Posted on 02/17/2012 1:36:51 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
If you need a volunteer to help fold Swedish bikini flags, please call me.
“Even if socialism did work in Sweden, and it doesn’t, it would still be a poor comparison because Sweden is much smaller in area and population and it’s population is much more homogeneous.”
Yes. Population only 9 million, considerably less than Los Angeles.
Also, it is a white, northern European population of mostly polite people. There are a lot of cultural barriers there to cutting corners, living off other people, and rude behavior that simply do not exist, and cannot be made to exist, in the United States.
You cannot separate Sweden’s economy from it’s culture. Eventually, I believe, the nanny state will corrode the culture. But it is a very homogeneous and work ethic centered culture. It’s a very nice place.
Real rock stars only live to be 27.
I will never understand the adulation of Springsteen and his music and that has nothing to do with politics.
He even partakes in NJ’s farm exception for property taxes. He has classified his estate as a farm so he only has to pay $1 per acre in property taxes. You see property taxes are only for the little people. The Boss doesn’t want to much of his money going to Long Branch and Asbury Park. He and his family live the working man’s life too, bet you didn’t know that his daughter is ranked pretty high in competing in the equastrian world. Don’t most working class girls compete in steeple chases, and not softball or basketball. Like Al Gore, he talks the talk but doesn’t walk the walk.
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