Imagine living in a country like this

[dflprincess]

Lydia Leftcoast has been in Scandanavia and posted this in the Minnesota forum a couple days ago;

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=160x42075

Here's a telling incident. On Sunday, I attended services at the Stockholm Anglican Church. Although the Church of England has these branches in every European capital, the actual members come from all over the world, and during coffee hour, I ended up talking to an expat from New York. He said that the church wanted to do more charitable work, but the Swedish safety net is so good that only late-stage alcoholics and late-stage drug addicts fall through the cracks. There are more churches willing to help than there are people in need.

For that reason, the Stockholm Anglican Church cooperates with the one in Riga, Latvia (one of the countries that underwent the shock doctrine), where the economic problems have been particularly hard on the elderly.

Yup, not enough people in Sweden need help, so they go abroad to set up soup kitchens.

And what do we get for our tax money? Endless war and corporate welfare.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Maybe we'll need the Swedish churches to help Americans.

[lonestarnot]

2. Future tense? We'll = we will.

[RKP5637]

3. In the US we support the MIC for outrageous war profiteering. It's the American way! And it's

your duty to support Corporate Welfare. After all, look at how they share their riches with the country, keep the jobs at home and make this such a happy place. Go USA! Go USA!

[eppur_se_muova]

4. OMG Sweden is offshoring jobs!

OK, volunteer jobs, but still ...

[Javaman]

5. Hey, come on, we got Swedish Fish!

we are a sad pathetic nation.