[goldstategop]

The Democrats want a Sweden on the Pacific. FTI (For Their Information) Sweden is a country in Scandinavia with about 10 million people - a third of the size of California and blessed with natural resources and a hard working population. The Swedes have made the welfare state work since they are willing and able to foot the bill for it. In contrast California has nearly 40 million people and no viable resource other than big government and the people willing to support it keep leaving. There is no way as that trend feeds on itself can California support a viable welfare state. No one wants to pay the taxes required to make it a reality. Sooner or later California is headed for a crash and the liberals here are living in a state of denial.

[Lancey Howard]

The Swedes have made the welfare state work since they are willing and able to foot the bill for it.

"Made the welfare state work" means that they are relatively safe and content in their spineless mediocrity. They merely exist, and 'great' they will never be.