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New Data Reveals U.S. Far From Freest Country In The World
Submitted by John Vibes via TheAntiMedia.org,
According to the annual Economic Freedom of the World report, the United States has dropped to #16 in an index of economic freedom.
The list, released by the Fraser Institute, ranks countries around the world by a number of different factors that include the size and scope of government: expenditures, taxes, enterprises, legal structure and security of property rights, access to sound money, freedom to trade internationally, and regulation of credit, labor, and business were all evaluated. The study also considered income levels and poverty rates.
As the introduction of the study details:
“The cornerstones of economic freedom are (1) personal choice, (2) voluntary exchange coordinated by markets, (3) freedom to enter and compete in markets, and (4) protection of persons and their property from aggression by others. Economic freedom is present when individuals are permitted to choose for themselves and engage in voluntary transactions as long as they do not harm the person or property of others.”
At the top of the list was Hong Kong, followed by Singapore, New Zealand, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, Mauritius, Jordan, Ireland, and Canada. The United Kingdom and Chile tied at #10. The United States followed behind at #16, continuing a downward trend that has grown for several years.
These rankings are not just a matter of opinion, either. It can be empirically proven that these numbers strongly correlate with important quality of life indicators. For example, as the Fraser Institute documents, places with increases in economic freedom have seen an increase in literacy rates, average income, and lifespan. In countries where economic freedom has declined, there has also been a corresponding decline in literacy rates, average income, and lifespan.
The report also noted that
“Nowhere has the reversal of the rising trend in the economic freedom been more evident than in the United States. Throughout the period from 1970 to 2000, the United States ranked as the world’s freest OECD nation (generally the third freest economy overall behind only Hong Kong and Singapore). The chain-linked summary rating of the United States in 2000 was 8.65. By 2005, the US rating had slipped to 8.22. The slide has continued. The 7.73 chain-linked rating of the United States in 2013 was more than 0.9 of a unit lower than the 2000 rating. Thus, the decline in economic freedom in the United States has been more than three times greater than the average decline found in the OECD [emphasis added].”
While the U.S. has never had a truly free economy, the new study makes it evident that Americans have far less economic freedom and opportunity than they did in the year 2000. Now that economic conditions are even worse in the U.S. than they were before, a culture of extreme economic control has taken over and exacerbated the growing recession - one that history may end up redesignating a depression.
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The Criminal Fraud UNITED STATES, CORP. INC. is nothing more than Fascist & Ponzi.
What part about FACTA has anything to do with “land of the free” ?
...may end up redesignating a depression.
Anyone who does not see the past 7 years (at least) as a depression is still hopelessly optimistic. There were periods of 'growth' during the Great Depression, but the overall trend was clear. It is equally clear now, and significantly worse.
its surprising USA is as high as #16
Uhh huh. Like any place is effing free! What a retarded article!
"Hong Kong, followed by Singapore, New Zealand, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, Mauritius, Jordan, Ireland, and Canada."
Yeah, OK. How does a commie city rank first? Must be that old holdover Brit democracy and enterprising crime and corruption lifting the index I guess. Singapore is nice, as long as you mind the rules. New Zealand like Australia hates private gun ownership...how that doesn't carry more weight in a negative respect is interesting given what else do they have to ensure said freedom. Swiss, too easy...the home of modern banking gets many passes...I guess it depends upon vault space, but they do know how to defend themselves for sure so I'd bump them ahead of the rest. UAE? Whatever. Ditto for Mauritius & Jordan. Canada not much/at all better than US. Ireland? Must be the boozer effect floating that. Where's Iceland?
Print and line the birdcage...
"The list, released by the Fraser Institute, ranks countries around the world"
From 2001 through 2010, the Institute received $4.3 million in foreign funding.
http://www.fraserinstitute.org/
It appears that maybe countries with questionable "free" status like Hong Kong, Singapore, United Arab Emirates, Mauritius, and Jordan paid big bucks to be at the top of the list?
correlates well I would expect, with whether or not individuals have enough of their God-given freedoms intact for bankers to be certain to be able to be repaid
God-given freedoms
When people believe that, they will fight for it. Those "God-given" freedoms only survived to enter the historical record because the ones who wrote the document risked their lives and livelihoods to assert them. If people are unwilling to back up their freedoms, God makes not the slightest difference. Sadly, almost all of the population now believes those freedoms come from government.
