On Tue, 12 Oct 1999 17:31:31 -0500 "John K. Taber" <jktaber at dhc.net>
writes:
>Doug posted the NYT article on Sweden:
>
><
>New York Times - October 8, 1999
>
>REBOUNDING SWEDEN DEFIES THE LAWS OF ECONOMIC GRAVITY
>By Edmund L. Andrews
>
>STOCKHOLM -- At a time when world leaders are fascinated by the
>United States' economic success and its credo of less government and
>low taxes, Sweden seems to be defying gravity.
>>
>
>I'm baffled, and I hope somebody can straighten me out.
>
>I seem to remember just a couple of years ago much crowing in the
>NYT (and WSJ) that Welfare State Sweden (or Socialist Sweden) had
>seen the error of its ways, and was busy ending the cradle to
>grave welfare state. Back to capitalism, as I remember. It had
>to get real, there is no alternative, and so on.
That was then, this is now.
>
>Now the NY Times says Sweden never left the welfare state.
You got me, it is almost enough to drive me into askong Bob Malecki about it.
>
>So what the hell was the story?
>
>And doesn't the NYT think I will have some memory of their
>previous stories, however vague? Or, does it not worry what
>I think?
I could be wrong but I don't think the editors of the NYT lose much sleep over what John Taber thinks. Hell, I don't they even lose much sleep over what Jim Farmelant thinks or even the revered Doug Henwood.
I suspect all this has more to do with politics back here in the USA rather than with what is going on or not going on in Sweden.
Jim Farmelant
>
>--
>Don't forget -- without gasoline, cigarettes, and booze, there would
>be
>no Paul Newman movies and as a nation, we would probably succumb
>to vegetarianism. And you don't want that. -- Max Sawicky
>
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