Posted on 05/28/2016 1:46:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
tl;dr
Liberty, aye.
Liberty was traded away for security.
Liberty, protected by law.
Interesting ..thanks for posting
Whoa! This is all about me....
Government is little more than the exercise of authority by means of enslaving power over its populas. The end of government is the beginning of morality in culture.
Immense and corrupt industry is simple to bring down. The price for which might be to pay a few more dollars for an item.
Opposing corrupt government, however, is profoundly difficult. It means being subject to a mafia of terror. No petty criminal cabal is as thoroughly overpowering as government.
We are on the precipice of slavery in one direction and liberty in the other. It is not clear which path a preponderance of citizens wish to go.
Many among us long for the chains of slavery. We cannot survive half free and half slave.
If you get the politics right, you unleash untold riches.
Are there ANY of those in the US?
“Liberty, protected by law.”
Wada we do when “the man in charge” ignores the law???
Louie and Marie found out the hard way, taint likely the Mooch and Odumbo will meet same fate....as fair as that would be..../lol
You acquire money by producing things that other people want and are willing to give you money for. They acquire money by producing something that someone else wants.
It is not clear which path a preponderance of citizens wish to go.
It’s a one-way trip, now. If I had grand-kids, I’d tell them we peaked in the Reagan years and that’s their legacy, only they may have to water the tree of liberty to reclaim it.
For dependence, I would say.
Though we are probably speaking of the same thing.
I want Trump to read this. Trump doesn’t understand the benefits of free trade. He embraces the evil of protectionism, just like many Freepers.
Democrats were happy to trade it away for economic security, and Republicans were happy to trade it away for physical security. These are the basic motivations for the Devil’s bargain during the Bush years where the Democrats got their welfare programs and the Republicans got their wars. Nothing really changed in that bargain after Obama came to town, either - it seems to still hold.
So where is the most liberty in this world?
If you want free trade, the standard of living in the US must decline to something between the present and that of, say, Thailand. That might not be a bad thing, but it will require that the US be something other than a consumer society.
I have to disagree with that — most citizens correctly discerned that, politically speaking, Romney and Obama were the same and decided to keep Obama (letting the prohibition on more than two terms remove him) rather than having the white Obama in for possibly 8 more years. — If you doubt this, consider your knowledge of the globalists gleaned from the current election: the reason there's so much against Trump is because he's not a globalist* and because they can't control him.
Thus we can see that Romney was pushed as the GOP nomination because he was perfectly acceptable to these globalists. Remember all the dirty tricks surrounding the convention in 2012, from the scripted facade of the voice-vote for rules to the bus full of delegates (for Ron Paul, IIRC) circling the convention again and again until they had no time to participate in a meaningful way. (See this, this, and this.)
It’s a one-way trip, now. If I had grand-kids, I’d tell them we peaked in the Reagan years and that’s their legacy, only they may have to water the tree of liberty to reclaim it.
Why do you say this? You make it sound like slavery was never abolished, like no-one has ever thrown off the chains of enslavement.
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