The Socialistic War

Last week I spoke on the Theocratic War America faces within her own borders and how it is unconstitutional to deny one individual his or her natural rights as a citizen of a Republic, not a Democracy. According to Thomas Jefferson, “A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where 51 percent of the people may take away the rights of the other 49.”

This past Tuesday’s edition of the Parthenon ran the article “Defining Marriage”: a great example of the majority attempting to abolish the natural rights of a minority and giving them civil rights--nothing more than approved privileges.

However, this week the Socialistic War is my topic.

This Socialistic War chastises the rights of private property owners and private businesses alike. The government has been pushing for more regulations--the Democrat’s way.

Firstly, eminent domain has been understood, since the mid-19^th century, as the government seizing privately owned property, especially land, for the “Public Good.” Yet, that is no longer.

As reported by Charles Lane, Washington Post Staff Writer, “The Supreme Court ruled yesterday [Thursday, June 23, 2005] that local governments may force property owners to sell out and make way for private economic development when officials decide it would benefit the public, even if the property is not blighted and the new project's success is not guaranteed."

The government is stepping beyond the parameters of their legal jurisdiction. Privately owned property is just that, privately owned. We should side with the construction of a school, hospital, highway, and/or government building, yet not on the side of taking privately owned land and turning it over to another private party.

Additionally, the Wal*Mart Bill, like the one currently proposed in the West Vriginia Legislature, would grant state governments the power to tell privately owned businesses of 10,000 employees or more to spend 8 percent of its earnings on employee healthcare. There are 31 states with some form of the Wal*Mart Bill in their state legislature. Wal*Mart is the only business that has 10,000 employees or more and does not provide that level of healthcare.

We all should disagree with Wal*Mart, or any corporation, which only provides 40 percent of its employees with company healthcare; nonetheless, that is an issue the employees have to take up themselves, not the state government.

Business Insurance, a weekly newsmagazine, reported January 23, 2006, “[B]usiness groups and employers are attacking the measures [of the Wal*Mart Bill] as anti-business, asserting that such mandates not only will hurt the economy but ultimately could exacerbate the nation's uninsured problem.”

The economy always hurts when the federal or state government decides to get involved. This country succeeds only when privately own businesses are allowed to play freely within the free market arena.

As for the Theocratic and Socialistic Wars, which our nation battles, we have to keep in mind there are two particular issues that cannot be legislated: morality and free market.


This is the final installment of the Theocratic and Socialistic Wars; however, I am not too pleased with this one: it seems more like facts than opinion. It is fine. I doubt anyone will remember it. Again, I did not title this one.