Freedom made America a beacon on the hill. Nothing else works!

From "What Will Save America?" by Sam Mathid 8/8/08
http://www.321gold.com/editorials/mathid/mathid080808.html

The world is and always has been full of people who were convinced that they had a good idea and who then used that 'good idea' to justify telling other people how to live their lives. That is precisely why the world outside of America has never been a very prosperous or happy place. And now, at the start of the 21st century, it is, sadly, why America is no longer the beacon on the hill for the rest of the world.

The one lesson that came out of the great experiment of the 19th century is that only individual freedom works. In America in the 19th century people knew a freedom that the world had never before witnessed. Prosperity rose at a rate unmatched in the world before or since. Today there is little to none of that freedom left, with an amount of prosperity to match... unless you are one of the elite that is.

There is only one thing that will save America and that is the return of individual freedom. Good ideas are a dime a dozen. Freedom is almost non-existent. No great idea, no matter how well implemented, can substitute for freedom. America once proved that. Soon it will be time for America to prove it again in a new era.