Mage: I admit i was wrong. I would've guessed that more countries in Europe were like UK for example. But the public system is used by the vast majority in Europe still.

I still wonder how you guys will afford it. I read the numbers of how much increase in tax it will be, and to me, it seems very little. What if people abuse it? Costs will rise if that happens on a large scale (and people do abuse it). If i take my experience from public hospital, it's crap. The service is ok i guess, but the waiting time is awful. I'm not saying that the U.S health system pre this reform was great, far from it, but at the same time, a majority of users on a public health system is far from great too.

 

Tortilla: I hope this is the correct information from USA on asylum and grants: http://www.justice.gov/eoir/efoia/foiafreq.htm (2006) , as i don't think i'm allowed to link directly to a pdf file.

And here is the number of granted asylum seekers in Sweden 2006: http://www.temaasyl.se/Templates/Page.aspx?id=92 (furthest down).

 

Reason for 2006 is because that's the latest year i found info about my country after 15min searching, and since i'm not prepared to spend my entire Friday evening searching for granted asylum statistics that'll do.

 

And if you people view the Republicans as extreme-right with a European eye, no wonder. You're called a racists/nazi for just criticizing the immigration politics here.

Tortilla: I hope this is the correct information from USA on asylum and grants: http://www.justice.gov/eoir/efoia/foiafreq.htm (2006) , as i don't think i'm allowed to link directly to a pdf file.

And here is the number of granted asylum seekers in Sweden 2006: http://www.temaasyl.se/Templates/Page.aspx?id=92 (furthest down).

 

Reason for 2006 is because that's the latest year i found info about my country after 15min searching, and since i'm not prepared to spend my entire Friday evening searching for granted asylum statistics that'll do.

 

And if you people view the Republicans as extreme-right with a European eye, no wonder. You're called a racists/nazi for just criticizing the immigration politics here.

Thanks for bothering with the statistics! The 8m strong population of sweden taking on the 300m of the US. case in point considering the ratios, if you look at 300m of Europe's population, and how many asylums and immigrants they accept.

 

In the US you get called a socialist and recieve death threats for wanting to ensure everyone's human right to health care. That's beyond the point though, the thing is that the policy of the neo-nazis and the republicans are eerily similar in many areas. That also stands ideologically.

Senator Snyder (one of our Senators in our state, Democrat) received a death threat because he voted in favor of the new bill. The bill may very well be horrible, but it's a little bit of an overreaction. :unsure:

Senator Snyder (one of our Senators in our state, Democrat) received a death threat because he voted in favor of the new bill. The bill may very well be horrible, but it's a little bit of an overreaction. :unsure:

I, for one, hope this becomes the 2nd Roman "Republic". :wink: