do you feel free in america?

Question

If you feel free,why do you feel this way.If you don't feel free what is it taht makes you feel this way,what stops you from being free?What threats the freedom of americans?

Answer 1

No i feel oppressed dejected repressed left-out blacklist under extreme stress pain & anxiety cronically unemployed no where turn for real solutions borderline sucidel sick stuck in proverty etc etc. This is not freedom its very restrictive & limited. The wealthy have made it impossible for me to have a income or a life! If you get free out of these feeling then perhaps your the one who needs help.

Answer 2

Considering ALL other industrialized nations in the world have a hemp industry, and we do not, I'd say no. And this has nothing to do with drugs. The textile products that are possible from hemp are endless. Some examples are:
paper, but most people already know that,
fabrics, which again is common knowledge,
lumber, that's right lumber which is made from a process of pressing the fibers together, and
cooking oil to name a few. And there is no THC in the hemp plant, it is a different species altogether. Canada has a hemp industry, why don't we. Would it not create jobs all through the south. Even help Louisiana in it's rebuilding mess. So to say we are the most free, your over looking lobbyist that hold back society. Just the fact that lumber is possible, would cut back on the number of trees cut down every year.
Back in the 90's, when Canada signed the laws into place, we had a commercial being aired constantly. It went something like this; " My daddy works for International Paper, he made this dress, a dress from a tree." Two things: I never seen any International Paper clothing, and with so many other materials to make clothing with (cotton, wool, polyester, silk, satin, and hemp), why are we cutting down trees to make dresses.
Because big business says so.
So are we really free, or just at the mercy of big business!
I'd say we're not the freest place on earth.

Answer 3

An America, day by day, it seems you are only free if you follow the status quo. The more and more you leave the 'norm', the less and less freedoms you seem to have. The government's trying to make everyone's moral descisions instead of letting them decide it themselves, the 'little people' and small businesses are subtlety more and more being oppressed in the name of more profits for the big businesses. (And many don't even realize it due to them only noticing big sudden flashy things). Our tax dollars are being used to support things we are completely against. There are more and more laws being passed to limit what we can say and do (libel being just one example among many), and so forth. I still feel 'free' to a degree, but I can see the chains being made, and I wonder how long the freedoms we do have will last.

Answer 4

What threatens the freedom of Americans? The president has expanded his powers greatly and can declare an emergency and take complete control from Congress. Here is an article on this scary new directive he's issued. The article is by a very conservative Republican, and it was published in a very conservative web site, World Net Daily which generally supports everything the president does.
"Bush Makes A Power Grab" by Jerome Corsi
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55824

Answer 5

The only other countries I have lived in for any length of time (in order by length of stay, from longest to just a few days) are:
Thailand
China
Mexico
Vietnam
Italy
Germany
Austria
Denmark
The Philippines
With those in mind, I have to say the U.S.A. allows me to feel most free.
Denmark has many freedoms. Drug use is permitted but you see a lot of tragic results. The monetary cost relative to income is high so you have little freedom to spend "disposable income". A common problem for most of the countries listed above.
I will add: In Europe, people have many nice things because they spend less foolishly than us Americans.
China was the worst.
Their own citizens were afraid to discuss any political issues for fear of repercussions.

Answer 6

I do feel free. Freedom to me is that I am able to compete for any position of employment. I am able to buy a vehicle, buy a home etc. I am able to make an earning and save for my own benefit. There are not too many countries where those things are possible

Answer 7

I feel free, except every other week when I get my paycheck. That's when I'm reminded that my government is forcing me to participate in a retirement plan I don't want (social security), medical insurance I don't want (medicare), and a host of other social programs that I don't want. The only way not to participate is to stop paying taxes, and they'll throw me in jail for that.

I'm not saying we need to end the programs, just let people choose to participate or not. That's freedom. Until then, I'm enslaved with the rest of you.

Answer 8

I feel free.. and lucky. But I do not like a government that is trying to take some of those freedoms away.

Answer 9

I feel free within the restraints of the law. I try to obey the law but do usually speed or go through yellow lights - no one is perfect. I also feel restrained in that the white, heterosexual, middle class, American male has somehow become the enemy within the USA. We carry the bill, blame and insults of others but at least I can speak my mind.

Answer 10

Overall I feel free, the only thing that keeps me from truely being free is the ACLU they keep telling me whats ok to do and whats not.