On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Venkat Inumella <[email protected]> wrote:
I find the culturally liberal Scandinavian systems to be too > socialistic with their high taxes and elaborate social security nets Well, if you measure outcomes, the Scandinavians have been doing very well in recent years by various economic and quality-of-life metrics. If it seems, by objective measures, to work, is it still "too socialistic"? > , and I > find the anti-gay, anti-abortion but pro-business brand of Republican > right-wingism(never mind their ineptitude) to be too culturally regressive. The problem is that a healthy society needs to have intelligent conservatives making their case. In the US, there don't seem to be any. -T > >
