[TriLUG] OT: URGENT: H.129 to be heard in Thursday's Finance Committee!

[David Hostetler]

"Or, to take a counterexample, maybe Sweden or Norway, where the
population is less dense than ours and they still have managed to get
broadband penetration at a rate 30-50% higher than in the U.S. EUR90/mo
in Sweden will get you 1Gbps. Let me know when their imminent collapse
becomes even more imminent than it is now."

Ha!  I didn't even have to look hard to find this.

The crisis of the 1990s was by some viewed as the end of the much buzzed
welfare model called "Svenska modellen", literally "The Swedish Model", as
it proved that governmental spending at the levels previously experienced in
Sweden was not long term
sustainable.<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Sweden#cite_note-12>

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Dave Hostetler
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On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 4:21 PM, bak <bak at picklefactory.org> wrote:

>
> On 3/15/11 3:06 PM, David Hostetler wrote:
>
> > Going back to your government has all the answers idea,
>
> This is a straw man I often see from libertarians. I don't think
> government has all the answers -- I just don't think our interests are
> always well represented by the competition of two corporations.
>
> > Take a look at Greece, UK, Italy, and several others in Europe to
> > see how well the socialist idea is working out for them.
>
> Or, to take a counterexample, maybe Sweden or Norway, where the
> population is less dense than ours and they still have managed to get
> broadband penetration at a rate 30-50% higher than in the U.S. EUR90/mo
> in Sweden will get you 1Gbps. Let me know when their imminent collapse
> becomes even more imminent than it is now.
>
> > P.S. Social Security is the biggest rip off I've ever seen.  Let me keep
> my
> > own money and invest it for my future.
>
> So Dave, last time you lost your job, did you collect unemployment, or
> did you turn up your nose at a socialist handout?
>
> --bak
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