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Originally Posted by Azure
You mean countries like Sweden who had a cradle to the grave system set up for a while now....and recently they kicked out their socialist government and went for a more conservative approach? Surely they didn't do it because their system of socialism was working so well, right?
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I should add that Sweden's unemployment rate is below the global average, and is comparable to the U.S. rate. Sweden's actually the perfect example of a democracy with generous entitlement programs that is also economically prosperous, though there are of course others. (Iceland, anyone?
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Also--and this may seem like semantics, but it's an important distinction--Sweden was never "socialist." They were a democracy with a leftist polity, but socialism to me implies soviet style communism.