Rights and Property?

Well here it is nearly March. The economy is in the crapper and I think this country is about to flip its capitalistic wig. I can't believe that a majority of people want to allow someone other than themselves determine the outcome of their lives. Whatever the outcome I want as much say as I can muster over where and what I choose to do and what I choose to do with whats mine.
I also don't believe that people really understand what property is. I think they believe its something that is a yard or a physical thing. And of course its that but it is also my skills and my intelligence. The other day I was emailing a friend and she commented that "healthcare is a right". I was incredulous. How can somebodys skill be a right to someone else. That would be like saying "car care is a right". I think that all mechanics would protest that.
I think we need to define rights and property. I think that we need as a country to define what and who has rights to my property besides me. It sounds to much like "to them according to their needs from them according to their abilities". Or some such foolishness. If its not foolishness then who will determine how much, when the needs and whose abilities.
In "Atlas Shrugged" the creative folks got tired of those that used them for the purpose of solidifying their power. Tearing down what is created through envy and hate instead of praising the creative and learning from them to empower the individual. Nobody thanks the rich for what they do. They are vilified because of their wealth as if they were born into it or cheated poor folk to get what they have. They pay the bulk of taxes and its never enough. Well, maybe now it might be. Lets not kill the goose that layed the golden egg. Lets nurture and protect it. See if we can raise another.

Mysterious highschool folks come out of the past!

Man, yesterday I got an email from that bothersome Reunion.com place saying that some lady was looking for me. You know you gotta check it out. And what I found out was that I could buy a video professor html lesson for $7 and have a years usage of the site. I did and man did the flood gates open. A couple dozen folks that went to HS with me were looking for a connection. Not anybody I was close to but I knew of them ( I went to a small HS there were less than 100 graduates). I left HS and never looked back. I hadn't talked to anybody since '72. It was really nice to get in touch with this lady that I had no real connections with other than being in the same school with her. She is a looker too. Then and now. So what do you do? Say forget it and just go on with your life or open up and remeet these folks? I choose the latter. I always look for some small connection that I can establish with folks that puts us on the same plane for a time and lets us talk about what it is that we've experienced, learned and hoped about. Whats it all about? Me remeeting folks I didn't really know and won't really know. I think its about kindness and compassion. Lets talk and we'll see what it is that falls on the floor. That way I can find a little more mystery in life and probably just be amazed at how this great medium of internet is bringing folks up close for a spell for whatever reason and amazes me once again. I love it.