9 Crucial Ways Denmark is Superior to the US

[Billy000]

We do, that's why we are better than Denmark.

Sure. In many ways we are. Just not in the ways I listed.

 

[Independent thinker]

Sure. In many ways we are. Just not in the ways I listed.

And I'm sure that there are many countries in the world that are much better at handling cobras than we are. So what?

 

[surada]

How is that relevant? The US is better than Denmark, that's why our economy is better. If Denmark were better then they would be better, which they aren't. Illegals are flocking across our border nonstop. They aren't doing that in Denmark.

I have been to Denmark many times. We used to stay with a family in Copenhagen. They had bicycles for us to ride. It's just a beautiful country and so clean. We could have solved illegal immigration years ago.

All you have to do is expand E-verify and fine employers who hire illegals. Most will self-deport within 6 months.

Big fines. Worked like a charm in Arabia and they had a huge problem with illegals.

 

[HikerGuy83]

The evidence is quite compelling. Repubs like to think that both they, and the US, is superior to anyone else in the world but the truth is countries like Denmark are really just laughing at them.

1) Unemployed workers get 90% of their previous salary for two years.

Denmark has a tremendous social safety net for unemployed workers — any worker who worked at least 52 weeks over a three-year period can qualify to have 90 percent of their original salarypaid for, for up to two years. The Danish government also has plentiful training programs for out-of-work Danes. As a result, 73 percent of Danes between 15 and 64 have a paying job, compared to 67 percent of Americans.

2) Denmark spends far less on healthcare than the US does.

According to the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), the US spends twice as much per capita on healthcare than in Denmark, where taxpayer-funded universal healthcare is available for all citizens.2009 OECD data shows that the U.S. spent an average of $7,290 per person on healthcare. Denmark spent just $3,512. World Bank data, as seen in the chart above, shows Danish healthcare costs are about $3,000 less per capita than in the US.

3) Denmark is the happiest place on Earth

The World Happiness Report, which determines which nation’s population is the “happiest” using criteria like life expectancy, GDP, social safety nets, as well as factors like “perception of corruption” and “freedom to make life choices,” found that Denmark was the happiest country. The US, in the meantime, ranked #17 on the same list.

4)Denmark has the shortest work week on average.

Denmark leads every other OECD nation in work-life balance. Danes work an average of 37 hours a week, earn an average of $46,000 USD annually, and have the right to 5 weeks of paid vacation per year. Here in the US, the average worker puts in an average of 47 hours a week, and only takes 16 days of vacation a year. This is largely due to a more stressful work climate, in which wages are stagnating while costs are rising. Combine that with a highly-competitive job market, and that means more Americans are willing to chain themselves to their desk then to risk taking vacation days and coming back to find someone else took their job.

5) Denmark pays students $900 per month to attend college.

Here in the US, the cost of going to college has soared by over 500 percent in the last 30 years. But in Denmark, not only is college free, but students are actually paid $900 USD per month to go to school, provided they live on their own. And this funding lasts up to six years. By contrast, the average US student pays over $31,000 a year in tuition to attend a private university, out-of-state residents at public universities pay $22,000 a year in tuition, and tuition costs for in-state residents at those same universities is still over $9,000.

6) Denmark has one of the highest per capita incomes in the world.

In Denmark, despite a short work week and a generous social safety net, workers make more than enough to meet basic needs. According to per capita income data from the World Bank, Denmark’s per capita income is roughly $5,000 higher than in the US.

7) Denmark has one of the lowest poverty rates. The US has one of the highest.

The benefits of living in Denmark are far-reaching — out of all OECD countries, Denmark has the second-lowest poverty rate at 0.6 percent. To compare, the OECD average of 11.3 percent is still lower than the 14.5 percent poverty rate in the US.

8) Denmark is rated #1 for best country for business

In 2014, Forbes ranked Denmark as the #1 best country for business.

Forbes used 11 different criteria to rank countries — innovation, property rights, red tape, taxes, investor protection, stock market performance, technology, corruption, personal freedom, freedom of trade, and monetary freedom.

Under the same criteria, the US ranked #18.

9) New parents in Denmark get 52 weeks of paid leave. US parents don't get shit.

