America is the land of freedom, equality, and opportunity, but in all cases we the people are limited and it is these limits which provide for the continued protection of our rights. We are a people bound by law and our government was created under the same set of laws. We posses equal rights, yet some say that they are not equal when some have health insurance and others do not. Equal rights cannot guarantee equal possessions, just as equal opportunity cannot guarantee equal outcomes in our endeavors. At least this is how our Founding Fathers envisioned our society. That which obligates one group of people to provide something for another, simply because they do not have it, cannot be called a right. Doing so violates the rights of some in order to provide for others. Why did we not see our Founders promote such an idea in our Constitution or in their personal writings? It is precisely because the redistribution of wealth, which in itself is the result of a peoples freedom, equality, and opportunity, does more harm than good. It violates the rights of some to provide for the equality of things for others. If forced to do this dreadful thing, we can say goodbye to the freedom, equality, and opportunity that we all have come to love and many have sacrificed dearly to preserve. As for me and my house, we say – “Don’t Tread on Me”!