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Good Life Gifts • commented on 3 posts 3 months ago

'I Don't Mean To Rub Salt In Your Wounds': Swede Tells Americans What It's Like To Live In Sweden And It's Eye-Opening

So you're okay with handing away your rights, power, money, and decision making to a few people in high places but just not completely? Socialism is the first step of Communism.

'I Don't Mean To Rub Salt In Your Wounds': Swede Tells Americans What It's Like To Live In Sweden And It's Eye-Opening

Exactly. Not to mention there is no motivating factor to actually improve things like healthcare and education. They may be "free" but they are always the same mediocre systems they were originally. Unfortunately the entire point of articles like this is to build on the political agenda. Give us all the power and money and trust that we will make better decisions for you than you can. All this stuff sounds great until you realize the real cost. And I am not talking about Dollars...

'I Don't Mean To Rub Salt In Your Wounds': Swede Tells Americans What It's Like To Live In Sweden And It's Eye-Opening

So you're okay with handing away your rights, power, money, and decision making to a few people in high places but just not completely? Socialism is the first step of Communism.

'I Don't Mean To Rub Salt In Your Wounds': Swede Tells Americans What It's Like To Live In Sweden And It's Eye-Opening

Exactly. Not to mention there is no motivating factor to actually improve things like healthcare and education. They may be "free" but they are always the same mediocre systems they were originally. Unfortunately the entire point of articles like this is to build on the political agenda. Give us all the power and money and trust that we will make better decisions for you than you can. All this stuff sounds great until you realize the real cost. And I am not talking about Dollars...

'I Don't Mean To Rub Salt In Your Wounds': Swede Tells Americans What It's Like To Live In Sweden And It's Eye-Opening

I beg you to consider that the facts are showing us that privatizing things, letting individuals at small levels take control, and taking the governments hand out of things actually breeds natural competition, which makes things cheaper and also forces individuals to improve to be able to compete. If you really trust a few people in high places to keep our society improving and running over individuals with the ability to freely compete in a capital market, you do not believe in America. People envy Sweden's healthcare until you realize they have made almost no medical advancements in decades because of this system. Also paying 25% taxes sounds great until you realize that the total "pie" is not getting any bigger because you are not progressing or competing. Privatization and competition make a bigger pie which means better and cheaper healthcare, education, everything. Trust small businesses and individuals over corporations and government, I beg you!

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Good Life Gifts • upvoted 5 items 3 months ago

'I Don't Mean To Rub Salt In Your Wounds': Swede Tells Americans What It's Like To Live In Sweden And It's Eye-Opening

1.5 billion dollars wouldnt even be enough to pay for the current medicare bill in the USA for a single day.

'I Don't Mean To Rub Salt In Your Wounds': Swede Tells Americans What It's Like To Live In Sweden And It's Eye-Opening

People tend to support socialism when they benefit from it, free education, healthcare, welfare etc, but those same people are normally reluctant to support it when they have to pay for it.

'I Don't Mean To Rub Salt In Your Wounds': Swede Tells Americans What It's Like To Live In Sweden And It's Eye-Opening

1.5 billion dollars wouldnt even be enough to pay for the current medicare bill in the USA for a single day.

'I Don't Mean To Rub Salt In Your Wounds': Swede Tells Americans What It's Like To Live In Sweden And It's Eye-Opening

People tend to support socialism when they benefit from it, free education, healthcare, welfare etc, but those same people are normally reluctant to support it when they have to pay for it.

'I Don't Mean To Rub Salt In Your Wounds': Swede Tells Americans What It's Like To Live In Sweden And It's Eye-Opening

Read your Marx, of course socialism and communism are NOT the same. But to reach communism a society has to go through socialism.....

'I Don't Mean To Rub Salt In Your Wounds': Swede Tells Americans What It's Like To Live In Sweden And It's Eye-Opening

The grass is greener on the other side... Untill you jump the fence and see it was just green concrete.

