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Sweden's left-wing government collapses over immigration policy
American Thinker ^ | 12/05/2014 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 12/05/2014 8:31:49 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 12/05/2014 8:31:49 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s a start


2 posted on 12/05/2014 8:33:48 AM PST by Regulator
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To: SeekAndFind

Please Sweden, wake up and CLOSE YOUR BORDERS!


3 posted on 12/05/2014 8:34:24 AM PST by jocon307
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To: SeekAndFind

Another step along the road to you-know-what.


4 posted on 12/05/2014 8:34:39 AM PST by Steely Tom (Thank you for self-censoring.)
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To: SeekAndFind

So how does that work? If the government gridlocks, they just call for new elections? Americans would be at the polls every month if it worked that way here.


5 posted on 12/05/2014 8:34:57 AM PST by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: jocon307

Pants up, Dont Loot, Close your borders...


6 posted on 12/05/2014 8:35:24 AM PST by x_plus_one
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To: SeekAndFind

That country needs to wake up.


7 posted on 12/05/2014 8:37:27 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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"Sweden’s far right plunged the country into unprecedented political upheaval..."

It's never the fault of the socialist/marxist/POS

8 posted on 12/05/2014 8:39:58 AM PST by lormand (Inside every liberal is a dung slinging monkey)
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The anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats, the country’s third largest party with 13% of the vote, portrayed the new elections in March as “a de facto referendum” on immigration, currently at near-record highs as refugees flee conflict in Syria, Iraq and Somalia.

How about the pro-Sweden Sweden Democrats. The idea that immigration to any country is a right is nonsense. Using this loaded language is typical of the left. Swedish citizens have the right to decide how many and what kind of immigrants they will accept.

9 posted on 12/05/2014 8:40:04 AM PST by kabar
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To: rarestia

I heard a professor on the radio making the argument to scrap our Constitution and go with the Parliamentary system.

One of his arguments was that Obama would have lost a No-Confidence vote long ago, and we would have moved on.

He almost had me sold on that alone.


10 posted on 12/05/2014 8:41:01 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: SeekAndFind

Hope it’s contagious.


11 posted on 12/05/2014 8:42:24 AM PST by Gamecock (Joel Osteen is a preacher of the Gospel like Colonel Sanders is an Army officer.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Good.


12 posted on 12/05/2014 8:45:31 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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...and expel the muslims.


13 posted on 12/05/2014 8:46:49 AM PST by rfreedom4u (Do you know who Barry Soetoro is?)
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"The far right forced the crisis to a head when they broke with established tradition and voted with the centre-right opposition . . . "

"The far right" = people concerned to save the quality of traditional Swedish society from an influx of unassimilated immigrants hostile to Swedish values
14 posted on 12/05/2014 8:49:17 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: rarestia
Americans would be at the polls every month if it worked that way here.

The Parliamentary system was specifically taken off the table by the founders for that reason. However, look at the bright side. A Parliament would have no-confidenced Barack Hussein Obama out of office years ago.

15 posted on 12/05/2014 8:57:58 AM PST by Kenny Bunk (The fate of the Republic rests in the hands of the '15 -16 Congress. God help us.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sweden has been a longtime example of the welfare state. We are getting uncomfortably close to following in their footsteps. People are starting to realize that the supply of other people’s money is finite.


16 posted on 12/05/2014 9:01:32 AM PST by immadashell (The inmates are running the asylum.)
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Swedes work although some of it is make up work from the gov’t ,for example, one Swedes take care of babies while the mothers take care of the sitters elderly parents. But these foreigners in Sweden don’t even bother to work and just collect welfare. That is what is getting the natives pissed off. The foreigners are violating the social contract behind the welfare state.


17 posted on 12/05/2014 9:04:10 AM PST by C19fan
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To: SeekAndFind

The Founders should have instituted the parliamentary form of government. Last month’s election would have constituted a vote of no confidence and Obama would be out, instead of destroying the nation for two more years.


18 posted on 12/05/2014 9:05:49 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: rarestia
It is an entirely different form of government. When a government is formed with a majority of legislative members, they vote in lockstep. The majority rules.

As long as the government can count on a majority voting with it in the legislature, they stay in power. If the US had a parliamentary form of government and the House of Representatives was that parliament, Obama would have lost his job in 2010.

19 posted on 12/05/2014 9:06:29 AM PST by Former Proud Canadian (Gold and Silver are Money, Accept No Substitutes)
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To: Kenny Bunk

Under a parliamentary system, the party leaders would not have selected Obama as Prime Minister.


20 posted on 12/05/2014 9:07:29 AM PST by Maine Mariner
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