To: beckett
Exactly...and from what I understand, Finland has rather strict immigration controls...unlike our wide open borders that allow a flood if illegal immigration. Hell, we have more illegal aliens in this country, than Finland has citizens (1,190,785), with a land mass that is slightly smaller than Montana. And where we are one of the most...if not the most, diverse country in the world, Finland, like its Nordic brothers, is one of the most homogenious societies on the planet...93% Fins with 6% being Swedes. It's a little easier to run a government of less than 2 million similar citizens than it is to run one with over 280 million diverse people. Talk to me in a decade and let me know how Finland's doing after their participation in the EU. That prosperity that Finland supposedly enjoys is going to be spread pretty thin between them and their "United States."
71 posted on
12/12/2003 11:23:06 AM PST by
cwb
To: cwboelter
Sorry...that should by 5,190,785.
77 posted on
12/12/2003 11:31:11 AM PST by
cwb
To: cwboelter
We're in general agreement but just one small point. Finland has a pop. of about 5,200,000, not less than 2 million.
105 posted on
12/12/2003 5:38:27 PM PST by
beckett
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