Comment: You sound a lot like Fred

You sound a lot like Fred Reed who writes great columns and lives in Mexico now:

http://www.fredoneverything.net/

Your personal rant was not boring but kind of sad because you being older know what it's like to live in a free country in a way that many of us never have. Although to be fair, even when you were a kid America had already become a socialist country and was inevitably headed in the direction of empire and Romneycare.

When the government assigns you a number at birth, keeps track of you your whole life and forces you into a government mandated retirement plan then you live in a socialist country. Most Americans just didn't want to call it that because of all the grade school propaganda about how we are the frrest country in the world and all that. Don't give up brother, fight for your kids and grandkids!