Liberal Antidote
While our own government has been parroting the neo-liberal dribble of how cutting taxes for businesses and cutting spending on welfare will revive our economy, the Nordic countries, owners of the best welfare system in the world–and the highest taxes–have been doing rather well with clever policies like investing in education.
Why Nordic states lead the world
Critics of the Scandinavian model appeared to have a point in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when most Nordic states experienced sluggish economic growth, unemployment rose to 20 percent in Finland and the Swedish welfare state became so bloated it almost burst.
But a series of painful reforms pushed through in the 1990s, such as shaving corporate taxes, investing heavily in education, research and development and telecommunications and reducing welfare dependency, appear to have paid high dividends.
Very often the solution is just simple common sense.
Common sense is something Americans seem to have lost completely: they even had to make up a new word for it, and call it ‘reality-based’ nowadays.
Mayby because the very language has been hi-jacked by Orwellian double-speakers, who use the words ‘democracy’ to denote fascism and ‘freedom’ for genocide.
