9 reasons Denmark's government/economy is better than the US's

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

God I am so sick of this false sense of arrogance and superiority that Americans have about the rest of the world.

IRONY ALERT!

You know what the trade off of a bloated defense budget is? Way less money goes to our crumbing infrastructure system and safety net programs like job training for the poor. As a result, we have the worst child poverty rate in the developed world. I guess that's all okay because of our ridiculous and over compensating military force.

His point, numb nuts, is that our vast military spending is why Europe is able to afford the largesse of their welfare states. If we stopped protecting them to the extent we do they wouldn't be able to afford all of their free shit

 

[The Rabbi]

We can add Western Europe to things you dont know.
Their biggest industries are propped up with copious government aid and tax treatment.

Is that how they achieve those low corporate tax rates that people like you keep going on about?

Probably. What is your point other than to deflect from the fact I'm making you look like an idiot?

You're the one throwing out irrelevant crap to try to make a nebulous point about the wonders of capitalism.

In a discussion about Western Europe I am citing facts about Western Europe. That this seems like irrelvant crap to you is telling.

I was obviously being facetious because your post contained so little detail.

Biggest industries... Help me out here. Are you talking about healthcare, education, utilities and mass transit? Anything else? Tell me how we are so much better served by our capitalist take on those industries.

In Sweden their 10 biggest companies were all started before 1918. IN America it's just one. It indicates the dynamic nature of the American economy, which has produced the best outcomes for its citizens for a long time.

 

[JoeNormal]

Is that how they achieve those low corporate tax rates that people like you keep going on about?

Probably. What is your point other than to deflect from the fact I'm making you look like an idiot?

You're the one throwing out irrelevant crap to try to make a nebulous point about the wonders of capitalism.

In a discussion about Western Europe I am citing facts about Western Europe. That this seems like irrelvant crap to you is telling.

I was obviously being facetious because your post contained so little detail.

Biggest industries... Help me out here. Are you talking about healthcare, education, utilities and mass transit? Anything else? Tell me how we are so much better served by our capitalist take on those industries.

In Sweden their 10 biggest companies were all started before 1918. IN America it's just one. It indicates the dynamic nature of the American economy, which has produced the best outcomes for its citizens for a long time.

That's why they kick our ass in terms of happiness - the dynamic nature of our economy.

 

[RandallFlagg]

The evidence is quite compelling. This is the kind of stuff I love rubbing in republicans' faces. Repubs like to think that both they, and the US, is superior to anyone else in the world but the truth is countries like Denmark are really just laughing at them.

1) Unemployed workers get 90% of their previous salary for two years.

Denmark has a tremendous social safety net for unemployed workers — any worker who worked at least 52 weeks over a three-year period can qualify to have 90 percent of their original salary paid for, for up to two years. The Danish government also has plentiful training programs for out-of-work Danes. As a result, 73 percent of Danes between 15 and 64 have a paying job, compared to 67 percent of Americans.

2) Denmark spends far less on healthcare than the US does.

According to the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), the US spends twice as much per capita on healthcare than in Denmark, where taxpayer-funded universal healthcare is available for all citizens. 2009 OECD data shows that the U.S. spent an average of $7,290 per person on healthcare. Denmark spent just $3,512. World Bank data, as seen in the chart above, shows Danish healthcare costs are about $3,000 less per capita than in the US.

3) Denmark is the happiest place on Earth

The World Happiness Report, which determines which nation’s population is the “happiest” using criteria like life expectancy, GDP, social safety nets, as well as factors like “perception of corruption” and “freedom to make life choices,” found that Denmark was the happiest country. The US, in the meantime, ranked #17 on the same list.

4)Denmark has the shortest work week on average.

Denmark leads every other OECD nation in work-life balance. Danes work an average of 37 hours a week, earn an average of $46,000 USD annually, and have the right to 5 weeks of paid vacation per year. Here in the US, the average worker puts in an average of 47 hours a week, and only takes 16 days of vacation a year. This is largely due to a more stressful work climate, in which wages are stagnating while costs are rising. Combine that with a highly-competitive job market, and that means more Americans are willing to chain themselves to their desk then to risk taking vacation days and coming back to find someone else took their job.