Think about that. People believe the government assures their freedom. That's the reason this country is what it now is. Far too few have any idea what it means to assert personal sovereignty, without even getting into how to do it.
Most people don't want to be free as much as they want "security". Then they don't understand or believe Jefferson's quote pointing out the impossibility of the second without the first. The psychos rise to the top, and the psychos rule. It seems to be what the "majority" is most comfortable with.
Noe it is not, has not been. Long time....US entered the dark ages early on, but definitely from 1873 onwards...taken over...
Watch a real leader speak....from the heart...currently in the cross-hairs...
https://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2015/09/18/truth-syria-refugees-refusees/
The "government" has not been legitimate since Lincoln's War. When the southern States' contingent walked out of congress and congress adjourned "sine die" (without a day), congress officially dissolved. They never had a lawful quorum so never lawfully reconvened.
It was Lincoln ruling by decree back then which is the basis for all actions since. He ordered congress to do certain things under martial law (military rule). He even had the governor of New York arrested for opposing certain decrees.
We have had a corporation ACTING as government since 21 Feb 1871.
See:
28 U.S.C. 3002 (15)
(15)“United States” means—
(A) a Federal corporation;
(B) an agency, department, commission, board, or other entity of the United States; or
(C) an instrumentality of the United States.
So... B and C are subdivisions of the "Federal corporation." For further verification go to Dunn & Bradstreet (dnb.com) or manta.com. You will find that ALL government entities are listed as private corporations right down to your local police department and school district.
The "law" isn't what you think it is. It's all corporate regulations. Congress and legislatures are acting as the board of directors for the corporations and most don't have any idea. You are simply seen as a corporate asset (human resource) with an asset tag # (SS#) that is not allowed to tell your owner what to do.
The questions you should be asking are, "Who owns it?" "Who are they really working for whether they know it or not?" "What are the requirements to be a CEO of a corporation?"
Hint: You don't have to be a Citizen of any specific country to head up a corporation.
These Criminal Psychopaths / Sociopaths are just minions gaming a Criminal FRUAD system all based on Contract Fraud through our CONSENT (Blacks Law Dictionary) & deception.
From Lincoln, to the Act of 1871, Fed Reserve Act of 1913, to The Emergency Banking Act of 1933. No doubt, thse Megalomaniac's have taken historical FACT, twisted it, kept it from public knowledge to use as leverage in their diabolical plan to Enslave / Control mankind. And, the entire planet.
The Real Lincoln: http://www.amazon.com/Real-Lincoln-Abraham-Agenda-Unnecessary-ebook/dp/B...
You left out the words immediately preceding number the 1 on that list from your quote (which obviously also apply to number 15, unless you studied law with the University of Phoenix)-
"As used in this chapter:"
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/3002
(You also left out the content of § 3001 which is the applicability of the entirety of the chapter, which has to do with primarily with the Federal Government as a civil litigation party before a US Court)
No shit
Sherlock!
Finished it for you...
Hey, that's my line!
< sniff >
" If you want to keep your freedom, you can keep your freedom. "
Not!
If you like your hovel on the plantation, you can keep your hovel on the plantation,,,
;-D
"Now that economic conditions are even worse in the U.S. than they were before, a culture of extreme economic control has taken over and exacerbated the growing recession - one that history may end up redesignating a depression."
It has been a depression since 2008. Only the deliberately blind cannot see that. The other shoe has yet to drop, turning it into a Great Depression.
Following your "other shoe dropping" analogy...
In the Great Depression (v 1.0), the "cash" of the day was gold. Banning gold is arguably the best marker for the seriousness of the situation at that time.
Now they don't have gold. The system is based on fiat. But fiat until now has, at its heart, meant cash. The final marker to being unable to avoid marking this as the second G.D. will thus be the banning of cash. This may be your "other shoe".
