Re: [Nolug] Who usually shows up for meetings?

Goes a bit OT, but what the hey..... Joey is out of country.
he-he..... :-)
I've never known any dirt poor people in Finland. Or rather it would be
very difficult to point them out from the crowd due to good social care
system. (Yes, it is for everyone, not only to old folks). Even I've
enjoyed benefits from it. I've also contributed to it in the form of
taxes. Progressive taxation is also one good method of reducing the huge
differences between poor and rich. Fear for taxes here in US is odd to
me, then on the other hand, I've been here long enough to understand
why. Here you can not trust your tax money to be used correctly, while
as in Finland, I've never encountered any statement about money
blatantly used incorrectly (by mistake perhaps, but I have not heard of
that either...) The whole society benefits from taxes. No Finland is not
Socialist country, but rather a good combination / balance of socialism
and capitalism. For eaxmple, over 100yr old company, Nokia is not owned
by a government, and these days do pay hefty share of all taxes
collected in Finland.

There are drawbacks from a good social care system..... Social
Leeches..... Especially from Northern and Eastern African countries.
Those are the ones bleeding into the country with an excuse of Political
asylum and as a return they bring Murder, Rape, Violent gangs, stuff
normal to their society.
http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2007/08/changed_overnig.php

Yep... Finland is not Utopia, but a lot closer in comparison what I
see(n) here.....

Petri

Dennis J Harrison Jr wrote:
> Also Finland has one of the highest rates of social mobility over a
> lifetime. Meaning you can go from dirt poor to affluent there much
> easier then here :)
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Petri Laihonen <pietu@weblizards.net> wrote:
>
>> Curtis 'cSc' Smith wrote:
>>
>>> On Sunday 07 December 2008 9:45:17 am Petri Laihonen wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Excuse me!!
>>>> I'm not nerd.... I'm geek....
>>>> Or was it vice-versa :-)
>>>>
>>>> I do try to get to the meetings as often as possible, but sometimes
>>>> forces of bad traffic prevent it.....
>>>> As for the next eeting, yes, it is supposed to be meeting at some
>>>> restaurant... I think Fire of Brazil was proposed an not much
>>>> opposed..... I'd like to go, but that same day I'm leaving for Finland.
>>>> (I'm not gonna meet Linus, but many other countrymen/women)
>>>>
>>>> My plan is to throw my 14mo. old son into the snowbank and see what he
>>>> does..... Gotta wake a little Finn in him......
>>>>
>>>> Petri
>>>>
>>>>
>>> poor kid
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>> How so.... He's gonna love it there....
>> So does my wife.... She always keep saying the she does not want to go
>> back to US. (She is local from here, so her opinion is understandable...)
>> We're also seriously considering to move To Finland when my son needs to
>> go to school. You can't beat the world's best education for free....
>>
>> Petri
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