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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
The scary thing about this viewpoint is that you're trying to say that the only people who know how to run a government are those people who feel that you can only run a government with hugely funded liberal and socialist programs funded by the top income makers in taxpayer funds and that any other avenue of government is doomed to failure because it's idiotic.
the easy translation for this is 'i'm right, you're wrong, get the fuck over it and shut your mouth.' Frankly, i'm damn sick and tired of hearing this kind of shit from both the right and the left slanted people in this country that it makes me hope the civil war starts sooner rather than later. YOU are one of the main reasons that this country not only stays divided in it's purposes and causes, but will continue to become ever more divisive in nature.
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Surely we have the talent in the US to accomplish this, too:
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http://www.wpunj.edu/newpol/issue41/Ginsburg41.htm
.....Poverty in Sweden is low by international standards, especially among children. A recent UNICEF report (2005)14 found that poverty among children -- using the common European measure that defines poverty as those living in households with less than half of the national median income -- had risen from 3 to 4.2 percent in the 1990s. But Sweden still ranked fourth lowest among 26 OECD nations with a rate just under one-fifth of the comparable U.S. rate of 21.9 percent......
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Sweden's majority is committed to the results described above. The government gets it done. What the government in Sweden accomplishes could be accomplished here, with your support. No other method besides the efforts of strong federal government have achieved the low poverty rate in Sweden.
Sweden's numbers make the US appear to be a failed economic state. Our government could be directed to make wealth distribution more rational here, to. We have the examples of Sweden, Denmark, and France to study, and we could implement the best of all three, and also, learn from their mistakes.
It is not that government does not work, it is that you are not interested in trying to make it work, but you offer not other remedy to mitigate growing wealth inequality. You leave it to reach a critical point. You have the models of Brazil, Venezuela, and Mexico to study, to see what will come from your politics.