Falling Behind

Another example where we are letting ourselves down.  We do not have to be #9 on this list.  It is up to us to put the pressure on the elected officials for smaller, leaner more efficient government services.
"The United States, however, is no longer "the Land of the Free" economically. Our Economic Freedom Index score fell to 77.8, moving us down to 9th internationally behind such countries as Denmark, Canada, and first-place Hong Kong. What drove America’s decline? Huge increases in government spending. Despite obvious past failures of Keynesian spending policies in countries like Japan, the U.S. government undertook a massive government spending spree designed to combat unemployment and slow economic growth. This Keynesian stimulus has proved to be an abject failure:Unemployment is still above 9 percent for a post–World War II record 20th month in a row, and economic growth has not returned as strong as the Obama Administration predicted."
Government Spending Threatening Economic Freedom