Do you live in "healthy poverty" as defined by founder of John Birch society?

[alarimer]

1. Trouble is, you can't eat freedom.

Why are these people so hung up on the idea of freedom? What, precisely, do they mean by it?

Do they actually believe it is tyranny for a society to make sure people have enough to eat? That we don't starve because we lose our jobs? I guess failure is always only the fault of the person who fails. Even if they are laid off by a company that goes out of business, for instance.

Do they think that Norway, with perhaps the best social safety net of any country, must be an oppressive society? Ask any Norwegian. I bet they'd say they weren't oppressed at all.