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>> Notice what our rights are: Life,
>> there's a whole fight. Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
>> Now, there are two very important parts to the Pursuit of Happiness.
>> The first is -- the term happiness in the Scottish enlightenment where Jefferson got it
>> means virtue and wisdom
>> It does not mean hedonism and acquisition. And so they were saying you should spend your lifetime seeking virtue and wisdom.
>> which is why, by the way, that the Northwest Ordinance of 1787
>> written by the Founding Fathers says, religion, morality, and learning being important we should have schools
>> But notice the order for the schools was religion, morality and learning in that order
>> Recently, Pelosi's staff in putting it into the US Capitol visitors center at an exhibit, they took out the first three words
>> Because it was so antithetical to their world to have religion and morality be first.
>> Well it made a big stink; they then took the whole thing out.
>> But carry it a step further.
>> It's the right to pursue happiness. This is the core weakness of Obama's redistribution model.
>> Our Declaration of Independence guarantees you have the right to pursue.
>> It does not guarantee you are entitled, okay, so (applause)
>> There's no provision anywhere in the Declaration of Independence for a Federal Department of Happiness. (laughter)
>> There's no provision for happiness stamps for the under happy. (laughter)
>> There's no provision for politicians coming into the room and taking excess happiness from this side of the room
>> and sharing it with the under happy on this side of the room (laughter)
>> And there's no provision that you have a right of standing to sue if you are underhappy.
>> Cause this is really at the heart of what's wrong with the Obama model and why they can't create jobs
>> And why in the end they are going to fail and why he's going to be a one-term President. (applause)