A patriots blog

Freedom isn’t free! Commonly we here this when we discuss the heavy costs incurred by our soldiers serving our country and their respective families. The cost of freedom however extends far beyond this in the grand scheme though.   Each and every one of us as citizens pays a cost for freedom.   We give up safety, we give up stability, we give up ease of life for freedom.   Over the course of this nations existence people have been trading freedom for things like security.   How really though does the currency transfer over.   Freedom is no different than money, we have a finite amount of it and at some point the bank of liberty will run dry.   Using freedom as currency is a major problem.   I don’t believe when our founding fathers discussed taxation without representation, that they were talking about money.   The reality is that back in 1776, money was not what it is today.   Many people got their day to day needs by using trade and bar...

America is at odds with itself.... Today we can all look around and identify about a million things that we either disagree with completely or at least in part. This is mostly due to the mostly new level of connectivity we have with the outside world. Until roughly 25 years ago the world was largely segregated from itself. We lived in small tight knit communities where everyone knew everyone else. This was true even in large cities. It wasn’t uncommon for neighborhood kids to get together every day and play. Parents knew all the other parents in the area and there was always someone looking out for you and your family. Today however things are drastically different. Next door neighbors don’t know each other, much less entire neighborhoods. Cars, planes, and trains are used for more than just vacations. People have moved farther away from their jobs, and we have placed technological connection at a higher value than interpersonal interactions. It pains me to see childre...