I find it funny that they gladly accept donations from the very corporations that they are protesting as long as it suits them. Hypocrisy much?

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODdK9a-m5jU&feature=player_embedded)

What is a basic human right? Is there a difference between natural rights, human needs, and wants? Certainly. There are traditional rights and more recent "new" rights which seek not to give equal opportunity to thrive, but to force equality.

There is an incompatibility between the two since traditional rights are about individual liberty while the new rights are about social fairness. The former allows for personal freedom and responsibility and the latter for governmental power and lack of personal responsibility.

(People) could not be allowed to use their knowledge for their own purposes but would have to carry out the plan which rulers have designed to meet the needs to be satisfied. From this it follows that the old civil rights and the new social and economic rights cannot be achieved at the same time but are in fact incompatible; the new rights cannot be enforced by law without at the same time destroying that liberal order at which the old rights aim".— F A Hayek, Law, Legislation and Liberty, Volume 2, (Chicago, 1982) p 103.

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An email I received from a friend had an amusing take on the OWS protesters written by Marybeth Hicks of The Washington Times. I lol'd, so I'm sharing. Here we go:

Call it an occupational hazard, but I can’t look at the Occupy Wall Street protesters without thinking, “Who parented these people?”

As a culture columnist, I've commented on the social and political ramifications of the “movement” - now known as “OWS” - whose fairyland agenda can be summarized by one of their placards: “Everything for everybody."

Thanks to their pipe-dream platform, it’s clear there are people with serious designs on “transformational” change in America who are using the protesters like bedsprings in a brothel.

Yet it’s not my role as a commentator that prompts my parenting question, but rather the fact that I’m the mother of four teens and young adults. There are some crucial life lessons that the protesters’ moms clearly have not passed along.

Here, then, are five things the OWS protesters’ mothers should have taught their children but obviously didn’t, so I will:

Horror of horrors, we may not have big government to run our lives, take care of all our needs and give us our wants after 2012. This is a bad thing?

At a million-dollar San Francisco fundraiser today, President Obama warned his recession-battered supporters that if he loses the 2012 election it could herald a new, painful era of self-reliance in America.

That's kinda funny since self-reliance used to be the norm. It is only a problem now because government over the last decades has fostered a nation of dependents.

“The one thing that we absolutely know for sure is that if we don’t work even harder than we did in 2008, then we’re going to have a government that tells the American people, ‘you are on your own,’” Obama told a crowd of 200 donors over lunch at the W Hotel.

“If you get sick, you’re on your own. If you can’t afford college, you’re on your own. If you don’t like that some corporation is polluting your air or the air that your child breathes, then you’re on your own,” he said. “That’s not the America I believe in. It’s not the America you believe in.”

Bill Whittle puts things in perspective. The reality is that it comes down to contentment. Once envy creeps in, everything seems so unfair. Compared to other nations, however, the U.S. has one of the highest standards of living, even for those here who are considered poor.

Despite what you hear from the media and the Democrat party, the poor are getting richer. In fact, America's poor are so rich, we should be celebrating it. Bill Whittle has the facts to back it up.

And for more information, check out the excellent research from the Heritage Foundation: http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2011/07/What-is-Poverty

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkebmhTQN-4&feature=player_detailpage)

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlvzlajRRVM&feature=player_embedded)

via Moonbattery:

The Left hates Christianity and America because both are bulwarks in the defense of individual liberty from oligarchical collectivism. Yet we hear this from Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC):

"I always find it very interesting that people talk all about their [failed attempt to pronounce 'fundamental'] Christianity and all these other religions, all of which teach love, all of which teach taking care of the poor, all of which talk about doing for the least of these. Yet, they continue to heap burden upon burden upon people who can stand it the least."

Heaping burdens means failing to support ever-climbing tax rates to finance Big Government's never-ending expansion.

This is priceless! A Wal-Mart customer in Houston sees three men walk in to the store, and casually walk out with three cases of beer without paying. So what does she do? Chases them down and jumps on the roof of their car Awesome!

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nCTkQXMWcQ&feature=player_embedded)