“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” These words are from our Declaration of Independence and what they are basically saying is that we are born into our rights.
However, apparently Newt Gingrich does not agree with this assertion. In speaking on the subject of the Occupy protesters, Newt said during the GOP Thanksgiving Family Forum,
“The protesters are working on the premise that we all owe them everything. They take over a public park they didn’t pay for, to go nearby to use bathrooms they didn’t pay for, to beg for food from places they don’t want to pay for, to instruct those who are going to work to pay the taxes that sustain the bathrooms and sustain the park, so they can self righteously exclaim they are the paragons of virtue, to which we owe everything. Now that is a pretty good symptom of how much the left has collapsed as a moral system in this country and why you need to reassert something as simple as saying to them, ‘Go get a job right after you take a bath.’”
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