What We Stand For

The new age of blogs allows us regular people to have a more significant opinion about national and global topics. Watching the current presidential primaries is painful. Neither side is right and both are highly polarized against actually solving our national problems. I am too young to run for president so all I can do is sit on my couch and complain.

The Free Market Progressive stands for progressive ideas designed to solve global, national and local issues. We believe the free market enables all individuals to participate and free themselves from the shackles of repression and outside control. All people deserve economic freedom but do not know how to get there. As a progressive, we must help people in need and teach them to gain the freedom to which they have a right.

Our founders originally coined the phrase "the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of property." Property includes housing, owning investments and owning your livelihood (starting a business). The phrase was changed to "the pursuit of happiness" as no one can control what a person chooses to do with their own life.

Both major political parties in this country are trying to control people's lives. The Republicans try to force social restrictions on behavior and promote big business interests over the freedoms of the individual. The Democrats are trying to force social welfare programs and international control over our freedoms. Neither side has a vested interest in solving our most pressing problems as they have conveniently locked their voting blocks into captive packages. The people who suffer do not even know they are being duped.

I have started this blog to promote problem solving and independent thought with the idea that getting every person involved in the global economy will help them achieve increased economic freedom. Once people are truly economically free, the politicians will no longer be able to control behavior and continue to sit in DC with their nice salaries and benefits while solving NOTHING they were voted to solve.

I will not censor people's comments on this blog (unlike the more partisan blogs). This is designed to help people see a utopia where people trade freely, make personal decisions that better their own lives while supporting the poor and disadvantaged to "teach them to fish" rather than giving away fish in exchange for votes.

Thank you for your time and please visit often.

Chris