Losing freedoms...
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It certainly appears that Gov. Mitt Romney was greatly mistaken about his now infamous 47 percent statement that contributed to his election loss. It is not that he was mistaken about the statement itself, but about the numbers.

It was not 47 percent of the people but, as it turned out, it was 51 percent who want the federal government to govern every aspect of their lives. This shift towards socialism is a basic violation of the Law of the Harvest, or the law of justice. Under the something-for-nothing philosophy, the government will take from the “haves” and give to the “have-nots.” Both have lost their freedom.

Those who “have” lost their freedom to give voluntarily of their own free will and in the way they desire. Those who “have not” lost their freedom because they did not earn what they received. They got “something for nothing,” and they will neither appreciate the gift nor the giver of the gift.

Under this climate, people gradually become blind to what has happened and to the vital freedoms which they have lost.

—Dee Tranter

Moab
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