American Dream Continues to Dwindle

Posted: Sunday, April 24th, 2011 at 7:28 am
By: San Antonio Tea Party

This from our friends at The Heritage Foundation

“A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement.”

What Founding Father Thomas Jefferson so eloquently refers to here is the American dream: the ability to profit from the sweat of our brow, control our freedom, and to pursue happiness. But “the American dream is in jeopardy,” writes Heritage’s Mike Brownfield in April 19th’s Morning Bell.

The American dream depends in large part on economic freedom. But economic freedom in America has taken a severe beating from big-government policies and unbridled government expansion. This has led to trillion-dollar deficits and an unfavorable business climate that drives more and more companies overseas.

As a result, the United States has dropped from the rankings of the most economically free countries in the world for the second year in a row. America now ranks as only mostly free, according to the Heritage’s 2011 Index of Economic Freedom.

“That disturbing trend,” Brownfield writes, “points to a serious problem in the United States: the Land of the Free is not the attractive place to do business that it once was.”

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One Response to “American Dream Continues to Dwindle”

  1. Juan Reynoso says:
    April 24, 2011 at 5:49 pm

    AMERICANS FOR HONEST GOVERNMENT
    http://www.theteaparty.net/
    teapartyoftx@gmail.com
    April 24th, 2011
    Fellow Americans, Obama and the do nothing congress are responsible for the economic slavery of millions of hard working Americans, The ones that are more affected by this uncontrolled inflation, create by the Bush and Obama expending frenzy are the old on Social Security and the low income people.

    …(edited for length by SATP webmaster)

    While our domestic production continues to take a dive, imports are increasing at a frightening rate. Here’s a great site with many of the facts on oil that the media ignores and is not reporting. The News media takes great pride in helping the little guy, women and the old from anything bad that might happen to them, but they fail to tell us the truth about why oil prices are taken what little cash we have less after we pay the mortgage and the increased cost on our food and clothing.
    http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/company_level_imports/current/import.html
    Juan Reynoso
    teapartyoftx@gmail.com