He’s also probably Berlusconi’s personal accountant and is responsible for paying for for bunga bunga parties, as well as attending. Even more amusing is how easily you right-wing goobers can swallow bullshit. Again, the striking support for Tegnell’s dumbshittery across the political spectrum in Sweden is very worrisome. They dare to quip about sustainability at a time when Sweden is seeking to expand their. For Bernie Sanders and his Millennial followers, a question to be asked is, “Do you want to mature and have personal responsibility to manage your own life or give up financial freedoms and be taken care of as was depicted in Obama’s ‘Life of Julia’?” The narrative was a slide show that followed Julia, a single mother cartoon character from age 3 to age 67 that explained how Obama’s policies, from Head Start to Obamacare to mandated contraception coverage to Medicare reform, would provide Julia with a better life. And something has give. The rise of fascism there learns and adapts from the rise of fascism here. None of these moves were spontaneous or without measured consideration. Meanwhile, the Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA) are gaining influence on college and high school campuses, claiming to have organizing activities planned at more than 250 campuses across the nation. My health insurance costs about fifty bucks a month. No Socialist Paradise: Sweden’s COVID-19 Response Is Nothing to Envy . 137,000 people in a country of 5 million. “Sweden switched to a school voucher system. According to an analysis by GunPolicy.org, a research project hosted at the University of Sydney, Australia: According to Section 4 of the Annual Leave Act, employees are legally entitled to 25 days’ paid leave each year. Sanders believes that the policies he likes are in Sweden but he’s really thinking about Denmark. This is true. Likely apocryphal but the point is well made: A Scandinavian economist said to Milton Friedman: “In Scandinavia we have no poverty.” Milton Friedman replied, “That’s interesting, because in America among Scandinavians, we have no poverty either”. My only point is that when people say the Europeans get a lot more vacation time they don’t realize it’s common practice for them to include bank holidays in their calculations. In the USA with a population about 310M and 2M federal civilian employees, that makes it .65% of the American population are federal workers. Stories abound of people with an illness such as brain cancer being told they will need to wait for treatment until they have equipment and doctors ready for them. Sweden still enjoys many socialized institutions and is admittedly a far cry from this shitty city upon a hill – this most capitalist of all cut-throat capitalist goons that is the U.S. Left and right arrows move across top level links and expand / close menus in sub levels. David Keyton | AP. As I was headed back to the states in early September, a neighbor’s high school kids were on a three-day rotation: two days in school for at most a half-day, and then one day of remote learning. In fact, it was a disaster. That’s definitely not something we expected. Socialism (practical definitions): 1. Even for the vast majority of students that attend public schools, the ability of their parents to afford to live where the schools are rated better is the first form of school choice.