tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893272060787897238.post4446486436825538197..comments2024-03-19T08:42:45.690-04:00Comments on The Delaware Libertarian: Watching freedom evaporateSteven H. Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09097470960863103473noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893272060787897238.post-33633906166707670152012-12-29T12:49:41.256-05:002012-12-29T12:49:41.256-05:00Dana
I agree with this comment completely. I thi...Dana<br /><br />I agree with this comment completely. I think there are different kinds of government "bloat." While I am obviously not favor of scandinavian style socialism, these countries are remarkably free from the crushing military and domestic security expenditures that lead to political repression of the press and to massive government intrusion into our private lives.<br /><br />Those lessons we can certainly learn, especially from the Finns.<br /><br />However, there is another complicating factor in such analysis--I think that the general ethnic homgeneity that has marked these nations until about the last ten years also has a lot to do with press freedom. I note that as the first waves of immigrants into Scandinavia from the Middle East and North Africa have arrived, the system (and the native population) are having the same problems absorbing them as the rest of Europe or the US are having, albeit at a much reduced scale.Steven H. Newtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09097470960863103473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893272060787897238.post-76349563638088674532012-12-29T11:49:23.023-05:002012-12-29T11:49:23.023-05:00Allow me to point out how well many of the Scandin...Allow me to point out how well many of the Scandinavian social democracies scored in press freedoms in spite of their so–called bloated national governments. Delaware Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13619357338844485803noreply@blogger.com