The Stunning, Sudden Reversal of Economic Freedom In America

By Howard Rich – Built up over more than two centuries, America’s “irreversible trend toward more freedom” has been suddenly (and stunningly) reversed over the last decade – with tragic consequences for business owners, taxpayers and citizens alike. Once a bastion of free market ideology and unprecedented prosperity, America’s ongoing descent into dependence-inducing command economics is fast approaching terminal velocity.

In 2005 America slipped to No. 8 on this index (Economic Freedom of the World). And as of 2010 – the latest year for which data is available – our country had fallen all the way to No. 18.

What’s driving this decline? more> http://tinyurl.com/btkzx2l

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American Exceptionalism: Obama’s Achilles Heel?

BOOK REVIEW

Democracy in America (De la démocratie en Amérique), Author: Alexis de Tocqueville.

By Paul Roderick Gregory – American exceptional-ism is the notion that the United States occupies a unique position in the world, offering opportunity and hope to others by its unique balance of public and private interests and constitutional ideals of personal and economic freedom. The phrase, often attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville in his 1835 Democracy in America,  offers Romney an opening wide enough for a truck: If America is exceptional, why must we fundamentally transform it as Obama promises?

While Europeans take for granted a powerful, intrusive state, the U. S. Constitution protects citizens and their property from an over reaching state. The focus of the U.S. Constitution is the individual and the inherent rights the state cannot take away (what Obama calls “negative liberties”). more> http://tinyurl.com/d7oarwt

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