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Despite its reputation as a showcase of political utopia, 40 percent of its adult population live on government transfer income, full-time, all-year.
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and what exactly does "full-time, all-year" mean? Does it mean they sit at home watching TV while the state pays the bills? Or does it mean they do work for a low pay and get extra funds provided by the state? The article doesn't say.
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In 1960, 91 percent of all women 30 years of age were married. Today, fewer than 50 percent are.
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So what?!
Jeez, is this guy a priest or something? What the heck does it matter if people marry or not? "Family support functions" my hind quarters! My parents never married but they've been happily living together for the last 25 years.
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If we next look at the crime level, the Danish Statistical Yearbook 2002 shows reported crimes from 1935 to 1960 to be stable: about 100,000 crimes per year. But from 1960 until today, the number of crime reports has increased by 500 percent, to more than 500,000 per year. And if we look at violent crime, the picture is even grimmer. The number of violent crimes in 1960 was approximately 2,000; it is approximately 15,000 today. This is an increase of more than 700 percent, and it is still rising steeply.
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So now let's
compare Danish crime rates with the US ones:
Danish/US
Murder:
4.03/
5.51
Rape:
9.32/
32.05
Robbery:
59.14/
144.92
Aggravated assault:
23.68/
323.62
Burglary:
1868.06/
728.42
Larceny:
1224.71/
2475.27
Motor vehicle theft:
604.18/
414.17
So Except for burglary and vehicle theft, rates in the US are much higher.
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Let's now look at education. Many people believe that if education were not provided by the government, only rich people could afford it. Let us compare Denmark to the U.S., where public funding of especially higher education is not nearly as readily available as it is in Denmark. According to the report "Education at a Glance" from the OECD, 15 percent of people between the ages of 25 and 64 has a bachelor degree or more in Denmark. In the U.S.A., it is 26 percent—nearly twice as many. In Sweden, the number is 13 percent, and Norway 16 percent.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Index
Denmark = no. 3
USA = no. 20
So in response to your
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Originally Posted by Bubblehead1980
This is why we must not allow the US to go this way.....
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I can only say; this is why European countries must not go the US way
