What is Freedom?

We will hear a lot this Memorial Day about freedom. I have to ask whether the freedom discussed is really the freedom we need.

We owe a tremendous debt to the men and women who fought and died in WWII. That indeed was a struggle to defeat a monstrous threat to the freedom of everyone in the world.

But since then our wars have been more about freedom for U.S. corporations to dominate other countries economically, and for us to have in place compliant regimes which would abet our efforts at global domination.

FDR knew that freedom for the individual required economic independence. Tremendous effort has gone into reducing that freedom by the erosion of unions, the outsourcing of good jobs, and the predations of insurance and financial corporations. All have effectively reduced our freedom to live a full and meaningful life.

As we mourn those who died fighting for our freedom, let us resolve to continue the fight for economic freedom, now more endangered than ever.