Welfare and U.S. Government by slaveofone
In a previous post, Water-boarding and U.S. Government, I encapsulated the fundamental premise of U.S. government in order to show its relation to the allowance and support of or lawful entitlement against and protection from torture. Here, I will show how this premise relates to governmental welfare.
In the conception of the government and law by which this nation was established, natural human right and liberty is antecedent. Government or law does not give us rights or liberties, but is instead created and bounded by our natural, pre-societal rights and liberties. Basic human needs cannot, therefore, be Constitutional entitlements, for the Constitution does not entitle us to anything. Rather, it acknowledges what we were already entitled by nature before government or law so that government and law do not trespass. Prior to law and government, we each had a right to our life. We were not entitled to someone else’s. Prior to law and government, we each had a right to property. Our property was not entitled to someone else. Prior to law and government, we each were entitled to the pursuit of our fortune of being or welfare. We were not entitled to pursue someone else’s. This is why the notion that legislation of welfare is either a right or even a lawful choice is directly antithetical to our government.
To suggest or even demand that someone either has a right to legislated welfare or that government can or should engage in welfare steals from the very people their natural and inalienable condition set in place by nature and the Creator, gives it to government, and enables government to arbitrarily decide thereafter both what is acceptable and what is not acceptable for humanity. Humans not longer allow government to exist, but government allows (or disallows when and where it decides) humans to exist. Humans no longer allow government to protect and help them maintain their well-being, but government decides for us what our well-being means and what it wants to do or not do about it. Should humans dislike what government decides, not only do they no longer have a right to do something to rebel against that decision, but they no longer have a right to well-being at all, for that has become the government’s. In the end, therefore, the pursuit of a right to legislative or governmental welfare is the loss of welfare itself.
Our system of government is not at all perfect. And if this system alone were the end of the matter, we might have good reason to think something essential was missing. But it is my belief that the faults in the best structure the Modern Age provided can be corrected by something the Pre-Modern Age gave us…
[to be continued]