I feel that my monthly donation and other's monthly donations, plus the amount collected each quarter does two things:
1. Enables all of us to get the real news not the political agenda prop spin of the left.
2. Enables us to react and have impact on the politicians, corporate heads and others when they try to drown us in socialism disguised as good things!
I can't really put a value on #1 and #2. I just know that I don't want to be without Free Republic and its great members in our constant Cultural War with the Left.