Comments by "EarthSurferUSA" (@EarthSurferUSA) on "'Freedom Day' is a Joke" video.

  1. WHAT IS FREEDOM!!?? I think Freedom needs to be correctly defined, because the definition is different in all of our minds. What you think of freedom mostly depends on what you do with it, (or try to do, thinking you live in a free nation.). For the guy who does nothing with his life, (nothing of value), freedom is simply not being in jail. For the guy who works for the state, or a "workers" union, "Freedom" is to let somebody else control your wage, (and many times your thoughts), as long as your wage is higher than the non-union or the average small business guy. You are free to leave the state job or union, but you won't do it for your own real freedom. Then there is the guy who tried to be a hero. For example, Tucker, who tried to make a automobile to compete after WW2, and was destroyed by congress, and almost jailed by congress. Honda on the other hand, in Japan after WW2, was allowed to build a manufacturing dynasty, so who won their freedom by winning WW2? Freedom is the right to do things, that came from our free minds as free individuals, (not a list of jobs a government wants you to do), with your life in a free society. Do we have that? Yea, maybe we should define freedom, huh, so we know what it is? I just did. Doug in Michigan
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  2. Now don't make the brain dead mistake that only Tucker was destroyed. He offered a lot of jobs and opportunity to a lot of people that never happened. That was your freedom too, and congress killed any future competition that the industry would not accept. Even for the guy who thinks freedom is simply not being in jail, that was your freedom stolen from you too. Yes, we all could have done better.
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  3. I don't understand why some people are, (or seem to be), afraid of their own freedom, their own minds in a free society that they can grow in any direction they want as we learn. Sure, we grow up in a world that can be scary to understand, but I never once gave up my freedom to figure it out; to figure out reality. I can't imagine such a persons life, clinging to anybodies ideas with seemingly no thought of their own. I can understand how people got that way, but I don't understand why they stay that way, (like a inexperienced child with perpetual fear),---because we can figure it out, and we have. Just my 20 bucks. Doug in Michigan.
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  4. If we can't define freedom correctly, (and why it is the nature of man), how do we expect to keep it? I am sorry to share my dark estimation, but 95% of the people who probably understand our freedom with the most accuracy, are the people taking it away. Doug in Michigan
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  5. Correction: Strike the word, "probably" please.
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  6. "private" business needs the correct philosophies too. Unfortunately, most don't understand that. They have to reject force over their business just as much as they would to stop a robber. But they accept it, and they accept it because of fear. I guess it is "moral" to call that "progress".
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