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Originally Posted by connyosis
I live in Sweden, and here we have a well working wellfare system. Do some people abuse it? Yes, of course some people will always take advantage of things when they can, however this wellfare system also helps a lot of people that really needs it.
Helping poor people to get back on their feet, senior citizens that just can't live on their minimum pension and so on. Yes, we pay higher taxes but to me it's definately worth it.
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Agreed, living myself in Finland. The nordic countries have IMO succeeded fairly well on balancing socialism and free market capitalism. But we have to remember that the framework is different in USA. Though sometimes I'm puzzled how people in America still fully believe in the american dream while the gap between the rich and the poor is growing wider. Seems that many poor people have to work two jobs to manage. Does this mean that an average US worker is lazier and lazier every year or what? And have I heard totally false information if I say that the US unemployment rate is so low because many people are too ashamed to get registered as unemployed?
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