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They also have a labor shortage and an aging population, that sounds pretty bad to me. You really are prejudiced
yes Japan does have a labor shortage and an aging population.....but so does the USA and most of Europe
Japan has the second highest median age second to Monaco...at 47.3
Germany comes in a very close third at 47.1
Italy at #5 with 45.5
Netherlands at 42.6
Finland at 42. 5
Switzerland at 42.4
Canada and Denmark at 42.2
Belgium and France at 41.4
Sweden at 41.2
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USA at #61 with 38.1 median age
and as to labor shortage
the top 10 with a shortage
Japan
India
Brazil
Turkey
Mexico
Greece
Australia
Germany
USA
Italy
Canada
So if you are going to say that those two items make a country in trouble...then include Europe, Canada, and the USA
Because you blame all of America's problems on non whites and say that this country would be "paved with gold" to use your words if it were still mostly white people. That view is sickening to me
Explain to me how adding tens of millions of uneducated people to our country in last 50 years has made the country better.
I have many cousins in Norway, who I visit every few years. All of my cousins are or were in regular jobs; no captains of industry, not even any physicians. And yet, all of my cousins have nice houses, the kind one would call middle to upper middle class houses. They all have cars, and most of them own a cottage on a lake. They are not concerned about medical insurance or health costs, and know that if they become disabled, there will be care for them. (In my experience, the facilities for this kind of care are right in regular residential districts.) They also bear no burden of paying for higher education. Some of my cousins have college degrees, some not. I even have one who has a PhD. All paid for by the government. They do complain about the high cost of some commodities. But they have lives that are lived free from many of the insecurities that the US lives with. They have enjoyable lifestyles. Most of my cousins are retired, and they travel a lot (mostly in Europe, but also Thailand, South America, etc.), spend time at the cottage, volunteer, etc. It seems to me that the measure of a happy, comfortable life is not about how many taxes you pay or how much is in your IRAs. It is measured by how actually happy, fulfilled, and comfortable you are. As they say, the proof is in the pudding. We should all be so lucky as to find ourselves in their shoes. They are not pure socialists; they have a parliamentary, social democracy.
I believe the leaders of these countries that allow the UN to bully them into ruining their own nations are just UN stooges.
Japan? No. Hungary? No. But many Western nations are now currently led by leaders that hate their own citizens and are likely just UN puppets.
You are entitled to believe whatever you like of course, but I don't see much credibility in such a belief. The UN is a very marginal force in such things and I don't see how immigration policy means that leaders 'hate their citizens'.
Or it might be that "right wingers here are loathe to admit that Scandinavian countries are 'socialist' because those countries are not in fact socialist. That is the less complicated explanation.
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Im a Norwegian.
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And Bernie Sanders would be a Center-Right politician here!
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Originally Posted by James Bond 007
Then you must admit Bernie Sanders is a center-right capitalist:
Oh, one poster from Norway says that Bernie Sanders would be Center-right in Norway. Even though Bernie as a self-described 'socialist' is to the left of the Norwegian social democratic system.
And by your logic, I "must admit" that Bernie is lying when he calls himself a socialist. Okaaaaay.
Oh, one poster from Norway says that Bernie Sanders would be Center-right in Norway. Even though Bernie as a self-described 'socialist' is to the left of the Norwegian social democratic system.
And by your logic, I "must admit" that Bernie is lying when he calls himself a socialist. Okaaaaay.
James, you need desperately a class in logic 101.
LOL, you're still obsessed with those definitions.
I'm sorry you're so upset to learn that Bernie Sanders would be center-right in Norway.
LOL, you're still obsessed with those definitions.
I'm sorry you're so upset to learn that Bernie Sanders would be center-right in Norway.
Bernie admired and supported the communist/socialist USSR (even honeymooned there)....he is no-where near a righty…...he is a far leftie ideolog as they come
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