5) Denmark pays students $900 per month to attend college.

Here in the US, the cost of going to college has soared by over 500 percent in the last 30 years. But in Denmark, not only is college free, but students are actually paid $900 USD per month to go to school, provided they live on their own. And this funding lasts up to six years. By contrast, the average US student pays over $31,000 a year in tuition to attend a private university, out-of-state residents at public universities pay $22,000 a year in tuition, and tuition costs for in-state residents at those same universities is still over $9,000.

6) Denmark has one of the highest per capita incomes in the world.

In Denmark, despite a short work week and a generous social safety net, workers make more than enough to meet basic needs. According to per capita income data from the World Bank, Denmark’s per capita income is roughly $5,000 higher than in the US.

7) Denmark has one of the lowest poverty rates. The US has one of the highest.

The benefits of living in Denmark are far-reaching — out of all OECD countries, Denmark has the second-lowest poverty rate at 0.6 percent. To compare, the OECD average of 11.3 percent is still lower than the 14.5 percent poverty rate in the US.

8) Denmark is rated #1 for best country for business

In 2014, Forbes ranked Denmark as the #1 best country for business.

Forbes used 11 different criteria to rank countries — innovation, property rights, red tape, taxes, investor protection, stock market performance, technology, corruption, personal freedom, freedom of trade, and monetary freedom.

Under the same criteria, the US ranked #18.

9) New parents in Denmark get 52 weeks of paid leave. US parents don't get shit.

The Danish government gives new parents an average of 52 weeks — a full year — of paid time off after having a child. Those 52 weeks can be allocated however the parents wish. In addition to the 52 weeks, new moms get 4 weeks of maternity leave before giving birth and 14 weeks after. Even new fathers get 2 additional weeks after the birth of their child. But here in the US, 1 in 4 new mothers go back to work within two weeks of having a child.

This is what Democratic Socialism really looks like. Is this the dystopian nightmare that Republicans are making it out to be, or an ideal vision of what Americans could have if we came together and demanded it from our government?


Here are 9 reasons Denmark's socialist economy leaves the US in the dust

Denmark has one twenty fifth of the people that the US does. What's your point? You love Denmark. I get it. So, when are you leaving - oh...that's right...their laws will NOT accept you. To Denmark - you are an Auslander - and not welcome.

 

[Billy000]

God I am so sick of this false sense of arrogance and superiority that Americans have about the rest of the world.

IRONY ALERT!

You know what the trade off of a bloated defense budget is? Way less money goes to our crumbing infrastructure system and safety net programs like job training for the poor. As a result, we have the worst child poverty rate in the developed world. I guess that's all okay because of our ridiculous and over compensating military force.

His point, numb nuts, is that our vast military spending is why Europe is able to afford the largesse of their welfare states. If we stopped protecting them to the extent we do they wouldn't be able to afford all of their free shit

Are you kidding me? We give Denmark a measly 40K per year. I'm sure they could do without it. Israel on the other hand gets a very pointless 3 billion per year. You can blame republicans for that one. Obviously they depend on the Jewish lobby here in the US.

 

[Billy000]

The evidence is quite compelling. This is the kind of stuff I love rubbing in republicans' faces. Repubs like to think that both they, and the US, is superior to anyone else in the world but the truth is countries like Denmark are really just laughing at them.

1) Unemployed workers get 90% of their previous salary for two years.

Denmark has a tremendous social safety net for unemployed workers — any worker who worked at least 52 weeks over a three-year period can qualify to have 90 percent of their original salary paid for, for up to two years. The Danish government also has plentiful training programs for out-of-work Danes. As a result, 73 percent of Danes between 15 and 64 have a paying job, compared to 67 percent of Americans.

2) Denmark spends far less on healthcare than the US does.

According to the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), the US spends twice as much per capita on healthcare than in Denmark, where taxpayer-funded universal healthcare is available for all citizens. 2009 OECD data shows that the U.S. spent an average of $7,290 per person on healthcare. Denmark spent just $3,512. World Bank data, as seen in the chart above, shows Danish healthcare costs are about $3,000 less per capita than in the US.

