MSNBC’s Harris-Perry: “You do have the right to health care, and to education, and to decent housing and to quality food at all times”

MSNBC’s Harris-Perry: “You do have the right to health care, and to education, and to decent housing and to quality food at all times”. Let’s do a thought experiment: if everybody has that right at all times, then there is no need to go to work to get money to buy them, correct? So if everybody decides to take that route, who will provide the health care, housing and food for all of us who have the right to them? (a) The Chinese (b) the European Union (c) shut up (d) we will reinstate the draft and have the military do it. Rights!

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  • Ms. Harris-Perry makes it clear: If I have a "right" to health care, education, decent housing and quality food, then you have the obligation to provide them to me. Get it? I have rights, you have obligations. Be sure to work hard, sacrifice and save so I can fully enjoy my rights.

  • One doesn't pay for rights. Anything the government gives you it can take away. Our fundamental rights are natural rights. Inalienable.

    Look at what our "leadership" is voting on today. They are trying to amend the 2d Amendment on an up or down vote basis. Illegal. Illegal. Illegal. No one seems to care. Do I sound frustrated today? I am.

  • "People who work hard and sacrifice and save their money and make major contibutions: we think they should earn a little more."

    Why, thank you Melissa. If I work real hard and scrimp and save, "we" think I should be allowed to "earn a little more". Note the use of the imperial "we". Who is the "we"? It's people like Ms. Harris-Perry: Marxist college professors, Occupiers, assorted communists, anarchists and socialists, Unionistas, the Congressional Progressive Caucus, the staff of MSNBC and the current resident in the White House.

    These people need to be identified and their power nullified and defeated.

  • THEY ABSOLUTELY DO HAVE THE RIGHT TO ALL THESE THINGS.

    It's just that we HAVE NO OBLIGATION to give it to them. Let them earn it if
    they want it.

  • These things she says people have a right to are things provided by others. So these people with these rights are entitled to benefit from the labor of others. And if those others providing the rights refuse, how will Ms. Perry force the provision of these rights?
    Socialists are killers. Always have been, always will be.

  • You know, this morning I was thinking about these alleged "rights" and then about the various Hurricane Sandy victims in NYC who are still without after all these months. So if they have the "right" to all this stuff "at all times", it sounds like their rights were violated. Gubbermint can't even guarantee these "rights" in a small area over a limited period of time. One has to be seriously stupid to pretend that we ALL are entitled to these things ALWAYS. It's the leftist unicorn fart fantasy on steroids.

  • When food and healthcare are rights-the government will violate the "rights" of one, to honor the rights of another-just like they do with affirmative action, and other bogus laws that make protected classes out of perfectly healthy and capable persons.
    This is libspeak for we all suffer together-Harris-Perry is a useful fool, as are all the commies at MSNBC. Sure wish someone would shut all of NBC down!

  • If people have all these rights, yet we don't have the right to bear arms and to protect ourselves. Very odd and strange thinking process for the leftist.

  • Holy liberal dipshit batman, I looked and NO where in the constitution did I find any of the rights mentioned by the PMSNBC race baiter, man she must be hurting for ratings, she is saying shit that is goofier than Tingles and Ed Schultz put together...