[Count of Monte Fisto]

Singapore and Hong Kong are blessed with remarkably productive populations.

No doubt about it. They also don't have a government undermining them at every turn or shipping their jobs to a foreign country.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

We are blessed with the government we elected. We have no one to blame but ourselves.

If more Americans shared my voting preferences, America would be far, far more prosperous. American voting preferences, unfortunately, are becoming indistinguishable from Venezuela’s.

[1rudeboy]

They also don't have a government undermining them at every turn or shipping their jobs to a foreign country.

Here are the scores for both Singapore and the United States in Heritage's Index of Economic Freedom:

Singapore,
United States.

Where does it look like the United States needs to improve?