It's The Fourth Of July! Why Am I Sad?

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-04/its-fourth-july-why-am-i-sad

Americans pay lip service to “the land of the free and the home of the brave,” but everywhere they are in economic chains...

...when I think about where we started and what we have become, like Charlie Brown I end up melancholy. This is because the politicians and the media talking heads clearly have no idea what they are talking about.










That one of “the unalienable rights” asserted by the signers of the Declaration was the right to property makes it clear that the principles of the Declaration of Independence are antithetical to our current government’s policy of confiscation and control. Missing the connection between freedom and property is a tap root of our nation’s interventionist culture­­ — a culture that yields the bitter fruit of social and economic destruction.