Posted on 07/04/2009 1:55:45 PM PDT by pharmamom
Happy Birthday, America!!
I wonder if this is the last Independence Day we’ll see America in any way like she used to be. Melodramatic though it may be, such a thought is frighteningly possible. Barack Obama and the statists in Congress and the judiciary are forming an intrusive government that is several orders of magnitude beyond anything we have yet known. How many Americans know that in the name of Al Gore’s lucrative (to him) folly, they won’t be able to sell their house without the government’s environmental stamp of approval? How many know that Obama’s Deathcare will eventually decide how much their lives are worth in a bizarre medicoeconomic calculus? How many are at least slightly bothered that the government wants to determine the smallest details of our daily life, from what color cars we can drive to telling us how many calories are in every meal we eat?
The stupefying truth is this: liberty is an anomaly. Most humans, for most of history, have lived in subjugation. Humans are used to being ruled. The chance of living in a state of freedom, where individual liberty is paramount, private property is protected and each human is free to fulfill his highest potential, is so rare as to be vanishingly small—unless you were lucky enough to have been born in the past two centuries. The gift our founding fathers gave humanity is the greatest gift mere humans could have fashioned—the pearl of greatest price. Here indeed is your liberty—if you can keep it.
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Ack! Don’t TREAD on me...I meant to say.
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