NewAmerican– The fifth annual report from the Fraser Institute, “The Human Freedom Index,” showed the United States falling further in a global measurement of personal, civil, and economic freedom, from 17th place in 2011 to 20th in 2012 (the latest year for which reliable data is available). Ahead of the United States are Canada in 6th place and the United Kingdom, in 9th place. The United States barely edges out the Czech Republic and Estonia, in 21st and 22nd places respectively.
Wrote Ian Vasquez, one of the report’s co-authors:
The U.S. performance is worrisome and shows that the United States can no longer claim to be the leading bastion of liberty in the world. 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 due to greater use of eminent domain all likely have contributed to the U.S. decline. more
Canada may be in 6th place now but there is a real chance that in October canadians will elect either the Liberal Party under Justin Trudeau (whose only talent seems to be in being the son of Pierre Trudeau who damaged Canada almost beyond repair with his socialist/leftist polices) or Thomas Mulcair leader of the NDP or New Democratic Party. He’s never really held a private sector job in his life, always working for the government in some form or another.
Neither of these two have a real understanding of how the economy of Canada works and if either one gets in power (or they manage to form a coalition government) Canada will be screwed for generations. The problem is that our current Prime Minister Harper is hated by the media because he is conservative and far too many of my fellow citizens take what the media spew (especially the CBC) as the truth instead of doing a little research.
flaccid president = flaccid country
Yeah, but how we doing on the “Illegal Invading Alien Rat-People” Freedom Index?
Or the “Indigenous Parasitic Populant” Freedom Index?
You elect a Marxist shit bird on the back of “white guilt” stricken liberals … what do you expect? A better country?
I am tired of otherwise smart people being too stupid to see what’s right in front of their eyes… Most lib’s are LIVs and watch John Stewart types for their “news”.
The truth eventually seeps into their brainwashed (distortion field affected) heads…. In many ways, Obama is a prime example of how the media distorts the truth … clear as day…
The commies won the cold war by deception from the inside in the Democrat party… They didn’t need to fire a shot…
That’s what happens when you go from being a republic to being a theocratic monarchy. ALOHA SNACKBAR!
FFS, which country is No. 1?