Sweden

An old cowboy once said "I came to the desert to change it and was changed by it."

We are not a product of our environment as much as we are a product of our thinking but our thinking is often a byproduct of how we live and react in our environment.

The Art of Fooling the Swedish People Posted on October 28, 2013 by Baron Bodissey "The “Swedish model” was not replicable in most other societies, because it relied on a peculiarly Swedish set of cultural virtues: industriousness, thrift, honesty, intelligence, integrity, and a general trust in one’s fellow man."

Bold textDoes Sweden's nanny state only work in Sweden? Jun 30th 2009, 17:29 by Charlemagne

"EARLIER today, I attempted to ponder the angst of liberals in Sweden, a country that combines a vast public sector, and a style of life that looks hugely enviable to outsiders."

Are the Swedish people being changed by their expanding Folkhemmet.

"Sweden is a semi-socialist country that started to fail already in the mid 1970ies, and was hurled into a serious crisis in the early 1990:ies, which it has still not recovered from."

"The country is probably also one of the least democractic and most politicaly corrupt countries in the Western world."

"In recent years the spotlessly clean stainless steel and glass cities [of Sweden] have been slowly transforming into shabby, crime-ridden third world hellholes surrounded by ghettoes where the police, fire brigade and ambulance services dare not go except in force." read why

The Sleeping Mouse August 14, 2012 By Celia Farber

“...The erection of ...“Folk Hemmet,“ and what it was all about–the Utopian dream of the Social Democrats, to build a perfect country that would have everything going for it except the quality perhaps of being a country. [Identity, free will, destiny.]"