Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - O'Reilly Update Morning Edition, February 6, 2023

Episode Date: February 6, 2023

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Bill O'Reilly here, and I'm warming up. Stand by for the O'Reilly Update Morning Edition, but first. On this Monday, I wrote a column posted yesterday on Bill O'Reilly.com about freedom. So most Americans think they're free. We are the land of the free and home of the brave as the star-spangled banner goes. Yet many of us are not free. If you have no money, you are not free. If you are addicted to substance, you are not free.

If you are dependent on another person for your welfare or on a government agency, for that matter, you are not free. Freedom means options, the ability for you, the American, to do different things that you would like to do, to buy wholesome food, to have a nice dwelling. to get around in a decent car. Well, all of that takes money. So money is the freedom component. And we never admit to that in America. We have this constitutional mandate that we're all free,

but we don't understand what freedom requires. You have to be self-sufficient. You have to have enough resources to satisfy your debts and then leave room for you to pursue happiness. And that's the bottom line to use a cliche. Your ability to pursue happiness the way you want equates to your freedom. Don't let the government take it away from you. Now this.

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