[Vision2020] No Need to Worry about Sweden, Roger

[nickgier at roadrunner.com]

Hi Roger,

There is no need to be worried that Sweden will go the way of Ireland or Greece, which were run into the ground by center-right governments. The Greek conservative government hired Goldman Sachs to cleverly hide its debt. The Icelandic economy also collapsed under the leadership of politicians allied internationally with the GOP.

Sweden is not getting the GOP message, because it is still a leading example of the Third Way between unfettered capitalism and Communism. Yes, some services will be trimmed in any tight budgets, but the Swedish government still takes up more than 50 percent of GDP and high progressive income taxes are still in place. But it is still the fastest growing economy in Europe, it still gives the longest paid maternity or paternity leaves in the world, and still provides health care to all of its citizens at half the cost of the U.S.  And one more thing: it has allowed 70,000 Iraqis and many other refugees to settle and be supported by the state in every possible way.

Long live the Third Way (because it is the only way that will eventually survive),

Nick---- lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com> wrote: 
> I have not been on the computer all week, but I think that Glenn answered your question.
> In response ro Nick- I do not know it Nader is right or not.I have only listened to NPR occasionally. What I have caught is Fresh Air or All Things Considered. They both at the times I heard them seemed to be lightly left of center. Nader only mentioned Charlie Rose. I am sure there a lot of other hosts besides Rose. I have never heard him. In any event this is all irrelevant. It would not make any difference if they were equally balanced or were 100% to the right. They should not be geting any funding from the taxpayers. In case you don't realize it we are in a money crunch. Let spend only on those thing that are essential and can not be done adequately by the private sector. I want to see our veterans taken care of for just one of many that we should be spending on. Your ideal Nation of Sweden is geting the message and cutting back on services before they wind up like Greece and Ireland. I hope they succeed, that is the ancestral home of the Falen's. They come from Oster!
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>  tlund.
> You may know  where that is.
> Roger
> -----Original message-----
> From: Joe Campbell philosopher.joe at gmail.com
> Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:27:38 -0700
> To: lfalen lfalen at turbonet.com
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] No government support for NPR et al?
> 
> > State one left wing point of view that NPR broadcasts, Roger. Just one.
> > 
> > They broadcast news. You are so used to listening to the lies on Fox that
> > you confuse them for "points of view."
> > 
> > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:17 AM, lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > If  NPR wants to broadcast left wing points of view and supporters are
> > > willing to fund it, more power to them.
> > > Roger
> > > -----Original message-----
> > > From: "Robert Dickow" dickow at turbonet.com
> > > Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 02:18:10 -0700
> > > To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> > > Subject: [Vision2020] No government support for NPR et al?
> > >
> > > > I hear that the conservative congressmen have proposed withdrawing
> > > > government funding for NPR. Apparently a newscaster or fund drive person
> > > or
> > > > somebody made some disparaging remarks about the Tea Party. Fie! Fie!
> > > Now,
> > > > denying public broadcasting all those scarce taxpayer dollars sounds like
> > > a
> > > > reasonable and just response to such offenses if you're a conservative
> > > > Republican sympathetic with the Tea Party movement, right? Uh huh.sure.
> > > How
> > > > dumb can anybody be?! NPR won't suddenly go belly up and go off the air,
> > > > slinking off into the shadows with its tail between its legs. Private
> > > > donors-- those dwindling middle class stalwarts-- will valiantly step up
> > > to
> > > > the plate in ever greater numbers. So what will actually happen, then, is
> > > > that NPR will be unfettered and free to unleash all their rabid commie
> > > pinko
> > > > liberal gun-hating womens libber staffers to say all the rabid commie
> > > pinko
> > > > tea-barfing they've always wanted to say but didn't because they felt
> > > > compelled to be balanced in their commie pinko tree-hugging opinions and
> > > > bleeding-heart liberal union thug biased news reporting. Clearly, this
> > > > government measure will not serve the common good. And I may be forced to
> > > > mix even more metaphors in the future.
> > > >
> > > > Bob Dickow, troublemaker
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
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