Re:"Freedom", the magic word (Score 1)

These programs haven't bankrupted Canada or Europe yet. However, the birth rate in western countries continues to decline to the point where population growth (without immigration) is minimal. It is a known fact that the predicted unfunded liability of medicare is in the tens of trillions of dollars. It a matter of years, there will simply not be enough workers to pay for the everyone to have what has been promised to them...at least not without drastic tax increases (or inflation). It is also a fallacy that organizations are working together to screw us. The only way they screw me is when they use the government to force me to do something I wouldn't normally choose on my own. In the free-market companies that screw people do not last very long.