The Human Freedom Index

[Chris]

Cato's has published its latest THE HUMAN FREEDOM INDEX (http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/human-freedom-index-files/human-freedom-index-2015.pdf) (.pdf).

It measures:



■ Rule of Law
■ Security and Safety
■ Movement
■ Religion
■ Association, Assembly, and Civil Society
■ Expression
■ Relationships
■ Size of Government
■ Legal System and Property Rights
■ Access to Sound Money
■ Freedom to Trade Internationally
■ Regulation of Credit, Labor, and Business


Here's some rankings:

http://i.snag.gy/asAHw.jpg

The US has fallen to 20th.


Here's some quotes:

“Freedom in
our usage
is a social
concept that
recognizes the
dignity of
individuals
and is
defined by
the absence
of coercive
constraint.”

“Economic
freedom is
not just
inherently
valuable; it
empowers
individuals to
exercise other
freedoms.”

“The rule
of law is an
essential
condition of
freedom that
protects the
individual
from coercion
by others.”

[Common Sense]

Woot...6 ain't too bad.

[Captain Obvious]

Those rankings don't surprise me.

All the talk about the US being the "home of the free" is propaganda basically. Our "capitalist" culture is designed to keep a marginal minority wealthy and in power.

We really have limited freedoms here and they're vanishing by the second.

[kilgram]

In the table of all the countries I am not able to find Russia and I was curious to see in what position they were.

And according to this index, economic freedom of Denmark is lower than Finland. Weird, I always considered Denmark the most liberal of the Nordic countries.

[Chris]

Russia is 111.

Ranking is by given criteria.

[donttread]

Cato's has published its latest THE HUMAN FREEDOM INDEX (http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/human-freedom-index-files/human-freedom-index-2015.pdf) (.pdf).

It measures:


■ Rule of Law
■ Security and Safety
■ Movement
■ Religion
■ Association, Assembly, and Civil Society
■ Expression
■ Relationships
■ Size of Government
■ Legal System and Property Rights
■ Access to Sound Money
■ Freedom to Trade Internationally
■ Regulation of Credit, Labor, and Business


Here's some rankings:

http://i.snag.gy/asAHw.jpg

The US has fallen to 20th.


Here's some quotes:

“Freedom in
our usage
is a social
concept that
recognizes the
dignity of
individuals
and is
defined by
the absence
of coercive
constraint.”

“Economic
freedom is
not just
inherently
valuable; it
empowers
individuals to
exercise other
freedoms.”

“The rule
of law is an
essential
condition of
freedom that
protects the
individual
from coercion
by others.”

How can the most incarcerated country on earth, most of which is over victimless crimes rank as high as 20th?

[Chris]

How can the most incarcerated country on earth, most of which is over victimless crimes rank as high as 20th?

We seem to rank low in that area:

http://i.snag.gy/qbwOt.jpg

[Adelaide]

Woot...6 ain't too bad.

Yeah, I'm alright with that.

[Howey]

Look! The libertarians can move to Hong Kong!

Of course, no one will listen to them to here either.

[Chris]

Yeah, I'm alright with that.

So we need you Canadians to tell us what we can do to be free!

[donttread]

We seem to rank low in that area:

http://i.snag.gy/qbwOt.jpg

We should.

[Chris]

We should.

Actually, we should not, but we do. :)