions, individuals are entitled to the basics required to survive. This entitlement may be waived through acts of heinous crime and war.

Infants, very young children the incapable and the elderly are entitled to survive and to basic respect.

People are entitled to critical life-saving healthcare.

2) LIBERTY.

People are entitled to defend themselves, their loved ones or any other person/people they deem to be innocent(s) from death or great bodily harm with at least the minimum force necessary to disable the threat.

People are entitled to retain their legal property  with the minimum force required to accomplish that mission.

Children are entitled to be educated.

People who do their best to abide by the “Golden Rule” are entitled to earned respect.

People are entitled to offer and provide charity.

Charitable people are entitled to gratitude.

Grieving people are entitled to sympathy.

Victims of criminal abuse are entitled to  justice.

Criminals are entitled to justice.

People are entitled to succeed according to their own efforts and abilities.

People are entitled to fail according to their own efforts and abilities.

People are entitled to complain and to peacefully demonstrate.

3) PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.

People are entitled to ask for and accept assistance and aid toward  self sufficiency.

NON-ENTITLEMENT:

ABLE PEOPLE ARE NOT ENTITLED TO “SOMETHING-FOR-NOTHING”.

ABLE PEOPLE ARE NOT ENTITLED TO HAVE OTHERS PAY THEIR WAY.

1. LIFE.

People are not entitled to non-critical lifesaving healthcare.

2) LIBERTY.

*Politicians are not entitled to represent the wills of any people other than his/her electoral constituency while holding elected office.

Honorable people are not entitled to disrespect.

The poor are not entitled to dismiss or demonize the rich.

The rich are not entitled to dismiss or demonize the poor.

People are not entitled to riot or act with physical violence.

People are not entitled to illegally damage property through arson, graffiti or in other ways whether as a form of protest or any other illegal purpose(s).

Criminals waive liberty until justice has been satisfied.

Adults (whether legitimately angry over something or not), who behave in dishonorable ways are not entitled to respect.

PURUIT OF HAPPINESS.

People are not entitled to charity.

Able people are not entitled to be purposely non-self sufficient.

People are not entitled to public funded higher education.

People are not inherently entitled to aid and assistance.

People are not entitled to entertainment.

Aside from life-saving or life-sustaining medical devices, people are not entitled to technology, ( ie. : TV, radio, telephones, cell phones, computers, i-pads and notebooks, etc.)

Candy, soda-pop, Starbuck’s, or restaurant/fast food fare are not considered basic life sustaining nutritional requirements and , thus, are not entitlements, ever.

People are not entitled to tattoos.

IMPORTANT NOTES.

!)There are many people who honestly need assistance from the government in order to survive. This is indisputable. We, The People, will always provide this type of existential aid.

2) “Government entitlements” is a misnomer. Handouts of public funds and assistance generally provide recipients reasons to remain non-self sufficient. This has proven true for generations. Politicians use these programs in the ancient form of “Cake and Circus”. The idea behind this is that if they feed and entertain the masses; they own them. It works at the ballot boxes!

3) The government cannot be charitable. It fails the “gratitude test”. When a person receives charity from a private party, church, or other non-tax related source through voluntary contributions, they are grateful. When able people receive governmental assistance, many rarely feel it is as much as they are ENTITLED to.

I look forward to your comments.