3) Denmark is the happiest place on Earth

The World Happiness Report, which determines which nation’s population is the “happiest” using criteria like life expectancy, GDP, social safety nets, as well as factors like “perception of corruption” and “freedom to make life choices,” found that Denmark was the happiest country. The US, in the meantime, ranked #17 on the same list.

4)Denmark has the shortest work week on average.

Denmark leads every other OECD nation in work-life balance. Danes work an average of 37 hours a week, earn an average of $46,000 USD annually, and have the right to 5 weeks of paid vacation per year. Here in the US, the average worker puts in an average of 47 hours a week, and only takes 16 days of vacation a year. This is largely due to a more stressful work climate, in which wages are stagnating while costs are rising. Combine that with a highly-competitive job market, and that means more Americans are willing to chain themselves to their desk then to risk taking vacation days and coming back to find someone else took their job.

5) Denmark pays students $900 per month to attend college.

Here in the US, the cost of going to college has soared by over 500 percent in the last 30 years. But in Denmark, not only is college free, but students are actually paid $900 USD per month to go to school, provided they live on their own. And this funding lasts up to six years. By contrast, the average US student pays over $31,000 a year in tuition to attend a private university, out-of-state residents at public universities pay $22,000 a year in tuition, and tuition costs for in-state residents at those same universities is still over $9,000.

6) Denmark has one of the highest per capita incomes in the world.

In Denmark, despite a short work week and a generous social safety net, workers make more than enough to meet basic needs. According to per capita income data from the World Bank, Denmark’s per capita income is roughly $5,000 higher than in the US.

7) Denmark has one of the lowest poverty rates. The US has one of the highest.

The benefits of living in Denmark are far-reaching — out of all OECD countries, Denmark has the second-lowest poverty rate at 0.6 percent. To compare, the OECD average of 11.3 percent is still lower than the 14.5 percent poverty rate in the US.

8) Denmark is rated #1 for best country for business

In 2014, Forbes ranked Denmark as the #1 best country for business.

Forbes used 11 different criteria to rank countries — innovation, property rights, red tape, taxes, investor protection, stock market performance, technology, corruption, personal freedom, freedom of trade, and monetary freedom.

Under the same criteria, the US ranked #18.

9) New parents in Denmark get 52 weeks of paid leave. US parents don't get shit.

The Danish government gives new parents an average of 52 weeks — a full year — of paid time off after having a child. Those 52 weeks can be allocated however the parents wish. In addition to the 52 weeks, new moms get 4 weeks of maternity leave before giving birth and 14 weeks after. Even new fathers get 2 additional weeks after the birth of their child. But here in the US, 1 in 4 new mothers go back to work within two weeks of having a child.

This is what Democratic Socialism really looks like. Is this the dystopian nightmare that Republicans are making it out to be, or an ideal vision of what Americans could have if we came together and demanded it from our government?


Here are 9 reasons Denmark's socialist economy leaves the US in the dust

Denmark has one twenty fifth of the people that the US does. What's your point? You love Denmark. I get it. So, when are you leaving - oh...that's right...their laws will NOT accept you. To Denmark - you are an Auslander - and not welcome.

Their country is proof that democratic socialism works. The population difference is besides the point.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

God I am so sick of this false sense of arrogance and superiority that Americans have about the rest of the world.

IRONY ALERT!

You know what the trade off of a bloated defense budget is? Way less money goes to our crumbing infrastructure system and safety net programs like job training for the poor. As a result, we have the worst child poverty rate in the developed world. I guess that's all okay because of our ridiculous and over compensating military force.

His point, numb nuts, is that our vast military spending is why Europe is able to afford the largesse of their welfare states. If we stopped protecting them to the extent we do they wouldn't be able to afford all of their free shit

Are you kidding me? We give Denmark a measly 40K per year.

I'm not surprised you are intellectually limited to linear thinking. The benefits of our protection far exceed the $40k in grants we give them. The fact that we have our military stationed all over Europe ready to spring into action is why Denmark can get away with spending 1.2% of their GDP on defense.

 

[RandallFlagg]

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The evidence is quite compelling. This is the kind of stuff I love rubbing in republicans' faces. Repubs like to think that both they, and the US, is superior to anyone else in the world but the truth is countries like Denmark are really just laughing at them.

