FCC and the internet

[David Sanders]

2009/10/23 Derek Broughton <derek at pointerstop.ca>:
> Samuel Thurston, III wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Derek Broughton <derek at pointerstop.ca>
>> wrote:
>>> Well, nothing is universally true, but can you name a country on the
>>> planet where the government is actually looking out for its citizens?  No
>>> matter the electoral system, politicians have a vested interest in
>>> staying elected, and that usually means pander to the money, not the
>>> votes. Sorry, but I'm more than a little disillusioned.
>>
>> Norway.
>> A full year paid maternity leave for both mother and father.
>> Free education through post-secondary and graduate level.
>> National Insurance Service: Full health care, retirement pension,
>> disability pension, rehabilitation, occupational injury compensation,
>> single parent benefit, child benefit
>> 25 paid holiday days per year.
>>
>> That's a country looking out for its citizens right there.
>
> You know, we have almost all of that in Canada (not the education), and very
> little of it works out as well as it looks on paper.
> --
> derek

Where I live (in Sweden),  we have very similar laws to Norway. They
work just fine, and indeed if you look at a list such as
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-of-life_index - which takes
several factors in to account, you'll see countries with much smaller
economies than the US doing far better in terms of how its citizens
feel about themselves, and their country.