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Maybe you should have read the rest of the article:
It may also have made some Norwegians reluctant to work. "One in five people of working age receives some kind of social insurance instead of working," Doerum said
I've been to Norway 7 times in the last 3 years and I do business directly with a few Norwegian companies daily for my job, the Norwegian population is strikingly different from America's. We have a sizable, very lazy, unmotivated segment of our population that simply couldn't and doesn't exist in Norway. The people of Norway may not be perfect but they're certainly better educated and have a better work ethic than a lot of Americans do thanks mostly to our love for entitlements with no expectations in return.
.......and another one that conveniently decided not to read the whole piece.
Everyone in Norway became a theoretical crown millionaire on Wednesday in a milestone for the world's biggest sovereign wealth fund that has ballooned thanks to high oil and gas prices.
Well, you've said that "a LOT of Americans" are downright lazy and therefore don't deserve to share in sovereign wealth fund profits... surely some of those lazy Americans must inhabit the 49th State.
You trying be lazy and living in the Alaska wilderness.
Yes. And I've always thought it was smart how Norway generates almost all of their electricity from hydroelectric and geothermal sources, and so they can mostly just stockpile and export their oil reserves.
Until it runs out, then what?
Run the trust funds out until there is no more and increase taxes to try and keep the same standard of living. Or, letter Q, go into debt to keep that same standard of living. There is another answer and that's reduce their standard of living.
All roads lead to the same result. A bunch of highly educated people fleeing the country for a better life. That's already happening by the way...
Should we keep tabs on the number of mind-numbingly stupid threads CD Conservatives make?
Not a very mature argument in this debate.
No detailed thought or well defined counterpoints at all.
I thought progressives liked to keep the conversation at an adult level?
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