"We're number 9! We're number 9! We're number 9!"

[PaintMyHouse]

Winner, winner, chicken dinner:

INCOME INEQUALITY
As mentioned earlier, America has the greatest inequality of income and wealth in the industrialized world:

Inequality of income (0 = most equal society, 100 = the least equal):

United States 99
Canada 83
Netherlands 82
Switzerland 79
United Kingdom 78
Germany 66
Norway 60
Sweden 60

Are you in the wrong thread?

Nope. You like being #1 right?

You like being a deflecting puke liberal troll, that is my professional opinion.

You are welcome to chat about Freedom all you like. I just didn't want you to feel bad about being number nine when you are number one is so many other wonderful ways, like dead children.

Do you like being a troll? I wonder.

I like it when Americans start to deal with reality, which they refuse to.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

THE U.N. HUMAN FREEDOM INDEX This is a devastating statistic for those who believe that America's greater commitment to individualism translates into greater individual freedom. In reality, the social democracies of Northern Europe are the freest societies in the world.

The United Nation's Human Freedom Index compares the amount of freedom that citizens of different countries enjoy. It considers the right to travel, assemble, and speak; the absence of forced labor, torture and other extreme legal punishment (such as the death penalty); freedom of political opposition, the press and trade unions; an independent judiciary; gender equality; and the legal right to trial, counsel of choice, privacy, religion and sexual practice.

The United Nations Human Freedom Index (0 = least freedom, 40 = most freedom. More.):
Sweden 38
Denmark 38
Netherlands 37
Austria 36
Finland 36
France 35
Germany 35
Canada 34
Switzerland 34
Australia 33
United States 33
Japan 32
United Kingdom 32

And on this we are tied for Sixth BTW.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Couple years old, but seems to be it.

Here Are the 10 Freest States in the U.S. And the Least Video TheBlaze.com

excerpt,

"North Dakota is the freest state in the U.S., followed closely by South Dakota, Tennessee, New Hampshire, and Oklahoma, according to the Mercatus Center at George Mason University’s third annual “Freedom in the 50 States.”

The 223-page report “scores all 50 states on their overall respect for individual freedom, and also on their respect for three dimensions of freedom considered separately: fiscal policy, regulatory policy, and personal freedom,” the study explains. Surprisingly, Texas did not make the top 10 and was ranked the 14th most free state."

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Gets even worse is you're a journalist,
Obama 8217 s America United States falls to 49th on World Press Freedom Index map Twitchy

"Obama’s America: United States falls to 49th on World Press Freedom Index [map]
Posted at 7:01 am on February 12, 2015"

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Couple years old, but seems to be it.

Here Are the 10 Freest States in the U.S. And the Least Video TheBlaze.com

excerpt,

"North Dakota is the freest state in the U.S., followed closely by South Dakota, Tennessee, New Hampshire, and Oklahoma, according to the Mercatus Center at George Mason University’s third annual “Freedom in the 50 States.”

The 223-page report “scores all 50 states on their overall respect for individual freedom, and also on their respect for three dimensions of freedom considered separately: fiscal policy, regulatory policy, and personal freedom,” the study explains. Surprisingly, Texas did not make the top 10 and was ranked the 14th most free state."

Lots of fly-over in there. I can't say that such a thing surprises me since no one lives there.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Gets even worse is you're a journalist,
Obama 8217 s America United States falls to 49th on World Press Freedom Index map Twitchy

"Obama’s America: United States falls to 49th on World Press Freedom Index [map]
Posted at 7:01 am on February 12, 2015"

Who needs freedom when you guys think it's all propaganda anyway?

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Wonder how the current anti-smoking laws being passed will effect things? Adjacent town to us here just passed another no public smoking ordinance.

 

[BluesLegend]

Couple years old, but seems to be it.

Here Are the 10 Freest States in the U.S. And the Least Video TheBlaze.com

excerpt,

"North Dakota is the freest state in the U.S., followed closely by South Dakota, Tennessee, New Hampshire, and Oklahoma, according to the Mercatus Center at George Mason University’s third annual “Freedom in the 50 States.”

The 223-page report “scores all 50 states on their overall respect for individual freedom, and also on their respect for three dimensions of freedom considered separately: fiscal policy, regulatory policy, and personal freedom,” the study explains. Surprisingly, Texas did not make the top 10 and was ranked the 14th most free state."

That study is a bit off because Wyoming should be near the top. Texas unfortunately has been invaded by California liberals.

