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And the Lithuanians
Lithuania once ruled over Poland and modern day Belarus and even parts of Ukraine, I think
HELSINKI, March 15 (Reuters) - Finland’s social and healthcare systems still need reforming to ensure the sustainability of its public finances, Bank of Finland governor Olli Rehn said on Friday, a week after the failure of its health reform plan led the government to quit.
The coalition government resigned a month ahead of a mid-April general election, saying it could not deliver on the healthcare reform package, its key policy and widely seen as crucial to long-term fiscal security.
“The collapse of the structural reform of the social and healthcare (systems) is of course very troublesome from the point of view of fiscal sustainability,” Rehn told a news conference in Helsinki.
“The problem itself, (the need for) better and democratic healthcare as well as consolidation of public finances, has not disappeared.”
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/07/nordic-countries-united-states/490847/
A once powerful demographic group is losing ground in American politics. For most of the countrys history, white Christian Americathe cultural and political edifice built primarily by white Protestant Christians set the tone for our national conversations and shaped American ideals. But today, many white Christian Americans feel profoundly anxious as their numbers and influence are waning. The two primary branches of their family tree, white mainline and white evangelical Protestants, offer competing narratives about their decline. White mainline Protestants blame evangelical Protestants for turning off the younger generation with their anti-gay rhetoric and tendency to conflate Christianity with conservative, nationalist...
Norway invests its money for social security and government pensions in the stock markets of the world.
AD saysNorway invests its money for social security and government pensions in the stock markets of the world.
While they probably average pretty good returns with that, they are also risking disaster if there is a global stock market crash.
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