Well unfortunately now Canada (!!!) ranks higher than the US as far as economic freedom. Top on the list are Singapore and Hong Kong.
And *economic freedom* is at the core of political freedom as well as a key component of national security and (as John Stossel pointed out in comparing the effects of the same size earthquake on San Francisco in the ‘80’s and on Haiti this year) of our physical security (the quality of our buildings, roads, etc.).
Obambi & Gang don’t think of economics in terms of freedom, period. Much less do they have any understanding of how integral economic freedom is to freedom in general and to our national quality of life and resiliency.
Or do they?