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Botany (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 03:39 PM Original message |
Sweden vs Americans fun facts they live longer and make more money |
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FreakinDJ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 03:44 PM Response to Original message |
1. But but but..... itsa a socialist country - Socialized Medicine and every thing |
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Botany (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 03:48 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. I had a friend whose from Norway and in Columbus, OH |
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FreakinDJ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 03:55 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Appearently my feable attempt at a joke..... |
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Botany (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 04:03 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. I knew it was a joke |
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joeybee12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 03:52 PM Response to Original message |
3. But, but, but...they NATIONALIZED their banks! |
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FreakinDJ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 04:18 PM Response to Reply #3 |
10. And now economist predict EU going to kick America's Ass |
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joeybee12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 05:22 PM Response to Reply #10 |
17. Reaganomics is simply a word...it was tried in 1981, helped lead to the 82 |
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TheBigotBasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 03:56 PM Response to Original message |
5. Americans work longer for less pay |
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ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 03:58 PM Response to Original message |
6. Sweden has only 9M residents & possesses a 60% top personal tax rate, though. |
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Botany (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 04:06 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. but what about the fjords? |
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joeybee12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 04:07 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. They don't drive fjords...they drive Volvos... |
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ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 04:55 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. Yuk, yuk... lol |
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joeybee12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 05:21 PM Response to Reply #12 |
16. Thanks...I thought it was funny, too... |
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ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 05:56 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Hey, when you got it, you got it... DU needs a sense of humor. |
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joeybee12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 07:09 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. Ah, the Catskills...God's Heaven on Earth! n/t |
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ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 04:57 PM Response to Reply #8 |
13. Gorgeous... except that the country was in direct line of fallout from Chernobyl. |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 04:54 PM Response to Reply #6 |
11. My sister has friends in Sweden. They have a nice home in Stockholm, |
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ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 04:59 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. They sound very fortunate. And it is true that Swedes don't mind paying high taxes. |
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Tartiflette (120 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 05:08 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. And why is that? |
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ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 05:52 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. I wouldn't want to pay 60% taxes and I'm a liberal/progressive Democrat who's not in the top 2%. |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-01-09 06:08 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. Unfortunately the "american solutions" always tend to be quick-fixes |
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ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-02-09 09:15 AM Response to Reply #20 |
22. Team O has a chance to do something really different and lasting now, as FDR did with The New Deal. |
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burythehatchet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-02-09 09:20 AM Response to Original message |
23. I consider myself as much of a Socialist as anyone but this comparison is bogus |
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