US drops to 18th most economically free country

[bripat9643]

At its pinnacle in 2000, the United States ranked second in the world for economic freedom. In the latest report on world economic freedom from the Fraser Institute, the U.S. has now dropped all the way down to 18th, falling behind countries like Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Estonia, Taiwan and Qatar.

The decline did not happen overnight. “This entire decade we’ve been sliding towards this 18th ranking,” report author Joshua Hall explained to The Daily Caller News Foundation.

By 2005, the United States had already dropped to eighth in economic freedom. In 2009, the U.S. fell behind welfare state countries like Denmark, Finland and Canada.

Read more: US drops to 18th most economically free country | The Daily Caller

 

[Avatar4321]

That's seriously messed up

 

[bripat9643]

That's seriously messed up

Obama said he was going to "fundamentally change America."


He did.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Obama has made this country less free and less capable to compete.

This man must be removed on Nov 2nd. I don't give a damn what you feel about romney. I don't really like him either.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Obama wants to turn our country into Cuba. He looks up to Castro, Chavez, ect.

Wake up and remove him!!!

 

[RoadVirus]

God knows where we'll be if Bozo the Clown get's another 4 years.

 

[ScienceRocks]

God knows where we'll be if Bozo the Clown get's another 4 years.

Like some African nations. A fucking economic shit hole.

 

[AmyNation]

2000- #1
2008- #10
2012- #18


Damn.

 

[ducks102]

it was white that killed this country

2000- 20008 the white guy caused the mess

 

[OKTexas]

Just another donw grade, the Maobama-bot-zombies won't care, the only thing that will bother them is the free stuff stops coming.

 

[Katzndogz]

When you demonize people that get to be successful and want to take what they have worked for, you will naturally not have economic freedom.

 

[ScienceRocks]

2000- #1
2008- #10
2012- #18


Damn.

Our leadership is destroying our economic freedom. The business environment fucking sucks in this country.

 

[ducks102]

a democrat president gives america a huge surplus and then white guy bush starts a huge recession and destroys a surplus. Now they blame on black because he is not fixing it fast not enought lol

This sounds like the typical white republican

 

[Katzndogz]

a democrat president gives america a huge surplus and then white white bush starts a huge recession and destroys a surplus. Now they blame on black because he is not fixing it fast not enought lol

This sounds like the typical white republican

Ohhhh if you would only be right and we could turn this into one huge race war.... It would help obama so much if he had the blacks really using those billy clubs.

 

[Zoom-boing]

Government is to blame. All of them. Bastards don't care about us they just care that we keep up the bickering. What a great distraction. Things won't improve until we realize that the 'us' vs. 'them' mentality isn't D vs. R as they tout and as they want, but we the people vs. government/big corp/unions (all in bed together).

The annual report uses 42 different variables that can be categorized into five distinct categories: size of government, legal system and property rights, sound money, freedom of trade internationally and regulation.

The growth of government and less secure property rights have the most to do with the United States’ drop.

“I think we think of the underlying causes of our decline in legal system and property rights, the Supreme Court’s Kelo decision [over eminent domain], the war on terror, and things related to the rule of law, things like TARP and the bail outs, have all contributed to the decline of scores in areas one and two,” Hall explained.

 

[ScienceRocks]

For this alone Obama should LOSE. In a fucking landslide.

Of course we aren't the lovers of freedom and advancement anymore.

 

[ducks102]

Lets be honest is was a white republican that caused America to decline and become terrible ecomically. The white republican blew it for America.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Lets be honest is was a white republican that caused America to decline and become terrible ecomically. The white republican blew it for America.

Obama practices nearly the same fucking policies. what does it say about him fucking ass fucker?

 

[Mad Scientist]

What's the major event that happened during that time frame? War on Terror.

It should be named War on Economic Prosperity.

 

[Mr. Peepers]

Our leadership is destroying our economic freedom. The business environment fucking sucks in this country.

Oh really? Production at an all time high, record profits and record CEO pay now "sucks"? Big business is doing very well... at the expense of everyone else. They are why the downward-slide is happening. They are shutting out competition. They've rigged the game so much in their favor to where small businesses can no longer compete.