Sophomoric
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.
Really? So what laws, rules, regulations or other government intrusions have been removed since then that have caused you to be so much more free than your ancestors were?
Myopic.
It's not just regulation but real economic freedom. In real terms I am freer than my ancestor farmers were during the dust bowl. That's obvious. They had no freedom to travel, write blogs, argue political dissent, petition the government, publish, marry for happiness, etc.
They NEVER got paid a day in their life to be sick like I can.
In very real terms I have more tangible freedom than they ever could hope for.
I don't want to lose any of this either, and I think the dog sniffing ruling (and current attempts in the Texas Lege to get DWI checkpoints) are horrendous and need to be pushed back.
But I only took offense at Laz's hyperbole that we're worse off than East Germany. I don't have to drive a Trabi.