Workers Rights?

I'm so tired of hearing about workers rights? What rights are those? Are they clearly defined? Are they in the constitution? What are these people talking about?

It seems when they use these words it is much like the accusation of racism. It implies some inequity, some mendacity and some violation when in reality for the most part none ever exists. The accusation is enough.

Do people have a RIGHT to a pension? Do people have a RIGHT to retire? Do people have a RIGHT to a specific wage?

The reality is that what you have a right to do is to leave a job and look for another if you feel your employer is not paying you enough. The problem with the government and this misbegotten idea of rights is that people feel they have a right to stay where they are make whatever demands they want and expect they should get them.

This is not a right! Much as our representatives and government hates us talking about the Creator, the reality is that our founding fathers based much of the constitution on the concept of a Creator and of our rights flowing from him. When rights flow from the whim of the people those rights can also change on a whim.

We need to get back to the constitution and see what rights are enumerated there. It is most certainly a good place to start and unless we have very good reason it is probably a dangerous thing to start adding to those rights.

Too many people are confused between rights and wants. They seem to think because they want to do something it should mean that they either have or should have a right to do it. They seem to think that freedom means freedom to do whatever you please, whenever you please to whomever you please. These things are not the case.

We should also be clear that the GOVERNMENT has very few rights, while the people have many rights. We are now living in a country that thinks that the government is the one with all the rights. Our representatives think they have a right to all of our money through tax and that we ought to be grateful that they let us keep any of it. The situation is quite the other way around. The government should only get the money that we the people allow them to have. If they cannot live within their means then they need to cut back on what they're spending.

If our representatives are not willing to live within their means then we probably need to consider who it is we're voting in.

Our representatives love spending OUR money! They view this as THEIR right. Their rights are constrained and we need to start constraining them by voting those out that have this attitude at every opportunity we have till we have leaders that respect our hard work and OUR MONEY!