When someone publishes a new book in Norway and it passes quality control, Arts Council Norway buys 1000 copies of it to distribute to libraries, or 1550 copies if it’s a children’s book. The idea is that it keeps many publishers alive and supports writers while they're still working on building their careers. In addition to this, books are also exempted from Norway’s value-added tax.
True, but you might have to wait for 6 months to get the heart surgery.... or a year or so if your back is messed up...
As a Norwegian working for a Norwegian company, the company have started buying private health insurance for all of us.... so we can get quicker treatments and get back to work.
We have a good, not perfect system.
income tax defenitly not 46%, but then you ad VAT of 12 or 24% on everything we buy, extra for luxury like cars, enviromental taxes on gass and we get up there.
We can take all their strippers in exchange.
(Historical footnote: in the late 1970's President Jimmy Carter lectured Fidel Castro on human rights and immigration. Made a huge deal about it. So Castro opened his prisons and sent the worst of the worst to Florida. Thousands of murderers, drug dealers, and rapists were absorbed into our population without vetting. It's not mentioned in history books now, but it happened.)
USA never heard of REHABILITATION? Of turning people to become a valued citizen of the country? No... All they've heard is punishment, guns, more agression, and gangs. Your way... enjoy.
Good point, except you're wrong.
Yes there are people of color in Norway.
But most of them got here after 1965, so I have worked with people telling me stories about the first time they met a person of color.
We could learn a lot. Just because we are huge in size doesn't mean we are the best at everything, and the way to be best is look at all the different examples in the world and see what works. Being a huge country makes it more difficult to do most things efficiently.
And as a Texas. :-) I'll take crazy
It's not to make fun of today's Texans, it's more like a reference to the wild west.
I.e. one could just as easy use the term "It was like the wild west" to describe a situation like a bar brawl or any similar chaotic event.