On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 21:57:35 +0000, John Cairns wrote:

Economic freedom is the measure of the roadblocks governments put in place
that prevent their citizens from achieving success. Not surprisingly,
countries with the greatest economic freedom enjoy strong economic growth.
Unfree countries, conversely, do not.

Long a symbol of economic prosperity, America for the first time no longer
ranks among the top 10 free nations of the world, according to The 2005
Index of Economic Freedom, just released by the Heritage Foundation and
the Wall Street Journal.


We are still some ways from the "Land of the Once Free", but our direction
is clear.

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