Kasz216 said:
KillerMan said:
Kasz216 said:
KillerMan said:
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Kantor said:
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See... this is what i find funny about assumptive comments.
Slimbeast is from Sweden.
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Which is doubly awesome because liberal Americans (especially on Reddit) love to talk about how Sweden is a paradise and the USA is a dump by comparison.
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Sweden is sneaky conservative in a lot of areas. Not quite so much as say... France but still.
People focus so much on Welfare and Healthcare...
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/01/11/the_conservative_europe.html
is a fun piece.
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When you have continent of 47 nations of course there are going to be those that are more conservative than others (nations with catholic church usually....). Nations that actually are near the top in pretty much every international ranking are usually the most liberal though...(Nordic countries, Germany, Netherlands, UK etc)
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I'd look at the article, a lot of stuff in it applies directly to the countries you've mentioned.
I'm not sure there is a more fiscally conservative country then Germany for example... due to the huge influence of the Freiberg school of economics. Hell, Germany has no minium wage.
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Well yeah maybe I should have seperated fiscal and social conservativism but even in fiscal sense germany has universal healthcare and completely free education system up to tertiary education so it seems like they use their own mixed conservative/ liberal policies when in comes to economy. Socially Germany is highly liberal though.
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I'd actually consider universal healthcare and free education social issues and not fiscal ones honestly.
As for being more social liberally....
As far as I know, German Abortion requirements are particularly strict... requiring counseling and preferably it being done within the first trimester. (vs the US which is second trimester and no counseling)
http://germanhospitalservice.blogspot.com/2006/12/can-you-have-pregnancy-interruption.html
I mean, this may have been relaxed and become a formaility lately (no clue) however just the fact that it's the letter of the law is problematic.
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Well universal healthcare and free education usually also mean big goverment that is against the basic idea of fiscal conservatism so I would label them as fiscal issues.
About abortion. Well if it's anything like here in Finland (we also require counseling) it's basically doctor asking why are you doing abortion and you can just say that you are not ready for children yet and they let you proceed. It's still around probably to stop people making so big decision on a whim.
