Opus 2025-520: On the Street: Freedom Comes with Four Wheels

I am driving across the metropolitan area of Texas around San Antonio and I am in bumper-to-bumper traffic which is caused by road construction.  Instead of getting frustrated, which would be normal for me, I’ve been thinking about blessings and how God blesses all of us and I’m looking now especially at the blessing we have of the automobile.

When I sit out on the porch in the morning and hear people going to work, I am impressed with all that flexibility that the automobile gives people looking to better their lives.  As I look at the different roads and how they get really congested at certain times, I am glad I live in a world where I don’t have to walk or ride a horse everywhere I go.

We tend to forget the tremendous influence automobiles have on our liberty and our freedom.  We are capable of getting places on bicycles, I guess.  I heard one commenter on a YouTube channel commenting how when he got to where he could not afford a car he was fortunate to be in a place where there was public transit.  He used it while saving up for something better.  Well and good.  I have no problem with that.  That’s probably a good step forward in accumulating wealth.  If you’re in a position where you can have mobility without owning a car, go for it.  But for most of us a car is how we get to shop where we want to shop.  It’s how we get to the church we want to attend.  It’s how we get to vote.  It is an awesome key to flexibility.

Maybe you should build a little icon to Henry Ford.  After you get through thanking God for your automobile, you might think warm thoughts about Henry Ford for the idea that he had that made the automobile affordable for the lower and middle classes.  The elites, the upper class, the one world government people already had cars, and chauffeurs.  Instead of finding ways to pass on such benefits they are working overtime, trying to take away your freedom of movement.  The issues that bring the cost of driving up and drive cars out of the range of people put a sparkle in their eyes.  They love the regulations.  They limit your freedom.  Remember the Cash for Clunkers program?  What it really did was removed the access to inexpensive cars from poor people who could not afford something better.  How many million cars were removed from the market?  How much did the cost of an automobile go up?  How many people are now stranded because they can’t afford it anymore?  That’s all part of the plan from the elite.

Anything that makes it harder for you to afford a car, to pay for the gas you need and to maintain it should be fought with great vigor and enthusiasm.  One of the factors in liberty is mobility.  You hear about voting with your feet?  Well maybe we need to learn to vote with our wheels.

homo unius libri