1) Unemployed workers get 90% of their previous salary for two years.

Denmark has a tremendous social safety net for unemployed workers — any worker who worked at least 52 weeks over a three-year period can qualify to have 90 percent of their original salary paid for, for up to two years. The Danish government also has plentiful training programs for out-of-work Danes. As a result, 73 percent of Danes between 15 and 64 have a paying job, compared to 67 percent of Americans.

2) Denmark spends far less on healthcare than the US does.

According to the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), the US spends twice as much per capita on healthcare than in Denmark, where taxpayer-funded universal healthcare is available for all citizens. 2009 OECD data shows that the U.S. spent an average of $7,290 per person on healthcare. Denmark spent just $3,512. World Bank data, as seen in the chart above, shows Danish healthcare costs are about $3,000 less per capita than in the US.

3) Denmark is the happiest place on Earth

The World Happiness Report, which determines which nation’s population is the “happiest” using criteria like life expectancy, GDP, social safety nets, as well as factors like “perception of corruption” and “freedom to make life choices,” found that Denmark was the happiest country. The US, in the meantime, ranked #17 on the same list.

4)Denmark has the shortest work week on average.

Denmark leads every other OECD nation in work-life balance. Danes work an average of 37 hours a week, earn an average of $46,000 USD annually, and have the right to 5 weeks of paid vacation per year. Here in the US, the average worker puts in an average of 47 hours a week, and only takes 16 days of vacation a year. This is largely due to a more stressful work climate, in which wages are stagnating while costs are rising. Combine that with a highly-competitive job market, and that means more Americans are willing to chain themselves to their desk then to risk taking vacation days and coming back to find someone else took their job.

5) Denmark pays students $900 per month to attend college.

Here in the US, the cost of going to college has soared by over 500 percent in the last 30 years. But in Denmark, not only is college free, but students are actually paid $900 USD per month to go to school, provided they live on their own. And this funding lasts up to six years. By contrast, the average US student pays over $31,000 a year in tuition to attend a private university, out-of-state residents at public universities pay $22,000 a year in tuition, and tuition costs for in-state residents at those same universities is still over $9,000.

6) Denmark has one of the highest per capita incomes in the world.

In Denmark, despite a short work week and a generous social safety net, workers make more than enough to meet basic needs. According to per capita income data from the World Bank, Denmark’s per capita income is roughly $5,000 higher than in the US.

7) Denmark has one of the lowest poverty rates. The US has one of the highest.

The benefits of living in Denmark are far-reaching — out of all OECD countries, Denmark has the second-lowest poverty rate at 0.6 percent. To compare, the OECD average of 11.3 percent is still lower than the 14.5 percent poverty rate in the US.

8) Denmark is rated #1 for best country for business

In 2014, Forbes ranked Denmark as the #1 best country for business.

Forbes used 11 different criteria to rank countries — innovation, property rights, red tape, taxes, investor protection, stock market performance, technology, corruption, personal freedom, freedom of trade, and monetary freedom.
Under the same criteria, the US ranked #18.

9) New parents in Denmark get 52 weeks of paid leave. US parents don't get shit.

The Danish government gives new parents an average of 52 weeks — a full year — of paid time off after having a child. Those 52 weeks can be allocated however the parents wish. In addition to the 52 weeks, new moms get 4 weeks of maternity leave before giving birth and 14 weeks after. Even new fathers get 2 additional weeks after the birth of their child. But here in the US, 1 in 4 new mothers go back to work within two weeks of having a child.

This is what Democratic Socialism really looks like. Is this the dystopian nightmare that Republicans are making it out to be, or an ideal vision of what Americans could have if we came together and demanded it from our government?


Here are 9 reasons Denmark's socialist economy leaves the US in the dust

Denmark has one twenty fifth of the people that the US does. What's your point? You love Denmark. I get it. So, when are you leaving - oh...that's right...their laws will NOT accept you. To Denmark - you are an Auslander - and not welcome.

Their country is proof that democratic socialism works. The population difference is besides the point.

Really....


