America is # 12!!!

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  • kingblaze84
    kingblaze84 Members Posts: 14,288 ✭✭✭✭✭
    America now has the 12th most free economy in the world when it comes to social mobility.....and all this time I thought America was the greatest nation in the world (I haven't really thought that in about 3 years but the thought popped up in my head now and then)

    http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/why-america-s-“economic-freedom”-is-now-worse-than-estonia-s-200514086.html


    In case you haven’t heard, America is going down the drain. There’s even data to prove it.

    Several surveys that measure prosperity and business conditions have shown the United States slipping during the past few years. The latest is the Heritage Foundation’s “index of economic freedom” in 186 countries, which is grim reading for anybody who believes the old slogan and still thinks We’re No. 1!

    We’re actually No. 12, if you believe the Heritage rankings, which define economic freedom as “the fundamental right of every human to control his or her own labor and property” — in plain English, the ability of ordinary people to get ahead.

    According to the Heritage methodology, the United States has underperformed in five areas during the past few years: fiscal freedom, government spending, monetary freedom, financial freedom and property freedom. In general, that reflects a government that spends too much, overregulates businesses and consumers, and gets too involved in the private-sector economy (in the opinion of Heritage analysts).




    Typical ? complaints. Shut up ? .

    So I guess the people in the video were honkies right? I can tell you ain't very smart lol you got Down Syndrome I bet
  • FatterThanKat
    FatterThanKat Members Posts: 677
    America now has the 12th most free economy in the world when it comes to social mobility.....and all this time I thought America was the greatest nation in the world (I haven't really thought that in about 3 years but the thought popped up in my head now and then)

    http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/why-america-s-“economic-freedom”-is-now-worse-than-estonia-s-200514086.html


    In case you haven’t heard, America is going down the drain. There’s even data to prove it.

    Several surveys that measure prosperity and business conditions have shown the United States slipping during the past few years. The latest is the Heritage Foundation’s “index of economic freedom” in 186 countries, which is grim reading for anybody who believes the old slogan and still thinks We’re No. 1!

    We’re actually No. 12, if you believe the Heritage rankings, which define economic freedom as “the fundamental right of every human to control his or her own labor and property” — in plain English, the ability of ordinary people to get ahead.

    According to the Heritage methodology, the United States has underperformed in five areas during the past few years: fiscal freedom, government spending, monetary freedom, financial freedom and property freedom. In general, that reflects a government that spends too much, overregulates businesses and consumers, and gets too involved in the private-sector economy (in the opinion of Heritage analysts).




    Typical ? complaints. Shut up ? .

    So I guess the people in the video were honkies right? I can tell you ain't very smart lol you got Down Syndrome I bet

    That's an insult to people with down syndrome.
  • kingblaze84
    kingblaze84 Members Posts: 14,288 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 2014
    America now has the 12th most free economy in the world when it comes to social mobility.....and all this time I thought America was the greatest nation in the world (I haven't really thought that in about 3 years but the thought popped up in my head now and then)

    http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/why-america-s-“economic-freedom”-is-now-worse-than-estonia-s-200514086.html


    In case you haven’t heard, America is going down the drain. There’s even data to prove it.

    Several surveys that measure prosperity and business conditions have shown the United States slipping during the past few years. The latest is the Heritage Foundation’s “index of economic freedom” in 186 countries, which is grim reading for anybody who believes the old slogan and still thinks We’re No. 1!

    We’re actually No. 12, if you believe the Heritage rankings, which define economic freedom as “the fundamental right of every human to control his or her own labor and property” — in plain English, the ability of ordinary people to get ahead.

    According to the Heritage methodology, the United States has underperformed in five areas during the past few years: fiscal freedom, government spending, monetary freedom, financial freedom and property freedom. In general, that reflects a government that spends too much, overregulates businesses and consumers, and gets too involved in the private-sector economy (in the opinion of Heritage analysts).




    Typical ? complaints. Shut up ? .

    So I guess the people in the video were honkies right? I can tell you ain't very smart lol you got Down Syndrome I bet

    That's an insult to people with down syndrome.

    LOL true most people with Down Syndrome are by far smarter then he is....I guess his mom just smoked ? and heroin then
  • Soloman_The_Wise
    Soloman_The_Wise Members Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭✭✭
    damn things keep getting worse...
  • Darth Sidious
    Darth Sidious Members Posts: 2,507 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Bloggers citing the 'Heritage Foundation', fantastic source bruh. It's fully staffed by trolls\lobbyists for big business who don't want to pay taxes, worry about the EPA or think business should pay more to workers in the US as they would in a SE Asian sweatshop.

    They do really well tricking less informed people into their ? so don't feel bad.

    http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/heritage-foundation

    The best-known and most influential right-wing think tank, the Heritage Foundation owes much of its success to savvy marketing and PR and the generous donations of right-wing benefactors, foundations and wealthy corporations. The foundation boasts about its influence on Capitol Hill yet insists that it does not "lobby." -

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