Are We Really Ready for Freedom?

Thought provoking commentary by Tom Mullen (excerpts below). Full article can be read at:
http://thomasmullen.blogspot.com/2008/08/is-freedom-movement...

If you have the time, please copy your response at Tom's site (thanks).

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Ron Paul’s campaign for the Republican presidential nomination has ignited a revolution. For the first time in a century, a real movement against the entrenched system in Washington has arisen, and it is a movement of capable people who don’t just complain - they get things done...

So, we are certainly united in what we are against, but are we united in what we are for? Are we all really for free markets, for truly limited government, and for individual liberty? Do we all really understand what that means, and what responsibility that places upon us? Are we really ready to live in a truly free country?...

Are we ready to live without Medicare and Medicaid...
Are we ready to live life without a “safety net?”...
Are we ready to take full responsibility to support ourselves for our entire lives?...
Are we ready to get government completely out of education?...

I am interested in the answers that CDR members would give to the questions I’ve posed. Can you answer every one of them yes? If not, I would like to hear your arguments supporting why you cannot, and specifically how you would reconcile the programs with the principles of individual liberty, property rights, and the proper limits of government. In a free society, how does government derive the right to seize the funding for these programs from its citizens? Can we ever really be free while they exist?