Well, again, when are you leaving? Again, I forgot, Denmark won't allow you in. Perhaps if we start deporting all the illegal assholes that are sponging off OUR economy - and we stop raising generation after generation of lay abouts - we can live like those "perfect countries". You think?

Now - when again did you say you were leaving the United States? Oh - that's right - Denmark doesn't allow Auslanders into their country. They actually enforce their immigration laws in order to protect THEIR citizens. Funny how those things work, isn't it?

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Their country is proof that democratic socialism works. The population difference is besides the point.

Ironically, the Denmark that Sanders wants the U.S. to emulate is now taking a long, critical look at its welfare model as it decides which bits to scale back.

A government commission said on Monday Denmark needs to cut jobless benefits for graduates as part of a series of tweaks to keep other, more basic welfare services affordable. It follows a push by the previous administration -- a Social Democrat-led coalition that was ousted in June -- that included the introduction of means-testing to limit Danes’ access to state support.

“Welfare is under pressure in Denmark,” Bente Sorgenfrey, a member of the government commission and head of the country’s second-largest trade union, FTF, said in an interview on Monday. “We’re experiencing that all over the place since the crisis, and the absence of funding is putting pressure on payouts.”

Successive Danish governments have pointed to the need for cuts to a system they say grew too bloated in previous decades. Meanwhile economic growth has remained weak as the world’s most indebted households focus on paying back creditors. Denmark’s economy expanded a quarterly 0.5 percent on average between 1991 and 2008. Since then, it’s contracted 0.1 percent per quarter, on average, according to statistics office data.

Bernie Sanders's Danish Utopia Girds for Deeper Welfare Cuts

 

[Billy000]

Their country is proof that democratic socialism works. The population difference is besides the point.

Ironically, the Denmark that Sanders wants the U.S. to emulate is now taking a long, critical look at its welfare model as it decides which bits to scale back.

A government commission said on Monday Denmark needs to cut jobless benefits for graduates as part of a series of tweaks to keep other, more basic welfare services affordable. It follows a push by the previous administration -- a Social Democrat-led coalition that was ousted in June -- that included the introduction of means-testing to limit Danes’ access to state support.

“Welfare is under pressure in Denmark,” Bente Sorgenfrey, a member of the government commission and head of the country’s second-largest trade union, FTF, said in an interview on Monday. “We’re experiencing that all over the place since the crisis, and the absence of funding is putting pressure on payouts.”

Successive Danish governments have pointed to the need for cuts to a system they say grew too bloated in previous decades. Meanwhile economic growth has remained weak as the world’s most indebted households focus on paying back creditors. Denmark’s economy expanded a quarterly 0.5 percent on average between 1991 and 2008. Since then, it’s contracted 0.1 percent per quarter, on average, according to statistics office data.

Bernie Sanders's Danish Utopia Girds for Deeper Welfare Cuts

Lol none of this changes the fact that the percentage of working people in Denmark is higher than that of those in US. The poverty rate in the US is also much higher. It's amazing to me you dumbasses will cling onto to one piece of information and pretend that somehow undoes everything i laid out in the OP.

 

[Billy000]

God I am so sick of this false sense of arrogance and superiority that Americans have about the rest of the world.

IRONY ALERT!

You know what the trade off of a bloated defense budget is? Way less money goes to our crumbing infrastructure system and safety net programs like job training for the poor. As a result, we have the worst child poverty rate in the developed world. I guess that's all okay because of our ridiculous and over compensating military force.

His point, numb nuts, is that our vast military spending is why Europe is able to afford the largesse of their welfare states. If we stopped protecting them to the extent we do they wouldn't be able to afford all of their free shit

Are you kidding me? We give Denmark a measly 40K per year.

I'm not surprised you are intellectually limited to linear thinking. The benefits of our protection far exceed the $40k in grants we give them. The fact that we have our military stationed all over Europe ready to spring into action is why Denmark can get away with spending 1.2% of their GDP on defense.

Oh really? You think our pointless bases around Europe actually still serve a purpose?

 

[The Rabbi]

Probably. What is your point other than to deflect from the fact I'm making you look like an idiot?

You're the one throwing out irrelevant crap to try to make a nebulous point about the wonders of capitalism.

In a discussion about Western Europe I am citing facts about Western Europe. That this seems like irrelvant crap to you is telling.

