Posted by
Reasonsjester on Saturday, September 26, 2009 8:50:14 AM
President Barack Obama, Chairing the 33rd Communist International held at the "United Nations" this week, delivered a speech in which he declared a Third Economic Bill of Rights:
"It is our duty now to begin to lay the plans for a new global restructuring and to determine the strategy for the procurement of ever-lasting service from the people and the establishment of a World standard of living more inflated even than any Washington politician or Hollywood actor might currently enjoy.
We brothers in poverty and equality cannot be content, no matter how high that general standard of living that we imagine may be, if some fraction of our people—whether it be one-third or one-tenth or one five hundredth or one ten thousandth or one three millionth — is independent, self-reliant, unappreciative, and resistant to change.
This Social Democracy had its beginning, and grew to its present strength, under the protection of certain government-granted political privileges—among them the privilege of non-offensive speech, a heel-licking press, home-sequestered worship, trial by consensus, and the security that comes from non-stop surveillance, random searches, and confiscatory seizures. These were our privileges of servitude and obeisance.
As our nation has declined in pride and vigor, however—as our hollowed-out economy imploded—these political privileges proved inadequate to assure us equality in the pursuit of unimaginable prosperity.
We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true social freedom cannot exist without dependence and government empowerment. Independent men are not free men. People who are hungry for freedom and seek a job outside of the bounds of government are the stuff of which fascist dictatorships are made.
In our day these economic truths have become accepted as self-evident. We have accepted, so to speak, a Third Bill of Rights under which a new basis of service and security can be established for all—regardless of station, race, creed, sexuality, gender, ethnicity, girth, skin tone, or transgender status.
Among these are:
The right to an unproductive job in one of the departments or services or offices or bureaus or agencies of the government;
The right to earn enough to eat take-out Chinese every night, to buy an expensive overcoat, and to spend 95% of one's time being entertained;
The right of every bureaucrat to monitor and to regulate at a rate that will give him or her or it and the community an unbelievably fantastic existence;
The right of every policeman, large and small, to oppress in an atmosphere of freedom from resistance;
The right of every community to enlist every child in the service of the greater good;
The right of doctors and nurses to provide medical care to anyone with any illness or perceived illness, from heart attacks to hangnails, regardless of nationality, without rationing and without respect to cost in terms of time, manpower, and technology;
The right to adequate insurance from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, unemployment, and death;
The right to an education adequate enough to be informed of one's own self-interest.
All of these rights spell happiness. And after this war is won, and all the casualties of human opposition removed from our eyes and the history books, we must be prepared to move forward, in the implementation of these rights, to new goals of servitude and sacrifice.
We must be prepared to give up our lives, our fortunes, our sacred honor, and even our country itself, to ascend to our rightful station as firsts among equals; and to realize the honor the world for whom we sacrifice has prepared for us, to join the ranks of the dependent and the oppressed, to march every forward, in harmony with the all-knowing and all-good State, to the very end of history.