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The Heritage Foundation ranked it as second freest economy on Earth and a few contards here are grabbing their ankles and biting pillows with glee over it. The problem is, they don't even understand why....

Authoritarian capitalism (the less regulation upon it, the more authoritarian it becomes) relies on the government gun to foist itself on populations. This is what we are moving towards and it should be resisted at all costs. I do not agree that capitalism and free market are as different as the a...

All this on Singapore **** because it was #2 on your socialist countries list?...

Okay, fine. I just wanted to point out that I got my font size back in my OP, bitch - and I'm laughing at you, impotent Al Yankfermen....

They represent mainstream republicanism. You're not gonna find a hundred in the whole damned country who'll think of Heritage as PR flaks or who'll unconflate capitalism and the free markets capitalism attacks at gunpoint. Heritage says a police state is free - it's free....

Great OP. But, look at the neocons who are blindly supporting Heritage. Not the cream of the crop by any standards....

If you have a complaint with how the economists of the Heritage Foundation rank the countries, perhaps you should file a formal grievance. I'm sure they'll take you just as seriously as we have!...

There it is.^ That is their only answer. Don't use sense - just listen "think tank" publicists who are paid not for their "thinking" but for the narratives their thinking generates. He cannot answer. In truth, Heritage cannot either - the truth never loses to a lie in a fair fight.. But their pay...

http://www.heritage.org/index/...

A gaggle of impressionable progressives recently went on a Grateful Dead style fan-girl tour of the web, singling praise and glory to Singapore's "economic freedom" - "It's the second freest on EARTH," they jubilated. Cursory investigation -their undone due diligence - revealed Singapore to practi...