RIGHTS VERSUS RESPONSIBILITIES

Our politicians and our press have become too loose with "rights talk." Everything is now a "right." The "right" to work. The "right" to health care. The "right" to a own a home. Each and every one of these "rights" is actually a restriction on liberty.

The right to work, for example, requires someone else to give you a job. The right to health care requires someone else to provide health care for you. These are not true rights, but tyrannical impositions, taking from Party A and giving to Party B.

Agreed. It’s only on the right side of the political spectrum that I ever hear the word “responsibility” in a context other than “government responsibility.”