----- Original Message ----- From: "Seth Ackerman" <sia at nyc.rr.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 12:40 PM Subject: Re: Who Does No Work, Shall Not Eat
> I don't know why you use the past tense. I think Sween still spend
something
> like 2% of GDP on active labor market policies. Taxes are still the
highest
> in the OECD - 52.2% of GDP. And unemployment is currently 5.0% according
to
> the OECD's standardized concept - which, I believe, counts all make-work
> jobs as unemployed.
>
> Seth
I've always admired Swedish social democracy... My question is, why should we think that we would attain more with an alternate model (in respect to social democracy; not liberal capitalism)?
-- Luke