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Created on: September 29, 2010 Last Updated: September 30, 2010
Read the following and then you decide if you think you are still living in a free country:
- You are not living in a free country if your retirement medical care, via Medicare, is dependent on the actions and whims of politicians.
- You are not living in a free country if a large percentage of your retirement cash flow, via Social Security, is dependent on the actions and whims of politicians.
- You are not living in a free country if your pre-retirement medical care, via the ramifications of Obama Care, is dependent on the actions and whims of politicians.
- You are not living in a free country if your ability to go to college, via student loans, is dependent on the actions and whims of politicians.
- You are not living in a free country if your ability to get a home mortgage, via Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, is dependent on the actions and whims of politicians.
- You are not living in a free country if almost a third of your annual earnings go to taxes to support all levels of government.
- You are not living in a free country if government and political class spending has rung up trillions of dollars of national debt that will eventually have to be paid by you, your children and your grandchildren.
- You are not living in a free country if you privacy rights can be almost arbitrarily be violated by the Patriot Act.
- You are not living in a free country if your political leaders hold you and your opinions in contempt:
1) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi - those that oppose Obama's health care reform effort are un-American.
2) Congressman Charles Rangel - those that oppose Obama's health care reform effort are like the racists that opposed the civil rights movements in the 1960s.
3) Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid - American tourists that come to D.C. in the summer physically smell.
4) Congressman Dick Grayson - those with a different opinions from him are knuckle dragging Neanderthals, terrorists, and racists.
5) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi - those against the building of a mosque close to Ground Zero in New York City need to be investigated.
6) Congresswoman Shelia Jackson Lee - Tea party members used to wear Ku Klux Klan white sheets.
7) Czar Van Jones - those opposed to the President's policies are a_ _ h_ _ _ s.
- You are not living in a free country if the executive branch can circumvent Constitutionally mandated government appointment reviews via a "czar complex."
- You are not living in a free country when politicians can use
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