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More free? I think your imagining that's the way it was. Ingesting drugs doesn't mean your more free. America wasn't more free 80 years ago. Women were just given the right to vote and minority voting, especially in the old south, was looked upon in an unfavorable manner. There were a whole lotta poor people living in America, both black and white, and the average America lived to the ripe old age of 50-55. Come on! I don't think you realize, just how good you have it today. You're living in the greatest nation in world history.

Actually, I do know. But then, folks were much more individualistic. Folks were more community oriented. We didn't have confiscatory tax rates that enslave the wage earner to the whims of Congress-critters who seek votes by theft and redistribution. We had fewer laws that restricted speech and religion. WE could build as we pleased upon our own land without government interference. There are a host of ways that people were freer. Don't deny that.

Here in Colorado, we pride ourselves on individualism and we are very community oriented. But I will agree with you that 80 years ago, taxes on the average American, were almost non-existent and the government was far less intrusive into the lives of the American people.

We had fewer laws that restricted speech and religion.

I don't agree with you at all.

WE could build as we pleased upon our own land without government interference.

Okay. There are too many regulations on building today.

There are a host of ways that people were freer. Don't deny that.

I don't deny that the scope and size of the federal governemnt hasn't grown out of control since 1922. But I don't believe our basic individual freedoms, having been undercut, as some folks do.