I infer the criteria was made up by the Heritage foundation itself, so is not exactly pure research from leading banking or economic long-standing analysis groups, so their measure by their yardstick is not surprising. Yet, I-40 is packed with big rigs rolling through Jackson, small city streets and businesses packed and thriving, new big industry moving to the area, while old industry continues to fair well. Stocks and investments doing well, in fact better than I projected, especially strange as the two of us do not invest in the same funds. I have no political axe to grind and Joe is pissing me off on a lot of issues, but I can't see the US being on the downside of economic freedom in the world, as we continue to be #1 or #2 in the whole world. It would indicate, economic freedom by Heritage standard, really is of little importance, right?