DO YOU LOVE YOUR FREEDOM?

I have a question for you. Do you love your freedom? How much do you love it? Are you a non-smoker? Did you support the ban on smoking in public places and private businesses? Then you don’t love freedom enough. Do you like junk food/fast food? What if the government decided to make the decision that you couldn’t eat junk food anymore because it causes obesity and raises insurance rates? Would you support that?
You see the problem with supporting taking away someone else’s freedom is that eventually they come for your freedoms. The freedoms that you enjoy having could be assaulted by some do-gooder who thinks they know better than you what is good for you. This isn’t fantasy, this is reality. Already there have been politicians pushing to ban or raise taxes on junk food and fast food in the name of stopping obesity. They have passed a law telling you what kind of light bulb you have to use starting in 2012. Thought that was something you got to decide for your family? Not anymore.
Want to be able to afford gasoline? Then you are going to have to buy a hybrid car because Congress refuses to pursue our own sources of energy until we find a viable source of alternative energy. In the 1990’s a large coal field was located in Utah and so Clinton made it a National Park to prevent mining. Anwar in Alaska has billions of barrels of oil, but Congress refuses to let us drill for it because it could harm the Caribou, even though supporters of drilling only want to use 12,000 acres of the 19.2 million acres. The Alaskan people support drilling there, but Congress refuses to allow it.
Congress treats us like we are little children who need their guidance, when our Constitution tells us that they work for us rather than rule over us. The burning question here is who is better able to determine what is better for you and your family? Is it a big bureaucratic Congress in Washington or you? If you believe it is you, then you better start paying attention to what is going on in America, because the power to choose for yourself and your family is being eroded by an overly aggressive Congress and liberal judicial activists who are pushing socialist policies regardless of Constitutional restraints and legal precedents against it.
If a politician is promising you national healthcare, then you have to start asking “How do they plan on paying for that?” The government doesn’t have any of its own money, the only money they have is our tax dollars and when they promise new programs, they are promising to raise your taxes in order to pay for them. Do some research into how socialized medicine has worked in Canada and Britain. Do you really want to have to pull your own teeth because you can’t get into a dentist for 18 months? Do you really want the government having access to your most personal health information and having the power to determine whether you get that lifesaving medicine or operation? I sure don’t.
When your politician promises to bring money home for your state, do you realize that they are stealing that money from your fellow Americans? You earn your money and they want to take it and give it to someone who didn’t earn it.
Ethanol is not a viable substitute to oil. Without government subsidies, it would cost even more than gasoline, and they have taken fields that had been used for growing food, and have turned them into fields for ethanol production. This has reduced the food supply, which has driven food prices up. Environmental policies are causing starvation in third world countries who cannot afford the skyrocketing food prices.
How about security? You want your family to be safe, here in America, right? Well the Supreme Court just ruled that terrorists caught fighting our soldiers or planning terrorist attacks are afforded Constitutional rights as if they were American citizens. In other words, they are allowed to come to our mainland and take the government to court for their detainment. This is something that has never been afforded enemy soldiers in the entire history of our country. Your politicians determine who gets on the court and they are actively trying to pack the court with liberals who have no regard for our laws or our Constitution. These judges are the same judges that ruled that a state could steal your property and sell it to a development company if it meant more revenue for the state.
This is such an important issue to the future of this country. If Barack Obama becomes President, he has promised to legalize abortion even in the third term when the baby is viable. He has promised to pull our troops out of Iraq before we have secured Iraq, which will risk Iraq’s government being overthrown by radical Muslims. If that were to happen, Iraq could end up becoming another enemy to America. He has promised to appoint more judges like the ones who ruled on the side of terrorists.
Obama has promised to disarm America, even though that would make us more vulnerable to attacks and less able to defend against them. He wants to get rid of our missile defense systems, even though it is the threat of those very systems that ended the Cold War. He has promised to sit down with dictators and sworn enemies of America. We have seen this sort of naiveté before in the form of Jimmy Carter, who still embarrasses our country with his coddling of terrorists.
Barack is not only like Jimmy Carter in his position on terrorists, but also in his energy policies, economic policies and social policies. If you don’t remember the 70’s, there was an oil embargo, gasoline rations, a misery index, the overthrow of a friendly regime in Iran by a radical Muslim and all because of Carter. There was the Iranian hostage crisis, and multiple high jackings. Carter got on television and told the American people that America’s best days were behind her. He asked American’s to drive slower to conserve gas and turn their heaters down. He wasn’t smart enough to realize that his liberal policies, approved by a willing Democrat Congress caused the economic malaise in the first place.
Barack has associated himself with an anti-America, anti-white pastor for the past twenty years. He has allowed a former terrorist who tried to bomb Congress to hold a fundraiser for him. He has associated with anti-American, anti-white, anti-Semites like Louis Farrakhan and the New Black Panther party.
I am not a big fan of John McCain. I don’t think that he is much smarter than Barack when it comes to the economy or energy, but I do believe that he loves this country and will not intentionally do something to undermine its security (aside from the amnesty plan, which we can continue to stop if we keep calling Congress to let them know they put their jobs at risk if they support it).
I am hopeful that Americans will start wielding their power and call their representatives to stop them whenever they try to steal our freedoms. If they ignore us, then we need to vote them out of office.
Tell Congress to stop attacking oil companies when they know that Congress has investigated them multiple times for price gouging and found them innocent. Do you think it is a good idea for Congress to confiscate the oil company profits to spend as they please? What if that was your business? What if you have stocks in oil companies in your 401k and by stealing the profits, they are stealing your retirement money. What if you worked for an oil company and by taking the profits, they put you out of a job. These actions have consequences and they are not given the right to steal a business’s profits in the Constitution of the United States. If you don’t like the price of gas, call your Senator/Congressman and tell them to start drilling for our own resources.
Don’t fall for their schemes of demonizing the rich or “Big Oil” or “Big Business”. They want to pit Americans against other Americans and make you angry at a group for having more than you so you will allow them to push socialist policies without the voters realizing it.
If you want to be rich then work hard, save your money instead of spending it on things you don’t need and pay off your debt. Don’t waste your time hating people who have more than you. In America you are not rich or poor based on your heritage, but based on what you do with the opportunities given you here. Don’t buy the tax cuts for the rich mantra. In liberal terms, anyone who works for a living is rich. Why should you get to keep your own hard-earned money when Congress could spend it to payback political cronies?
What would you do if you got a 40% increase in pay? Well that is about how much of your money is taken from you in taxes. Are you getting your money’s worth? I’m not and I am sick of Congress telling Americans that they don’t pay enough in taxes. They force their liberal policies on the rest of us and cause us to suffer financially and then they vote themselves another raise. They say they will put money in a trust fund, but they will do exactly what they have done with Social Security. They will spend money that should be in a bank drawing interest and then bankrupt the trust fund for future generations. If you are my age or younger, you are likely never going to see your social security contributions. If you do, then you are probably going to leave your own children with a huge national debt. We owe our children more than that.
If you care about their future, you have to start taking a stand for freedom. Start defending the Constitution from politicians who ignore its restrictions and the laws of this land to pursue a political agenda totally in contradiction to the freedoms this country was founded on. It is your duty to defend those freedoms at home, while our soldiers defend them abroad. We owe it to our children to leave them more freedoms than we had, not fewer.