Free to Be...You and Me?

In this country, we take things like air, water, food and decision making for granted. Just think, they are all a part of the resources we enjoy as a product of living in a free society here in America.

You may say that the air, water and food is one thing…but, decision making?

Thankfully, when we actually decide to do something (that is not illegal), we have the freedom to act on it. We can start a business, choose a career, adopt a religion, gamble, trade, chew, spit and send an email…because we made the conscious decision to do something. Nobody is dictating what we have to do or not do.

If I told you that you could no longer have the air, water and food, how hard would you rebel? What steps would you take? How volatile might you become? Why?...because it is essential to your life.

If I told you that any decisions you made could no longer be acted on, at any price and under no circumstance because you no longer had that freedom…it has been stripped. What would be your response? Would you now recognize that the freedom and ability to make independent decisions is ranking up there with those other resources that were taken for granted?

The point in all this is our freedom. A free society. A fight to keep it free. Knowing when freedom is in jeopardy. Realizing that individual decision making is a vital issue in a free society (right up there with air-water-food).

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