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Springsteen: US should be 'more like Sweden'
The Local (Sweden) ^ | February 17, 2012

Posted on 02/17/2012 1:36:51 PM PST by ConservativeStatement

Bruce Springsteen wants to see the United States transformed into something closer to a Swedish-style welfare state, the rock legend said Thursday as he unveiled his latest studio album “The Wrecking Ball” to reporters.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: music; rockstars; springsteen; springsteensweden; sweden
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To: ConservativeStatement

more like Sweden? All white?


21 posted on 02/17/2012 1:50:58 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: Eurotwit

So, you like big glasses of orange juice? sarc/ :-)


22 posted on 02/17/2012 1:51:16 PM PST by ConservativeStatement (Obama "acted stupidly.")
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To: ConservativeStatement

Back in the days when the U.S. was a shining beacon of freedom and liberty most people in the world wanted their countries to be more like the U.S.

How times have changed.


23 posted on 02/17/2012 1:51:55 PM PST by FerociousRabbit
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To: ConservativeStatement

Well Bruce I finally understand why you help to elect a President with a resume with so many holes in it that it can only be described as Swiss Cheese.


25 posted on 02/17/2012 1:53:03 PM PST by hflynn
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To: ConservativeStatement

Swedish-style welfare state/

Got news Brucie, foodstamps don’t buy CDs.


26 posted on 02/17/2012 1:53:38 PM PST by mardi59
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To: Beowulf9

Ouch! That’s gonna leave a mark!


27 posted on 02/17/2012 1:54:08 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (You can only shovel so much crap into a melting pot before you have nothing but a pot full of crap.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Yeah. Very healthy. Especially with some Absolut mixed in sarc/

Btw. I saw Springsteen at a concert in Oslo a few years back. It was non stop propaganda show against Bush and pro-Obama between the songs.

I do like that Bruce is a talker, tells stories between songs etc, but....

That was just too much.

I shouted for him to shut up.

I doubt he heard me. lol.


28 posted on 02/17/2012 1:54:56 PM PST by Eurotwit ("Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.")
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29 posted on 02/17/2012 1:55:37 PM PST by Maverick68
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To: ConservativeStatement

I tell ya what Bruce.

You re-calculate what your income taxes would have been had you lived in Sweden for the past 20 years & cut a check to the U.S. Treasury for the difference between that & what you actually paid.

Do that, then I’ll take you seriously.

Otherwise STFU.


30 posted on 02/17/2012 1:56:13 PM PST by jtal (Runnin' a World in Need with White Folks' Greed - since 1492)
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To: ConservativeStatement

How appropriate. The welfare state is “the wrecking ball” destroying America.


31 posted on 02/17/2012 1:57:21 PM PST by BuckeyeTexan (Man is not free unless government is limited. ~Ronald Reagan)
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To: Joe the Pimpernel

Springsteen has stuff. I need stuff. I want his stuff. Hey, Obama, get it for me now!


32 posted on 02/17/2012 1:57:34 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: Eurotwit

It’s better than shouting “Freebird.”


33 posted on 02/17/2012 1:57:40 PM PST by ConservativeStatement (Obama "acted stupidly.")
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To: ConservativeStatement

Our country is already broke.

I heard somewhere that 20% of welfare recipients are getting more than 30K in benefits.


34 posted on 02/17/2012 1:57:40 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: ConservativeStatement

I’m all for taxing performers and Hollywood “progressives” at Swedish tax rates.


35 posted on 02/17/2012 1:58:05 PM PST by Kozak ("It's not an Election it's a Restraining Order" .....PJ O'Rourke)
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To: RPTMS

speaking of ABBA. The Swedish Tax Nazis want $13 Million from Bjorn even though he hasn’t lived there since 1984.


36 posted on 02/17/2012 1:58:37 PM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: mardi59

People do not get foodstamps they do get rather generous welfare checks.

Enough to buy CD’s for sure. :/


37 posted on 02/17/2012 1:58:37 PM PST by Eurotwit ("Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.")
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To: Daveinyork

“The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance. “

Ain’t that the truth


38 posted on 02/17/2012 1:59:42 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Hey, Bruce, you’re not The Boss of me, ya dweeb.


39 posted on 02/17/2012 2:00:58 PM PST by lonevoice (Klepto Baracka Marxo, impeach we much.)
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To: jtal

Good comment.

Btw. Little Steven from the E-Street band, aka Silvio Dante from the Sopranoes is having a runaway success in Norway at the moment with a tv show that lampoons the scandinavian welfare state.

It is a Netflix exclusive in the US. Well worth checking out if you have Netflix.

All is not well in the Scandinavian “paradise”.


40 posted on 02/17/2012 2:01:18 PM PST by Eurotwit ("Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.")
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