Losin our American freedoms: the sad story

[struggle4progress]

It used to be a great country. You could go find some land they liked, chase the natives off it with guns, and then it was yours, free and clear. If you needed somebody to work it, no problem: you just clapped some Africans in chains and told them to get to work on the cotton. It's just not like that anymore. We're slowly losin our freedoms. After that communist Lincoln ended slavery, you could still work women and children ten or twelve hours a day, seven days a week, and if they were stupid enough to get their hands chopped off in the machinery, no problem: you just fired them without a lot of silly paperwork. It's just not like that anymore. We're slowly losin our freedoms. Americans used to be able to sit around a kerosene lamp at night, hopin nobody knocked it over and set the house ablaze; we used to be able to work about the barefoot kids gettin worms; and we used be be able to die invisibly of poverty in our old age. And then that bastard Roosevelt came along and suddenly there was rural electrification and modernized concrete privies and social security. So it's just not like that anymore. We're slowly losin our freedoms. You used to be able to keep uppity folk from votin. Then that Johnson guy pushed through his votin rights act and Medicare and all that crap. We're slowly losin our freedoms. Now they're tryin to take away your right to die of an easily treatable illness ...

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. Takin away our right to die without health care

Those damn Democrats!!

:sarcasm:

[bluethruandthru]

2. Whenever I hear teabaggers scream about Obama taking

away their freedom...I want to ask them exactly what freedoms they've lost since Obama was elected. :shrug:

[Joey Kidd]

3. K&R

Great post !

[my2sense]

4. K & R

[patrice]

5. Giving Real meaning to "Cut YOUR nose off to spite MY face."

[Iris]

6. This is fantastic. My husband wants to post it on his facebook page

Do you have it published anywhere else on the web? Can you use this and credit you as struggle4progress?

[struggle4progress]

9. for sure he can use it and credit s4p: it's only here for now

[Iris]

10. thanks!

[Urban Prairie]

7. n don't fergit dat dere gubmint money is pavin are dirt roads to!

an gubmint be helpin dem dere mineritys too git jobs an dey be rentin dere homes an dere chiltrun are be gittin more edukashun. now dere be gittin dat dere commie obamer gubmint lected fer dokterin n fer free by takin money comin outta my damn pockit!

[Gman2]

8. It's my, it's my it's my prerogatives. Youall are props.