What Freedom Means to Liberals

What does Freedom mean?

Well to me it is a feeling in my heart of knowing that God created me in his image, that he has granted me free will to choose the life I want to live. It is not something that any government bestowed upon me, it's in every beat of my heart. I am grateful to be born in a country where freedom is an ideal enshrined in our founding documents and it's something worth fighting for with vigilance.

I caught a segment on Fox 9 news last night featuring a handful of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) members presenting a written-on-poster-board-flag at Representative Betty McCollum's office...Rep McCollum wasn't even there, so don't ask me how this little PR stunt makes the evening news.

Rick Varco, SEUI Healthcare Minnesota's Political Director said something like "Our founders declared freedom from a tyrannical government," and then he said this:

“It’s time to declare independence from the tyranny of living under a broken health-care system,” ....

Varco believes the July Fourth holiday was a natural fit for highlighting the nation’s dysfunctional health-care system. “There’s that line in the Declaration of Independence about a ‘long train of abuses,’” he says. “That’s what the American people have suffered from this health-care system.”

How dare they. The long train of abuses as outlined in the Declaration of Idependence had to do with brash restrictions and constrictions on freedom. FREEDOM. To try to equate the goal to have government universally pay for our health care with the fact that we had a standing foreign army in our land is ridiculous. It's ironic that they quote the Declaration, which decried taxation without representation, as justification for raising taxes on only select American citizens.

Obama's health care plan is about one thing: Paying back the unions. And to the Unions it's about one thing, ensuring that health care is a right equal to the unalienable rights bestowed to us by our Creator: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

What we celebrate tomorrow is what our founders sacrificed in order to give us such comfortable lives where prosperity is ours for the taking. But to liberals it is about fighting for a country that looks more like the foreign shores from which our founders fled then the brave idea that is America.