Freedom in the 50 States; An Index of Personal and Economic Freedom

Mercatus Center, George Mason University ^ | June 7, 2011 | Jason Sorens, William Ruger

[Cuttnhorse]

You must be living near Circle?

I’m over the line in Dawson

[giotto]

Yeah! Way to go California! “We’re not last...we’re not last..” yeesh...

Thanks. Nothing like some gallows humor to brighten my morning.

[giotto]

....that this attempt to quantify liberty is by... “a LIBERTARIAN think tank”

And...?

[Aroostook25]

Libertarian think tank? Yes. See the report where they cite one of their favorite books
Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick

[Eska]

WE're in Eagle, downriver from you all.

Actually, I know a few people up in Dawson and the boy is working for queen over summer, home from UAF; he likes Dawson. I mostly know Indians from up there who have relatives down here. Big Mike, often stays over our place, and I know Chris Janus, and bunch of other ones from Mayo to Old Crow. One time Sarah Lee stopped at our house, I talked hockey with that girl for hours, ha.

I actually send up 500 lbs tatoes every sept with Big Mike and he gets them around.

You been in Dawson a long time?

[nkycincinnatikid]

Wellllll,,,,,
Libertarians
are not
liberians,
not lesbians,
not lactose interants,
in point of fact they are
libertarians
they propose that legalising freedom might actually work.
They accept the Scriptures to my knowledge, which is of course intolerable to “freedom lovers” today .
And they seem to to think that beyond that abusers of liberty,freedom will fail in a free society.
I can’t say if it will work,
I don’t think that it has ever been triedin fact.
MY freekin point was the poster posted a constuct of the opinion of libertarians and felt OBLIGATED to postscipt a caveat that they might actually believe what they profess to believe in.
IT WAS just NUTS.

[Mr. Silverback]

Just because it has liberty in the name doesn’t mean its aims lead to the most liberty. For example, the majority of libertarians are pro-aborts and that’s the official position of their party, but turning little kids into medical waste is murder, not liberty.

[callisto]

Bookmarking.

Thanks for the ping! This country is far down the slippery slope to losing our freedom.

[the OlLine Rebel]

This is absurd - MD was the WORST last year (or the year before; it may’ve been that long).

Harumph! What do you mean, WE’RE not worst?

BTW - how about the Enviro-mental fascist indoctrination in MD schools today? Maybe that doesn’t count as “freedom-sapping”; I just see it as indoctrination typical of fascio-commie states.