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Now Even Swedes Are Questioning the Welfare State
« on: June 26, 2018, 05:56:37 am »
When the maternity ward was closed at the hospital in the Solleftea district of northern Sweden early last year, the nearest alternative was 100 kilometers (60 miles) away by road. So the local midwives decided to teach expectant parents a new skill: how to deliver a baby in a car.

As an ante-natal course for leaner times, it would have been unusual even in a cash-strapped country, let alone in one whose economy is enjoying its longest period of growth in at least four decades and whose finances are flourishing. Sweden is a nation in surplus and the government has still been raising taxes, with the top marginal rate now reaching 60 percent.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-26/now-even-swedes-are-questioning-the-welfare-state
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Re: Now Even Swedes Are Questioning the Welfare State
« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2018, 01:05:56 am »
Some of the Swedes may be coming around to the reality of what their nation faces.
But for them, it's probably going to end up being "too little, too late".

Remember Winston Churchill:
"If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."

Which instance (from Mr. Churchill's quote above) best describes the Swedes -today- ...?