Freedom and Free Enterprise

     For the truly free American, those who don't want to be told what to do or how to live! For those Americans who will not controlled by their passions or desires, free enterprise is inseparable to their American pursuit of happiness! For those Americans where virtue is paramount, financial debt is closely tied to SLAVERY! Unacceptable! Debt slavery infringes on the very soul and spirit of freedom!  I have to use the "C" word here carefully, capitalism, is the greatest system of wealth creation the world has ever seen!
     Capitalism isn't perfect but still needs to evolve into the 21's century. Ford's Model T was a great idea and system of operation but hasn't the Ford automobile seen some improvements in the last 100 years! Same with free enterprise! It has to evolve into a better wealth creation system.
     Here's how free enterprise has worked out to a 64 year old house painter. At 13 years old, start as an apprentice and learn the trade for 10+ years. Grab a paint brush a paint a house! Great, a week or two later, make some money. I want to make more money, I don't have to ask any one's permission, I hire some help and paint 2 houses a week. Systematize the process, paint 4-6 house a week with only 8-10 hours of my time invested per week and quadruple my income in the process. About 37 years after starting the simple process, the whole operation is running itself, this equals FREEDOM! Where can any moron do that with a high school diploma and DESIRE? Only in the land of opportunity, the greatest experiment in freedom the world has ever seen,  United States of America!

Pursuit of Happiness?

     Hey America! How's that "Pursuit of Happiness" been working out lately? My wife Sandy and I have been blest with an extraordinary lifestyle. We have traveled all of North America 8 times via motor coach. Our neighbors and backyard, is the whole country. Happiness or "Joy" is not what we see on a lot of in the people's faces! Without the pursuit of virtue, the American ideals of government become absurd.  America still has the ability to blow the mind of the rest of world. Our situation seems dire and financial accounting impossible, yet all this can change because true Americans can rise up and CHANGE!
     Impossible is not American! Focusing on personal virtue and NOT all the problems will make solving the problems a piece of cake. When the Spirit of Freedom is re-ignited and we the people free ourselves from our slavery to our passions, our perception of reality will change.
     There is always a cost to change! I will attempt to avoid the "D" and use the term "self-control".
There is no other away. Pursuing our passions without self-control leads to "Frustration" as again Mic Jagger said "I Can't Get No Satisfaction". The pursuit of personal virtue is the only way to find harmony through freedom. We just can't let slavery take over our country! I very often feel like I'm in the desert alone screaming FREEDOM and no  one is listening.
   

Govenrnents Love Slavery

     Yes, governments love slavery! Especially democracies! Why would I say that? In super democracy, like America, the government was created by the people and controlled by the people. So when the PEOPLE abandon their awareness of the concept of virtue and enslave themselves to he multitude of human passions they enslave themselves. It's a government paradise! The politicians give the PEOPLE what the perceive they want. Politicians don't even have to say the truth! Government loves it! The government gets more power and job security without worrying about the PEOPLE asking questions. An enslaved people want and believe a higher power will save them and give what they perceive they need! In this case, that higher power is the GOVERNMENT!
     Some if you will say this is nuts! Think about it! A free person and a slave have two different perceptions of reality! Two different worlds! A slave's "Pursuit of Happiness" will be different than a free person. Want to be free? Return to virtue on a personal level! Maybe the creation of so many churches in America was for a reason other that enhancing the beauty of the countryside?

America under attack!

     It has been said, no nation would dare to attack the USA! Our military is too powerful! Make no mistake, the nation is facing a tremendous enemy who has already crossed the borders and is attacking the very spirit of freedom that gives life and meaning to being American. The enemy is not the politicians or the terrorists. The enemy is invisible, highly intelligent and able to redefine words to destroy the meaning of freedom. Striking at the core of our founding fathers beliefs. SLAVERY is quietly becoming our motto! We are becoming enslaved to our passions!  Our passions are very human and universal.  Shall I make a list of passions in case you don.t recognize them.
1.Sex 2. Food 3. Vulgarity 4. Gambling and much more!
   
