If we're like Sweden....
Yesterday folks at Wonkette posted this great map in which the name of each state has been replaced with the name of the country that has a similar GDP to that state.
California comes out looking like France, which is sort of fitting.
North Carolina comes out like Sweden.
Sweden?
As a resident of North Carolina, a state in which I routinely see people with rickets and missing teeth, I have to ask, Where is all that money going?
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Children, can you say, "Inequitable distribution"?
I lived in Sweden for about two years during the nineties. It's about as solidly middle-class as a place could be. Hardly anyone is very rich, and hardly anyone is very poor. Most people are quite comfortable. I spent many pleasant hours wandering the many pleasant neighborhoods of Stockholm. I also rode the bus most days through what some Stockholmers consider a rough neighborhood (Rinkeby), and I had two friends who lived there, whom I visited occasionally. Rest assured, there are far worse neighborhoods in practically any town of over 100,000 people in the USA. Sweden is a very different country.
College basketball players.
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