They are using the exact same playbook. Fascinating.
I wonder what they'll ban after cash.
I don't think "the system" is going to last long enough to find out.
But as a thought experiment...
What is abhorrent to the power grubbers is any capacity of people to act outside their control. So let's say we go to electronic money. Well, then the "currency" is the electronic card. There is still that card in the middle of transactions. That card can become like "cash", a physical representation of the purchasing power being transferred. People would find a way to "hold" electronic money on cards. This, of course, would be unacceptable. Cards would have to go.
When all iterations of this "physical intermediary to trade" are run to their conclusion, the mark of the beast is the endpoint (regardless of whether or not you believe Christianity within which this concept developed). Controllers need a way to directly tie you to them. No intermediary. You cannot have power. So you will be the currency. It is the endpoint.
I like to maintain enough hope in there being just enough human instinct for freedom that it could not get to this point. I am, however, being forced to seriously question this hope!!!
Those who live to control others? This is without a doubt what they want. Pure control. It's a hell of a drug.
my thought was just that, considering its current trajectory, this desire to absolutely control human endeavor would seem to imply that people themselves, at some point, will be the only thing left to ban.
That's the best the Fraser institute can come up with for a video? It look like it was made for an eight year old. Wait..., I forgot to consider the audience..., Merikuns.
This line is quite revealing:
"The 7.73 chain-linked rating of the United States in 2013 was more than 0.9 of a unit lower than the 2000 rating."
I translate that as, "We make it up as we go!"
Just try living here as a white christian male. The entirety of governmental power is set against you.
Not sure if serious.
The ONLY demographic that is politically correct to discriminate against.
F'd up, but true...
Hang tight, brother; there's a final solution out there somwhere.
Absolutely. One of the reasons I insisted on unplugging TV years ago. The onslaught of derogatory shows and advertisements against white men. Absolutely disgusting and appalling. I can't believe anyone doesn't notice.
Miffed
Yet voters vote time and time again for bigger gubmint and more and more control over their lives. They give up freedom after freedom, I never will understand this.
America long, long, long ago lost any statesmen. The founders of this country would not want to live here...This is what they fled.... Tyranny.
The founders of this country would not want to live here...This is what they fled.... Tyranny.
This time there is nowhere to run. The US was a historical anomaly, never to be repeated. If limited government is going to show up again in the world, the people are going to have to work a lot harder to achieve it. Running away is no longer an option.
The purported 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is and should be held to be ineffective, invalid, null, void and unconstitutional for the following reasons:
The Joint Resolution proposing said amendment was not submitted to or adopted by a Constitutional Congress per Article I, Section 3, and Article V of the U. S. Constitution.
The Joint Resolution was not submitted to the President for his approval as required by Article I, Section 7 of the U. S. Constitution.
The proposed 14th Amendment was rejected by more than one-fourth of all the States then in the Union, and it was never ratified by three-fourths of all the States in the Union as required by Article V of the U. S. Constitution.
They also ratified the 14th amendment after the southern states were not allowed to rejoin congress. Thus the 14th was never ratified by 3/4's of the states.
The purported 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is and should be held to be ineffective, invalid, null, void and unconstitutional for the following reasons:
The Joint Resolution proposing said amendment was not submitted to or adopted by a Constitutional Congress per Article I, Section 3, and Article V of the U. S. Constitution.
The Joint Resolution was not submitted to the President for his approval as required by Article I, Section 7 of the U. S. Constitution.
The proposed 14th Amendment was rejected by more than one-fourth of all the States then in the Union, and it was never ratified by three-fourths of all the States in the Union as required by Article V of the U. S. Constitution.
They also ratified the 14th amendment after the southern states were not allowed to rejoin congress. Thus the 14th was never ratified by 3/4's of the states.
Nice, nearly perfect correlation to the drop in average incomes in the USA.
Who needs freedom when you got free shit
I know that I like to koke around once in a while but this very serious and it is going to cost me a lot of money. I need to leave Minnesota because I can't stand it any more. There are many reasons why. Idaho has caught my eye. Other then what you can read on the InterSpy, what do you folks know about the place?
