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To: tejek who wrote (128925)	12/18/2012 1:01:17 AM
From: LLCF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Don't tell the wingnutz that... they hate it that socialist countries could possible be doing OK. Weird... like totally un-christian to not accept others decisions and way of life... Is there anyone they DONT look down on... let's see: Of course Communist countries, Muslims and "muslim countries", socialist countries (which depending on what talking points are on that nite include Canada and practically everyone else in the free world), "secularists" (well, except when they claim Obama turned the middle east Muslim when it was (partly) secular... those secularists are good... yea they ones THEY like), Liberals (the rest of the world sux so now we'll move on to our country), people on food stamps, atheists.... ummm, who am I leaving out?? LOL DAK

To: tejek who wrote (128925)	12/18/2012 5:36:43 PM
From: RetiredNow	5 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Yes, Norway is very capitalistic and they also have a nice large safety net. However, Norway is implementing Keynesiansim as Keynes intended. They have a large and growing sovereign wealth fund, which they are putting their massive surpluses into to save for a rainy day. They are using that fund to pay for their safety nets and for deficit spending when oil prices come down, so they can take up the slack to allow the economy to recover. So in short, they are capitalists who know how to balance a budget and manage their economy. Here in the US, our neo-cum-stupido-Keynesians run deficits in good times and in bad times. Keynes himself is surely rolling over in his grave and rolling his eyes in frustration. When we run out of ways to borrow money, we just print money to buy up our own debt. Then we take money from our citizens in ever increasing amounts to pay for wars no one wants and to police the globe. We fatten up our citizenry with unhealthy foods and no exercise and then spend more per capita on health care than any other country, with lower health results to show for it. Then just to stab the knife in further, give it a good twist, and throw salt in the wound, we steal money from future generations to pay for the retirement of the old people of today. It's an eat your young policy that is guaranteed to bankrupt several generations into the future. The bottom line is that the US is a crony-capitalist state that has no clue how to live within its means. We're the very picture of irresponsibility. If we want to learn something, then we should learn from other countries who do Democracy and Capitalism better than us, and who manage to provide a PAID FOR and SUSTAINABLE social safety net. It's all possible, but it requires rational thinking, which we're in short supply of.