The United States for the first time dropped out of the Indexs free category and into the ranks of mostly free. Many Americans, who fail to understand how much of the world has recognized the benefits of market-friendly economic reform and government restraint while their country has moved in an opposite direction, will be shocked to learn that Australia, Switzerland, and even Canada rank ahead of the United States on an economic freedom index. Asian city-states Hong Kong and Singapore continue to top the chart.
To: bronxville
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02/20/2010 4:59:02 AM PST by
raptor22
(The truth will set us free)
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