Sweden -- Some Local Color Please

["John Gelles" <jjgelles@xxxxxxxx>]

	Poverty, hunger, disease, drug addiction, crime,
	union-busting, and business corruption, are major
	conditions in the USA and can be read about in
	any daily mainstream paper owned by rich elites.
	It can be viewed by a visit to the nearest slum
	or city school.  What about Sweden?

	If the DEGREE of human pain and social
	pathology are substantially less in Sweden than
	in the USA or UK, which is what all my friends
	believe, then a neoliberal approach to global
	competition is less to be condemned in Sweden
	than otherwise.

	Sven Robert sees a threat to Sweden's "team"
	in the coming competition to produce the best
	and enjoy a standard of living earned in a global
	market.  Can Sven and Per paint us a picture,
	not of the contest between left and right, but
	of the outcomes to date in terms of life among
	the lowest quintile in, say, Sweden, the USA,
	the UK, and Germany.  This on the basis of
	whatever visits they've made and the stuff they
	read and believe -- real research is not asked
	for at the moment.

	John Gelles