President Obola is winning on all fronts...from a sick, twisted evil "progressive" point of view...
US slips to 12th in "Economic Freedom"Way to go Prog's!
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Wait, given these 5 categories...
1. Size of government
2. Legal structure and security of property rights
3. Access to sound money
4. Freedom to trade internationally
5. Regulation of Credit, Labor and Business.
...how can we be that high?
No 1 - I mean, who has more government than us in terms of budget? Nobody.
No 2 - Legal/property rights? Seriously? We are letting statists
grab whatever the frack they want to take from us and I am pretty sure we can compete with even the most fascist and totalitarian regimes on the planet for that dubious distiction, and I would argue in monetary terms we have to be up there is not tops...the openly fascist/totalitarian regimes might skew up via current value of nationalized/socialized industries, but on an acquistition basis from individuals we have to be more obscene that a nominally free nation should be!
( Link H/T to Glock32 - X-ref post -
http://itsaboutliberty.com/index.php?topic=12179.0 )
No 3 - Access to sound money.
Yeah, OK!
We get that one as default reserve currency...for now...in truth there isn't a fiat on the planet that is going to be worth a damn at some point, so this category should be eliminated!
No 4 - Freedom to trade internationally, provided you greased the right wheels, kissed the right asses and don't have a government or a NGO frick with your stuff. Almost like #3, let's see what real trade looks like with in-kind exchanges, m'kay?!
No 5 - Seriously, we can compete with anybody on this one! Outside of maybe China (who has the sheer number of people) we can suck with the rest of them on this one!
12th?
Man, that is charitable!
From the article -
The 10 freest economies in the world are: Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand, Switzerland, Mauritius, United Arab Emirates, Canada, Australia, Jordan, and Chile and Finland tied for 10th.
Well, Honk Kong, heh...after they've been pacified the ChiCom way, let's see...
See anywhere worth relocating too? I sure don't! (No offense to Canada! Y'all going the right direction...better direction than us!)