Take a moment to step out of your current life and into this imaginary life where the day you are born to the day you die, you are provided with care and indirect love by your fellow citizens of the country you are currently in. Imagine a life where if you or your wife has just been given birth to a child and you are given 6 months of paid time off to nurture and tend to your family needs. Imagine 2 months of paid time off a year to do whatever the hell you want to do?! Imagine a country “aimed at flattening the income distribution, eliminating poverty, ensuring social services such as retirement, medical care, and disability benefits to all, and putting more of the capital into the public trust.” That’s right! Ladies and gentleman, I present to you this lovely country called Norway.
Norway has adopted this “egalitarian values to ensure that the wage difference between the lowest paid worker and the CEO of most companies is much smaller than in comparable western economies and because of this the cost of living is about 30% higher in Norway than in the United States and 25% higher than the United Kingdom. The standard of living in Norway is among the highest in the world.” Prison cells in Norway have been compared to an average middle class American home. WHOA! What does the quality of a home look like outside of a prison cell?!
Now I ask you readers, why is it that the United States is just has highly developed as Norway, but lack so far behind in terms of standard and quality of life? After doing many comparison between the US and Norway, the differences lies within the way how we think and treat each other. In Norway, they have figured out a way to slam down the salaries of those CEOs bitches and made it possible to prevent any kind of social and financial inequality. Now wouldn’t that be great if we could blend the inequality between lowest paid worker and CEOs here in America? Norway citizens do not mind paying highly increased taxes to enjoy a better life for themselves and for their fellow citizens. Why can’t we adopt such thinking?
People! We have to change the way how we think and treat each other. If we don’t change this way of thinking nothing is going to ever be resolve. We have to put our individuality, greed, and religions aside and develop another way of thinking that binds us all together so that we can all agree on resolutions to progressively take care of our country and citizens as Norway has. This left versus right shit has got to stop. Now I’m not saying we must give up our freedom in order to move forward, but we can still retain our freedom and individuality and still be progressive. Freedom sure came with such an unusual price, didn't it? On a happier note, my grandma once said “Why must we fight? We all eat, sleep, poop, cry, laugh, smile, and bleed red regardless of our culture and race. We all want the same things, a happy and comfortable life.”
I think that one of the main differences is that Norway is much much smaller then America. Its a a lot easier to be able to govern and take control in a small land. If their economy is stable then it will be better for them because they don't have to worry the mass amounts of prisons, homes building and jobs that America has to worry about. Plus does Norway even have an army? I wouldn't think so. With that they are not even at war so they don't waste money into that. I believe that it is easier to be able pass laws and to regulate it on a smaller scale. As we have already learned that it is easier for something to work locally then nationally. Same thing here. The size is what is making this difference.
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