The Nanny State’s “Bill of Rights”
22nd September 2011
How debased is the term “Bill of Rights” in modern legislative parlance? This debased–California’s Assembly has passed, and its Senate is considering, a “Domestic Worker’s Bill of Rights.” Unlike the original Bill of Rights, which placed limitations on what government to do its citizens, AB 889 demonstrates that government nowadays recognizes few if any bounds at all.
Leftists especially don’t comprehend the difference between ‘rights’ and ‘entitlements’. A right is where you can do something without interference; an entitlement means that somebody has to give you something. A right is good against all other people, whereas an entitlement, while good against all other people in theory, is in practice only good against a designated provider, typically the government.