“You just need the right people to be in charge ... then it would work just fine.”
Sweden is the rape capital of Europe, and vitually all of them are committed by foreigners.
Hmm... Nordic countries as a model? Isn’t Sen. Sanders afraid of charges of racism?
There’s also the problem that socialism doesn’t scale. In the pure form it works well in monasteries, worked well in the Amana colonies, kibbutzes in Israel, might have worked at the size of a city-state, but the experiment in Paris got killed off before it ran long enough, but everywhere it’s been tried on a larger scale it’s a disaster. The same goes for the mixed system the Nordic countries actually have. It won’t scale.
Didn’t used to be a lot of diversity up there, either.
“........in a 1976 story on Sweden. “Its citizens enjoy one of the world’s highest living standards. . . . Neither ill-health, unemployment nor old age pose the terror of financial hardship. [Sweden’s] cradle-to-grave benefits are unmatched in any other free society outside Scandinavia.”
I was on a business trip to Sweden in 1977. My contacts there were primarily shore based Sea Captains involved in the operations of a major steamship line. I never heard so much crying about excessive taxation in my life. 85% is what they told me. They couldn’t afford much of anything if it weren’t for their expense accounts I was told.
I don’t want a Scandinavian utopia. If you want one, go to Scandinavia.
I want an American utopia, one where liberty reigns and government adheres to the plain language of the Constitution.
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Socialism works great - temporarily.
Bernie wants Scandinavia ? Move all 100,000 Syrian Jihadists to Vermont.
Sweden et all will rise again as Islamic immigrants continure to arrive.
I’ve been to Scandinavia. Even to the ‘non-Scandanavia’ Scandanavian nations like the Faroes and Iceland.
One thing Scandanavia-loving American liberals don’t mention is that Norway has a population of just over five million and practically has an oil well for each one of them, on-land or offshore.
They have fairly large mineral-rich nations, yet their entire population lives in an area about the size of Milwaukee.
I’m sorry, but their economy won’t scale well to a nation the size of the USA.
The other thing is that Scandanavia is filled with Scandanavians and they haven’t got the social ills that other nations have.... Bork Bork Bork.
Lastly, I was bored to tears in Scandanavia. Dynamic vibrant people they are not. Moody sour people about one bad life challenge away from syicidally overdosing on prescription drugs, they are.
I wish every American liberal would emigrate there.
What’s the last big medical breakthrough, invention, or Internet startup to come out of Scandinavia?
Scandinavians-—blond and blue-eyed!
Manipulism and the Weapon of Guilt: Collectivism Exposed. Link
Scandina finds welfare habit too costly. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-08-30/scandinavia-s-weakest-nation-finding-welfare-habits-unaffordable
Any country where people pay 25% sales tax, $5 per gallon gasoline tax, $20 per pack cigarette tax, and a whole bunch of other outrageous taxes is utopia to a Socialist like Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, or Barack Obama.
The Scandinavian countries are nearly the same as the rest of Socialist Europe countries with high taxes and huge government bureaucracies to redistribute the wealth.
I do hear some younger folks in the USA who say they want to live in Europe because health care is free. But these same dingbats do not realize free healthcare and a whole bunch of other free stuff is paid by them via huge taxes on everything.
If Sweden Left The EU and Joined the US, It Would Be the Poorest U.S. State, Below Even Mississippi
“Swede and Sour,” by Swedish author and blogger Johan Norberg, here are some excerpts:
If Sweden left the EU and joined the U.S. we would be the poorest state of America. Using fixed prices and purchasing power parity adjusted data, the median household income in Sweden in the late 1990s was the equivalent of $26,800 compared with a median of $39,400 for U.S. households - before taxes. And then we should remember that Sweden has the world´s highest taxes.
http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2007/11/sweden-mississippi-if-sweden-joined-us.html
Bernie is woefully behind the times. Socialist utopia Sweden, for instance, is beset with problems stemming from its socialism attracting Muzz immigrants, resulting in burgeoning welfare, burgeoning rape,burgeoning debt, and burgeoning who knows what else.