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Michael Moynihan explains how Swedish voters chose more welfare benefits, continued sickness payments, more publicly funded health care and day care...and smaller government.
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|9.20.06 @ 4:22PM|#
For a second, I was wondering "what in the hell is Michael Moynihan doing writing for a Libertarian magazine."
Then I realized that it wasn't the same Michael Moynihan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Moynihan_(journalist)
|9.20.06 @ 4:39PM|#
Unless I'm missing something, there's a painfully obvious typo in the very title.
|9.20.06 @ 5:00PM|#
Unless I'm missing something, there's a painfully obvious typo in the very title.
Tim Cavanaugh|9.20.06 @ 5:22PM|#
You're missing something.
Dennis|9.20.06 @ 5:26PM|#
It refers to the former prime minister, G�ran Persson.
|9.20.06 @ 10:31PM|#
Johan Norberg argues that in 1970 Sweden "had the fourth-highest per-capita income in the world, according to OECD figures." That ranking recently dropped to 14, a decline traceable to the state's massive expansion in this period.
We've seen this dynamic in country after country and also here, in the states that have gone the big government rout. But, "When will they ever learn?" isn't completely fair cuz there're lotsa special interests who profit from, and push for big government.
Toynbee offered a bizarre explanation for Swedish ingratitude: "The Swedes seem to lack self-confidence, intimidated by global neocon warnings . Despite their strong economy, they worry. Will globalisation strike?"
Yeah, Toynbee gives new meaning to the term "tortured logic". It doesn't even make sense. Anyway, if the Swedes were actually intimidated by global neocon warnings, they'd be pining for candidates who favor an interventionist foreign policy that serves the interests of the Israeli government.
BTW, is Polly Toynbee related to the famous and fascinating historian, Arnold Toynbee?
|9.21.06 @ 12:16AM|#
...Shoulda been the "big government route" but "rout" kinda works as well...
Dan T.|9.21.06 @ 9:18AM|#
Time to play the old game where you haven't been born yet, and are given a choice as to which country you're going to be born in. However, you don't know what socio-economic group your parents will belong to. Which would you choose, the US or Sweeden?
|9.21.06 @ 4:09PM|#
Dan T.,
Sweden is going down the tubes unless they change their unsustainable big government policies. The choice is easy, pick the US.