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This picture is from OccupyDemocrats and is another *perfect utopia* posters floating around the internet and on Facebook that paints a rosy picture without the thorns.

The answer is "no" but how do we know?

Systems produce results. According to their natural patterns comprehensive systems will produce predictable results.

No pain no gain is a rule about exercise of your body. Society is a body too. If virtue is the “character muscle” of the individual Social Virtues can be described as the sinew of society.

There is no such thing as a free lunch unless it is provided by charity.

It is always good to look for the other side of the story when someone touts their pet utopia. Read "Why I Could Never Move (Back) to Denmark" . But if you really want to get down on Denmark you can read the comments at "Forum Post: Denmark Sucks!! Happiest Nation..? My A**!"[1]

Testimony at the website claims that "Denmark is populated by a racist,self-egoistic, arrogant people"

Some of the claims are that a $50.00 luxury item in the United States would cost you $155.00 in Denmark because of the 210% luxury tax. That is three times the cost. Gas is over $9 a gallon. At those prices minimum wage of 20 dollars is equal to less than $7. Denmark has other very high tax rates too. The average tax payed by a Dane in a year is 57.5% That means that they basically work for FREE 201 days of the year. And then there is the general sales tax of 25%!

So you have your answer to the question asked in the titled article "Why is poverty rising in a country with a welfare system that purports to ensure that “all citizens have equal rights to social security”?" from the article by Danes Alexandra Lu, Lisa Sig Olesen.

We have a good friend from Denmark and in no way am I putting down the Danish people but honesty is the best policy when looking for the truth. In fact without objective honesty you cannot find the truth.

Alcohol is a big problem with Denmark ranking 11th in consumption. Only 3% of the country does not drink.

Denmark is a country with social and economic problems that may be the result of a list of practices that some would have you think solves problems. Like the Free education poster about free schooling in Norway.

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"The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits." -- by Plutarch.

And since the government borrows from your future with every gift you and your children go deeper and deeper into debt...

There was another photo with a similar message floating around about Denmark.

Now Denmark is more fiscally responsible than Norway and even the United States whose debt for every new born child starts at $59,000 dollars at birth and will probably be far higher when they start working and paying their share of the interest.

Denmark's debt for new born per citizen starts at 28,778 which is only 59.8% of the GDP. This is partly because of the fact that one of their biggest industries is shipping and they charge lots for bringing things in and out of the country, which makes for very high consumer taxes. As an example they are third in the world for the cost of an I phone at almost a $1000 dollars per phone.

Everything else is expensive too. Food is expensive, shopping is expensive, drinking is expensive and affordable rent or property is almost impossible to find. With all that Denmark individual income tax is really high for a normal person it starts at about 50%.

Denmark’s historically high suicide rate has recently dropped which has been attributed to the increase in a widespread use of antidepressants which show Denmark with the highest rate of antidepressant use in their *brave new world* where their "happiness" comes from drugging the population and where euthanasia and assisted suicide are legal.

So the extra money you get in Denmark is just a subsidy to what the real cost of eating and living will be and it is not really free because the government just forces your neighbor to pay it.

If the Danish student actually knew the truth they would understand that they were born in debt, will work all their life paying off debt and die in debt leaving nothing but debt and perpetual bondage of debt for their own children.

Those who are willing to hear the whole truth give us hope. Those who do not want to hear the whole truth and provide for it condemn themselves.

And if they live in a Democracy where they are the majority they condemn the whole nation to systems of perpetual debt and control and "degenerate" the culture of their society until the "find once more a master and monarch" as Polybius warned.

You will find similar patterns throughout Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark.

In early America most schools were free including Harvard if you could not afford it. But this was because the people supported it with charity not forced taxes nor the burdening of society through student loans. In fact all our welfare was the result of charity. Charity and earning your way is what made America great. That is what the definition of Religion use to be.

The idea that something is free because the government gives it to you is the definition of insane. This is one of the main causes of the social ills of today and why Christ and Paul along with all the prophets make charity which is love one of the most important element of the Gospel of the Kingdom along with forgiveness.

Do not expect the powers of the world to forgive your debt or your children's debt. Forcing your neighbor through the power of government to pay for benefits you want is covetous. And applying to such Benefactors who exercise authority one over the other will make human resources of us all.

People should understand that public education is welfare and there are two types of welfare. One is by charity which strengthens society including the poor and the other is by force through Covetous Practices which weakens society, especially the poor, and results in tyranny and abuse.

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