"From the Nordic perspective, it’s not this Nordic approach that is unsustainable—it’s the American approach that’s eventually going to implode. For in the United States more than half of fast-food workers rely on some form of public assistance to get by, meaning that American taxpayers are actually subsidizing the fast-food industry in the United States, to the tune of billions of dollars per year. If we’re hunting for countries practicing socialism, the United States appears to be a pretty strong contender."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Journalists from the United StatesWomen authors from the United StatesImmigrants to the United StatesWomen from FinlandJournalists from Finland
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Chapter 8
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anu_Partanen
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Anu Partanen
12 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Anu Partanen →
Related Quotes
"Trägårdh and his collaborator—a well-known Swedish historian and journalist named Henrik Berggre—put together their o…"
"Gradually it dawned on me how much people in America depended on their employers for all sorts of things that were un…"
"What Lars Trägårdh came to understand during his years in the United States was that the overarching ambition of Nord…"
"All told, thanks to these various forms of freedom from the old-fashioned logistical dependence on one’s parents, chi…"
"This approach creates fewer strains between family members, because those individuals don’t have to make the sort of …"
"For example, for all the gender equality in Nordic societies, Nordic women are still less likely to work as managers …"
"Finally a special committee published its recommendation: Finland should create a unified public school system. React…"
"Because of smart policies, Finland is able to spend less per student than do Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and the United …"
"[...] Markus Jäntti, a Finnish economist at the University of Helsinki, who with his colleagues looked at inherited d…"
"America’s reign of optimism contributes to a culture in which negative feelings are often unwelcome. [...] As I ponde…"