Vicious said:
I know you hate being called a racist but. cmon....just keeding :P
Anyways your uh...claims are so non factual it's funny.
"Note poor countries are the least free, rich countries are MORE free, sense correlation here?"
I cant help but laugh at this. Somalia must be #1 right? your use of correlation is too epic.
"America has fallen to #8 due to massive infringements on property rights."
Really?! Really? Yea those banakers those huge credit default swaps, the fake economic bubbles we were riding on for success
yea thats not the reason we're falling.
obviously it's the infringments xD
Businesses abusing your healthcare cost so much that it's 16% of the country's GDP
nah..it's obviously infignments xD
China, the leader in green jobs and development, investing billions world wide in new technology and energy.
nah it's their shitty knockoffs xD
"Communist starvation nations."
CHina?
you're not even trying.
Edit: On another note...damn.. India what is up with you. goddamn.
Somalia is not free. You get horsewhipped for watching Ninja Assassin because it's not Muslim. Somalia doesn't really have freedom there are almost no protected property rights it's whoever has the biggest gun workers have no rights they literally still have slavery. SLAVERY! and businesses have no protection or rights. You can't own land or build on it someone will just shoot you and take it. It would behoove you to look at what the UN considers to be "economic freedom" Somalia is not free. Freedom and anarchy are not the same.
This isn't against big government it's about how government uses it's force to PROTECT people's rights in manners that help business. As for the bankers Theft and Fraud are not counted as economic freedoms.
Over lay this chart with the human development index and see how the crappiest countries are at the bottom of BOTH and the good ones are in the top of both. India for example fought for 7 years in Parliament to keep KFC out of the country. They were worried about people becoming fat while people literally starved in the streets begging for food or the work that would allow them to buy food. The moral is laws and restrictions have to be the RIGHT laws and restrictions ban zero down payment mortgages for instance that will reduce defaults en masse. Freedoms also like the ones measured here, also need to be the freedom to do good things not just free to do ANY thing.
I assure you in countries where anyone can own land property rights are a HUGE deal. The right to own land and build a house on it and have it protected by the government is huge for prosperity. As opposed to Egypt where 87% of houses are built illegally and the government could take it at any time.
Also China IS full of starving people especially in rural china, they don't even have universal health care. Their earnings may seem big but that's due to their size. If it were divided in per capita earnings they aren't even in the top 70 by ANY UN agencies numbers. Meanwhile evil America mired in it's worst recession is still the highest earning country in the world.
Lets take two identical countries and give one 24 bureacracies each with their own fees for starting a business, let's give the other 2 bureacracies with very small fees. Which country do you think will earn more money?
If you want to redistribute the wealth why don't you want to produce more wealth so we can all have a bigger share? Businesses are not evil they have no personality they are a tool to produce jobs and GDP. Properly managed law abiding businesses and people being granted the right and freedom to start their own new businesses are what made the US the richest country in the world. Well that and Imperialism. The majority of all new jobs in the past 4 years in America came from startup businesses that are less then 5 years old. New business will lead us out of this and produce enough money to give us all jobs and produce enough tax revenue to provide us all protection both civil and social.