Author Topic: I'm Not Moving to Scandanavia After All... (Read 2510 times)

Steve · « **Reply #75 on:** April 18, 2005, 12:01:55 PM »

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but I have read many posts on this board by people claming they need them to feel safe in their own home or when walking the streets.

Really? Show me a few of these many posts.

Airhead · « **Reply #76 on:** April 18, 2005, 12:05:33 PM »

If you ever visit America (especially Texas) don't wear that hat or someone will shoot you.

Nilsen · « **Reply #77 on:** April 18, 2005, 12:10:09 PM »

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Originally posted by Airhead
If you ever visit America (especially Texas) don't wear that hat or someone will shoot you.

So I would need a gun to defend myself if I went to texas wearing it?

rabbidrabbit · « **Reply #78 on:** April 18, 2005, 12:28:01 PM »

There was a spell of crazed killer hats invading Texas a few years ago. That makes folks like Airhead a but jumpy. just tell them that yours is an sleek new Euro import and they will be flustered.

Nilsen · « **Reply #79 on:** April 18, 2005, 12:49:13 PM »

Should I wear a sign so the snipers get the message too?

Siaf__csf · « **Reply #80 on:** April 18, 2005, 01:23:35 PM »

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How is teaching your whole nation of young people to be parasites good?

Nobody said it was good, but it's a far better option than driving the same people to crime or on the street.

The governments are slowly waking up to this and start to set mandatory community service etc. to get them to move thier asses.

I was in the above situation for 3-4 years after I finished my military service. I had no direction or a job for that matter.

Now I'm the second biggest shareholder in a software company (after going through about 10 different professions in between.) The government helped me to get to my feet once, now it's time to pay it back. I have no problem with it really.

-spawn · « **Reply #81 on:** April 18, 2005, 01:34:30 PM »

Not to demean your situation, but two points:

1) People aren't typically driven to commit crimes. They choose to commit them.

2) I was probably just as directionless as you were after I finished college. However, I didn't end up on the dole. I went out and got a job.

sling322 · « **Reply #82 on:** April 18, 2005, 01:51:25 PM »

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Originally posted by -spawn
Not to demean your situation, but two points:

1) People aren't typically driven to commit crimes. They choose to commit them.

2) I was probably just as directionless as you were after I finished college. However, I didn't end up on the dole. I went out and got a job.

Beat me to it Spawn. I get absolutely livid when I hear folks make comments about how society drives people to commit crimes or become drug addicts or whatever. Its not society....its a personal choice made by the individual who did the action. In my opinion, people spend too much time trying to find blame for the situations they are in and not enough time taking responsibility for the situations that they caused themselves to end up in.

Siaf__csf · « **Reply #83 on:** April 18, 2005, 01:53:31 PM »

Spawn it's a fact that many people are driven to crime because of thier living conditions.

It's not always possible to find a job immediately and you got to eat and pay the rent. Once a person gets hungry enough - or once a person listens to his child cry hunger for a day or two, crime starts to feel very appealing trust me.

Would I have been employed faster if I didn't have the option for benefits? Sure.

I could have lost my appartment in the process, though, and end up in the streets forever. It's extremely hard to find a job if you've slept on the street for a week with dirty smelling body odor and broken clothes.

rabbidrabbit · « **Reply #84 on:** April 18, 2005, 02:22:19 PM »

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Originally posted by Nilsen
Should I wear a sign so the snipers get the message too?

Yup!

Heeres ur sign!

slimm50 · « **Reply #85 on:** April 18, 2005, 02:40:04 PM »

So, is there an upper class, or upper middle class in Norway, or is everyone pretty much relegated to the same economic level, with no hope of achieving wealth through honest, hard work, like here in America?

Whew...long sentence.

lazs2 · « **Reply #86 on:** April 18, 2005, 02:44:01 PM »

geeze what a wussy bunch... you guys feel that without everyone paying for you that you would be dead or on the streets? that you can't make it on your own so you have to pay the hugely ineficient government to take care of you cradle to grave? You feel that you must be punished every day with high taxation?

All that would be great if you would allow those who want nothing to do with it to simply opt out.

lazs

Toad · « **Reply #87 on:** April 18, 2005, 02:46:27 PM »

What and let the hard workers prosper to the max extent of their abilities???

Wash your mouth out with soap!

Siaf__csf · « **Reply #88 on:** April 18, 2005, 02:52:27 PM »

It's undoubtly as hard for you to understand our society as it's hard for us to understand yours.

As I said, anyone has the option to leave to a country like US if they're greedy and after big bucks. They'll be welcomed back for thier retirement or after losing it all in US.

Many people choose to return here after thier professional careers for some reason. They must like the inefficient system for some reason.

Heck, even scandinavian ice hockey pro's who earn millions in NHL return to local hospitals for operations. They must love the inefficient and bad healthcare system of ours.

Toad · « **Reply #89 on:** April 18, 2005, 02:54:00 PM »

Do I understand that right? Only the "greedy" ones want to prosper to the max extent of their abilities? And if so, they should move to the US?

Can you clarify?