Posted on 10/16/2017 1:25:17 PM PDT by kevcol
On Monday, NBC’s Today finally discovered the elusive secret to happiness – European-style socialism. While taking a bicycle tour of Copenhagen with National Geographic’s Dan Buettner, correspondent Cynthia McFadden proclaimed: “For 40 years Denmark has ranked as one of the happiest places on Earth....the Danes make life less stressed and more joyful.”
How you might ask? The reporter explained: “Here, no job is less than any other....[garbage man] Alan Christensen works just five hours a day, but earns the same as a school teacher.” Buettner proclaimed: “Ambition is not celebrated. No matter what you do, you’re no better than anybody else.”
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If trachers were paid the same as garbage collectors who work only 5 hours a dsy, feminists and the NEA union would riot.
Yeah we dont want any bright stars among us, a bunch of barely lit ones will suffice. And why do we need the Olympic games for again? Why do we need physicians, specialist engineers, economists scientists, inventors etc.
Dumbing down the crowd and handing out Participation Ribbons to everyone is only appropriate to Special Olympics and not the real world.
Well. I suppose if you decide to live under German rule, that is kind of an ambition not to fight, so that isn't celebrated.
Instead, you collaborate with them, then you let them take over your government, then you have to have other people shed their blood to free you.
They can keep their effing utopian paradise.
wow, lowest common denominator is celebrated.
Heheh, I do love that quote...:)
Not an especially diverse population.
One man’s view:
https://mrembo.wordpress.com/2006/09/03/being-black-in-denmark/
“No matter what you do, you’re no better than anybody else.”
Meanwhile, socialism promotes the attitude that they are better than everybody else.
“Ambition is not allow, er, celebrated...”
America, under what Madison called a "benign" government influence, became a place of freedom, creativity, productivity, and plenty--enough to share with the world.
Other places, under the spell of these ideas of "socialism" and Utopia, have come and gone, or, if they exist, the are miserable places where tyrannical clowns squelch creativity among the citizens, destroy productivity, produce poverty and gloom, and look to other countries to sustain their people, while the leaders soak up all that the citizens produce.
In one word, Venezuela.
Yet, in America, the beneficiaries of the Founders' system of free people and limited government prattle on and on about how they're going to "fight" for the little people whose votes they covet!
Enough already!
Oops- wo-man...
That sounds like what Jean Luc Picard told that businessman from the 20th century that the TNG Enterprise crew rescued from a cryogenic state (along with the country music singer and the housewife).
Dunno.
Didn’t watch much of that show.
“Ambition is not celebrated. No matter what you do, you’re no better than anybody else.”
The disgusting and absolutely unacceptable irony of this is that the people who push this ‘philosophy’ are the ones who actually think they’re better than everyone else, and who are using ‘socialism’ to fulfill their own pathetic juvenile narcissistic need to be ‘special’. Think Hillary. She absolutely and unequivocally epitomizes this bu***s**t.
The population of Denmark is less than that of Arizona by more than a million. It’s population is also fairly homogeneous.
There is no way to compare Denmark to the United States.
Sure. Work hard and all your money goes to someone who doesn’t want to work and doesn’t even bother to thank you for your gift.
Yeah, but they only want to redistribute our money, not theirs.
Translated:
Motivation is killed.
Excellence is unrewarded.
Sloth and mediocrity ARE rewarded.
Inovation is stymied.
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