Liberty Minute January 23 2014

 The United States of America was founded as a commercial republic. Since the end of World War II our country has metastasized into an empire ? a process that may have entered its terminal phase after 9-11. Over the past decade and a half, as Washington has engaged in unlimited power projection abroad, there has been a concomitant growth of government at home. Not surprisingly, this has led to a steady decrease in our country's economic standing.

 The annual Index of Economic Freedom, a joint project of the Heritage Foundation and the Wall StreetJournal, documents that for each of the past seven years, economic freedom has declined in the United States.

 The Index ranks 178 countries, which are classified as ?Free,? ?Mostly Free,? ?Moderately Free,? ?Mostly Unfree,? and ?Repressed.?

 According to the most recent ranking, the United States has fallen out of the top 10 of the countries surveyed. America comes in at 12^th place ? below Estonia, which until 1991 was ruled by a Communist regime allied to the Soviet Union. The supposed Land of the Free is found in the middle of the ?Mostly Free? category.

 As John Quincy Adams predicted in 1821, pursuing empire is destroying our liberty.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.