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		<title>By: torqueville</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[torqueville]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2013 10:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spot on!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Spot on!</p>
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		<title>By: herb benty</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[herb benty]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2013 07:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Right on, Fritz!!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Right on, Fritz!!</p>
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		<title>By: Fritz</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fritz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2013 05:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I always scoff at people who point to Norway as the model for so called &quot;Social Democracy&quot;. They have used extremely well doctored statistics to point out how high the standard of living is in Norway as compared to the U.S, Canada, and other countries by counting  &quot;Social Services&quot;, otherwise known as government give a-ways, as income. 

  Norway is basically a petro state, but unlike lets say an OPEC member petro state, where they have cleptocrats pocket some of the oil revenues, the government pockets it all and deposits it into trust funds. Unlike many of the OPEC petro states who enjoy low taxes, and energy prices Norway rapes it&#039;s citizenry with some of the highest tax rates and energy prices on Earth. 

 So as the Progress Party leader has correctly summarized they basically have a state run welfare state economy with very little diversification, private industry, and consequently very little freedom. But there are two terminal flaws with this model, the first is oil revenues, while their primary market may be countries in Europe and therefore secure, many countries in the world such as Canada and the U.S are headed towards self sufficiency in oil and gas. This means that the U.S and Canada will stop importing oil from the world market, and given that Norway pretty well has a one horse economy, if the price goes down, or remains flat but welfare state expenses go up, they will have nothing to fall back on. The other flaw is that they are encouraging a mass migration of immigrants from the Muslim world who would like nothing better then to move onto the generous welfare systems of any Western European country without putting anything in, this is simply not sustainable.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I always scoff at people who point to Norway as the model for so called &#8220;Social Democracy&#8221;. They have used extremely well doctored statistics to point out how high the standard of living is in Norway as compared to the U.S, Canada, and other countries by counting  &#8220;Social Services&#8221;, otherwise known as government give a-ways, as income. </p>
<p>  Norway is basically a petro state, but unlike lets say an OPEC member petro state, where they have cleptocrats pocket some of the oil revenues, the government pockets it all and deposits it into trust funds. Unlike many of the OPEC petro states who enjoy low taxes, and energy prices Norway rapes it&#8217;s citizenry with some of the highest tax rates and energy prices on Earth. </p>
<p> So as the Progress Party leader has correctly summarized they basically have a state run welfare state economy with very little diversification, private industry, and consequently very little freedom. But there are two terminal flaws with this model, the first is oil revenues, while their primary market may be countries in Europe and therefore secure, many countries in the world such as Canada and the U.S are headed towards self sufficiency in oil and gas. This means that the U.S and Canada will stop importing oil from the world market, and given that Norway pretty well has a one horse economy, if the price goes down, or remains flat but welfare state expenses go up, they will have nothing to fall back on. The other flaw is that they are encouraging a mass migration of immigrants from the Muslim world who would like nothing better then to move onto the generous welfare systems of any Western European country without putting anything in, this is simply not sustainable.</p>
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		<title>By: Fritz</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fritz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2013 04:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Except that the idiots on the Left haven&#039;t figured out that they cannot control radical Islam, radical Islam envisions Norway, and any other country that they could gain control of through mass immigration, as yet another colony for their future pan-national Islamic caliphate. In the case of Norway, who has a population only in the seven figures, this would not be difficult to achieve over a period of a few decades.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Except that the idiots on the Left haven&#8217;t figured out that they cannot control radical Islam, radical Islam envisions Norway, and any other country that they could gain control of through mass immigration, as yet another colony for their future pan-national Islamic caliphate. In the case of Norway, who has a population only in the seven figures, this would not be difficult to achieve over a period of a few decades.</p>
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		<title>By: John Magne Trane</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Magne Trane]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Aug 2013 18:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sadly, it does.


It is of course racist to speak about it. At least according to the Socialistic Left party who even had a poster campaign about how many women and girls were raped each day. After they have ruled the country for 8 years.


I assume they thought the voters would see them as guarantors against even more increased rape rates, and not as the facilitators.


But the most recent poll had them at 2.5%.


Just shows you can&#039;t fool them all, all the time.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sadly, it does.</p>
<p>It is of course racist to speak about it. At least according to the Socialistic Left party who even had a poster campaign about how many women and girls were raped each day. After they have ruled the country for 8 years.</p>
<p>I assume they thought the voters would see them as guarantors against even more increased rape rates, and not as the facilitators.</p>
<p>But the most recent poll had them at 2.5%.</p>
<p>Just shows you can&#8217;t fool them all, all the time.</p>
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		<title>By: herb benty</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[herb benty]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2013 17:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a reason Margaret Thatcher, Reagan and W. Bush were pilloried, vilified, rubber puppeted, etc. All part of the global Communist Grand Plan, and yes,  the left is using Islam as insurance to destroy Right-Thinking, Devout, Freedom- Loving Patriots. My Family are Bible-believers making me, my wife and my kids ZIONISTS- the committed enemy of the Left AND Islam--get the massive influx of muslims encouraged and enabled by left leaning governments(multiculturalists)]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There was a reason Margaret Thatcher, Reagan and W. Bush were pilloried, vilified, rubber puppeted, etc. All part of the global Communist Grand Plan, and yes,  the left is using Islam as insurance to destroy Right-Thinking, Devout, Freedom- Loving Patriots. My Family are Bible-believers making me, my wife and my kids ZIONISTS- the committed enemy of the Left AND Islam&#8211;get the massive influx of muslims encouraged and enabled by left leaning governments(multiculturalists)</p>
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		<title>By: objectivefactsmatter</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[objectivefactsmatter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2013 02:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;“red-green” (socialist/environmentalist)&quot;



Environmentalists are also red under the surface.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;“red-green” (socialist/environmentalist)&#8221;</p>
<p>Environmentalists are also red under the surface.</p>
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		<title>By: Aizino Smith</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Aizino Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2013 01:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;Muslim drivers who rape passengers and spy on non-sharia-observant members of their community.&quot;?

Read about this happening all the time in the Britain, both the rape and the spying.

Plus the ever grateful Somali community of Minneapolis that we saved from starvation and genocide has in the past tried to enforce Sharia on taxi cab riders.  Let us not forget the cabby that murdered the guy recently in NYC.

This happens in Norway too?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Muslim drivers who rape passengers and spy on non-sharia-observant members of their community.&#8221;?</p>
<p>Read about this happening all the time in the Britain, both the rape and the spying.</p>
<p>Plus the ever grateful Somali community of Minneapolis that we saved from starvation and genocide has in the past tried to enforce Sharia on taxi cab riders.  Let us not forget the cabby that murdered the guy recently in NYC.</p>
<p>This happens in Norway too?</p>
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		<title>By: Alvaro</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alvaro]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2013 19:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being born, raised and currently living in Norway, this is an accurate description. I am looking forward to the electoral defeat of the Labor party and their red cohorts in September.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Being born, raised and currently living in Norway, this is an accurate description. I am looking forward to the electoral defeat of the Labor party and their red cohorts in September.</p>
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		<title>By: KhidonNOR</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[KhidonNOR]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2013 19:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mr Bawer is spot on. Brilliant analysis.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mr Bawer is spot on. Brilliant analysis.</p>
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