U.S. Drops Out of Top 10 in Latest Legatum Prosperity Index

Latest Legatum Prosperity Index Flags the ‘American Dream’ at Risk. In an unprecedented fall, the US drops out of the top ten of the 2012 Legatum Prosperity Index. 

• US drops out of global prosperity ‘top ten’ ranking for the first time.
• Falling confidence in elections prompts drop in Governance rankings.
• US falls eight places in Entrepreneurship & Opportunity sub-index, as fewer citizens agree that working hard is the key to success.
• Asia’s emerging economies overtake US in Economy sub-index.

Credit: Legatum Prosperity Index

The latest findings from the Legatum Prosperity Index expose a United States in decline. In an unprecedented fall, America drops to 12th position in the worldwide prosperity rankings – with weakening performance across five of the Index’s eight sub-categories.

Falling confidence in elections and a declining Government approval rate has triggered a

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President Obama Owes Black Americans the Truth. Not Special Attention

Stacy Swimp

By Stacy Swimp

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ACLJ Calls on U.S. to Reject United Nations Effort to Grant Palestinian Authority Statehood

The UN headquarters in New York/Image via Wikipedia

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Lady Liberty

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Thomas Jefferson on States Rights

Resolved, that the several states composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their General Government; but that by compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States and of amendments thereto, they constituted a General Government for special purposes, delegated to that Government certain definite powers, reserving each state to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self Government; and that whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force:

~ From the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, authored by Thomas Jefferson

Samuel Adams Addresses Natural Rights

It is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or any number of men, at the entering into society, to renounce their essential natural rights, or the means of preserving those rights; when the grand end of civil government, from the very nature of its institution, is for the support, protection, and defence of those very rights; the principal of which, as is before observed, are Life, Liberty, and Property. If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation. The right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.

~Samuel Adams, excerpted from The Rights of the Colonists, November 20, 1772

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