[lsbskins1]

Some of your links do not work, but from what I can see, Sweden is doing just fine. Good, sustainable growth and nobody complaining too much. My favorite thing...the opinion pieces complaining that people aren't willing to just work three jobs in order to live when it really isn't necessary. Unless, of course, you have to support and maintain the wasteful lifestyle of someone else. But even the claims of Sweden's lack of economic performance are telling. They talk about productivity relative to the US economy and US workers. Know how US productivity is increased these days? Greater numbers working without benefit of insurance, greater workload and loss of other benefits. We are more productive not because we are more efficient, but because we are being squeezed more and more. So, I still think my model is better and nothing you have shown me has changed my mind.