In Scandinavia freedom is defined as letting the government provide all the services - cradle to grave - while they get on with living a happy, carefree life.
Athough the Scandinavians are not as rich as Americans, they have enough money to never need to worry about it, and most don't care about being rich, anyway, because it couldn't make them any happier.
What does it take to be happy? The Nordic countries seem to have it all figured out. Finland and Denmark have consistently topped the United Nations’ most prestigious index, The World Happiness Report, in all six areas of life satisfaction: income, healthy life expectancy, social support, freedom, trust and generosity.
In the US freedom is defined as 'freedom from the government', 'freedom from the bureaucracy', 'freedom from the regs'. kv
ReplyDeleteBut not freedom from the ability of the richer to steal from the poorer via a government privileged credit cartel?
Progressives should be able to point out this hypocrisy - EXCEPT they are for government privileges for the banks too.
We need to look into it.
DeleteSocial democracy helps develop a civilized culture.
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