Twardlow Loc: Arkansas

This is a rather half-assed reply which contains no genuine concern for thought or content, and just wants to smear the issue and to hide ignorance.

I defy you to show me where Bernie advocates the Federal Government owning the means of production. I defy you.

Here is the general content of the kind of things Bernie advocates, under the name of “the Nordic model.”

I add this simplification and generalized summary from the dread Wikipedia, the slayer of ignorance and misinformation:

The Nordic model (also called Nordic capitalism) “includes a combination of free market capitalism with a comprehensive welfare state and collective bargaining at the national level.”

The Nordic Model – Embracing globalization and sharing risks characterises the system as follows:
▪ An elaborate social safety net in addition to public services such as free education and universal healthcare.
▪ Strong property rights, contract enforcement, and overall ease of doing business.
▪ Public pension plans.
▪ Low barriers to free trade.
▪ Little product market regulation. Nordic countries rank very high in product market freedom according to OECD rankings.
▪ Low levels of corruption. Denmark, Finland, Sweden, and Norway were ranked among the top 10 least corrupt of the 167 countries evaluated.
▪ High percentage of workers belonging to a labour union.

The Nordic model is underpinned by a free market capitalist economic system that features high degrees of private ownership.

The Nordic model is described as a system of competitive capitalism combined with a large percentage of the population employed by the public sector. ... In 2013, The Economist described its countries as "stout free-traders who resist the temptation to intervene even to protect iconic companies" while also looking for ways to temper capitalism's harsher effects, and declared that the Nordic countries "are probably the best-governed in the world". Some economists have referred to the Nordic economic model as a form of "cuddly" capitalism, with low levels of inequality, generous welfare states and reduced concentration of top incomes, and contrast it with the more "cut-throat" capitalism of the United States, which has high levels of inequality and a larger concentration of top incomes.

ken hubert Loc: Missouri

YOU'RE the one whining about wanting other people to take care of your useless mother, not me. You send HER to Denmark, I couldn't give a rats ass about her!

ken hubert Loc: Missouri

That's Communism stupid!

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

Far more than the ignorant libs like you who have never studied anything relating to our founders and their thoughts, letters and writings. Libs are pretty stupid that way. A great recent national example is when you and your stupid lib friends made fun of Romney when he said the Russians were a threat to us. All you libs laughed and ridiculed him mercilessly. No you libs see a Russian behind every Republican and how they were so smart as to give the election to the President and how evil they are and such a threat. About 4 years too late dumb ass.

Twardlow Loc: Arkansas

Well, I see your ignorance matches your hostility and your belligerence, uneducated one! Beside empty threats and schoolboy insults, you know nothing.

Communism is something entirely different, though you wouldn’t understand. Someday when I think you're worth the effort, I’ll spell it out for you, though you still won’t get it.

How you manage to still walk the earth with your insecurity and fear is a tribute to the civility and Christian character of mature and civilized beings.

ken hubert Loc: Missouri

I not only walk Twat, I drink coffee. Want to meet me on the 10th? I will be in Little Rock then. How about meeting me for coffee ???

gorgehiker Loc: Lexington, Ky

You have identified the problem. You don't give a rat's ass about anyone other than yourself!

boberic Loc: Quiet Corner, Connecticut. Ex long Islander

2 things to think about. Does the federal government have more or less control over the country now that it did 100 years ago? Are the radical leftists closer to socialism than the radical rightest?. The trend toward more and more governmet control is a purposeful one , as stated by the progressives of the early 20th century who knew that the process must be ever so slow. The answeres to those questions are quite obvious to anyone who knows the philosophies of those early progressives as they took their iedes from Engels and Marx. Read about those early progressives and you will understand

ken hubert Loc: Missouri

.. Between those dots the world's smallest violins are playing for you.

DaveO Loc: Northeast CT

Drug prices are another good example of big business taking care of the consumer, lest we forget EpiPen and many others. Some things need regulation to protect the public from being out and out raped.

Texcaster Loc: Queensland

Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme - Probably just too unfair and bolshie for Big Pharma in the US.


"The PBS was established by the Labor Chifley Government, by the Pharmaceutical Benefits Act 1947 which commenced on 1 July 1948,[2] as part of a wider plan to create a British-style National Health Service. The scheme was an extension of the similar Repatriation Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme established in 1919 for Australian servicemen and women who had served in the Boer War and World War I.

DaveO Loc: Northeast CT

My only point is that unfortunately some form of protection for the consumer is needed. Others argue that the market should set the price and screw those who can't afford certain commodities. That's not what the US is about.

boberic Loc: Quiet Corner, Connecticut. Ex long Islander

Of course there should be reguletions. But they should not cripple business. There are laws to prevent the epi-pen thing

DaveO Loc: Northeast CT

We are basically in agreement then.

GeorgeH Loc: Jonesboro, GA

Thanks for that viewpoint! I'll be curious to see how Archie and his buds deal with that alternative view of the Sacred Second Amendment. Arms aren't the exclusive privilege of the well-to-do.