Congratulations Democrats, U.S. Drops out of Top Ten in Economic Prosperity!

Congratulations Democrats, for the first time the United States has dropped out of the top ten in economic prosperity:

The London-based Think Tank Legatum Institute recently offered empirical evidence of what many Americans have been thinking lately. Our national well-being is slipping.

Over the past four years, prosperity has increased around the globe, while it has remained stagnant in the United States, the Legatum Institute reports. As a result, the Institute ranked the United States 12th out of 142 countries on its 2012 Prosperity Index, putting the country outside the top ten for the first time.

The Democratic Party and their propaganda machine, also known as the mainstream media, have done an outstanding job in brainwashing the American people. They have convinced the majority in this country that Washington D.C. can do a better job of running their lives, than they can.

Since the start of financial crisis and Great Recession, the typical American’s attitude has shifted, ever so subtly, away from a belief that free markets and entrepreneurship are central to economic prosperity.

As they put behind them a fractious presidential election in which the question of whether more regulation or freer markets was best way to revive American prosperity was prominent, the President and his advisors need to be cautious. They won because the American people favored more economic control rather than freer markets, but by the slimmest of margins; and the electorate remains highly polarized on the issue.

Let’s give a big round of applause to the statist.  We couldn’t have become a second rate country without you.

H/T:  Weasel Zippers

Source:  http://smallbiztrends.com/2012/12/balancing-economic-control-and-entrepreneurship.html?extlink=dw-openf-original-source