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@uh-oh and @Mike Wrecka, I will get back to your points at a later notice. I read it some time back and started writing some but in order to be sure it was true I had to read up on some things and educate myself first. In the moment of doing so, I went to the toilet, went back to facebook, then youtube and blam closed the browser. Fuck... But I'll adress them later on.

In the meantime I advice you, and everyone else for that matter, to read this and reflect on the words before attacking (or even defending) the points it makes: http://www.thenation.com/article/aft...ard-heres-why/ After you've done that I'll be happy to debate further because your views are pretty foreign to me and I can learn more about the mentality behind those that oppose them.

From the article:

I was dumbfounded. Norway, Denmark, and Sweden practice variations of a system that works much better than ours. Yet even the Democratic presidential candidates, who say they love or want to learn from those countries, don’t seem know how they actually work.

Also:

So here’s the big difference: In Norway, capitalism serves the people. The government, elected by the people, sees to that. All eight of the parties that won parliamentary seats in the last national election—including the conservative Høyre party now leading the government—are committed to maintaining the welfare state. In the United States, however, neoliberal politics puts the foxes in charge of the henhouse, and capitalists have used the wealth generated by their enterprises (as well as financial and political manipulations) to capture the state and pluck the chickens.