Too bad all those good folks died trying to defend our freedoms from external forces when it was the internal ones that would ultimately enslave us in the end anyway.On a day like today it is important to be thankful for all the freedoms we enjoy in this country:
In America, we enjoy the freedom of giving half our income to the government through various forms of taxes. We have the freedom to participate in a Ponzi scheme known as Social Security. We have the freedom to vote for the president. Unlike the voters of Iraq under Saddam Hussein, who only had one choice for president, we have two choices! We have the freedom to choose between Republican-led big government programs and Democrat-led big government programs. We have the freedom to use government-controlled money, which loses value every year. We have the freedom to subsidize the politically-connected agricultural, automotive, and banking industries. We have the freedom of sending children through the compulsory government-run education system, and then pay for job training for those that get through 12 years of schooling and still don't know how to do anything. We have the freedom to own guns, provided that said gun is approved by the government and we pass the government-mandated background check. If we get the appropriate permits and stand in the proper free-speech zone, we have the freedom to protest.
Thanks to all the veterans that defended these freedoms and kept them from being taken away!
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Imagine if we had heeded Washington's advice and followed the Constitution, avoided entangling alliances, and defended our borders. The mind boggles at what we might have accomplished.
And if that thought experiment is impossible for you since "history starts with WWII," what if we had heeded Eisenhower's advice and guarded "against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex." Again the mind boggles.
Too bad indeed.
-Scott