We have one freedom. Speech.
With it, we can change any other freedom we have, and if we don't like the result, change it back.
Without freedom of speech we have nothing and we are nothing.
Using freedom of speech and the accompanying freedoms of assembly and the vote, I hope we can move the country to the right after this socialist experiment fails.

All this talk about the government misses the point that when anyone at all limits my actions, he's infringing on my freedom, and it doesn't matter whether it's the government or some private party.
= Does it really make any difference whether the government prevents you from modifying your iPhone, or Apple does?
= Does it really make a difference whether the government bars me from walking on a beach, or a private landowner?
= Does it make much difference whether the NSA snoops on my computer, or the RIAA?
= Regardless of the ultimate cause, the guy who hands you your pink slip is your boss, not Obama. Isn't blaming layoffs on Obama pretty much like blaming your home life for committing a crime?
= If you don't care about whether someone is paid enough to afford housing or health care, why should anyone care whether the government allows you to make a profit?
= What's the difference to my pocketbook whether the government raises taxes or private enterprise raises prices?
= If my take home pay is small because my salary is small, why should I care what my boss's take home pay is?

If conservatives are going to use the police power of the state to benefit some people at the expense of others (regulating digital copying, for example), they shouldn't be surprised if people vote to use government power to their own advantage.

The free market had every opportunity to build low-cost housing and provide low cost health care, right up till Election Day, 2008. So don't whine that people have turned their back on the free market.

Jacob,

You must not have listened to Neal for the past few years. He, and most people that called in to the show were complaining ad nauseum about the expansions of government that took place under President Bush.

Which makes me wonder. Did you complain about conservatives refering to the President as just "Obama"?

...that a lot of people who agree with this idea would also support Proposition 8 and similar laws that destroy social freedoms.

Sigmund Freud said it best: “Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”

You got to kiddin me. Public schools teach that we have freedoms...sounds great. They make it sound like we have choices.
Wrong.
We have freedoms because we are responsible. How we conduct our lives in this country of laws is limited by those laws. The laws are our standards of permitted freedoms...more laws more standards...defined freedoms as the state sees it.
There are moral laws that define personal responsibility and control freedoms as well. Gosh...that would mean we would have to answer to God.
However, I would rather have some higher moral standard than what some government official deems a necessary law for controlling personal freedoms. In my opinion our freedoms are slowly fading as the government tells us how to live.

What fun is it to take responsiblity for your bad decisions? I mean, if you have someone (the government) to bail you out because you bought a car, house, or ran up your credit cards beyond your means...its the car dealers fault, the mortgage lender, and the credit card companies fault....MY fault? No, I knew I couldn't afford that 500k house, but I deserved it, It was owed to me. I knew that I couldn't afford to pay off all those "pre approved credit cards"...I mean, throw those away?? its free money! And that mercedes I have always wanted...Forget about it! its mine...I deserve it!

This country is gross! I can't believe that people who spent outside of their means are being forgiven...and my bills keep going up to make up for the loses!