Now after I read Haddas's reply, it struck me...
Finland has no freedom. You know, we all go to school, eat the food given to us. After that was try and get into a uni, some people don't because the tests are hard on certain occasions. Then after we go to work. Umm... some people don't get work and live on social security until they find one. When you grow old you get pensioned and start getting all, well, illnesses, well these you have always. So basically you go to hospital. The school and the food there is paid by taxes. The unis are paid with taxes. The social security money for jobless people and pensioned is paid by... taxes, and the health care is paid by taxes.
Ã, Ã, Now I get this doesn't sound quite free. It's silly having to be the one to pay for other people being old or getting sick or educated. Think of it, say for example in USA, at school you get to decide werther to eat the food that's sold at schools or the food you want to buy. Then you can go to uni if you will... pay for it. Which is understandable, hey, the American dream, you can go as up as you will, just a bit of cash here and there will help. AND, you get to decide if you want to have health care or not. we don't, we all pay for it, you can deicide if you want the insurance or not. Or, if you don't WANT to pay for it, why not die, you have the freedom to do that.
On one thing I find Finland more free though. In here, if you murder someone as your first crime, you get something 7 years, if you're underaged, correct me if I'm wrong. And in the USA 10% of black young men are in prisons. Now I understand this completely. Hey, they had the freedom to choose between being a corporate chief or a drugdealer/killer, it's their fault.
What is truly unfair, that the rich make more money as they deserve, they're better beings, but for christs sake, they have to pay more taxes. Now I raise my voice for their rights, come on, after taxes they still get more money, but they should get even more. After all, it's their right as better beings. It's called progressive taxing, as a poor, I like it, but some poeple don't... now I don't see this killing of freedom everywhere.
Oh yeah, I forgot. We have compulsory DEFENCE forces for men at 18, as does Switzerland. basically, we do our service in 6-12 months, some fools more. That's just discrimination. But USA for that matter, they have ATTACKING forces full of poor people who have decided to live the american dream. You knew, the army pays for the education, and if they're not willing to pay (cheap bastards) the least they can do is go and kill themselves for the others who have money. Now that's freedom. I'm surprised how sad things are here in Finland. I claim for one that Finland could never be as free as the United States of America. Well at least we're not in NATO yet... which actually would make us a perfect subject for terrorist bombing.
enough said
Finland has no freedom. You know, we all go to school, eat the food given to us. After that was try and get into a uni, some people don't because the tests are hard on certain occasions. Then after we go to work. Umm... some people don't get work and live on social security until they find one. When you grow old you get pensioned and start getting all, well, illnesses, well these you have always. So basically you go to hospital. The school and the food there is paid by taxes. The unis are paid with taxes. The social security money for jobless people and pensioned is paid by... taxes, and the health care is paid by taxes.
Ã, Ã, Now I get this doesn't sound quite free. It's silly having to be the one to pay for other people being old or getting sick or educated. Think of it, say for example in USA, at school you get to decide werther to eat the food that's sold at schools or the food you want to buy. Then you can go to uni if you will... pay for it. Which is understandable, hey, the American dream, you can go as up as you will, just a bit of cash here and there will help. AND, you get to decide if you want to have health care or not. we don't, we all pay for it, you can deicide if you want the insurance or not. Or, if you don't WANT to pay for it, why not die, you have the freedom to do that.
On one thing I find Finland more free though. In here, if you murder someone as your first crime, you get something 7 years, if you're underaged, correct me if I'm wrong. And in the USA 10% of black young men are in prisons. Now I understand this completely. Hey, they had the freedom to choose between being a corporate chief or a drugdealer/killer, it's their fault.
What is truly unfair, that the rich make more money as they deserve, they're better beings, but for christs sake, they have to pay more taxes. Now I raise my voice for their rights, come on, after taxes they still get more money, but they should get even more. After all, it's their right as better beings. It's called progressive taxing, as a poor, I like it, but some poeple don't... now I don't see this killing of freedom everywhere.
Oh yeah, I forgot. We have compulsory DEFENCE forces for men at 18, as does Switzerland. basically, we do our service in 6-12 months, some fools more. That's just discrimination. But USA for that matter, they have ATTACKING forces full of poor people who have decided to live the american dream. You knew, the army pays for the education, and if they're not willing to pay (cheap bastards) the least they can do is go and kill themselves for the others who have money. Now that's freedom. I'm surprised how sad things are here in Finland. I claim for one that Finland could never be as free as the United States of America. Well at least we're not in NATO yet... which actually would make us a perfect subject for terrorist bombing.
enough said
There's no such difference between people's PUBLIC opinions, but you know, the gap is the reason we are losing the so called nordic welfare that some societies so like about us.
a bit annoying though
