[Lazamataz]

So because they are tossing you a few scraps, you would argue that we are as free as we were even 20 years ago?

If you're happy and you know it, rattle your chains....

[sam_paine]

I'm freer than I was 20 years ago (I was in gradeschool.) I'm freer than my dad was (workaday engineer.) And freer than my granddad (farmer to death.) And freer than my family in the great depression, etc.

Chains. Read "Fear No Evil." That's chains.