There is a very effective war on wealth being waged in North America. A small cadre of people have decided Americans are too rich and got that way by exploiting the rest of the world and doing everything in their considerable power to throw monkey wrenches into the gears of the economy.
Our President is the chief wrench tosser.
“A nation like Libya too houses a homogenous population and has even more oil and gas reserves than Norway, but can’t exactly compete with Scandinavia “
A very good point. It’s what you do with it.
Presidents and Congress have made it their political message to sell this lie to the people, and people fall for it over and over.
If you listen to the polemic of those pushing for national health care, greater federal government involvement in education, day care, college loan repayment programs etc etc etc..... their arguments ALL go back to this basic lie. We will give you something for free!
It's the same reason why the Nigerian Scam is still working: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance-fee_fraud
Truth is, the people that fall for this scam often don't care if someone else is being swindled. They are often told stories that are unbelievable, that sound to good to be true. But these people “want” to believe this lie because they so much wish they get a free ticket to wealth and prosperity for the rest of their lives. Likewise the electorate supports many of these big lie/big government solutions to every problem because politicians tell them it's free and people want to believe that. In a way, many of these American politicians are no different that some scammer in Africa running a Nigerian scam and the electorate is no different than the people that fall for this scam because they are greedy, shortsighted and selfish. But there is no law against broken political promises or deception.
I work for a Swedish company and spend 2 months a year in Sweden.
“(Sweden has) Lower corporate taxes than America and Germany”
I have no idea if true but I don’t see how it can be much lower.
“(Sweden has) Lower Income taxes than the US”
He probably means the average person pays less because he makes half what his US counterpart makes. The tax rate is actually much higher.
“(Sweden has) Much higher wages than the rest of Europe, Japan and the US”
This is complete BS. The average professional in Sweden makes $40,000 USD while the same position pays $80,000 in US and over $250,000 in Japan. (However the cost of living in Japan is huge but Sweden and US is comparable)
Okay. How do I emigrate? The eyes are as blue as any Scandinavians.
Though I have seen some Finns and Norwegians eyes who are almost silver.
I have been to Sweden and the women are generally amazing.
Okay. How do I emigrate? The eyes are as blue as any Scandinavians.
Though I have seen some Finns and Norwegians eyes who are almost silver.
I have been to Sweden and the women are generally amazing.
I’ll take less government and more liberty over a well run big government.
I think “culture” is THE bigger factor in determining HOW a nation uses whatever framework of national governance it has, more than does political ideology. I think culture - and cultural differences - between “Scandinavia”, and the major nations of central and southern Europe - will (when the research is done) demonstrate HOW nations seemingly very close ideologically and in the framework of governance, chose different policy solutions to similar problems and consequently have different outcomes as well.
I think culture explains how major beliefs of people can surpass ideological definitions in terms of cultural and social expectations of both Liberty and government authority, in democracies and in non-democratic states as well.