I can't stand the liberal bullshit here anymore. People keep fucking with me and I just want to be left alone. I would like to try to earn a living and raise my children in peace.
Hell, I talked to plenty of attorneys this morning including the state attorney general's office. Yes, I am right on the point of law but I am also wrong because if I sue and win I will still lose. Rather than bore you with the legal details I just want to leave here and go somewhere else. Any insight is appreciated.
The results of full retard big government progressive criminal policy.
Forward!
The progressive stupid, it burns.
Grimaldus
"New Data Reveals U.S. Far From Freest Country In The World".
Really?? And the sun rises in the East, Oboner is an idiot, and Hillary lies through her teeth. Tell me something I don't already know.
Of course the US is not free. It is run by a Republitard oligarchy elected by voters in the RSA (Retard States of America). Those are the states where the average IQ is at a retard level. Idiocracy here we are! I can't believe you like money too. We should hang out.
in a number of the countries listed you can go to prison for suggesting Israeli/Jewish lobby groups/minorities have too much power, or if you doubt that the Germans systematically murdered 6 million Jews [and no one else] while fighting on 2 fronts, using wildly inefficient means for mass killing, etc.
You can doubt that the Armenians or Ukrainians or Poles were massacred, you can believe that ancient space alien lizards built the pyramids..... but if you question the Jewish Ubermench and their brand - Eternal and Sacred Victim - no free speech for you!
- even though the UN declaration on human rights strongly suggests that such anti free speech laws, especially given their still somewhat selective nature...
Charlie Hebdo = free speech / Dieudonne = "anti-semite" and criminal
....are contrary to human rights.
But what are human rights compared with the right of Jews to be above questioning or criticism??
it is getting better under Obama...HAHAHA
Gilbert: There is one difference. In a democracy, the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars.
Göring: Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.
The United States of America is founded as a Republic, specifically a Constitutional Republic, and not a democracy.
A Constitutional Republic and democracy are not synonymous and in fact are anathema. It’s much more than a semantic distinction. Our Founding Fathers were quite clear on their disdain for democracy (tyranny of mob rule) and why they decided on a Republic as our form of government.
As our Republic degrades into a democracy (leading fast to oligarchy), so goes our Constitution and our Bill of Rights. The word “democracy” does not appear in our
Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, individual States Constitutions, or our Pledge of Allegiance.
“I pledge Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the ‘democracy’ for which it stands…?”
I think not.
A Republic…if you can keep it. -Ben Franklin-
The pledge of allegiance was written by a socialist.
You might want to look up the definiton of anarchy.
wow!! if you look at the full document and then look over the USA from 1980 till present... (http://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/economic-freedom-of-t...)... there are huge changes after 2000... seems like after 2000 we went into a freefall going from #2 to where we are now..
Murica! Land of the fee, home to the tax slave.
Amerika where the tactical response group will shut down a little girls lemonade stand for not having a permit or you'll get shot 43 times for stealing a cup of coffee(both are true stories)
Stages of a civilization
The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through a nine stage sequence:
1 – From bondage to spiritual faith;
2 – from spiritual faith to great courage;
3 – from courage to liberty;
4 – from liberty to abundance;
5 – from abundance to selfishness;
6 – from selfishness to complacency;
7 – from complacence to apathy;
8 – from apathy to dependence;
9 – from dependency back again into bondage.
We are somewhere about 6 going on 7. However considering that 50% of the US population receives some form of government aid, #8 might be more appropriate.
Is the article just and ad or something? Wheres the data?
http://www.freetheworld.com/2015/economic-freedom-of-the-world-2015.pdf
exactly how in the fuck is it even remotely possible that USSA is even 16th on the list? You know, "more free" than countries like Estonia or Denmark where government spending can not ever hope to compare to USSA and where businesses are free to thrive???
<Heritage dot org> has quite a different view, putting both those countries above USSA. Also how the hell is Iceland so low, being, you know, the ONLY country in the world where banks were free enough to actually FAIL like they should have everywhere else too ...
I call bullshit, Murica must have sucked a whole truckload of cocks to even get this high on any freedom list