Yup. That was good. And depressing, because it is completely true. It also brings to mind the question which I have pondered a while, of exactly when this country did cease to be a free country. I'd have to say that it was probably either sometime in the 60s or 70s, though a compelling case can be made that you should probably look to the "new deal" Certainly, some major planks for the edifice of the state were laid at that time, though it took a while for them to really take effect because the inertia that had to be overcome was pretty massive. Some of us would say that if you wanted to pick a single point in time, the year 1913 is probably the most pivotal for several reasons, though you really need look no farther than the changes made in the Constitution that year to understand its character.
The "new deal" was almost certainly the last major push down the road that was actually accurately labelled. I say this because the term itself brings up a question: what was the "old deal"? I would propose that the "old deal" was the one set up under the Constitution. The "new deal" was nothing less than the overthrow of the old. No longer were we a (reasonably) free people with only limited interactions with the government. With the advent of the New Deal, your life and interactions with your fellow citizens could be micromanaged to ever finer and finer levels. Under the terms of the Old Deal, your life, liberty, and property were largely under your own control to do with as you saw fit. Under the New Deal, the government could tell a farmer how many acres of grain he could plant, even if he wanted to make use of it to feed his own animals, because somehow, under this New Deal, grain that would never leave a 50-acre farm can somehow "affect" interstate commerce.
Sadly, the formerly free individuals accepted the chains laid upon them because they didn't seem so terribly burdensome in light of the national emergency of the Great Depression. That such nation emergencies were unknown at least in the same scale in the financial world prior to the institution of the Federal Reserve was conveniently overlooked by those who had assumed the reins of power. Yes, prior to the coming of the Federal reserve, we had periods of inflation and deflation. It was sold to the people in the name of doing away with the 'evils' of the business cycle, amongst other things. Does anyone seriously believe this lie today? No? Well you'll notice it is still in business, and still interfering in the financial markets to the benefit of it's owners.
I guess I'm rambling a bit because this article hit a bit too close to home. As I don't believe I have ever lived in a 'free' country, I don't know why its passing can still get me riled up.
In brief, I think another reposting of this image pretty much sums up my thoughts: