1. Ok, my misjudgement on your prior comment. Sorry if I commented here for you to be a socialist viking clown. LOL! Yeah, I don't know what to comment on my country to try & turn into socialist Europe? IMO, I don't like it at all. I met many Nordics & Europeans here in the US. They love this US President to death. As if Jesus was resurrected from his grave. LMAO! As well I see many foreign students from Europe want to find work here. After they graduate from our US universities.
2. prove it. """i live in norway and its more capitalist than the US"" Seriously? And whats more capitalist about it? Our higher corporate taxes? Our higher tax rates in general? Our nationalisation of DNB? Our free healthcare and education services? Our maybe its our capitalist labour rights regulations. Seriously, to argue that Norway is more capitalist then the US is the same as to argue that its hotter on the North Pole then on Hawaii.
3. i really hope the US goes back to capitalism but its not heading that direction. i think you and me are on the same page. norway has waaay too high taxes. if you make more than 1 million crownes a year you pay 84% of all your income including sales tax. its a fucking ponzi scheme. same old story. if you think that i think that norway has a superior system i can assure you that is not the case. the only reason we can afford our socialism is because of our oil and for that reason only.
4. socialism has been a disaster for norway. 
5. Huh? "I know some people who smoke crack, and they make more sense than you do" - Austin Powers 3 Gold Member. FYI, it's b/c you Nordic socialists don't have mass population, spend peanuts on your defense, & the world for that matter. UN contributions: Norway 1% vs USA 22%. GDPs: Norway $500 billion vs USA $15 trillion. Oops! I forgot for you folks to have ridiculously high taxes. As well for you to be very isolated & cold people. Sorry my viking clown friend, but capitalism will stay forever.
6. i live in norway and its more capitalist than the US. lived both places and US is going to shit for leaving capitalism long time ago.
7. scandinavian model is simply great. Its too bad that even Scandinavia is about to leave it without any rational reason. I say, bring it too the whole world.
8. I find it dumb that american politicians call "european socialism" a failiure. While, in fact the only real social democratic states in Europe(the Scandinavian countries) all have an AAA credit rating. We fare better than nearly any other european country financially.
9. So you dont care if your life sucks as long as you got money. Money! Money! Money! Hahahaha! Money! Money!
10. "outrageous tax rates" are what makes a better quality of life for the citizens.
11. I live in Iceland the most Taxed country in the north and thanks to social policies, i can live happily with only 250 dollars a month after tax. Unite The Nordic People!
12. He doesn't mention the outrageous tax rates in these Nordic countries
13. America and Southern Europe is in a terrible state today in terms of: - Government - Business life and economic growth - Education. It's like decision makers in these parts of the World are either too daft or too stubborn to learn from countries performing much better.
14. If you're interested in actually informing yourself: /watch?v=jvH4YlpCGSo
15. Rofl.
16. @JackofOneTrade567 Sure, and the recent industrial crisis started with William the Conqueror, while Trofim Lysenko ideologically triumphed over science. It never seizes to amaze me how similar Marxists and Libertarians are, both in their ideological fanaticism and their complete detachment from reality.
17. The world experienced the economic boom of the 20th century because of the freedom of the 19th century. And look at all the good that came out of that economic boom, but then govt started to get larger and consolidate the wealth in the hands of the few. Economic freedom doesn't cause social problems, poverty/inequality does. What economic freedom does create is prosperity and reduces inequality. The recent banking crisis started 150 years ago when govt started to regulate banks.
18. You mean there has been no true libertarianism like there has been no true communism? This is just an excuse for the ideological fanatic. The real world has been close enough to both of these theoretical state of things to have gained empirical data on how they work in practice. The real world nineteenth century saw very libertarian economic policies, both in terms of very small government and very little government intervention in the economy.
19. @JackofOneTrade567 It is clearly a response to the libertarian post hoc that even claims causality based on incorrect data, and the point is obviously to point out the fact that both A and B are wrong in itself. The greatest economic height of the US was quite the opposite of at time with small government and non-intervention, as this libertarian claims it to be.
20. There was never a golden age of libertarianism.
21. What's your point? You're basically just committing a post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy and applying it to economics.
22. The relative economics height of the US was 1940-1975 NOT a time of non-intervention in the economy.

Comparing US and Scandinavian Economic Policies

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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/01/25/Strengthening_the_Middle_Class_Pt__1 Economist, author and commentator Robert Kuttner contrasts U.S. economic policies with those found in most Scandinavian countries. ----- Urban Conversations Conference: Strengthening the Middle Class with opening remarks from Congressman Jerry Nadler and featuring speaker Robert Kuttner. As income disparities between wealthy and working-class families become more pronounced, middle-class neighborhoods are disappearing from many American cities. How are leaders working to make their cities livable for middle-income families and affordable for the millions aspiring to gain a foothold in the middle class? Urban Conversations brings together elected officials and leading thinkers from across the nation to foster fresh perspectives and new insights into the key challenges facing urban America and to discuss strategies for addressing them. - The New School Robert Kuttner is co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect. He writes regularly for the magazine on political and economic issues. He has just completed a book, to be published in 2007, on the connection between political and economic inequality and systemic risks facing the economy. He is pursuing these issues as a distinguished senior fellow at Demos. Kuttner is the author of six previous books: Everything for Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets (1997); The End of Laissez-Faire (1991); The Life of the Party (1987); The Economic Illusion (1984); Revolt of the Haves (1980); and Family Re-union (2002), co-authored with his late wife, Sharland Trotter. His syndicated weekly editorial column originates in The Boston Globe and appears Mondays on the Prospect website. He is also one of five co-founders of the Economic Policy Institute, and currently serves on its board of directors.
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