Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

July 16, 2012

In a campaign speech before a partisan crowd in Roanoke, Virginia, President Obama hymned the praises of government as the provider of all good things, while rebuking business owners for their supposedly misplaced belief that they ?build? wealth as individuals:

?If you?ve got a business ? you didn?t build that.  Somebody else made that happen?. We rise or fall together as one nation and as one people. You?re not on your own, we?re in this together.?

This is why, he maintained, it is proper to ?ask for the wealthy to pay a bit more? ? as if taxation backed by the threat of lethal force were merely a polite request.

Like most people of his ideological bent, Obama either cannot or will not distinguish between society ? which is created through peaceful commerce and other forms of private cooperation ? and the state ? which is built on conquest, coercion, and confiscation of wealth. Government produces nothing; it is an exercise in pure consumption and, usually, the destruction of capital. As Nietzsche famously said, everything the State has is stolen ? and Mr. Obama?s entire career has been devoted to this variety of institutionalized theft.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.