'I Don't Mean To Rub Salt In Your Wounds': Swede Tells Americans What It's Like To Live In Sweden And It's Eye-Opening

Im a u.s. citizen staying in Sweden and it's not cracked up what it's said to be. First, let's say you have a pre existing medical condition such as heart disease and you need an operation, it could take over a year for you to receive your operation because you are put on a waiting list. And if you want a second opinion for medical attention out of network, you need to pay U.S. healthcare prices for it. My wife and mother inlaw are swedish citizens and this happened to my mother inlaw. You never see the same doctor or "G.P." because healthcare workers in Sweden do not get paid half of what they make in the U.S. so the quality of care is lacking compared to U.S. I know this because I work in healthcare. The houses here are very cheap... On the country side, far from the city were most jobs are. If you want to live close to your job you will be paying for it. Drivers license in Sweden will cost you around $3,000.00 not joking. To fill a ten gallon tank of gas it's around $120.00 here.

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Good Life Gifts • commented on 3 posts 3 months ago

'I Don't Mean To Rub Salt In Your Wounds': Swede Tells Americans What It's Like To Live In Sweden And It's Eye-Opening

So you're okay with handing away your rights, power, money, and decision making to a few people in high places but just not completely? Socialism is the first step of Communism.

'I Don't Mean To Rub Salt In Your Wounds': Swede Tells Americans What It's Like To Live In Sweden And It's Eye-Opening

Exactly. Not to mention there is no motivating factor to actually improve things like healthcare and education. They may be "free" but they are always the same mediocre systems they were originally. Unfortunately the entire point of articles like this is to build on the political agenda. Give us all the power and money and trust that we will make better decisions for you than you can. All this stuff sounds great until you realize the real cost. And I am not talking about Dollars...

'I Don't Mean To Rub Salt In Your Wounds': Swede Tells Americans What It's Like To Live In Sweden And It's Eye-Opening

I beg you to consider that the facts are showing us that privatizing things, letting individuals at small levels take control, and taking the governments hand out of things actually breeds natural competition, which makes things cheaper and also forces individuals to improve to be able to compete. If you really trust a few people in high places to keep our society improving and running over individuals with the ability to freely compete in a capital market, you do not believe in America. People envy Sweden's healthcare until you realize they have made almost no medical advancements in decades because of this system. Also paying 25% taxes sounds great until you realize that the total "pie" is not getting any bigger because you are not progressing or competing. Privatization and competition make a bigger pie which means better and cheaper healthcare, education, everything. Trust small businesses and individuals over corporations and government, I beg you!

Good Life Gifts • upvoted 5 items 3 months ago

'I Don't Mean To Rub Salt In Your Wounds': Swede Tells Americans What It's Like To Live In Sweden And It's Eye-Opening

1.5 billion dollars wouldnt even be enough to pay for the current medicare bill in the USA for a single day.

'I Don't Mean To Rub Salt In Your Wounds': Swede Tells Americans What It's Like To Live In Sweden And It's Eye-Opening

People tend to support socialism when they benefit from it, free education, healthcare, welfare etc, but those same people are normally reluctant to support it when they have to pay for it.

'I Don't Mean To Rub Salt In Your Wounds': Swede Tells Americans What It's Like To Live In Sweden And It's Eye-Opening

Read your Marx, of course socialism and communism are NOT the same. But to reach communism a society has to go through socialism.....

'I Don't Mean To Rub Salt In Your Wounds': Swede Tells Americans What It's Like To Live In Sweden And It's Eye-Opening

The grass is greener on the other side... Untill you jump the fence and see it was just green concrete.

'I Don't Mean To Rub Salt In Your Wounds': Swede Tells Americans What It's Like To Live In Sweden And It's Eye-Opening

Im a u.s. citizen staying in Sweden and it's not cracked up what it's said to be. First, let's say you have a pre existing medical condition such as heart disease and you need an operation, it could take over a year for you to receive your operation because you are put on a waiting list. And if you want a second opinion for medical attention out of network, you need to pay U.S. healthcare prices for it. My wife and mother inlaw are swedish citizens and this happened to my mother inlaw. You never see the same doctor or "G.P." because healthcare workers in Sweden do not get paid half of what they make in the U.S. so the quality of care is lacking compared to U.S. I know this because I work in healthcare. The houses here are very cheap... On the country side, far from the city were most jobs are. If you want to live close to your job you will be paying for it. Drivers license in Sweden will cost you around $3,000.00 not joking. To fill a ten gallon tank of gas it's around $120.00 here.

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