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Via Small Business Trends:

The London-based Think Tank Legatum Institute recently offered empirical evidence of what many Americans have been thinking lately. Our national well-being is slipping.

Over the past four years, prosperity has increased around the globe, while it has remained stagnant in the United States, the Legatum Institute reports. As a result, the Institute ranked the United States 12th out of 142 countries on its 2012 Prosperity Index, putting the country outside the top ten for the first time.

Returning us to prosperity is central to the agenda of our newly elected and reelected leaders. But doing so requires an understanding of the causes behind our stagnant wellbeing. The Legatum Institute finds that a decline in entrepreneurship and economic opportunity, rather than slippage in education, health, safety or personal freedom, is to blame.

In particular, the authors say that the fall in prosperity:

“. . .is driven by a decline in the number of US citizens who believe that hard work will get them ahead.”

Quite a change from traditional American attitudes.

Keep reading…http://weaselzippers.us/2012/12/17/hope-...for-first-time/

I've got to find this again when I get home from work, have some lib "friends" who think Obama is the messiah and will fix everything.

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Returning us to prosperity is central to the agenda of our newly elected and reelected leaders.

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Really? I think not!

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Returning us to prosperity is central to the agenda of our newly elected and reelected leaders.

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Really? I think not!

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Well what do you expect. The original article is named "Balancing Economic Control and Entrepreneurship". It was written by the Legatum Institute. Legatum Institute is part of Legatum Group which is active in the 'international markets for both financial and social capital' and headquartered in Dubai.

'The Legatum Institute is based in London and an independent member of the Legatum Group, a private investment group with a 25 year heritage of global investment, allocating proprietary capital to businesses and to programmes that promote sustainable human development.'
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In short a bunch of citizens of the world telling us our brand of fascism needs some tweaking.

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In short a bunch of citizens of the world telling us our brand of fascism needs some tweaking.

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