Who's Been President Since '08?

[PoliticalChic]

No...not a trick question.
It's designed to spotlight the relationship between the presidency and this, the loss of freedom and liberty in the nation that I love.




1. "...look at 76 indicators in 152 countries to capture the degree to which people are free to engage in voluntary exchange and enjoy major liberties such as freedom of speech, religion, and association. We also include measures on freedom of movement, women’s freedoms, safety and security, and rule of law. We use data from 2008 to 2012, the most recent year for which sufficient data is available.

2.The United States fell from 17th place in 2008 to 20th place ...

3. ... drop in every category of economic freedom and in its rule of law indicators. ....can no longer claim to be the leading bastion of liberty in the world.

4. In addition to the expansion of the regulatory state and drop in economic freedom, the war on terror, the war on drugs, and the erosion of property rights ....





5. Other criteria used in the rankings:

The index published here presents a broad measure of human freedom, understood as the absence of coercive constraint. It uses 76 distinct indicators of personal and economic freedom in the following areas:

Rule of Law
Security and Safety
Movement
Religion
Association, Assembly, and Civil Society
Expression
Relationships
Size of Government
Legal System and Property Rights
Access to Sound Money
Freedom to Trade Internationally
Regulation of Credit, Labor, and Business"
US falls again in CATO Human Freedom Rankings



Rest in Peace, Founders.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Bush's fault. Has to be. No other explanation

 

[ClosedCaption]

Who's Been President Since '08?

I'm guessing this has something to do with FDR

 

[PoliticalChic]

Bush's fault. Has to be. No other explanation

Hmmmmm....yes....I see the truth there.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Am I still free to take something from the nuts at the Cato Institute with a grain of salt?

 

[JakeStarkey]

Where is FDR?

 

[PoliticalChic]

Am I still free to take something from the nuts at the Cato Institute with a grain of salt?

When Leftists cannot dispute the truth of any proposition, no matter how well documented, the lest intelligent will attempt to disqualify the well-respected entity providing same.


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The Center for Global Development's index of think tank performance in the United States ranked the Cato Institute at the very top on a per-dollar comparison with 17 other think tanks (many of them far larger). Rankings were determined by dividing performance indicators — media mentions, scholarly citations, web use, and more — by annual spending."

The Cato Institute's Impact

 

[g5000]

Who's Been President Since '08?

Bushlite McChangepants.

US falls again in CATO Human Freedom Rankings

The Cato Institute is a Koch brothers enterprise.

Gosh, I wonder if they are biased? Naaaaaaah!

"Goodness me! These people who hate Obama released a report that says Obama sucks. Shocking news!"

 

[bedowin62]

if you listen to left-wing nutjobs tell it it's either Bush, or Reagan

 

[midcan5]

There is no question President Obama will be ranked high in the pantheon of American presidents. He reminds me of President Eisenhower although the ACA is something even Ike couldn't accomplish even though he tried. While I pick on conservatives often there is one conservative site worth your time.

The American Conservative

But I must have fun too. PC is so off the wall she fits lots of the quotes. LOL

"The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them." Mark Twain's Notebook

"Conservatives are more religious than liberals--although there is no evidence that they're nicer people because of it." Andy Rooney, Common Nonsense

"The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas -- uncertainty, progress, change -- into crimes." Salman Rushdie, Speech, Feb. 6, 1990

"All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive." Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life

"To be conservative requires no brains whatsoever. Cabbages, cows and conifers are conservatives, and are so stupid they don’t even know it. All that is basically required is acceptance of what exists." Colin Welch, London Spectator, Jul. 21, 1967

"Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good." Daniel P. Moynihan, New York Post, May 14, 1969

"To a right-winger, unions are awful. Why do right-wingers hate unions? Because collective bargaining is the power that a worker has against the corporation. Right-wingers hate that." Janeane Garofalo, Majority Report, Jun. 3, 2005

 

[g5000]

When Leftists cannot dispute the truth of any proposition, no matter how well documented, the lest intelligent will attempt to disqualify the well-respected entity providing same.

