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Offline Sanguine

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US Economic Freedom Has Hit a Historic Low. What Happened?
« on: February 15, 2017, 07:22:22 pm »
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It’s already been eight years since the Great Recession, yet the U.S. economy has been just inching along, with its productivity flagging and millions being locked out of the labor market.

One critical underlying factor for this lack of economic dynamism has been the startling decline of America’s economic freedom, an unfortunate legacy of Barack Obama’s eight-year presidency.

The Heritage Foundation’s 2017 Index of Economic Freedom—an annual global study that compares countries’ entrepreneurial environments—highlights the urgent need for the U.S. to change course. For the ninth time since 2008, America has lost ground....

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Re: US Economic Freedom Has Hit a Historic Low. What Happened?
« Reply #1 on: February 15, 2017, 07:31:23 pm »
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US Economic Freedom Has Hit a Historic Low. What Happened?

Obama - and the Free Shit Army.

That's what.
Fart for freedom, fart for liberty and fart proudly.  - Benjamin Franklin

...Obsta principiis—Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers and destroyers press upon them so fast that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachment upon [the] American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour." - John Adams, February 6, 1775

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Re: US Economic Freedom Has Hit a Historic Low. What Happened?
« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2017, 09:23:08 pm »