Norway is Wonderful, at Least for Now
The #1 read article today in the NYTs is about Norway. I have been to Norway several times, and I have been surprised what a nice country it is. People live well there, and the people are sturdy and independent-minded. And yes, they have a cradle-to-grave welfare state. There is little poverty and crime is low except for a Muslim rape epidemic (65% of rapes in Norway are committed by Muslims even though they are a small minority of the population).
The Norwegians, for all of their comfortable living, and many vacations days each year, still have a strong work ethic. In fact, throughout Scandinavia the work ethic is still strong. And while people in these countries claim not to be patriotic (because that sounds like nationalism which leads to war-mongering so they say); in fact they are quite patriotic. They are very proud of their countries, and they are proud of their welfare states and very civilized societies.
But it doesn’t mean that the social policies in these nations can be imported to the US and things will all work out the same. These are small nations with very homogeneous populations.
In fact, now that these countries are beginning to be more diverse due to many poor Muslims moving there, I expect these countries to start having similar problems to the US in regard to their welfare states. Muslims there have lower incomes and thus as a group will rely more on means-tested welfare, and many will become dependent on it. Muslims tend to live in the same sections of cities, and thus an underclass can easily form. In fact, already in Malmo, Sweden, even the police can’t drive there unless escorted because of the dangers. Riots occur too, like this one last December. (The Swedes must be nuts to let so many Muslims from the Third World move there.)
Low-income ethnic enclaves plus means-tested welfare brings social disasters. But large-scale problems due to this are still decades off in these Scandinavian countries. For now, these countries are amazing places in many different ways. For example, consider this from the NYTs article linked above about Norway:
And in the midst of the worst global downturn since the Depression, Norway’s economy grew last year by just under 3 percent. The government enjoys a budget surplus of 11 percent and its ledger is entirely free of debt.
By comparison, the United States is expected to chalk up a fiscal deficit this year equal to 12.9 percent of its gross domestic product and push its total debt to $11 trillion, or 65 percent of the size of its economy.
… The country’s [Norway] G.D.P. per person is $52,000, behind only Luxembourg among industrial democracies.
May 16th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
The international left is obviously attempting to un-make Norway. The forces behind the European Union are almost assuredly the same forces behind massive Asian immigration to Europe in a naked attempt to ethnically un-make those nations, reducing them to mere markets with little shared history and culture. They know what they are doing, I’ll give them that.
Really, just as one nation uses an army, navy, air force, spies, and propaganda when it goes to war with another nation…………………….the international left uses “multiculturalism/mass immigration”, “feminism” (destroys the native birthrates), environmentalism (makes land expensive, pushing up the costs of raising families, instills a guilt complex on the productive), “gay rights” (demoralizes the populace, sexualizes the youth, hurts the birthrate), “outsourcing and insourcing” (same reasons as above) to relentlessly make war on the nation states, and especially “political correctness” (keeps people from stating their convictions aloud for fear of social penalty, the “positive” social control that Adorno and Marcuse intended for it to be—the penultimate demoralizer of a native populace) . The international left, much more than the right, keeps its eye on the prize, and is willing to wait a few generations to eventually reach their ends.
Ive no delusion about why a bunch of Muslims are allowed to immigrate to the polar nations of this earth, against the will of the populace that is afraid to speak becuase of political correctness. Marx said to be against “everything” that supports the existing order. Well, families, homogenous populations, stable and happy countries would certainly be the existing order. Check back in Norway in 50 years, if things dont stop, the place will be a mess by then, and probably a member in some sort of rights-crushing Euro-superstate.
May 25th, 2009 at 9:50 am
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September 22nd, 2009 at 1:26 am
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