The Danish government gives new parents an average of 52 weeks — a full year — of paid time off after having a child. Those 52 weeks can be allocated however the parents wish. In addition to the 52 weeks, new moms get 4 weeks of maternity leave before giving birth and 14 weeks after. Even new fathers get 2 additional weeks after the birth of their child. But here in the US, 1 in 4 new mothers go back to work within two weeks of having a child.

This is what Democratic Socialism really looks like. Is this the dystopian nightmare that Republicans are making it out to be, or an ideal vision of what Americans could have if we came together and demanded it from our government?


Here are 9 reasons Denmark's socialist economy leaves the US in the dust

George Lakey, author of Viking Economics, says that Americans generally misunderstand the nature of the Nordic model, commenting: "Americans imagine that "welfare state" means the U.S. welfare system on steroids. Actually, the Nordics scrapped their American-style welfare system at least 60 years ago, and substituted universal services, which means everyone – rich and poor – gets free higher education, free medical services, free eldercare, etc."[116]

In a speech at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, the centre-right Danish prime minister from the conservative-liberal Venstre party, addressed the American misconception that the Nordic model is a form of socialism, which is conflated with any form of planned economy, stating: "I know that some people in the US associate the Nordic model with some sort of socialism. Therefore, I would like to make one thing clear. Denmark is far from a socialist planned economy. Denmark is a market economy."[117]

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Wishful dumbass Billy000. At it again. Sweden is well known for having moved more towards capitalism (even though they were capitalistic to start with.

Moron.

 

[Independent thinker]

I have been to Denmark many times. We used to stay with a family in Copenhagen. They had bicycles for us to ride. It's just a beautiful country and so clean. We could have solved illegal immigration years ago.

All you have to do is expand E-verify and fine employers who hire illegals. Most will self-deport within 6 months.

Big fines. Worked like a charm in Arabia and they had a huge problem with illegals.

Democrats are hiring illegals. Guess mayors, governors, and the like aren't using e-verify.

 

[HikerGuy83]

It is absurd to suggest that our nation is incapable of emulating European nations.

Why would we want to.

We have 50 mini nations that are free to chose as they want. Why push the same idea on everyone ?

 

[HikerGuy83]

Only an idiot like you wouldn't see the connection between all these wonderful things in Denmark and having only a small, limited number of people all high on production and not all lazy welfare blacks and illegals sucking off the taxpayer, a low debt unlike the massive one Obama ran up, and a very high tax rate which is the only part you libs agree with. Denmark takes all your money then give you back some of it in benefits. Nice.

The Nordic nations have a great culture. One I wish we would explore more.

They value things such as hard work and work-life balance.

From what I've been told, they don't have a lot of free-loaders.

I have been looking for more on the idea of what they call SISU

From Wiki:

Sisu is a Finnish word variously translated as stoic determination, tenacity of purpose, grit, bravery, resilience,[1] and hardiness.[2] It is held by Finns to express their national character. It is generally considered[by whom?] not to have a single-word literal equivalent in English (tenacity, grit, resilience, and hardiness are much the same things, but do not necessarily imply stoicism or bravery).

 

[surada]

George Lakey, author of Viking Economics, says that Americans generally misunderstand the nature of the Nordic model, commenting: "Americans imagine that "welfare state" means the U.S. welfare system on steroids. Actually, the Nordics scrapped their American-style welfare system at least 60 years ago, and substituted universal services, which means everyone – rich and poor – gets free higher education, free medical services, free eldercare, etc."[116]

In a speech at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, the centre-right Danish prime minister from the conservative-liberal Venstre party, addressed the American misconception that the Nordic model is a form of socialism, which is conflated with any form of planned economy, stating: "I know that some people in the US associate the Nordic model with some sort of socialism. Therefore, I would like to make one thing clear. Denmark is far from a socialist planned economy. Denmark is a market economy."[117]

Nordic model - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Wishful dumbass Billy000. At it again. Sweden is well known for having moved more towards capitalism (even though they were capitalistic to start with.

Moron.

Have you spent a lot of time in Denmark?

 

[surada]

Democrats are hiring illegals. Guess mayors, governors, and the like aren't using e-verify.

Really? How many have they hired?

 

[HikerGuy83]

Have you spent a lot of time in Denmark?

Have you walked for 10 miles today ?