Prime Minister of Sweden from 1991 to 1994, Carl Bildt, took to Twitter to warn Sanders that socialism is not the key to creating a great society as he and Ocasio-Cortez seem to think.
After old footage showing Sanders and his wife, Jane, praising the Soviet Union for its programs targeting the youth went viral online, Bildt responded by saying “Sanders was lucky to be able to get to the Soviet Union in 1988 and praise all its stunning socialist achievements before the entire system and empire collapsed under the weight of its own spectacular failures.”
To the former prime minister, the damage socialism can cause is still fresh in his memory. After all, he was the first prime minister in 60 years to not subscribe to the ideology. And thanks to him, Sweden’s capital gains taxes were cut to 30 percent and corporate taxes to 28 percent.
Bildt also privatized several state-owned industries, deregulated multiple sectors of the economy, allowed people to invest portions of their pension, and introduced school choice policies, improving the country’s education system.
After Bildt, Sweden, which had completely lost its host of entrepreneurs thanks to business taxes that sometimes exceeded the 100 percent mark, once again flourished. Even as Social Democrat successor Ingvar Carlsson took over.
Carl gives Socialism the stink eye.
Seeing the wonderful changes just a few years worth of reform had done, Carlsson kept Bildt’s policies in place. And business start-ups rose nearly 25 percent as a result.
Apparently even the Swedes know from first hand experience that a prostrate economy and a devastated society is the natural result of socialism gone wild, as Bern and Ay-awk want to see.
Then again, there are none so blind as those who choose not to see.
We, as responsible American citizens, must vote these charlatans out of power, and dedicate ourselves to making sure they never get their greasy, dirty hands even near the country's government controls ever again.
Despite the lecture Bernie won't stray one iota from the Marxist path. It's all about control.
ReplyDeleteControl of "the little people" by the rich and powerful, the elite class...."Do as we say, not as we do"....first thought comes to mind upon hearing that is Al, Gore, DiCaprio, Clintons, any democrat in DC....
DeleteYeaaahh, voting. I guess, technically, that is one way to get rid of socialism.......
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If voting would actually change anything, they wouldn't let us do it.
DeletePractice your Hangmans knot.
I’ve always heard it as:
DeleteSure - you can vote yourselves into Socialism but you’ll have to shoot to get yourselves out of it.
I borrowed this and posted it on Newsbusters....thanks....
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