>Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>> Well there's always the old Swedish system. If you couldn't work you
>> were treated generously, but if you could work, every effort was made
>> to find you a job, and if one wasn't available, one was created. It
>> wasn't cheap - it cost something like 2% of GDP - $200 billion in the
>> U.S. - but it was popular.
>
>I don't know why you use the past tense.
Because lots has happened in Sweden over the last few years, and it had been a while since I'd looked into it. (Income distribution has gotten a lot worse, for example.) So I was being cautious & using the past tense.
Doug