9 Crucial Ways Denmark is Superior to the US

[initforme]

Anybody ever visited scandanavian countries? They are awesome to see and visit. Great people.

 

[fncceo]

Need help moving?

 

[Claudette]

Hey if Denmark is so great then the Op should move his happy ass there. Sayonara.

 

[mudwhistle]

Denmark's population is around 5.8 million people. It also has a central bank and it's debt is around 36% of their GDP. and the tax rate is around 56%..........

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

Europe has two things keeping them afloat.
They have the US to defend them....so they don't need a large defense bill.
They don't have a neighbor filled with millions of poor brown people.
Flooding Europe with Muslims erased that advantage.
If the US folds...Europe will collapse.

 

[Wyatt earp]

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

They are all white, the size of Vermont and suckers US tax payers to pay for their failed Utopia were no owns ones houses.

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[Wyatt earp]

 

[Polishprince]

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.

That's bullshit.

I wear Danish shoes, and Denmark based company makes them in a factory in the Kingdom of Slovakia.

Businesswise they are shit.

Denmark is best known for the Danish pastry, the vast majority are baked outside of the realm nowadays.

 

[Decus]

Hey if Denmark is so great then the Op should move his happy ass there. Sayonara.

Denmark is changing. The new center-left government is taking a hard stand against immigrants and problems funding Denmark's social welfare program are increasingly evident:

"Cuts to healthcare services have led to the closure of one-quarter of state hospitals in the past decade, and one recent survey showed more than half of Danes did not believe the public health service offered the right treatments, prompting more than one-third to take out private health insurance, compared with 4% in 2003."

"Other cuts over the past 10 years have led to the closure of about one-fifth of state schools, while spending per person on services such as care homes, cleaning and rehabilitation after illness for the over-65s has fallen by one-quarter."

Denmark's centre-left set to win election with anti-immigration shift

The new center-left government is promising to increase welfare spending but given how high taxes already are begs the question of where the new government will get the money to increase spending?

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[Polishprince]

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On the other hand, on Jeopardy yesterday, one of the teenaged contestants was wearing a burka right on nationwide TV. The Canadian announcer was gracious, but the program is taped in LA.

 

[CowboyTed]

Denmark's population is around 5.8 million people. It also has a central bank and it's debt is around 36% of their GDP. and the tax rate is around 56%..........

Population is a meaningless argument as soon as it gets above 4 million...

And.... They seem to get a lot for there taxes... The have low debt because they have a well run country...

I have worked in Denmark (and Sweden and Germany) they consider:

• Education an investment (which it is and yields 9 times the investment in extra tax revenue).
• They don't have much in natural resources
• They are big into wind turbines.. So much so they manufacturer them and export them to a lot of Europe.
• 13.1% of the country population are not born in Denmark (US is 14.4%). So there is not much there.

 

[Wyatt earp]

Denmark's population is around 5.8 million people. It also has a central bank and it's debt is around 36% of their GDP. and the tax rate is around 56%..........

Population is a meaningless argument as soon as it gets above 4 million...

And.... They seem to get a lot for there taxes... The have low debt because they have a well run country...

I have worked in Denmark (and Sweden and Germany) they consider:

• Education an investment (which it is and yields 9 times the investment in extra tax revenue).
• They don't have much in natural resources
• They are big into wind turbines.. So much so they manufacturer them and export them to a lot of Europe.
• 13.1% of the country population are not born in Denmark (US is 14.4%). So there is not much there.

Meaning less? We have more illegal rapist killer Mexicans then the entire population of Denmark.


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[Wyatt earp]

Denmark's population is around 5.8 million people. It also has a central bank and it's debt is around 36% of their GDP. and the tax rate is around 56%..........

Population is a meaningless argument as soon as it gets above 4 million...

And.... They seem to get a lot for there taxes... The have low debt because they have a well run country...

I have worked in Denmark (and Sweden and Germany) they consider:

• Education an investment (which it is and yields 9 times the investment in extra tax revenue).
• They don't have much in natural resources
• They are big into wind turbines.. So much so they manufacturer them and export them to a lot of Europe.
• 13.1% of the country population are not born in Denmark (US is 14.4%). So there is not much there.

• Education an investment (which it is and yields 9 times the investment in extra tax revenue).

No indoctrination and tell us where does that get them?

 

[CowboyTed]

The evidence is quite compelling.

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

• Sounds great. Why haven't your democrats proposed a bill for that?

