Millionaires On Unemployment

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  1. MickZagger

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    I know, basic reading comprehension is pretty piss poor for a "Stanford grad".
     
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    No we're not. The govt. is trying to become socialist, though. The real fight in the democratic party is whether to be socialist or national socialist.
     
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    The Swedish model would be great. Quality of life there is great.
     
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    So, people should sit on their money instead of keeping it cycling in the economy, just in case they lose their jobs.
     
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    Restraining Government in America and Around the World

    Johnny Munkhammar is a member of the Swedish Parliament and a committed supporter of economic liberalization. He has a column in the Wall Street Journal Europe that does a great job of explaining how Sweden became rich when it was a small-government, pro-market nation. He then notes that his country veered off track in the 1970s and 1980s, but is now heading back in the right direction. I’ll have more analysis below these excerpts, but it is especially impressive that Sweden is ahead of America on key reforms such as Social Security personal accounts and school choice.

    (if you keep holding up Sweden as some sort of Socialism success story, you're failing miserably)
     
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    I might be reading this incorrectly, but I see this as a historical example of the ills of "socialism" and increasing public assistance, taxes and isolationism. Conversely...

    I agree with all of the bolded (and I don't know enough about the central bank to say one way or the other). I submit that the Democratic party agrees with none of them and is taking (has taken?) steps distancing us from them.

    Edit: Denny typed faster than me.
     
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    How about Denmark, Denny?

    [video=youtube;uvFqFppIoBA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvFqFppIoBA[/video]
     
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    It's great that socialism won't change your life. But what about the rest of us?

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    [video=youtube;LCjzgIVDhms]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCjzgIVDhms[/video]
     
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    Our roles would reverse, you mean? Like instead of me carrying you, it'd be the other way around.
     
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    And who exactly is that guy with his barely over 100,000 views Youtube video?

    Did you even watch that? It was awful.
     
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    [video=youtube;8rjYuaQ1Zho]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rjYuaQ1Zho&feature=related[/video]
     
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    If you say it was awful, it must be awful.

    The smaller a nation's population, the easier it is to implement socialism. But it does not last.
     
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    Which Swedish model? :dunno: :devilwink:

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    Sweden's all a bunch of crackaz, of course it will work.
     
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    Margaret Thatcher's quote on the subject is apropos here.
     
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    You'd enjoy Systembolaget. They restrict the amount of alcohol you can purchase, because, you know, they know what's good for you better than do you.
     
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    I'm more a fan of Jefferson's, Sowell's and Churchill's thoughts on the subject.
     
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