     A slave is a slave is a slave! If you act and look like a slave, than you are! If you feel you got to have sex, than you are a slave to it. Today, it's hard to equate sexual activity with procreation at all.
     Food, a basic requirement to survive right? Obesity, got to have it, slave to food! Vulgarity, hey I can't express myself any other way, slave again! Gambling, I feel lucky, got to do it, slave again.

     The enemy is fierce and knows and creates new, profoundly good  rationale excuses for your slavery and we buy into it, fools or stupid! You decide!

     You must think at this point that some kind of religious guru? Way off, no way! Try again!
One of our musical superstars "Mic Jagger" of 40 years ago said it correctly, "I Can't Get No Satisfaction"  Double negative for a point! He was right, plain and simple. We can't satisfy our passions. They literally  keep coming up!

     John Adams said that the proposed ideals of government are totally inappropriate without being a PEOPLE OF VIRTUE! So what is virtue? Self-control of passions! Without it, we enslave ourselves!

Spirit of Freedom - 2014 Style

     A couple hundred plus years after the revolution, where's that spirit of freedom? Maybe, we need to legislate it back into our society? How can government do that when "We The People" created it in the first place! So what's this spirit anyways? Do we get it at birth? Is it taught to us somewhere?
     What's the difference between being an American, Canadian, Russian, or Chinese? Ah, I get it!
It must depends on your place of birth! No, maybe your passport? No, definitely depends on your parents!
     Let's compare citizenship to being a Red Sox player. Being a fan of the team and getting all jack up when there winning doesn't make YOU a Red Sox player. You actually have to make the grade and have the right attitude, So what's so different about the American attitude?
     Here's some American attitude! Leave me alone! Don't tell me what to do or how to live,who to marry, what I can do with my OWN body. Americans have a constitution that has been used to validate everyone of our self evident rights!
     This may be the American attitude of 2014 but I don't see spirit of freedom! At least not the spirit that put a man on the moon or the spirit of courage of the soldier on countless battlefields willing to confront an enemy wanting to shoot them in the face.
   Beware of my next posting! It could get very personal!

Spirit of Freedom! - 1776 Style

Europeans were already living in North America a couple a centuries before 1776 and were happy just the way they were without revolution on their mind! So what developed the change of attitude? We have all heard "taxing without representation" and the rest of the rhetoric etc.  Something more was in the air! Thomas Paine,s book "Common Sense" was getting a large sector of the population THINKING! What's this monarchy thing have to do with me in the New World? Birth right titles, blood lines, ruling class etc. "Common Sense" was mocking the monarchy and its very institution!

There is where for a rare moment in time and history, the PEOPLE started daring to say what they always felt in their very nature "I DON'T WANT SOMEONE ELSE TELLING ME WHAT TO DO OR HOW TO LIVE". There was the BIRTH of the most extraordinary system of government the planet had ever seen. All created equal and a right to pursue happiness! WOW! that's different. Then a group of smart people set up a foundation of government with fail safes built in to safeguard the IDEALS of freedom written down in simple english  for all to understand.

For the past 200+ years, WE THE PEOPLE, have been trying with great detail, defining the outer limits of "Doing our thing" 60,s style and beyond. Is it any surprise why people are SO ENRAGED when someone or some government  body dictates what you can or cannot do with your own body etc.? Who you can marry? And the list goes on and on and on! FREEDOM! Can you hear it? With all this freedom going around, why does the government and society seem to be so disfunctional? Why is debt out of control? What happened to "Common Sense"? Has the Spirit of Freedom changed? Maybe it's not working anymore? Maybe we need to take a good look of ourselves again to see what's happening?

Defining Words!

Why is America having such a difficulty defining the simple meaning of words?
How can we as a nation stand together under a banner of freedom when we can't agree as to what freedom is and what is it's origin!

First, let me say that in the title of my book "The Power of Freedom", the word "Power" simply means energy (like electricity). True freedom has ability to create an energy capable of transforming the human condition into something more. To transcend its limitations to something extraordinary!

American Freedom is unlike any other free  nation in the world. Unique in its foundation and its history. The government did not GIVE its people their freedom, rather the people freed themselves and created a government to protect its IDEALS! The founding fathers of this new nation created the greatest experiment in freedom that human history has ever witness.