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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index
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To: Reilly Diefenbach who wrote (212223)7/24/2009 9:20:16 AM
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You do not need to have education or health care in the Constitution in order to have a democratic decision to choose that we as a society need these basic services to apply to all US citizens. If the Constitution says you may not provide these services via government that would be a Constitutional issue -- but it says no such thing in the Constitution. Freedom in America does not mean we are free to watch fellow citizens suffer and die as we stand by idly saying "its not my problem".

Freedom in America means we are free to aspire, free to create, free to love as we choose, free to attain greatness. No true freedom is possible without the rule of law -- that comes first. Police must never have nore authority than needed to assure the law is enforced fairly -- the law applies to police as well. No abuse of power should go unchecked.

As for being "free", no true freedom is possible if we turn our backs on basic human dignity -- on our humanity and our capacity to care about others. A society in which people no longer care about one another is not free -- it is depraved and decadent. Unfortunately, far too many of us believe that somehow we are better served in a decadent dog-eat-dog world. But fortunately that is by no means what most Americans believe or want for themselves or their children. God bless them for caring.
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