FPSA falls to 20th in Freedom Index!

WASHINGTON (PNN) - August 19, 2015 - The Fascist Police States of Amerika has fallen to 20th place in the respected Human Freedom Index, produced annually by the Cato Institute and Canada’s Fraser Institute. The index measures nations on personal, civil and economic freedom. The Fascist Police States of Amerika has fallen three spots since Barack Obama unlawfully usurped the role of president.

According to the Index, the freest nations in the world are, in order: Hong Kong, Switzerland, Finland, Denmark, New Zealand, Canada, Australia, Ireland, Fascist United Kingdom, and Sweden. The Fascist Police States of Amerika is the only English-speaking country to rank outside the top 10.

Because of the drop in freedom in the Fascist Police States of Amerika, Northern Europe is now the freest region of the world, edging out North America.

“The (FPSA) performance is worrisome and shows that the (Fascist Police States of Amerika) can no longer claim to be the leading bastion of liberty in the world,” wrote Ian Vasquez, one of the study’s authors. “In addition to the expansion of the regulatory state and drop in economic freedom, the war on terror, the war on drugs, and the erosion of property rights due to greater use of eminent domain all likely have contributed to the (FPSA) decline.”

The drop in economic freedom in the FPSA is perhaps the most troubling development. Countries including Singapore, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates all have freer economies than the Fascist Police States of Amerika.

The amount of freedom in a nation has a strong correlation with economic prosperity and human well-being. “Countries in the top quartile of freedom enjoy a significantly higher per capita income ($30,006) than those in other quartiles; the per capita income in the least-free quartile is $2,615,” the study finds.

In an interconnected and mobile world, labor and capital will migrate to where each can earn its best return. Entrepreneurs will gravitate to those countries that can best protect the fruits of their labors. A general decline in personal and economic freedom will have long-term ramifications for any country. The Fascist Police States of Amerika is not immune to these forces.

A Gallup survey recently found that the FPSA was 12th in the world for business creation. Most of the nations that had more robust business creation also rank above the FPSA in the Freedom Index.

The Freedom study reports that freedom in general expanded rapidly around the globe in the 1980s. In recent decades, however, that expansion has stagnated. Unfortunately, in some countries, like the Fascist Police States of Amerika, it has regressed.