Edumacate me, Miko. I thought I was responding to Crab's consistant "Hahaha! Your economy is going in the toilet!" theme.
Yes, you said stuff like "You're obsessed with the US, that's for darn sure.". So what if he is concerned with US because his tiny country loaned us 16 billion dollars - which were once worth much more than they are today. Also because we spout idiocies about democracy, free market, prosperity, peacefullness and virtues of exports while doing exactly opposite in all those respects.
We are a big country. Once we discredit all those concepts, the human civilisation will take quite a while if ever to warm up to them again.
16 billion is about $2000 for every soul in Sweden - after all the money is taken from and repaid to people. That would be like a $533 billion for a country of our size. Since the debt was accumulated over time and dollar was more valuable, it may well be a trillion dollar's or more worth in today's money.
I bet if US was owed a trillion by Sweden, and Sewden was still going down the financial hole, you would believe yourself entitled to some opinion on how lousy workers and poor managers those people were...
assessment of his posts to infer he is quite pleased when the US economy looks bleak,
We do tend to boast how well we live and thus how right we are, forgetting that over a quarter of our consumption is supplied by foreigners and most of our growth is financed by them. And that much of our accumulated wealth was paid for by foreignerd on who's obligations we've defaulted.
When one steals and then uses aquired wealth as a proof of inherent virtue and correct action, realistically thinking people are justified to at least enjoy the correctness of their previous predictions.
Heck, truth of the matter is I can go whole years without once thinking of Sweden, insignificant as it is on the world stage.
Right, that's what I said. Your government already took their money, so now they can just bug off...
miko
