Understanding of our history. I think we have forgot about the people that fought for our freedoms and what they were fighting for.
To me, being an American means that all people are granted inalienable rights from our creator. I believe as an America with an understanding of this philosophy, it applies to ALL people.
I was taught that all rights derive from property rights. The first property you own when you are born, is yourself. The only thing that limits your rights, is someone elses equal rights.
I believe federal government should be small and protect these rights. I agree with Dog, that there are way too many laws, put in place to “protect” us, which only build up and are eventually used against us.
I believe we need to stop feeding and working for these large corporations. We fuel them, they move to china, and now we are buying products from people who have no rights. If we stay on this path, we might as well bring slavery back, because it is legal for corporations. I think we need to focus on starting more small businesses. The whole idea of the “American Dream,” is to own a business not work for someone.
I believe we need an independently owned media. I think the flow of information to the people is very important. Once corporations get their hands on this entity, they will benefit most from the information put out there. We dont need government to stop them. We need to stop watching and reading them.
Energy independence. By this, I dont not mean to become independent from foreign oil, I mean become independent from big business and government on supplying energy. We need to invest in solar, wind, and hydro power. We must not let the government and big business build large plants. We must individually create and control our own power. If they build plants, we are still controlled by whomever controls the plants.
Food independence. Again, big business and corporations have taken over our food. Now we have no idea what is being put in it, how it is being treated, and now we hear of food shortages. Monsanto corp. is trying to control all of the plant seeds. If you want food with no chemicals, hormones, or preservatives, you have to pay extra for it.
I believe we must be able to easily obtain the necessities of life, not working for someone else, to buy necessities, from someone else. We need to be able to grow our own food, produce our own energy, and have own our own land. I mean own land where you are not taxed on it. If you can be taxed on property, you are in no way free.
If I had $200,000 and bought a house, with a nice chunk of land, for cash, set up-a farm, produced my own solar power, and wanted to live a simple life, Id still have to produce some sort of income to pay my property taxes. Again how does this make me free? Now I have to get a job. Now I have to buy a car, car insurance, pay for gas, pay for income tax, etc. Its a broken system, dependent on us working to feed it, and if u dont….. well throw u in jail. Freedom my Azz.
Simplify the federal government, leave alot of the legislation to the states, so there will be more oversight and checks and balances. Simplify life. Itll make finding the problem and solving it, much easier.
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