[FITZ]

Have you checked the fertility rate?

I don't know much about Sweden --in fact I thought it was a country with a good enough standard of living ---but it seems fertility rate doesn't correlate one way or another with the poverty rate. In Mexico, the fertility rate is very high and yet there is much poverty, in Sweden it's apparently low and still there's poverty. Standard of living must be the result of government policies. Less socialism and less government leads to a higher standard of living.

[Torie]

You might revisit the current Mexico fetility rate. Nothing I have read suggests a poverty problem in Sweden. There apparently is a crime problem. Apparently the society has a flu bug, and I didn't know that, and it saddens me. The material goods of an efficient tolerant generous efficient democratic economy are a two edge sword. Sustenace for the soul apparently for many cannot be derived wholly from this mortal coil. I understand that, and allow for that, believe it or not.