Posted by
Dawnsblood on Tuesday, January 16, 2007 6:16:18 PM
That horrible economy that
Bush built is still fooling people! Can you believe it? After all this time????
The Index of Economic Freedom for 2007, sponsored by the Wall Street Journal and the Heritage Foundation, is out. Here is Mary Anastasia O'Grady's article in the Journal on it, and here is the Heritage website entry, the data, and the rankings.
Only seven countries receive "free" ratings, with a score above 80, and
every single one of them is primarily or substantially
English-speaking: Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, the United States,
New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. The next nine countries,
with scores between 75 and 80, are mostly smaller European countries:
Luxembourg, Switzerland, Canada, Chile, Estonia, Denmark, the
Netherlands, Iceland, and Finland. Canada, of course, is primarily
English-speaking, and my impression is that knowledge and use of
English is widespread in Denmark, the Netherlands, and Iceland.