WILL FREEDOM PREVAIL

Individual responsibility Social responsibility
Equality of opportunity Equality of outcome
Personal freedom Personal welfare
Limited government Paternalistic government

Which 4 of the above do you choose? The conflict between these 2 sets of values is plain. Justice Brandeis in 1928 or 1929 in one of his Supreme Court cases said: “Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficial. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greater dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.”

This conflict precisely occurs in Washington today with the passage of one after another bill, regulation or do-good rule by politicians with no understanding of the 4 principles at the top on the left. Liberals have been preaching and practicing the 4 opposing principles in the right column for years under different names like fairness, social justice, shared sacrifice, level playing field and reparations. Milton Friedman’s life works championed the virtues in the left column as our inheritances from our Founding Fathers. We in the TEA party have taken up Friedman’s and every free man’s baton, we wave our country’s flag, we shake our fists at liberal tyrants, we stand firm in the right and sleep tight.