What is the cost of Freedom?

Many ask what is the cost of Freedom these days? I know I don't pay the high cost that our men and women overseas battling for freedom pay every day, but sometimes bloggers pay dearly, too. The liberal bloggers may not consider the price when they see the big name conservatives on TV. They see Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh and they see their fame and fortune and think that we who blog seek that same fame and fortune. I can tell you that since my blog has been up, I don't think anyone has even visited it. I don't have any followers, unless you count myself. So you can't say I do it for the fame.

I guess you can argue that I'm patient. Really? Is anyone really this patient? Yea, in today's climate I'm really patient. I put myself out here, with my flame proof panties so that I'm vulnerable to attack so I can get famous. That would almost be considered masochistic, not a glory hound.

What is the cost of freedom? I've told you that my family are Democrats. When I first got into this fight, it was because of the health care bill. The very first one was 1500 pages. How many of you actually read that puppy? I did, or at least most of it. There was an attached rider on it, called Take Back Your Health, S. 1640. I remember it, because it caused me to lose my cousin. You see, if that bill is still attached, and gets signed into law, it will mean that doctors won't get paid for certain services, and I felt obliged to warn my uncle. He's a doctor. Let me explain how it works. If you're on Medicare, not Medicaid, but Medicare, and you have a chronic condition like diabetes, breast cancer or prostate cancer or metabolic disorder, the government will mandate that you make healthy lifestyle changes. These will include 72 1-hour classes, to be given by your primary doctor, and he can't charge more than his office visit. You have to show improvement as measured by blood tests, a drop in weight as measured by waist measurement or stop smoking as measured my nicotine levels. Or you have to drop your cancer levels. If you don't, your doctor doesn't get paid. When I shared this on my face book page, I got called a liar and fear monger. My uncle, they said, would never do that, never charge the patient. I never said that. I said the doctor wouldn't get paid by the government. I sent the bill to my aunt and let her read it herself. I didn't get an apology. I didn't get my cousin back. I didn't lose my aunt, but my cousin took me off her face book and all the games I was friends with her on.

I have gotten personal attacks on a different forum; attacks against my children. I have noticed that when liberals are losing an argument, they get personal because they don't have facts to back up their argument. It's that, "I know you are, but what am I?" So, it's not a pleasant experience, not all roses for me. That's not what drives me on. If it was easy, I guess everyone would do it. The attacks got so bad, they drove me to the comforts of a conservative only forum for a while. And now I feel as if I'm screaming at a brick wall, only inches from my face. Of course, that's another liberal tactic: ignore them and they'll go away.

And it's certainly not for fortune. If it were for fortune, I would have monetized my site. Frankly, I considered monetizing my site. But I won't have control over who advertizes, or at least I don't think I would, and money is not as important as principles to me. So greed is not what drives me either.

But, you see, we won't go away. That's not what drives us, either. It's something a liberal probably wouldn't understand, or at least not a socialist. So, we're not driven by fame and fortune, nor stopped by the fear of losing family or reputation, and the fear of attacks only slow us down until we are stronger. Most of us who do blog, do it for higher reasons, and even not having an audience seems to stop us. We do it because we are driven to change minds, even if it is only one mind. We do it to encourage our side, even if it's one person. We do it in the hopes that some socialist will say, "I was cruising the blogs, and you won't believe the idiot I ran into, here's the blog..." and then someone else will go to it and think I made a good argument. But you know what? If you ignore me, someone else won't. My message will still get out. America will awaken. It's sort of like Dune....the beast will awaken.

America is used to going about her daily business, and letting the governance of the country be handled by the people we elected. We don't like having to take it over. But we will if we have to. It's sort of like when mom says to the rowdy children, "Don't make me come up there," when she hears the noise upstairs. She's gonna be mad when she gets up there.

So, the cost of Freedom, is worth the Freedom. I may not have given all like some in Iraq and Afghanistan have, but if it comes down to it, I would. I have served my country once. I would again. I'm 46 now, and this is how I can serve my country. If I lose family over it, I'll be sad. I only hope that I'm wrong in my facts that I uncover. I would rather be thought of as the crazy lady in the family, instead of being told a year down the road, "Why didn't you fight harder?" I don't want to be right, in a socialist Amerika, and be sorry I didn't give my all.