I keep hearing the "In Scandinavia they have blah, blah, blah" and how we should copy them.
It isn't that simple. It's like telling a short person to grow taller. Europe is made up of old countries with centuries of history, ethics and culture. Available land was non-existent.
North America is new and until about a hundred years ago reasonable land was to a degree, there for the asking. A hundred years later the only cheap or free land is in moose pasture.
A century and a half ago a guy could wander off into the bush with an ax, shovel, rifle and bag of seeds and a year or two later have a cabin in a clearing with a garden and some furs to sell. Moving to the city fifty years later, he could get a job in any number of occupations as few required more than basic reading and math skills.
Fast forward another fifty years and the jobs at the mill are more complex and following in dad's shoes of minimal education doesn't work anymore.
"But I have the right to a job so I can afford a house, car, toys and trophy wife". We have rested too long on our laurels, forgetting to include responsibility in our lifestyles. Try backing that truck-train down a narrow political alley.
Our politicians have long since stopped being our guardians and have taken the easier route of being the equivalents of drug pushers. What you want, not what you need is what gets them elected.
I'm a socialist at heart but when there is no hope of continuing down the welfare road some triage decisions will have to be made. If it's OK to dump a high failure rate person in the ditch because of Covid is it unreasonable to do the same for those that can't help themselves socially?
Sadly that includes those that are in those positions due to abuse by others. How do we fix that?
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