Wait for it Clyde.........Under Obama, U.S. personal freedom ranking slips below France BAM!!!

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  1. Quigley_Sharps

    Quigley_Sharps The Badministrator Administrator Founding Member

    Under Obama, U.S. personal freedom ranking slips below France

    Americans' assessments of their personal freedom have significantly declined under President Obama, according to a new study from the Legatum Institute in London, and the United States now ranks below 20 other countries on this measure.

    The research shows that citizens of countries including France, Uruguay, and Costa Rica now feel that they enjoy more personal freedom than Americans.

    As the Washington Examiner reported this morning, representatives of the Legatum Institute are in the U.S. this week to promote the sixth edition of their Prosperity Index. The index aims to measure aspects of prosperity that typical gross domestic product measurements don’t include, such as entrepreneurship and opportunity, education, and social capital.

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    The freedom scores are based on polling data from 2013 indicating citizens’ satisfaction with their nation's handling of civil liberties, freedom of choice, tolerance of ethnic minorities, and tolerance of immigrants. Polling data were provided by Gallup World Poll Service. The index is notable for the way it measures how free people feel, unlike other freedom indices that measure freedom by comparing government policies.

    “This is not a good report for Obama,” Legatum Institute spokeswoman Cristina Odone told theWashington Examiner.

    In the 2010 report (which relied on data gathered in 2009), the U.S. was ranked ninth in personal freedom, but that ranking has since fallen to 21st, with several countries, including France, Germany and the United Kingdom passing the U.S.

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    The nation’s overall personal freedom score has declined by 17 percent since 2009, with a 22 percent drop in combined civil liberty and free choice contributing to that decline.

    Of the eight categories in the index, personal freedom was America's second lowest performance relative to other countries. The U.S. had its lowest ranking when it came to safety and security (a broad measure of how threatened citizens feel in instances such as walking late at night, or expressing their opinions) — ranking 31st out of 142 countries.

    The cross-country comparisons in the index should be taken with a grain of salt. The perception of what freedom means in New Zealand, which has the highest personal freedom ranking, may vary from how Americans measure their own personal freedom. But regardless of how the U.S. compares to other countries, there is no denying that Americans felt less free in 2013 after four more years of Obama’s presidency. And so now he faces the embarrassment of being the president that made Americans feel less free than the French.








    @Clyde :eek:
     
  2. vonslob

    vonslob Monkey++

    Yeah go progessives, continue to use the excuse you are protecting us to put us under your thumb, be careful and don't cry when you lose it.[finger]
     
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  3. Yard Dart

    Yard Dart Vigilant Monkey Moderator

    The divisive politics of this nation are continually pitting each of us against thy neighbor along every line of class, race, religion, personal opinion or view and position/job/status. All to gain political power over the other person/group. And We the People, are getting crunched in the middle by hate/race baiter's/crooks, heavy taxation and over regulation (amongst a 1,000 other ways) .

    Our founding fathers picked up their muskets.....long before things ever got to where we are today!!!!
     
  4. Clyde

    Clyde Jet Set Tourer Administrator Founding Member

    [FF][FF][FF]

    Damn, lower than the cheese eating surrender monkeys.

    [tng2]

    And France will be Europe's first islamic dominated nation by 2050.
     
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  5. CaboWabo5150

    CaboWabo5150 Hell's coming with me

    No wonder the liberals aren't too worried about the 2nd Amendment.. 20 other Countries that don't have it have more freedom than us..

    All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. ~Edmund Burke

    In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
     
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