Re: The end is in sight

"James Arthur" <bogusabdsqy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:NJYLl.4570$b11.2109@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
TheM wrote:
"James Arthur" <bogusabdsqy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:h1FLl.2352$fy.1574@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Eeyore wrote:
bill.sloman@xxxxxxxx wrote:

James Arthur <bogusabd...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Show me a country not fitting that description, one where socialism
pays for itself--as opposed to being subsidized by, say, a North Sea
oil bonanza--and you'll have my attention.

China's the only one that pops to mind...
You need a new mind, or at least a second hadn midn taht actually
works. Sweden, Germany, France, the Netherlands ...
What's truly hilarious that one of the lowest national debts is held by Russia ! The
USA's is over TEN times more.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_public_debt

Graham


I specified self-supporting. Russia's surplus comes from nationalizing
their oilfields.

We give you a list and you hand-pick the only one that might not fully qualify
and flatly forget about all the others...

M

Well, you supplied one-liners, & I have to do the research & analysis.
You didn't provide facts or reasons why you think these countries'
socialism is a boon--self-supporting or accretive--rather than a burden to them.

So, your unstated logic and rationale aren't clear to me, and, I'm
allowed to sleep, aren't I?

Perusing Sweden's figures, I s'pose my query has to be refined.

Obviously the productive segment of any country can provide a living
for a certain number of non-workers. And all countries do that.

So it's a question of degree, and who bears the burden, and whether
and how much of this is a good thing. And it's a question of at
what level it finally breaks society's back, when the productive
find productivity is no longer worth their while and either flee,
outsource, or become slackers themselves.

And there's a question of mechanism and freedom: whether and what
the State should dictate and control, and what shall be left of
their own lives for the People to control and decide.

I'm glad that life in Sweden is agreeable to Swedes. They've got a
total population smaller than a big city here, distributed over a
land mass roughly the size of one of our largest states.

Revenue to the State is almost exactly 50% of GDP. That's a pretty
high burden on the taxpayers.

So who can tell us what burdens they manage to support with that
revenue? How many illegal (or legal) alien births do they pay
for? How many poor, elderly, and disabled live on the State?
Is it sustainable for the long term, or not? And lastly, what's
the judgement of others--how many people are flocking to Sweden,
to benefit?

Cheers,
James Arthur

I do not advocate socialistic approach, in fact I would put myself on the
right (although not as extremely as JT), but I find it ridiculous how violently
Americans react whenever a term "socialistic" is used.

Subsidizing some things can be beneficial to society and IS necessary.
The only question is how much is just right and that varries from country
to country.

If the Swedes are happy with it and obviously keep confirming this at elections
than who are we to call them loosers? They seem to be supporting themselves.

M


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