{"id":11504,"date":"2012-01-11T09:07:45","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T14:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=11504"},"modified":"2012-01-11T09:09:09","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T14:09:09","slug":"11504","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=11504","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">This is a graph from the Cato Institute posted by John Hinderaker at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2012\/01\/freedom-works.php\">Power Line<\/a>\u00a0yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/admin\/ed-assets\/2012\/01\/chile-argentina-venezuela.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[sbpost-34165];player=img;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"chile-argentina-venezuela\" src=\"http:\/\/3-ps.googleusercontent.com\/h\/www.powerlineblog.com\/admin\/ed-assets\/2012\/01\/chile-argentina-venezuela.jpg.pagespeed.ce.kmg1Ncu783.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"358\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The article includes the following comments:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The following numbers come from the Economic Freedom of the World, which looks at all facets of economic policy, including regulation, trade policy, monetary policy, fiscal policy, rule of law, and property rights.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>* Chile\u2019s score jumped from 5.6 in 1980 to 8.0 in 2008, and the country now ranks as the world\u2019s 4th-freest economy (ahead of the United States!).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>* Argentina\u2019s ranking has improved a bit, rising from 4.4 to 6.0 between 1980 and 2008, but that still only puts them in 94th-place in the world rankings.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>* Venezuela, by contrast, is embarrassingly bad. The nation\u2019s score has dropped from 6.3 to 4.4, and its ranking has plunged from 22nd-place in 1980 to 121st-place in 2006.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We have a choice in 2012. Which way do we want to go?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right; border-style: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=582f4ba5-383a-4b08-9440-169dc0898c0d\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a graph from the Cato Institute posted by John Hinderaker at Power Line\u00a0yesterday. The article includes the following comments: The following numbers come from the Economic Freedom of the World, which looks at all facets of economic policy, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=11504\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1807,1806,1808,627,1809,285,306],"class_list":["post-11504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-argentina","tag-chile","tag-john-hinderaker","tag-power-line","tag-statism-vs-free-market","tag-united-states","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11504"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11506,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11504\/revisions\/11506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}