 

[Roadrunner]

OP I wonder how the US would score if you eliminated the liberal states, libs seem to willingly give up their freedoms while conservatives defend theirs.

It is called diversity.

With diversity comes lots of bad stats.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Though not a Obama-basher like many here, find it proof-of-concept our ranking in freedoms have plummeted like a brick during his Presidency.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Wonder how the current anti-smoking laws being passed will effect things? Adjacent town to us here just passed another no public smoking ordinance.

It's a funny country that way. I was in a huge public park in CA a couple of years ago and all I could do was chew on my cigar.

 

[JoeNormal]

Couple years old, but seems to be it.

Here Are the 10 Freest States in the U.S. And the Least Video TheBlaze.com

excerpt,

"North Dakota is the freest state in the U.S., followed closely by South Dakota, Tennessee, New Hampshire, and Oklahoma, according to the Mercatus Center at George Mason University’s third annual “Freedom in the 50 States.”

The 223-page report “scores all 50 states on their overall respect for individual freedom, and also on their respect for three dimensions of freedom considered separately: fiscal policy, regulatory policy, and personal freedom,” the study explains. Surprisingly, Texas did not make the top 10 and was ranked the 14th most free state."

Lots of fly-over in there. I can't say that such a thing surprises me since no one lives there.

Freedom is easy when there's no one else around to impinge upon it. Of course, these places also tend to be cultural wastelands.

 

[kaz]

Wait, shouldn't that be "we're number 1" like we so often hear? Probably should be, but isn't, alas.

A COMPARISON BETWEEN THE US AND OTHER RICH NATIONS

" First place on the Personal Freedom Sub-Index went to Canada. Then came Norway, New Zealand, Australia, Sweden, Denmark, Ireland, and Iceland. The United States followed in ninth place. Belgium, Uruguay and Finland took tenth, eleventh and twelfth, respectively.

At the bottom of the list, Iran, Egypt and Pakistan placed 108th, 109th and 110th in terms of their citizens' personal freedom, respectively."

That's pretty sad that we were that high on a list of socialist countries

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Wonder how the current anti-smoking laws being passed will effect things? Adjacent town to us here just passed another no public smoking ordinance.

It's a funny country that way. I was in a huge public park in CA a couple of years ago and all I could do was chew on my cigar.

What happened here. Nixa. Missouri banned smoking in public parks.

I fully expect the anti-smoking efforts to try banning it completely realizing the line from "Escape from LA" of "The USA is a non-smoking country."

 

[whitehall]

How do they judge "personal freedom"? The U.S. supports more illegal immigrants than the total populations of Iceland, Finland and freaking New Zealand combined. Thanks to LBJ's "great society" 80% of Black children are born out of wedlock. Anybody think the out of wedlock and the illegal immigrant statistics might impact the "infant mortality" that the anti-American left loves to quote?

 

[PaintMyHouse]

How do they judge "personal freedom"? The U.S. supports more illegal immigrants than the total populations of Iceland, Finland and freaking New Zealand combined. Thanks to LBJ's "great society" 80% of Black children are born out of wedlock. Anybody think the out of wedlock and the illegal immigrant statistics might impact the "infant mortality" that the anti-American left loves to quote?

Stupid ******* and wetbacks...

 

[kaz]

...Oops, seems the we're no. 9 was a bit overly optimistic,
United States ranked 21st worldwide in personal freedom

"

United States ranked 21st worldwide in personal freedom
November 19, 2014


We're not number one. In fact, when it comes to personal freedom, we're not even close — so says a new international ranking from the Legatum Institute in London. No less than 20 other nations ranked ahead of America in regards to personal freedom, which is calculated based on protections of civil rights and civil liberties. This ranking has dropped significantly in recent years; the U.S. was in ninth place just four years ago."

Gotta check page dates more closely.

As to how do we rank by state, interesting question. Looking for such a ranking now.

LOL, didn't read your own link, did you Sparky? Your own article said the ranking plummeted .. under Obama ...

 

[kaz]

Though not a Obama-basher like many here, find it proof-of-concept our ranking in freedoms have plummeted like a brick during his Presidency.

You're not an Obama basher? Dude, you blow the guy continuously...

 

[PaintMyHouse]

I have an idea, let's be like Canada? Then we'd be real Americans.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Though not a Obama-basher like many here, find it proof-of-concept our ranking in freedoms have plummeted like a brick during his Presidency.

You're not an Obama basher? Dude, you blow the guy continuously...

I respect the Office of the President, not what git's sitting in the chair.