I was obviously being facetious because your post contained so little detail.

Biggest industries... Help me out here. Are you talking about healthcare, education, utilities and mass transit? Anything else? Tell me how we are so much better served by our capitalist take on those industries.

In Sweden their 10 biggest companies were all started before 1918. IN America it's just one. It indicates the dynamic nature of the American economy, which has produced the best outcomes for its citizens for a long time.

That's why they kick our ass in terms of happiness - the dynamic nature of our economy.

No it's because no black people live there.

 

[The Rabbi]

Their country is proof that democratic socialism works. The population difference is besides the point.

Ironically, the Denmark that Sanders wants the U.S. to emulate is now taking a long, critical look at its welfare model as it decides which bits to scale back.

A government commission said on Monday Denmark needs to cut jobless benefits for graduates as part of a series of tweaks to keep other, more basic welfare services affordable. It follows a push by the previous administration -- a Social Democrat-led coalition that was ousted in June -- that included the introduction of means-testing to limit Danes’ access to state support.

“Welfare is under pressure in Denmark,” Bente Sorgenfrey, a member of the government commission and head of the country’s second-largest trade union, FTF, said in an interview on Monday. “We’re experiencing that all over the place since the crisis, and the absence of funding is putting pressure on payouts.”

Successive Danish governments have pointed to the need for cuts to a system they say grew too bloated in previous decades. Meanwhile economic growth has remained weak as the world’s most indebted households focus on paying back creditors. Denmark’s economy expanded a quarterly 0.5 percent on average between 1991 and 2008. Since then, it’s contracted 0.1 percent per quarter, on average, according to statistics office data.

Bernie Sanders's Danish Utopia Girds for Deeper Welfare Cuts

Lol none of this changes the fact that the percentage of working people in Denmark is higher than that of those in US. The poverty rate in the US is also much higher. It's amazing to me you dumbasses will cling onto to one piece of information and pretend that somehow undoes everything i laid out in the OP.

The rate of herring consumption is much higher. Which accounts for the discrepencies.

 

[Sun Devil 92]

People starve in America ?

Yes, some people in America do not know if or when they will get their next meal. Show nuff, bubba.

But they do get one ? Right ?

Eventually, I would guess, but not always. There are many parents who commit suicide in order to get insurance to feed their family. Does that count as getting their next meal?

What the fuck is wrong with you people? You think that living a life where you don t know when you are going to eat again is just AOK?

Please document the suicide cases.

And I don't recall saying that was a good thing.

In fact, I think I've been an advocate for an intelligent approach to income inequality.

But from what I can tell, your implied claim that people are starving looking for a job is total crap.

Lol, I am not going to document a damned thing.

IF you dont realize that some people get desperate financially to the point of committing suicide and making it look like an auto or gun accident, then I cannot remedy your true affliction.

O.K.

Now we know you won't or can't document it.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Their country is proof that democratic socialism works. The population difference is besides the point.

Ironically, the Denmark that Sanders wants the U.S. to emulate is now taking a long, critical look at its welfare model as it decides which bits to scale back.

A government commission said on Monday Denmark needs to cut jobless benefits for graduates as part of a series of tweaks to keep other, more basic welfare services affordable. It follows a push by the previous administration -- a Social Democrat-led coalition that was ousted in June -- that included the introduction of means-testing to limit Danes’ access to state support.

“Welfare is under pressure in Denmark,” Bente Sorgenfrey, a member of the government commission and head of the country’s second-largest trade union, FTF, said in an interview on Monday. “We’re experiencing that all over the place since the crisis, and the absence of funding is putting pressure on payouts.”

Successive Danish governments have pointed to the need for cuts to a system they say grew too bloated in previous decades. Meanwhile economic growth has remained weak as the world’s most indebted households focus on paying back creditors. Denmark’s economy expanded a quarterly 0.5 percent on average between 1991 and 2008. Since then, it’s contracted 0.1 percent per quarter, on average, according to statistics office data.

Bernie Sanders's Danish Utopia Girds for Deeper Welfare Cuts

Lol none of this changes the fact that the percentage of working people in Denmark is higher than that of those in US. The poverty rate in the US is also much higher. It's amazing to me you dumbasses will cling onto to one piece of information and pretend that somehow undoes everything i laid out in the OP.