Poisoning the well logical fallacy.

And to think you were jeering at lefties for a lack of critical thinking! BWA-HA-HA-HA!

Hey, you better hurry or you are going to lose your spot in line to get your piss cup refilled by the well-respected entity Kochs.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Cato?

 

[g5000]

There is no question President Obama will be ranked high in the pantheon of American presidents.

Actually, it is seriously questioned whether Obama will be ranked in the top 40.

 

[PoliticalChic]

There is no question President Obama will be ranked high in the pantheon of American presidents. He reminds me of President Eisenhower although the ACA is something even Ike couldn't accomplish even though he tried. While I pick on conservatives often there is one conservative site worth your time.

The American Conservative

But I must have fun too. PC is so off the wall she fits lots of the quotes. LOL

"The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them." Mark Twain's Notebook

"Conservatives are more religious than liberals--although there is no evidence that they're nicer people because of it." Andy Rooney, Common Nonsense

"The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas -- uncertainty, progress, change -- into crimes." Salman Rushdie, Speech, Feb. 6, 1990

"All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive." Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life

"To be conservative requires no brains whatsoever. Cabbages, cows and conifers are conservatives, and are so stupid they don’t even know it. All that is basically required is acceptance of what exists." Colin Welch, London Spectator, Jul. 21, 1967

"Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good." Daniel P. Moynihan, New York Post, May 14, 1969

"To a right-winger, unions are awful. Why do right-wingers hate unions? Because collective bargaining is the power that a worker has against the corporation. Right-wingers hate that." Janeane Garofalo, Majority Report, Jun. 3, 2005

"There is no question President Obama will be ranked high in the pantheon of American presidents."

Please be certain to use that line wherever you go.

Then, you will have fulfilled the old vaudeville axiom, "Always leave 'em laughin'!"

 

[JakeStarkey]

PC is referring to herself of course.

 

[Care4all]

so this was in the report summary:

...the war on terror, the war on drugs, and the erosion of property rights due to greater use of eminent domain all likely have contributed to the U.S. decline.

And funny that most if not ALL the countries ahead of us have the so called 'socialist' universal health care? Guess that gives MORE Freedom to citizens than we thought?

 

[g5000]

so this was in the report summary:

...the war on terror, the war on drugs, and the erosion of property rights due to greater use of eminent domain all likely have contributed to the U.S. decline.

And funny that most if not ALL the countries ahead of us have the so called 'socialist' universal health care? Guess that gives MORE Freedom to citizens than we thought?

Who was that bastard that declared a War on Terra, anyways? Same guy who invented the Department of Fatherland Homeland Security, wasn't it?

Who declared the War on Drugs?

 

[NYcarbineer]

Am I still free to take something from the nuts at the Cato Institute with a grain of salt?

When Leftists cannot dispute the truth of any proposition, no matter how well documented, the lest intelligent will attempt to disqualify the well-respected entity providing same.

That's funny given that I proved you wrong on every count in your other thread and sent you fleeing.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Am I still free to take something from the nuts at the Cato Institute with a grain of salt?

When Leftists cannot dispute the truth of any proposition, no matter how well documented, the lest intelligent will attempt to disqualify the well-respected entity providing same.

That's funny given that I proved you wrong on every count in your other thread and sent you fleeing.

And once again we see the kite that thought it ruled the wind.

 

[NYcarbineer]

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The Center for Global Development's index of think tank performance in the United States ranked the Cato Institute at the very top on a per-dollar comparison with 17 other think tanks (many of them far larger). Rankings were determined by dividing performance indicators — media mentions, scholarly citations, web use, and more — by annual spending."

So Cato is prestigious based on 'media mentions'?

lol, so you start this thread and Cato's performance rating improves?

uh, no, I don't think that's a sane way to judge performance.