In response to
Sacred Honor: Our Oath to Support and Defend

KZ
Sunday, April 4, 2010 at 2:00 PM

The founders of this republic pledged their "lives, fortunes and sacred honor." These were duties of the ultimate order, with signatures affixed prominently to the Declaration of Independence to secure the rights to private property, due process, and freedom of speech. The signers of the Declaration knew that the stakes were enormous and the outcome doubtful. Those pledging announced that the rights to be secured and defended were neither trivial nor non-negotiable. Shared and significant duties came first and were willingly underwritten because the commensurate rights were fundamental and worth securing and defending.So when the duty-bound run out of money, what happens to ObamaCare? Will the duty-bound gradually fail to show up and, like David Farr of Emerson Electric, pull up stakes and go elsewhere? Or will they simply refuse to part with the remainder of their dwindling savings, investments, and capital needed to finance the bottomless pit of entitlements?For decades, liberals have insisted that democracy cannot be imposed on reluctant inhabitants of developing countries through the barrel of an M-16. Yet they are quite willing to destroy rights and impose duties through the enforcement powers of the IRS on a nation of reluctant American citizens.... It's easy for beneficiaries of ObamaCare to pledge someone else's "lives, fortunes and sacred honor" as the guarantor.