There is no such thing as poverty in the United States. Maybe if you actually stepped outside the country for once in your life you would be less ignorant, although I'm honestly not sure if that's possible for you

 

[Billy000]

Their country is proof that democratic socialism works. The population difference is besides the point.

Ironically, the Denmark that Sanders wants the U.S. to emulate is now taking a long, critical look at its welfare model as it decides which bits to scale back.

A government commission said on Monday Denmark needs to cut jobless benefits for graduates as part of a series of tweaks to keep other, more basic welfare services affordable. It follows a push by the previous administration -- a Social Democrat-led coalition that was ousted in June -- that included the introduction of means-testing to limit Danes’ access to state support.

“Welfare is under pressure in Denmark,” Bente Sorgenfrey, a member of the government commission and head of the country’s second-largest trade union, FTF, said in an interview on Monday. “We’re experiencing that all over the place since the crisis, and the absence of funding is putting pressure on payouts.”

Successive Danish governments have pointed to the need for cuts to a system they say grew too bloated in previous decades. Meanwhile economic growth has remained weak as the world’s most indebted households focus on paying back creditors. Denmark’s economy expanded a quarterly 0.5 percent on average between 1991 and 2008. Since then, it’s contracted 0.1 percent per quarter, on average, according to statistics office data.

Bernie Sanders's Danish Utopia Girds for Deeper Welfare Cuts

Lol none of this changes the fact that the percentage of working people in Denmark is higher than that of those in US. The poverty rate in the US is also much higher. It's amazing to me you dumbasses will cling onto to one piece of information and pretend that somehow undoes everything i laid out in the OP.

There is no such thing as poverty in the United States. Maybe if you actually stepped outside the country for once in your life you would be less ignorant, although I'm honestly not sure if that's possible for you

Why do you people delude yourselves with crap like that? It has no basis in reality. 10s of millions of working adults make less than 15 per hour.

 

[JimBowie1958]

Yes. Anyone can find a job if they really want to.

It might not be the job they want but it will be a job

That is no longer it true. It was true when I was growing up, and when I left the Army in 83. My first day out I walked up to a construction site, asked to speak to the foreman and told him I was just out of the Army and wanted a job if he could use me. He hired me on the spot and I had a job.

I have worked plastic bubble extruders, laid steel on highways, sold books door to door, operated a turret lathe and mill. Done a little bit of everything that keeps my feet on terra firma.

Today is different. You can only get a job if someone will hire you, and you are apparently too stubborn to grasp that fact yet.

May God grant you wisdom on this topic.

 

[JimBowie1958]

There is no such thing as poverty in the United States.

Dude that is one of the dumbest things I have ever seen you post.

Yes, there most certainly is poverty in the USA; just because you dont see it does not mean it does not exist.

 

[JimBowie1958]

In Sweden their 10 biggest companies were all started before 1918. IN America it's just one. It indicates the dynamic nature of the American economy, which has produced the best outcomes for its citizens for a long time.

Except for those it did not.

It's easy to sit back in your home have a financially secure living and talk shit about people who for various reasons cannot provide for themselves.

Any jack ass can do it, as you illustrate.

 

[JimBowie1958]

Yes, some people in America do not know if or when they will get their next meal. Show nuff, bubba.

But they do get one ? Right ?

Eventually, I would guess, but not always. There are many parents who commit suicide in order to get insurance to feed their family. Does that count as getting their next meal?

What the fuck is wrong with you people? You think that living a life where you don t know when you are going to eat again is just AOK?

Please document the suicide cases.

And I don't recall saying that was a good thing.

In fact, I think I've been an advocate for an intelligent approach to income inequality.

But from what I can tell, your implied claim that people are starving looking for a job is total crap.

Lol, I am not going to document a damned thing.

IF you dont realize that some people get desperate financially to the point of committing suicide and making it look like an auto or gun accident, then I cannot remedy your true affliction.

O.K.

Now we know you won't or can't document it.

I dont have to document facts of the public domain, even if you are too stupid or lazy to google the topic, idiot.