{"id":21568,"date":"2014-01-15T11:52:26","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T16:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=21568"},"modified":"2014-01-15T11:52:26","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T16:52:26","slug":"why-leadership-matters-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=21568","title":{"rendered":"Why Leadership Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday Hot Air<\/a> posted an article about the loss of economic freedom<\/a> in America.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

For going on 20 years now, the Heritage Foundation<\/a> and the Wall Street Journal<\/a> have been putting together an annual Index of Economic Freedom<\/a> by evaluating countries the world over based on ten criteria along the lines of property rights, government spending<\/a>, freedom from corruption, trade freedom, and the like. They released the 2014 edition of their annaul Index today, and here\u2019s the good news: Worldwide economic freedom has reached record levels, huzzah! The various governments of 114 countries took steps in 2013 that increased their citizens\u2019 economic freedom, and 43 countries all over the world have now reached their highest ranking in the Index\u2019s history. Awesome, right?<\/strong><\/p>\n

But, here\u2019s the bad news: The United States<\/a> is no longer among the relative elite of these economically free nations. Oof.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What happened? The article points out that a tax rate exceeding 43% cannot even keep pace with the government’s runaway spending. The article also cites the problem of over-regulation by the government which impacts economic and personal freedom.<\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

As I mentioned earlier today<\/a>, the Obama administration<\/a> is currently prepping for the president\u2019s fifth State of the Union address<\/a> by touting all the sweet executive actions they\u2019ve freshly come up with to spur along the economy should Congress<\/a> fail to act on their legislative proposals. Yet again, however, the Obama administration\u2019s ideas all seem to center around ways to spend more taxpayer money, increase top-down federal intervention, and layer the regulations on even more thickly \u2014 i.e., take our economic freedom even further down the drain \u2014 and their only regret seems to be that this spitefully obstructionist \u2018Republican\u2019 Congress of ours hasn\u2019t permitted them to do even more of the same.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leadership matters.<\/p>\n

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