[AIG]

You prove my point best about how Americans use their freedoms to engage in specifically economic activities by writing and promoting a book which you hope to sell. You're promoting it right now to make money from it, as everyone can see. You are not just free in America for freedom's sake but so that you can be free to engage in economic activities like selling a book. America's freedoms don't exist just for their own sake but so that Americans can be free to pursue whatever economic activities they wish to puruse, for the most part. "Freedom" doesn't exist in a vacuum but is fleshed out by whatever it is people use their freedoms for, which for most people including yourself is economic activites.

[Jeff Head]

Look AIG, no one is saying that economic freedom and the free market are not critical. Or that they and our ability as free-men and women to participate in it do not represent the physical path to our prosperity economically. That is clear. That is understood.

It is this absolutely mistaken notion that somehow this economic prosperity is the end in and of itself. That it reperesent the object of our freedom. If you believe that, then whomever has taught you about American liberty and our strengths, hs entirely missed the mark. You underestimate us terribly if you think this is true. And such underestimations can be very dangerous.

What we are saying, and what is apparently hopelessly elusive to you, is that none of that would be possible or worthwhile without the fundamental moral principles that undergird the liberty ... which was the real purpose behind the founding of this Republic.

In addition to others (some of whom I have already quoted to you) , John Admas said it this way:

"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other."- John Adams, Oct. 11, 1798 Address

Ultimately, all of the rest based on and rooted in this type of principle. Count on it.

I tell you what, since we have continued to same the same thing to one another over and over now ... in the future, when you want to post more about how you believe that the entire sum of America liberty is based on economic issues and principles alone ... for my reply ...

Simply re-read post 149 and this one.

Thanks for the BUMP.

Adieu.