Post by Smilin' Jack on Oct 3, 2013 22:39:55 GMT -5
The new report is in and the American decline is not an encouraging sign. While I think that things can be turned around, the fraying of the fabric of society in that process will leave a mark that will linger for a long time.
Economic Freedom Report 2013
A TIME FOR CONFRONTATION, NOT COMPROMISE
Top-rated countries
Hong Kong and Singapore, once again, occupy the top two positions. The other nations in the top ten are New Zealand, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates,
Mauritius, Finland, Bahrain, Canada, and Australia.
Other major countries
The rankings of some other major countries are: United Kingdom (12th), United States (17th), Germany (19th), Japan (33rd), South Korea (33rd), France (40th), Italy
(83rd), Mexico (94th), Russia (101st), Brazil (102nd), India (111th), and China (123rd).
Lowest-rated countries
The ten lowest-rated countries are: Algeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Central African Republic, Angola, Chad, Zimbabwe, Republic of Congo, Myanmar, and,
in last place, Venezuela. Eight of the countries in the bottom ten are located in Africa.
Hong Kong and Singapore, once again, occupy the top two positions. The other nations in the top ten are New Zealand, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates,
Mauritius, Finland, Bahrain, Canada, and Australia.
Other major countries
The rankings of some other major countries are: United Kingdom (12th), United States (17th), Germany (19th), Japan (33rd), South Korea (33rd), France (40th), Italy
(83rd), Mexico (94th), Russia (101st), Brazil (102nd), India (111th), and China (123rd).
Lowest-rated countries
The ten lowest-rated countries are: Algeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Central African Republic, Angola, Chad, Zimbabwe, Republic of Congo, Myanmar, and,
in last place, Venezuela. Eight of the countries in the bottom ten are located in Africa.
There is a no more powerful predictor of economic growth and prosperity than a nation's economic freedom.
The just published 2013 Economic Freedom of the World Report shows that the United States has dropped from being the world's second-most economically free in 2000 to No. 17 in this year's report.
Our economic arteries are clogged because of excessive government, and it's dragging us down and ruining everything that made America great.
The Obamacare health-care law is just the latest huge incursion into the freedom of private American citizens, in a long process of deterioration.
Every year the Trustees of Social Security and Medicare provide a report showing the dismal financial state of these huge entitlement programs. And every year the political class in Washington ignores it, not having the courage to fight for real change, while things continue to get worse and worse.
Now big business, unions and Congress are getting themselves exempted out of Obamacare, ready to leave the rest of country to get shepherded into socialized medicine.
The just published 2013 Economic Freedom of the World Report shows that the United States has dropped from being the world's second-most economically free in 2000 to No. 17 in this year's report.
Our economic arteries are clogged because of excessive government, and it's dragging us down and ruining everything that made America great.
The Obamacare health-care law is just the latest huge incursion into the freedom of private American citizens, in a long process of deterioration.
Every year the Trustees of Social Security and Medicare provide a report showing the dismal financial state of these huge entitlement programs. And every year the political class in Washington ignores it, not having the courage to fight for real change, while things continue to get worse and worse.
Now big business, unions and Congress are getting themselves exempted out of Obamacare, ready to leave the rest of country to get shepherded into socialized medicine.