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

• They likely don't have the FDA poisoning them with all this processed artificial food like here.

3) Denmark is the happiest place on Earth

• I'd be happy too in any country without people like you!

4) Denmark has the shortest work week on average.

• Comes from not having a government rife with Democrat corruption.

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

• Still waiting for the Democrats to propose that.

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

• The DNC wants to take all our money in higher taxes.

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

• Comes from not having a corrupt government which profits from dependence on democrat government programs.

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

• Your attacks against Trump show that Democrats are 100% anti-business. You constantly slap rules and regulations on business here!

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

• Still yet again something I haven't seen your DNC propose for here! The DNC is anti-child, they want all new children to come in from Mexico!

You know that Denmark is to the left of the Democrats... In Europe Democrats would be center right party...

Your post is a nonsensical, blame Democrats for everything while taking responsibility for nothing.

If Denmark Government polices were proposed in US tomorrow you condemn them as communist/Socialist/Stealing.....

The OP is just showing that a Democratic Socialist Government is running its country better than the present administration.. If Denmark are Great, what policies is the Trump Administration bringing in which make them more like Denmark...

 

[Polishprince]

• Education an investment (which it is and yields 9 times the investment in extra tax revenue).

Countries like Denmark just don't allow everyone to attend college you know, and don't allow anyone to study what they want once they get there.

Students are put on a track depending on their caste at a young age, and if you are a low caste, you won't get near a college unless you apply for a job as a janitor

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

If you like Denmark, become a Dane and move there.

Nobody is forcing you commies to stay here.

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[Wyatt earp]

The evidence is quite compelling.

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

• Sounds great. Why haven't your democrats proposed a bill for that?

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

• They likely don't have the FDA poisoning them with all this processed artificial food like here.

3) Denmark is the happiest place on Earth

• I'd be happy too in any country without people like you!

4) Denmark has the shortest work week on average.

• Comes from not having a government rife with Democrat corruption.

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

• Still waiting for the Democrats to propose that.

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

• The DNC wants to take all our money in higher taxes.

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

• Comes from not having a corrupt government which profits from dependence on democrat government programs.

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

• Your attacks against Trump show that Democrats are 100% anti-business. You constantly slap rules and regulations on business here!

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

• Still yet again something I haven't seen your DNC propose for here! The DNC is anti-child, they want all new children to come in from Mexico!

You know that Denmark is to the left of the Democrats... In Europe Democrats would be center right party...

Your post is a nonsensical, blame Democrats for everything while taking responsibility for nothing.

If Denmark Government polices were proposed in US tomorrow you condemn them as communist/Socialist/Stealing.....

The OP is just showing that a Democratic Socialist Government is running its country better than the present administration.. If Denmark are Great, what policies is the Trump Administration bringing in which make them more like Denmark...

Yeah anyone can run a country better if they only have the population of a US city and the majority of them was one ethnic group.

 

[Decus]

Hey if Denmark is so great then the Op should move his happy ass there. Sayonara.

Denmark is changing. The new center-left government is taking a hard stand against immigrants and problems funding Denmark's social welfare program are increasingly evident:

"Cuts to healthcare services have led to the closure of one-quarter of state hospitals in the past decade, and one recent survey showed more than half of Danes did not believe the public health service offered the right treatments, prompting more than one-third to take out private health insurance, compared with 4% in 2003."

"Other cuts over the past 10 years have led to the closure of about one-fifth of state schools, while spending per person on services such as care homes, cleaning and rehabilitation after illness for the over-65s has fallen by one-quarter."

Denmark's centre-left set to win election with anti-immigration shift

The new center-left government is promising to increase welfare spending but given how high taxes already are begs the question of where the new government will get the money to increase spending?

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If Denmark is so great does that include their anti-immigration policies?

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[Wyatt earp]

If you like Denmark, become a Dane and move there.

Nobody is forcing you commies to stay here.

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They wouldn't want them.

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[Manonthestreet]

Denmark couldn't defend itself if it had too.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

Denmark couldn't defend itself if it had too.

Yes. Instead of the U.S. being financially obligated to playing world police FOR FREE, countries like Denmark,Canada, and other countries who have all these nice little commie programs, but would get their asses beat by the fucking girl scouts, and therefore are nearly 100% dependent on the U.S. for their security should pay tribute of 40% of their tax revenue to the U.S. and kindly suck our huge dicks.

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