At least one FReeper I have seen sports the tagline, "Does anybody still believe this is a free country?" You don't realize how bad the nanny state is until you go somewhere that they don't have one.
I’m in Singapore right now, and it’s amazing how many freedoms people have in this “authoritarian” state that Americans haven’t enjoyed since the Sixties. The USA is beyond repair, and government corruption is the major reason. Obama is just more open about it than his predecessors.