travis said:
leatherhat said:
Its not about home defense or hunting. Its about making sure the people can always "take care" of the government if they overstep their bounds, which America has apparently forgotten. |
Americans are funny. Paranoid and complety freaked out by their government but beeing raped by their corporations and Banks (just think about the subprimes crisis..). Scandinavian countries have strong welfare state and the higher standard of living in the world. Stop beeing afraid of goverment and make it cares about the people it supposes to serve. In the end I would be scared too anyway since United states are barely a democracy ruled by corporate lobbies, mainstream medias and wealthy policians...
Sorry for beeing pessimistic and annoying, it's just how the world make me feel at the moment.
|
Scandinavian countries are great if you don't mind paying 50% tax and having a ridiculously high cost of living.
I guess the high standard of living is why you have such low suicide rates?
Incidentally, the US scores higher than two of the three Scandinavian countries according to commonly used Human Devlopment Index, even though said index doesn't take the US's greatest strengths into account. The only Scandinavian country that does score extremely well just happens to be an oil state, and its two biggest flaws are, conveniently, not measured.
