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To: combjelly who wrote (682404)	11/2/2012 2:21:32 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573494

why is it you turds always throw in the "Nordic countries" when one mentions socialism......and is there a reason YOU don't move there. since you love socialism and I suspect Communism too. The Nordic countries aren't socialist countries, stop saying they are A lot of people seem to believe that the Nordic countries are socialist economies. Indeed, in the thread about capitalism being either bad or misunderstood, it was accepted that the Nordic countries show that socialism can work. But the Nordic countries are not centrally planned economies a la the Soviet Union, which is what many people think of when they think of "socialism". Ask any self-identified socialists living here if they think they live in socialist societies, and they will emphatically answer in the negative. Our economic system is really the same as in the rest of the Western world. It's not radically different. We have mostly private enterprise, with some government provision of social services, like every other Westen country. We do have more of it in certain aspects, like free university education. But that's about it. It's not a different way of running the economy. And having universal healthcare doesn't count, as every developed country except the US has it in some form. In some respects, we are more capitalist than other Western countries. Our semi-privatized retirement system is reportedly too right-wing for many US Republicans. And while one former Social Democratic leader dissed our school voucher system in The Guardian, she has not said anything like that to a Swedish audience, at least for a decade or so. Probably because she knows that limiting people's freedom of choice is not a recipe for winning elections. How did the US even get its reputation as a very capitalist country? There is constant rhetoric against globalization and free trade there. Here nobody of any political importance opposes free trade (at least publicly) and the American rhetoric of preventing outsourcing to "save jobs" is unheard of. If you want to see a country that is capitalist-oriented and friendly of globalization in almost every form (economic, cultural, immigration) I'd say that is the UK. HUMES FORK--location Sweden.

To: combjelly who wrote (682404)	11/2/2012 2:23:04 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573494

>> Wait a second, why is it that the Nordic countries, by far the most socialist countries in Europe I think that's a pretty significant over simplification.