The Horror

[Iaintliein]

Water, water everywhere, yet not a drop to drink. How horrible is dying of thirst? Let alone doing so while surrounded by your fellow man, in a place of "healing". All those Europhiles who think we dumb provincials should follow suite, please go without water or other fluids for a 24 hour period and report back to us.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/he...tal-wards.html

[gnadfly]

In the US, its called "hospice care."

[theaustinescorts]

Norway has totally socialized medicine and high taxes and it's per capita income is THREE TIMES that of the US.

Norway declined to join the Euro, and it's economy is the only one growing in all of Europe.

Norway is the richest country in the world.....It's Soverign Wealth Fund is now worth 700 billion dollars and still growing.

They never invested in derivitives, mortgage-backed securities, or other shams.

They have more wealth than Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Abu Dabai combined.

They've been ruled by socialist labor parties since 1910.

But they are a united people of honest citizens who don't lie, cheat or steal like Americans do.

Their system would never work in this hopeless country of scoundrels and malfactors.

The U.S. is a polyglot combine of different groups and classes all trying to take from each other. Without unity of purpose no country can achieve anything. There's no "invisible hand" that makes all this selfishness produce anything but unhappiness and chaos and crime.

[Guest123018-4]

Why dont you check and see what the rate of government spending is to the GDP of Norway and see if the amount of spending by the government has not gone down significantly.
Really bad example, do you think we could reduce spenmding by that much?

[Whirlaway]

Like most countries the left admires, Norway is mono-cultural. They pay lip service to the religion of multi-culturalism, but remain largely white north European.........they have little dysfunctional behaviors in their society.

[WTF]

Originally Posted by Whirlaway

Like most countries the left admires, Norway is mono-cultural. They pay lip service to the religion of multi-culturalism, but remain largely white north European.........they have little dysfunctional behaviors in their society.

They have oil and they put that profit from that oil into a Soverign Wealth Fund for all its people. That SWF is the envy of the investment community.

You righties are idiots for commenting on things you know so little of. Read Richard Lewis , I believe, he has a nice chapter on them in a book whose title escapes me.

[i'va biggen]

It was decided long ago medicine would be a profit making endeavor,seeing we live in a capitalistic society.

[dilbert firestorm]

Originally Posted by theaustinescorts

Norway has totally socialized medicine and high taxes and it's per capita income is THREE TIMES that of the US.

Norway declined to join the Euro, and it's economy is the only one growing in all of Europe.

Norway is the richest country in the world.....It's Soverign Wealth Fund is now worth 700 billion dollars and still growing.

They never invested in derivitives, mortgage-backed securities, or other shams.

They have more wealth than Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Abu Dabai combined.

They've been ruled by socialist labor parties since 1910.

But they are a united people of honest citizens who don't lie, cheat or steal like Americans do.

Their system would never work in this hopeless country of scoundrels and malfactors.

The U.S. is a polyglot combine of different groups and classes all trying to take from each other. Without unity of purpose no country can achieve anything. There's no "invisible hand" that makes all this selfishness produce anything but unhappiness and chaos and crime.

norway is an exception to the norm regarding the way socialism works.

[I B Hankering]

Originally Posted by theaustinescorts

The U.S. is a polyglot combine of different groups and classes all trying to take from each other. Without unity of purpose no country can achieve anything. There's no "invisible hand" that makes all this selfishness produce anything but unhappiness and chaos and crime.

Your words echo Hitler's. You remember Hitler? He's the one that conquered Norway early on during WWII and then was in turn defeated by the overwhelming power of the U.S. military and the industrial complex that supplied the Allies.

[joe bloe]

Originally Posted by theaustinescorts

Norway has totally socialized medicine and high taxes and it's per capita income is THREE TIMES that of the US.

Norway declined to join the Euro, and it's economy is the only one growing in all of Europe.

Norway is the richest country in the world.....It's Soverign Wealth Fund is now worth 700 billion dollars and still growing.

They never invested in derivitives, mortgage-backed securities, or other shams.

They have more wealth than Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Abu Dabai combined.

They've been ruled by socialist labor parties since 1910.

But they are a united people of honest citizens who don't lie, cheat or steal like Americans do.

Their system would never work in this hopeless country of scoundrels and malfactors.

The U.S. is a polyglot combine of different groups and classes all trying to take from each other. Without unity of purpose no country can achieve anything. There's no "invisible hand" that makes all this selfishness produce anything but unhappiness and chaos and crime.

Norway is tiny, fewer than five million people. It's barely even a country. The United States is 64 times larger in population. Why not tell us about the glories of Monaco or Lichtenstein?

For the record, here are the ten richest countries in the world, according to Forbes Magazine, in order from first to last:

Qatar, Luxembourg, Singapore, Norway, Brunei, United Arab Emirates, The United States, Hong Kong, Switzerland and the Netherlands.

Norway is fourth richest. The United States is seventh richest and is the only country of any significant size on the list. If we carved off San Francisco and called it a country, I bet it would be extremely rich.

http://urbanpeek.com/2012/03/09/the-...tries-in-2012/

[Guest032516]

Originally Posted by theaustinescorts

Norway has totally socialized medicine and high taxes and it's per capita income is THREE TIMES that of the US.

Norway declined to join the Euro, and it's economy is the only one growing in all of Europe.

Norway is the richest country in the world.....It's Soverign Wealth Fund is now worth 700 billion dollars and still growing.

They never invested in derivitives, mortgage-backed securities, or other shams.

They have more wealth than Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Abu Dabai combined.

They've been ruled by socialist labor parties since 1910.

But they are a united people of honest citizens who don't lie, cheat or steal like Americans do.

Their system would never work in this hopeless country of scoundrels and malfactors.

The U.S. is a polyglot combine of different groups and classes all trying to take from each other. Without unity of purpose no country can achieve anything. There's no "invisible hand" that makes all this selfishness produce anything but unhappiness and chaos and crime.

When you have a shit load of oil and a very small population, you have lots of money per capita.

Take away the oil and Norway, Brunei, and the United Arab Emirates fall WAY down the list of wealthy nations.

[Sidewinder]

Originally Posted by ekim008

It was decided long ago medicine would be a profit making endeavor,seeing we live in a capitalistic society.

Ekim, you are, as usual, an IDIOT.

No matter how you choose to deliver medical care, it is necessary to pay the costs of the care. Those costs include cost of education of the practitioners, costs of building, maintaining, and operating facilities, living expenses of the practitioners, consumable supplies, you name it.

You can call it "profit-making", or you can call it "covering the costs and providing reserve for growth, expansion, modernization". Either way, the costs MUST be covered.

It is not reasonable to expect doctors and nurses to pay for the privilege of working at their callings. You can say they are appreciated and respected, but that doesn't put food on their tables, and it doesn't pay to heat their homes, and it doesn't cover the cost of their continuing education.

[TheDaliLama]

they have good wood in Norway.