In Sweden, GDP grew at a rate of 6.1% in 2010, and 3.9% in 2011.   The same numbers here were 3% and 1.7%.  The unemployment rate in Sweden  is 7.5%.  How did they manage that in Europe, where things are actually worse off economically than they are here?

                                                         Swedish girls, yuck!  

They did it by cutting taxes, cutting welfare, and by deregulating the economy.  Further, they didn't go on a binge of borrowing like virtually everyone else did.

They recognized that the welfare state model would not work, and that they needed to return to the policies that made the country wealthy.

So much for the prototypical European welfare state!  Perhaps this is a lesson that the tax and spend liberals over here might want to emulate.  In fact, the government in this state should change course and copy seek to copy the Swedish success, before it really is too late.