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kpete

(72,018 posts) Mon Dec 7, 2015, 10:51 AM Dec 2015

OBAMA: Freedom Is More Powerful Than Fear

http://crooksandliars.com/2015/12/president-obamas-address-freedom-more

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OBAMA: Freedom Is More Powerful Than Fear (Original Post) kpete Dec 2015 OP

Yes, but fear is more profitable Kelvin Mace Dec 2015 #1

Those who are eager to (1) give up freedom and (2) wage war sure scare me. merrily Dec 2015 #2

Great cartoon Gothmog Dec 2015 #3

Nothing is more powerful than fear. Oneironaut Dec 2015 #4

No, economic freedom is more powerful than fear. zalinda Dec 2015 #5

Kelvin Mace

(17,469 posts)

1. Yes, but fear is more profitable

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Mon Dec 7, 2015, 10:53 AM

Dec 2015

merrily

(45,251 posts)

2. Those who are eager to (1) give up freedom and (2) wage war sure scare me.

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Mon Dec 7, 2015, 10:54 AM

Dec 2015

Gothmog

(145,567 posts)

3. Great cartoon

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Mon Dec 7, 2015, 11:10 AM

Dec 2015

Oneironaut

(5,524 posts)

4. Nothing is more powerful than fear.

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Mon Dec 7, 2015, 11:13 AM

Dec 2015

If what President Obama says is true, then why does fear so often result in the loss of freedoms?

zalinda

(5,621 posts)

5. No, economic freedom is more powerful than fear.

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Mon Dec 7, 2015, 12:04 PM

Dec 2015

With economic freedom you have the money to move out of the situation until it is resolved. Or stay in the area and have the provisions needed to stay and wait it out. Fear of starvation or even homelessness is more powerful than the illusion of freedom.

Z

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