[Hoot Gibson]

What is recycled, of course, is your mantra of "free markets." Fair scales capitalism is not a new concept, true enough. It used to be practiced quite a bit in the agricultural economy, where "fair scales" were valued. Sweden, my friend, functions quite well. The only "ploy" going on here, Hoot, is your mantra, mantra, mantra about Obama being a socialist. You keep repeating it; I keep refuting it. Barack Obama is a fair scales capitalist, which, apparently, to a free market zealot is the same as socialist... and that's a pity.

Historically, US unemployment rates have been consistently lower than those of western Europe, including Sweden. That all changed when we elected our first socialist president.

BTW, Sweden's government has slashed socialist programs in recent years because it was getting hammered in the world economy. The same goes for France, Ireland, and several other western European countries. Europe has moved toward capitalism as the Obama regime hastily acts to impose the same system that failed in Europe.