make America great like Norway

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  1. Belch

    Belch Well-Known Member

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    You can try emulatinng Norway in your state. Let us know how it goes.
     
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    And by “state”, you mean sovereign state, right?
     
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    Giftedone Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Why would I go to Norway - my life is here. Just because Norway is an example of successful socialist policies does not mean one would want to move there... Its damn cold for starters.
     
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    No, whatever state the OP lives in. They have a state government for a reason, so... have fun!
     
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  5. Arkanis

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    LoL

    I'm Canadian.
     
  6. Belch

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    Connsidering Trudeau, I'd be embarrassed to admit to being Canadian.
     
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    Texas Republican Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Idiotic comment. Truly stupid.
     
  8. garyd

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    Because you insist on importing more people and adding to the welfare rolls and the homeless population.
     
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    My favorite was when the boys hit an moose on that bridge.
     
  10. JakeStarkey

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    That is an assertion with no evidence and correlation at all.

    Dismissed.
     
  11. garyd

    garyd Well-Known Member

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    Not Socialist mixed and not ver thoroughly. Without petro dollars they are greece2.0.
     
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    There should be a rule that if you're going to compare the United States to any other nation, that nation has to have at minimum 100 million people.
     
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    Hmm... Norway is how big? 5.2 Million people? Oh, and their economy runs on what again? Oil you say... Gosh... that seems progressive...:roflol:
     
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    Wrong Norway is essentially stable population wise, we aren't. The more people you import with no useable job skills. The lower the average income will be.
     
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    And at least half the physical area.
     
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    Sure, just allow us to control illegal immigration, deport all the illegal aliens, so they no longer sponge off our generous social welfare programs.

    I just wonder how high the poverty rate in Norway, with almost half the population of New York city, would be if they had 10 million illegal aliens, living at the poverty level.
     
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    You mean the places that went from having no terror attacks to lots of them?

    The crime increase in the UK is spectacular.
     
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    They only have 13% of the population who are not white. The do not nationalize one million foreigners as citizens each year like the US does.

    In 2008 Norway granted 10,000 foreigners Norwegian citizenship each year, and they only have 15,000 illegal aliens.
     
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    As Finn, I like to live in Norway - it's very similar to Finland, but economy and some other things are way better. Landscape is so nice in Norway, coastline is really long (I live near sea so...). If I think America, it's too different, maybe because I'm used to our social security and health care, public transport is also really good in here (at morning 8-10 busses / hour go via my closest bus stop, I don't even have driving licence. My guess is that America is "having car is the thing", places like LA can be a 'one big traffic jam' (just my imagination). Still.. I like to visit America one day and compare things, actually I like to know what we should learn from America.
     
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    Get back to us when Norway is a superpower. Simply put, Norway isn't great, and hasn't been a significant global player since Vikings were raping and pillaging...
     
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    ... As in the United States.

    Even if we added up all the deaths from terrorism across Europe over the past 10 years, it would be difficult to match the victims of the shootings in US in a single year.

    So terrible.

    Hommicide rate:

    UK: 1.2
    USA: 4.2

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate
     
  22. garyd

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    And it was nearly double that twenty years ago. Our crime rates have dropped drastically since 1995, yours are largely unchanged.
     
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    It's not my fault that so many mass shootings take place in Democrat counties.

    But yeah let's check that. How about 2016?

    https://www.politico.eu/article/ter...2016-highest-in-over-decade-report-terrorism/

    European terror attack deaths: From January 1 to July - 143

    http://time.com/4965022/deadliest-mass-shooting-us-history/

    US mass shooting deaths: 71 (which of course includes our terror attacks)

    Seems you're wrong.

    Don't worry about the UK, they're catching up.
     
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    Tell that to the disingenuous right wing. Our welfare clause is General not our defense clause.
     
  25. EyesWideOpen

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    It's silly to compare European countries with a population of 4 million, to the USA with a population of over 300 million. European and Scandinavian countries are more like our 50 states.

    https://crimeresearch.org/2018/03/f...ke-comparing-mass-public-shootings-us-europe/

    Norway has a population of about 5 million people. Seven states in the US have populations between 4.4 million (Kentucky) and 5.7 million (Wisconsin). The other states are Louisiana (4.7 million), Alabama (4.9 million), South Carolina (4.9 million), Colorado (5.5 million), and Minnesota (5.5 million). Three of those states had no mass public shootings. The other four each had one mass public shooting, just like Norway. The big difference is that those seven states had a total of 33 deaths from mass public shootings, while Norway had 69. Even if you look at the mass public shootings in all the ten states between 4 and 7 million, the total number of deaths from mass public shootings is 48, with a total population of 78.5 million. Their total population is 15.5 times greater than Norway’s.
     
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