This is from an article about canoe men, who were frontiersmen:
"It was the voyageur who struck my imagination--the canoe man who carried loads of hundreds of pounds and paddled eighteen hours a day fighting waves and storms. His muscle and brawn supplied the motive power for French-Canadian exploration and trade, but despite the harshness of his life--the privation, suffering, and constant threat of death by exposure, drowning, and Indian attack--he developed an unsurpassed nonchalance and joy in the wilderness. These exuberant men, wearing red sashes and caps and singing in the face of disaster, were the ones who stood out."
And that exuberance is what you get when you are doing the things that you want to do, that you freely choose to do. And that zest for living is the priceless treasure you lose when you are bombarded by a government dictating what you must do, and burdening your life with endless restraints and restrictions.
If you think, like the blog commentator who said, "Obamacare may deny you some freedoms, but it's still a good thing"...then you have never met a canoe man and you don't know the exhilarating and glorious potential of human life.
Read my post, THE PROOF OF FREEDOM...and see why freedom is not a negotiable idea.
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