Not only have we lost many personal freedoms we have also dropped to number 10 in the 2012 Index of Economic Freedoms. The primary factor contributung to this loss is the rapid expansion of government more thanany mrket factor. government spending not only fails to arrest this eeconomic crisis it prolonging it with a bloated public debt, cfueling long term unemployment. Countries in North America, europe and Canada the United States and Mexico lost ground( Edwinn J. Feulner, Heritage Foundation