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The New Swedish Model
The Foundation for Economic Education ^ | March 1, 2013 | Sandy Ikeda

Posted on 03/04/2013 3:50:59 AM PST by 1rudeboy

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To: tired&retired
There is absolutely no way to make it through this nightmare without a new government formulation that wipes the slate clean, takes away everyone’s golden egg laying goose, screws the debtors, and lets the taxpayers get back to their individual businesses.

You nailed it, TR. That is precisely what needs to (and is) going to happen when this ponzi scheme runs its course. Let us pray that good Americans don't die in the process.

21 posted on 03/04/2013 2:57:05 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: expat_panama

The chart at Heritage as well as this ranking both give lie to the belief that “economic liberty is liberty.” Clearly there is more as I wouldn’t want to live in the top five “countries”. They’re all nice in their own way, but you don’t have general liberty in those top five.


22 posted on 03/05/2013 3:55:26 AM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: 1rudeboy

I am disappointed, I expected some gorgeous blonde swedish model. But what do I find another story about socialism. I am going to saab!


23 posted on 03/05/2013 11:05:21 AM PST by hondact200 (Candor dat viribos alas (sincerity gives wings to strength) and Nil desperandum (never despair))
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To: 1rudeboy

Can we turn around the slide into socialism?

Of course we can - we have already done it. Ronald Reagan led the way and demonstrated to the world what really works economically. The Swedes, the Russians, the Chinese and many others took the lesson as their socialist economic policies hit the wall.

Unfortunately, turning back from socialism is a bit like making peace in the Middle East - its been done dozens of times. Those bastards never quit. Turning back socialism is not something that can ever be finished.

Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom.

Swedish models just don’t stand out as anything special:

http://images.nonexiste.net/popular/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/As-a-swede-whenever-I-see-something-about-Sweden-in-the-title.jpeg


24 posted on 03/05/2013 2:28:19 PM PST by BeauBo
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To: 1rudeboy

Can we turn around the slide into socialism?

Of course we can - we have already done it. Ronald Reagan led the way and demonstrated to the world what really works economically. The Swedes, the Russians, the Chinese and many others took the lesson as their socialist economic policies hit the wall.

Unfortunately, turning back from socialism is a bit like making peace in the Middle East - its been done dozens of times. Those bastards never quit. Turning back socialism is not something that can ever be finished.

Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom.

Swedish models just don’t stand out as anything special:

http://images.nonexiste.net/popular/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/As-a-swede-whenever-I-see-something-about-Sweden-in-the-title.jpeg


25 posted on 03/05/2013 2:28:26 PM PST by BeauBo
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To: 1rudeboy

Can we turn around the slide into socialism?

Of course we can - we have already done it. Ronald Reagan led the way and demonstrated to the world what really works economically. The Swedes, the Russians, the Chinese and many others took the lesson as their socialist economic policies hit the wall.

Unfortunately, turning back from socialism is a bit like making peace in the Middle East - its been done dozens of times. Those bastards never quit. Turning back socialism is not something that can ever be finished.

Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom.

Swedish models just don’t stand out as anything special:

http://images.nonexiste.net/popular/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/As-a-swede-whenever-I-see-something-about-Sweden-in-the-title.jpeg


26 posted on 03/05/2013 2:28:40 PM PST by BeauBo
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To: alloysteel
“The balkanization of America”

In a democracy, numbers dictate the future.

About 25% of the American electorate is Black, Hispanic, or Asian.

Their numbers are growing - through immigration, birth rate, and voter participation.

As a group, they consistently vote 75% for the Democrat Party.

About 40% of whites consistently vote for the Democrat Party.

That means the Democrat Party starts each election with about 49% of the vote.

Add in a relentlessly biased MSM and uninspiring center-left Republican candidates, and there is almost no possibility of reversing our money printing and debt suicide policies.

27 posted on 03/08/2013 2:39:46 AM PST by zeestephen
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To: zeestephen

Numbers are misleading when the demographics involved reside solely in big cities.


28 posted on 03/08/2013 4:10:18 AM PST by Yekaterina Derevko (Why does no one notice whent he Russians prepare for war....)
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To: Yekaterina Derevko
Not sure I understand your point.

Yes, Democrat voters are concentrated in large urban areas.

That concentration does help the Republican Party maintain a small majority in the House of Representatives.

And, it helps a little bit with state governors, U.S. senators, and some electoral votes.

But in general the political news for Conservatives is quite threatening.

Every day older white Republicans die off.

They are being replaced by Hard Left immigrant citizens, by their very Liberal first generation children, and by higher and higher levels of non-white voter participation.

The “new” Americans are demanding European Socialism and relativist values.

If the Republican Party caves on “Amnesty” - and I think they will cave - Conservatives will be permanently outvoted, and we will lose what little political power we still have left.

29 posted on 03/08/2013 2:16:05 PM PST by zeestephen
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