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So, if anyone mentions it, Bernie wants us to join the Scandinavian Hellscape.
At the link are 7 charts that demonstrate unequivocally the torturous economy and fountain of crime that Scandinavian Democratic Socialist countries are.
IMHO worth clicking on
Octafish
(55,745 posts)hootinholler
(26,449 posts)Unless I'm mistaken. Puts a Masters at about $150K, albeit a State school is about $45K.
Funny, Norway looks at it as an investment in their country's future.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Don't they know that college is a profit center? Invest in the Harvard/Yale/Couldn't-cut-it-in-Texas substandard:
"History?" the pretzeldent, himself a History major, said. "We don't know. We'll all be dead."
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)That truly sounds horrible!!!!!
(I kid, I kid)
NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)hootinholler
(26,449 posts)Ya got me.
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)Maedhros
(10,007 posts)this is what they are mocking.
Doesn't make much sense, does it?
MaggieD
(7,393 posts)Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)(especially if you added umlauts over all the vowels)
Will they play at Bernie's inaugural gala?
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)or maybe Hëllscåpë. Or even Hëllscøpë. I like it
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)That I wish you all to donate to. It will finance my emigration to Scandinavia. I will periodically report back the true hellishness of it all
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)trickle down white and male ya
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)we all should be sending this link to everyone we know
Anyone can call me a commie pinko bastard if they want to but I do think the government is better at a lot of services than the private sector is as these charts show. We don't have to be so mean! When I type 'we' I mean the congress critters and reightwingers
MaggieD
(7,393 posts)Not a single one of those things would change if Bernie were elected president.
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)Entirely.
MaggieD
(7,393 posts)There are no coattails.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Don't you hope things will change?
Do you think President Hillary Clinton would change things or would things stay the same, as well?
MaggieD
(7,393 posts)There are plenty of things we can change, but it's naive to think that list includes any of them. The US is not going to magically become a socialist nation in our lifetime if ever.
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)virtually every measure of quality of life.
But no real 'murkan needs to learn nuthin' from those damn Yurrupeens.
cascadiance
(19,537 posts)... as shown by the perceptions reflected in the polls in this study that have been engineered upon us by corporate media.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140922122811-90103575-wealth-inequality-differs-from-income-inequality
Yep! I'd much rather have Sweden's "socialist" wealth "hell" than ours any day!