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alarimer

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1. Trouble is, you can't eat freedom.
Sat Jan 24, 2015, 06:01 PM
Jan 2015

Why are these people so hung up on the idea of freedom? What, precisely, do they mean by it?

Do they actually believe it is tyranny for a society to make sure people have enough to eat? That we don't starve because we lose our jobs? I guess failure is always only the fault of the person who fails. Even if they are laid off by a company that goes out of business, for instance.

Do they think that Norway, with perhaps the best social safety net of any country, must be an oppressive society? Ask any Norwegian. I bet they'd say they weren't oppressed at all.

Trouble is, you can't eat freedom. alarimer Jan 2015 #1
they mean they shouldn't be impeded from doing anything they want, but others should. ND-Dem Jan 2015 #19
The John Birch Society: WinkyDink Jan 2015 #2
I believe you don't need everything perfect and can survive on a little, but that little get pretty hollysmom Jan 2015 #3
One thing I don't believe is.... madfloridian Jan 2015 #5
That "enormous blessing of freedom" doesn't fill an empty stomach. Vinca Jan 2015 #4
Koch is all you need, Agony Jan 2015 #6
Daddy Fred Koch was a founder. In the current GOP crop I see John Birch Jr. is here. appalachiablue Jan 2015 #7
Ayn Randian philosophy...I got mine, don't care about you. madfloridian Jan 2015 #8
Yep, totally selfish & ruthless which the Dems. & we know well by now. Stop at nothing esp. after appalachiablue Jan 2015 #9
And being self-reliant means relying on jobs where a month's wages Tsiyu Jan 2015 #10
For years there's been no one loudly calling them out on it. madfloridian Jan 2015 #11
Newtie and Rush and then Rove and now FOX played a shame game Tsiyu Jan 2015 #15
+10. They don't really care if we have to work 24/7, we don't exist to them. Our entire appalachiablue Jan 2015 #13
Je Suis Debbie Downer! Tsiyu Jan 2015 #16
Back in the day, a man could shoot a buffalo and feed his tribe. Octafish Jan 2015 #12
What a disgusting picture. madfloridian Jan 2015 #14
Some people measure success Tsiyu Jan 2015 #17
It is interesting that this John Bircher is equating poverty today with poverty in the first decade jwirr Jan 2015 #18
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