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To: vannrox

An interesting thought experiment would be to compare 240 years later whether the Average American citizen has more freedom than the average British subject.

According to the so called Human Freedom Index, the UK ranks significantly higher than the US en it comes to fredom. I would counter that with the observation that freedom is individual specific. For example, gun freedoms are much more important to me than probably most Brits or Americans so of course the US is much freer from my perspective. But on other measures, the US does seem to lag.

The sad thing for me is that we can’t make the knock-it-out-of-the-park argument anymore that Americans are the freest people on earth. And I don’t like that one bit.


10 posted on 07/04/2016 5:58:15 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (How can you say that this isn't the government that you want?)
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To: RKBA Democrat

Commitment to God and His blessings are the root of it.

I don’t know where either Britain or the USA are making a stellar show of this at the moment. What is better, a rotten apple or a rotten orange?


12 posted on 07/04/2016 6:12:45 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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