I used to, but times have changed and it seems like more and more of our freedoms are slowly taken away. What do you think?
2006-07-28 17:50:03 · 14 answers · asked by Angel 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
I do agree. However, as U.S. citizenship is not just a privelege but also a responsibility, I must point out that the only people really trying to stop the erosion of our rights as citizens are the men and women in the ACLU. Are you a member? If not, why not?
2006-07-28 17:56:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
No, I don't feel like I live in a free country. Seems like everywhere I go the government is there to tell me what to do and how to do it. I can't negoicate a fair wage with my employer without the government horning in, withholding taxes from my pay and fixing wages with minimum wage laws.
Property taxes make me a renter on my own land.
When I die they take more.
Government regulations follow me into the bathroom by setting the maximum amount of water the toilet can use per flush.
We won't buy energy efficient cars so the government sets fuel economy standards to force car makers to build cars we don't want.
Regulations on insurance companies force me to pay for insurance coverage I don't even want or need. Like forcing insurance companies to include prenatal care on the policies of 90 year on women.
EPA regulations force refiners to switch over production to a ridiculous number of blends during the summer months causes gas shortages and high prices.
We are a long way from being as free as we should be.
2006-07-29 01:04:22 · answer #2 · answered by Roadkill 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Slaves used to have their teeth and feet checked before a slave owner would buy them. I think we all agree that slavery was very, very bad.
Today, to apply for a minimum wage job, I had to supply a background report, a credit report, a complete medical history of myself and my entire family, and then I had to take a urine sample and agree to a hair follicle test. I filled out an intrusive eight-page survey on my heritage and my personal and ethical beliefs, so that billionaire thieves can decide whether or not I'm moral enough to work for them for minimum wage.
Does that sound free?
I committed one crime when I was twenty right after my fiancee died of cervical cancer. I was drunk and hurt no one but myself. Even the prosecutor agreed that there was no "criminal intent." That wasn't a problem when it happened back in 1978. I turned my life around, attended two years of college, and had my next job for twenty-three years for a Fortune 500 Company that has since moved to China. Suddenly, I can't pass a background check after all these years. I can't be forgiven for one single incident I regretted and paid for in 1978 and every day since, and I'm deemed unworthy to work for even a lowly temp agency. I'm a "security threat" to a factory that makes wooden spools for Mexican welding wire.
But you can help rape the American Public via Enron and Halliburton, and you can be president and vice president. And stay president and vice president.
Is that a free country?
I could go on and on and so can all of you. What it comes down to is, the Powers That Be can make, break, and enforce or ignore any and all of the rules at their discretion. The people serve the government. The government doesn't serve the people, it enslaves them. With our own money. We starve, and they throw all the food to the people who steal it from us. It's free as long as you follow all their rules and agree to look the other way and keep your mouth shut when they break their own rules.
It's free on one side only. That's not a democracy. That's freedom-in-name-only. There are better names for "democracies" like that, and we go there to kick their butts in the name of Freedom.
Does that sound a little ironic and hypocritical to anyone else, too?
2006-07-29 03:07:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Freedom is a funny word and concept. We were free from ease-dropping by the federal government, but not anymore. We were free from war but not anymore. We were free from seeing pictures of dead young Americans, NAM. We were free from being trillions of dollars in debt when Clinton left office, but not anymore, we were freer from polluted air under Clinton, but not any more, and we free from threats and saber rattling before Bush and 9-11, but definitely not any more. So are we more or less free than we were in 2000?
2006-07-29 01:25:12 · answer #4 · answered by zclifton2 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no you are totally wrong you don't even know how good we have it here in america...try going to a foreign country and seeing how bad it is over there and then come back here and say that "freedom is slowly being taken away from us" i scoff at that question
2006-07-29 00:56:26 · answer #5 · answered by Dinosaur 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No we are not free anymore but it is still the best country in the world to live so I am not going any where
2006-07-29 00:55:05 · answer #6 · answered by aprilmccauley123 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
move to another country like North Korea and you'll understand the meaning of Freedom.
2006-07-29 00:53:36 · answer #7 · answered by wizibuff 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes we live in a free country. If you don't think so get out!!!!!!!!!
2006-07-29 00:54:20 · answer #8 · answered by Shellee 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have never felt less free to express myself than now...which is very sad...
2006-07-29 00:53:29 · answer #9 · answered by Mac 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's slowly turning into a hell hole.
2006-07-29 01:36:12 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