Freedoms Republicans offer

Today's Republicans run for office on the concept that they are the party of freedom. I heard it Tuesday again from Palin and McCain. Democrats want to take away your freedoms. As a life-long Democrat, I find the accusation amazing, but it's what they say. So I tried to think what freedoms Republicans offer, or would like to offer, that Democrats would take away. I did come up with a few.

The freedom to pay oil companies as much money as they can squeeze out of the customers. No negotiating for lower prices, no discouraging of monopolies because it's freedom to have them charging these prices (insert pharmaceutical where appropriate).

The freedom to have aging parents live with grown children (or in poor houses) as the socialist program Social Security disappears.

The freedom to not go to doctors or buy prescriptions because we can't afford it. Thanks to the Republicans, the share the wealth programs of Medicare and Medicaid would finally be gone.

The freedom to try and find a back alley for abortions.

The freedom to hide gay relationships and not openly live together with the rights of all families.

The freedom to not watch the entertainment of our choice-- sex is bad. Nipple slips are very bad. Violence, especially in war movies, is good. Father Knows Best or Leave it to Beaver are even better.

The freedom to not pay taxes.

The freedom for those in the middle or lower economic levels to have their grown children not be able to afford more education or find good paying jobs and hence join the military in order to eventually get that education and to move out of the parental home-- this benefit reverses itself when the parents get old.

The freedom to have those same children fight wars overseas to protect corporate interests spread democracy.

The freedom of small government. Well it might be bigger, as it has grown under recent Republican control but it will benefit a different group as in corporations like Halliburton with no-bid contracts. This enables a private army of mercenaries (Blackwater) to rise up on American soil-- which could be handy for Republicans of the future in case the need for spreading democracy comes to the homeland.

The freedom to breathe bad air and drink polluted water because regulations cost too much.

The freedom to ignore science where it comes to anything that costs businesses money. Along with this goes the freedom to build anywhere someone wants, construct roads, dams, drill oil wells, whatever without having to look at possible environmental (a socialist word) damage.

The freedom to pay for private (grades one through twelve) schooling with a stipend given by the government called vouchers (whether we paid taxes or not but it can't be socialism since it's being done by Republicans) and hence the end of quality public education. This is good because public education has been too liberal.

The freedom to not go to college, except for the rich, as colleges lose socialist, government funding and scholarships based on need are definitely socialism. Anyway, colleges are hotbeds for teaching citizens things that confuse their fragile minds.

The freedom to ridicule anyone with an education as an elitist. If you can spell, you are one. You can see where destroying public education helps with this.

hmmmmm what am I missing? Can anyone think of more freedoms Republicans offer that Democrats deny? And any Republicans still reading here, please feel free to come up with a reverse one about the freedoms Democrats would take away-- if you can...