Ummm, PLEASE stop using Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway as examples of successful socialist countries. They are NOT. They are MARKET DRIVEN (capitalist) welfare states. This is by their OWN words...
After seeing his country held up as an example in the US presidential debate, Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen used an address at Harvard to explain the Nordic model to a US audience suddenly very interested in Denmark.
Speaking at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Danish PM Lars Løkke Rasmussen told students that he had “absolutely no wish to interfere the presidential debate in the US” but nonetheless attempted to set the record straight about his country.
"I know that some people in the US associate the Nordic model with some sort of socialism. Therefore I would like to make one thing clear. Denmark is far from a socialist planned economy. Denmark is a market economy,” Rasmussen said.
Great Britain and Canada are also market driven economies with a larger welfare state.
And yeah, I remember traveling through the DDR (Deutsche Demokratische Republik). They claimed to be the "new" democratic" socialists... just like every reiteration of the same old failed socialist model (but it has never been done right!, This time...it will work ).
They toiled in misery in their "worker's paradise" while across the border, capitalism was turning West Germany into an economic and political powerhouse. Save your marxist/socialist/communist crap for someone who has never seen it in practice...
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