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Originally posted by Winston
Because of the government's constant meddling in people's affairs and the insane amount of restrictions placed on even the most mundane aspects of everyday life. This is one country where you sometimes really get the feeling the people are there for the state and not the other way around.
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Tripledoc: I believe the Danes can marry people from other EU states with out a problem. Technically, aren't those foreigners?Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.
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I think it is a bit complicated. There are several circles. Denmark and colonies is the dot in the middle, then there is a circle of Nordic countries, then there is a circle of EU countries participating in the Schengen passport union, then there is a circle of the rest of the EU, then there is a circle consisting of USA, Japan, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, then the outer circle consisting if the rest of the world.
The further from the centre, the more difficult it is to achieve citizenship.
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Originally posted by Winston
On the level of the individual citizen, Sweden is probably the most un-free country in the Western World, has been for decades.
But I think Bin Ladin meant that we are not attacking other people's freedomSo get your Naomi Klein books and move it or I'll seriously bash your faces in! - Supercitizen to stupid students
Be kind to the nerdiest guy in school. He will be your boss when you've grown up!
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Originally posted by Tripledoc
Says someone who lives in a state where they don't allow you to marry a foreigner before you are 24, and where you, if you marry a foreigner have to give the state 50.000 to cover any "possible future expenses".
Why this regulation ? Lot's of immigrant children had a nephew or niece in old country they would be paired with - often against their will - getting married at 18 getting no education, and a marriage that probably would break up after a couple of years.
The 50.000 isn't lost. You get them back when both parts are naturalized.
Btw, you forgot that it's also nessecary to have a proper home
The effect ? Immigrant children are beginning to get an education; getting married later and selecting husbands and wifes with a broader mind (horror : some even select a native)With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven Weinberg
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Originally posted by Moral Hazard
Idiotically I declare a war I can never win, against the great Ted Striker.
I remember his input into the great and venerated econ threads of yesteryear and I am loathe to criticize, I feel I must though. Ted Striker has taken his status of popularity from 'I would hit it' and soiled it the muck of partisan politics. So it is with a heavy heart that I must
Ted Striker
I'm the last person that is partisan.
It's just that Bush sucks so bad and is the worst President ever.
YOU ARE TALKING TO THE GUY WHO WAITED IN LINE 17 HOURS OVERNIGHT WITH NO FOOD AND WATER TO VISIT REAGAN WHEN HE DIED.
So don't give me that partisan crap.
Remember that there are many within Bush's own party that have called him incompetent. If you are a conservative, then you should be ashamed of what this man has done.We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham Lincoln
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Originally posted by Ted Striker
**** that.
I'm the last person that is partisan.
It's just that Bush sucks so bad and is the worst President ever.
YOU ARE TALKING TO THE GUY WHO WAITED IN LINE 17 HOURS OVERNIGHT WITH NO FOOD AND WATER TO VISIT REAGAN WHEN HE DIED.
So don't give me that partisan crap.
Remember that there are many within Bush's own party that have called him incompetent. If you are a conservative, then you should be ashamed of what this man has done.
Also if you love democracy and freedom you should be ashamed of what he is doing to the Republican parties reputation - heck, the whole of american politics more like! and the way the rest of the world views america'The very basis of the liberal idea – the belief of individual freedom is what causes the chaos' - William Kristol, son of the founder of neo-conservitivism, talking about neo-con ideology and its agenda for you.info here. prove me wrong.
Bush's Republican=Neo-con for all intent and purpose. be afraid.
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Ted Striker
I think I might disagree with you on many things*, but it is good to know some people recognize the value of honesty (even if it is relative honesty) and, above all, competence.
Though, current talks with my family and friends can only narrow Bush down to one of the worst 3 presidents ever. Buchanan and Hoover are possibly beating him (though, I think Bush is worse than Hoover).
Oh, for those that don't know, Buchanan is the one that, when the South was threatening to leave decided "it's not my problem" and did nothing to hold the nation together during his last few months in office.
-Drachasor
*Since I label myself a "socialist", but perhaps am best described as a pragmatic progressive."If there's a child on the south side of Chicago who can't read, that matters to me, even if it's not my child. If there's a senior citizen somewhere who can't pay for her prescription and has to choose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer, even if it's not my grandmother. If there's an Arab American family being rounded up without benefit of an attorney or due process, that threatens my civil liberties. It's that fundamental belief -- I am my brother's keeper, I am my sister's keeper -- that makes this country work." - Barack Obama
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@Blackcat.
The vast majority being hit by the immigration laws are ethnic Danes marrying foreigners, not immigrants.
And it is not neccesarily true that you get the money back. For instance it has been proposed that if people don't learn Danish within 3 years the state will subtract 30.000.
Furthermore you have to put the money as a bank security. This means that you don't get any interest from it. In fact you have to pay 1500 a year to have them at the disposal of the state.
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Originally posted by Drachasor
am best described as a pragmatic progressive.We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham Lincoln
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