Freedom isn’t ‘free’ it costs real money (and other things too). Debt is the destroyer of freedom and liberty.
...We have a lot of debt.
A society with more freedom ‘can’ be more efficient and thereby ‘can’ give more to the participants. But not neccessarily, and even moderate debt payments will wipe out that advantage.
Of course frivolous societally expensive lliberties only cost more and reduce the people’s freedoms.
Knowing the speaker and audience I assumed I didn’t have to read or listen to the speech. Was I wrong?
( I’m not especially critical of Rand, he’s better than the average politician on issues.)
Now that we are in this economic mess, it is definitely curtailing some of our freedom. I see your point. We do have to get out of debt.
The intentional jungle of federal regulations is not making it easier for people to start businesses, so it would help to get rid of a lot of those. It would help not to be under threat for our beliefs, and to not have government spying on us every minute.
That got the biggest response, by the way, his remarks about the NSA. The media picked up on that, especially his use of the word “d___” to underline his point.
I would watch the speech if you have the time. It is the most-watched speech of CPAC. If only to see the passionate response from his standing-room-only pack of mostly young people.