“Swedish per capita income is about the same as Americans, black Americans per capita income that is. And the US does much better than that on on purchasing power basis.”´
- That was true some years ago when one dollar was worth about 11 SEK. Today, one dollar costs appr 6.83 SEK.
Average Swedish wages are way higher than those of US workers.
Nope. I checked first and you are wrong. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_capita_income#Some_national_per_capita_income_levels