hk wrote:
Eisboch wrote:
"hk" wrote in message
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D.Duck wrote:
Making the rich richer...
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/lo...cle1881847.ece
It's a lot easier to *care* for 4.5M than 300M people.
IF your point is that the Norwegian economy creates millionaires AND
takes care of the health care and other important needs of the
Norwegian people, too, then I have no argument.
In this country, it seems, just the needs of the rich are considered
really important.
If you read the Duck's link, you would note that Norway's wealth and
economic strength has developed mostly since 1969 .... right after the
discovery of huge, offshore oil reserves.
Eisboch
So what? The point is, the Norwegians are using their national wealth
properly, to ensure that all Norwegians have the necessities and a
strong social net to help out when they need help.
This is your opinion and your opinion only. The many Norwegians I know
have all left Norway for jobs and careers outside of the country. Their
dreams and aspirations could not be satisfied within the current rigid
structured society that Norway has become.
In this country, our national wealth is used to make the wealthy wealthier.
I agree that a job as mayor, governor, and legislator has turned into a
way to redirect the tax payers money, which is set aside for the public
good, into the coffers of your friends and your own bank accounts.
We're sliding downhill in this country. A growing number of Americans,
millions of Americans, are losing their jobs, their health care, their
houses, their retirement, their futures.
Greedy *******s all. From the guy turning a screw on the manufacturing
floor to the CEO who employs 250,000.
But the rich...they are getting richer.
Everyone in the USA is rich compared to the standard of living of the
rest of the world.
I won't be around to see it, but at some point in the future, there will
be heads on pikes in this country, literally or figuratively.
Civilizations come and civilizations go, what makes you think any of
them will survive in perpetuity?