Index of Economic Freedom > General Discussion

Posted: 8/15/2008 2:22:44 PM EDT

Anyone else ever read this thing???

Index of Economic Freedom:

www.heritage.org/Index/

Top 10:

www.heritage.org/research/features/index/topten.cfm

Posted: 8/15/2008 2:53:37 PM EDT

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Add in the chance of getting robbed or killed on the street, then see who comes out on top.

Posted: 8/15/2008 5:53:11 PM EDT

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Add in the chance of getting robbed or killed on the street, then see who comes out on top.

We aren't on top anyway!!!!

Posted: 8/16/2008 7:28:44 AM EDT

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There's a lot of ways to measure countries, and America doesn't come out on top in every one.

So what.

It's still the greatest country on Earth.

Posted: 8/16/2008 7:30:54 AM EDT

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Add in the chance of getting robbed or killed on the street, then see who comes out on top.

We'd be even further down the list

Posted: 8/16/2008 7:36:02 AM EDT

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Every time some Marxist idiot goes on a rant about evil capitalism, and class warfare, all I do is point to Hong Kong.

Posted: 8/16/2008 9:57:34 AM EDT

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Add in the chance of getting robbed or killed on the street, then see who comes out on top.

We'd be even further down the list

Are you saying your chances of being jacked on the street are LESS in Honk Kong and Singapore than in the U.S.?

Posted: 8/16/2008 9:59:38 AM EDT

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Quoted:

Add in the chance of getting robbed or killed on the street, then see who comes out on top.

We'd be even further down the list

Are you saying your chances of being jacked on the street are LESS in Honk Kong and Singapore than in the U.S.?

Do you know anything about those two? Singapore is practically a police state.

Posted: 8/16/2008 10:10:33 AM EDT

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There is more to freedom than just economic.

But that list looks about correct. We had a big discussion about this in one of my classes.

Posted: 8/16/2008 12:32:20 PM EDT

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There is more to freedom than just economic.

But that list looks about correct. We had a big discussion about this in one of my classes.

Just remember that property rights are the core of any type of freedom.

Posted: 8/16/2008 12:38:05 PM EDT

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Quoted:

Add in the chance of getting robbed or killed on the street, then see who comes out on top.

We'd be even further down the list

Are you saying your chances of being jacked on the street are LESS in Honk Kong and Singapore than in the U.S.?

Do you know anything about those two? Singapore is practically a police state.

That's why I'm wondering how Singapore ranked so high.

Posted: 8/16/2008 12:40:22 PM EDT

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People in general are idiots.

Posted: 8/16/2008 12:43:09 PM EDT

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That's why I'm wondering how Singapore ranked so high.

Yet they've accepted that economic freedom is essential to economic prosperity, so they've established a strange mix of economic freedom within what amounts to a one-party state.

Posted: 8/16/2008 12:43:44 PM EDT

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Quoted:

Quoted:
There is more to freedom than just economic.

But that list looks about correct. We had a big discussion about this in one of my classes.

Just remember that property rights are the core of any type of freedom.

Yup.

Posted: 8/16/2008 12:49:55 PM EDT

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Quoted:

Add in the chance of getting robbed or killed on the street, then see who comes out on top.

We'd be even further down the list

Are you saying your chances of being jacked on the street are LESS in Honk Kong and Singapore than in the U.S.?

Do you know anything about those two? Singapore is practically a police state.

That's why I'm wondering how Singapore ranked so high.

They gave the US a "90" for "Property Rights" too. It's not a perfect list, but it's decent.

Posted: 8/16/2008 2:45:40 PM EDT

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Quoted:

Add in the chance of getting robbed or killed on the street, then see who comes out on top.

We'd be even further down the list

Are you saying your chances of being jacked on the street are LESS in Honk Kong and Singapore than in the U.S.?

Do you know anything about those two? Singapore is practically a police state.

The U.S.S.R. was a police state. People still got jacked.

ETA: I will admit that some areas of the U.S. are right up there with some Third World shitholes, but nationwide, America is fairly safe.

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