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As a result, the greatest treasure on earth is the freedom and liberty to be ourselves, whatever that is, as only we can define it, individually. There is NO greater good on earth!

The search for economic equality is a political ruse. Study lotto winners who are broke again shortly after winning more than they would have ever earned in a lifetime.

Passing Off Risk

To eliminate the risk of failure, one must relinquish the right to succeed.

Americans seeking to eliminate their right to fail must also eliminate the right to succeed, not only for themselves, but for everyone.

Insurance is the industry of "passing off risk." We pay money in the form of premiums, to get insurance carriers to accept risks which are unacceptable to us. We agree to give up a portion of our earnings up front, under the belief that this is "less risky" than self-insuring against those events covered in our insurance policy.

Based on statistics, insurance carriers agree to accept responsibility for certain events for a price. They lose some and win others and in the end, they hope to win more than they lose in order to turn a profit for shareholders.

When we buy car insurance or health insurance, we are simply paying someone else to gamble on the risks we won't gamble on ourselves.

When we are no longer willing to gamble on individual freedom, personal success or failure by our own choosing, and ask the government to accept the risks we are unwilling to accept, we are attempting to pass off the risk of individual failure to those who seek the power to rule over the lives of others.

We do so under the misconception that this is somehow free. We think it's free because politicians promise to send the bill to someone else. But there ain't no free lunch. Everything on this planet costs something.

The rich will pay with their lawful earnings. But the rest of us will pay with our freedom. The cost of insurance against individual failure is the individual freedom to succeed.

For our nation's Founders and most American generations up until now, this price was far too high. No amount of free-stuff trumped the promise of freedom itself. This is no longer true in America and as a result, the lie called economic equality is a cancer that is bringing death and destruction to individual freedom and liberty.

A greed that once fueled individual achievement, unparalleled prosperity and the greatest nation ever known to man is now used to strip some Americans of their right to define and pursue individual happiness, all to support an Americanized version of Democratic Socialism.

Freedom's light is dim, like the wit of too many Americans who foolishly ignore the lessons of our past and trade individual rights for the rights of a greater common good, the right of fifty-one percent of the people [to] take away the rights of the other forty-nine, in the name of economic equality.

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