Satellite Wrote:Flonne Thought I knew what was going on in Sweden, living 200 miles east of it and visiting there several times but always happy to be corrected by better sources /s. Don't get me wrong, I know about the issues they have and it's been covered a lot here (mostly so we can avoid repeating their mistakes) but the idea that you cannot enter some of the cities without being killed is bs. I looked at the Quality of Life Index 2017 you're referring to and it looks like Sweden still beats USA in terms of safety.It's been proven by using proxies that certain European countries' IP ranges, including Sweden, are blocked from seeing any negative press about Sweden. You can visit a site and view a negative article, load a Swedish proxy, and the article is unviewable (took me a while to find it, but here's the proof of that http://webmshare.com/play/b8BAv). It's not like you are walking around in those areas anyway; I live near Fort Knox, and I've never been inside of it, just because you live near something doesn't mean you know much about it, particularly when the media is censoring the issue in that entire region of the world.
Satellite Wrote:Unless you consider appointing fools like Betsy DeVos in his administration, massive cuts to healthcare, education, science, environment and 54 billion/year more into military a positive for America, not quite sure what you mean. And yeah he doesn't even have his full cabinet yet but parts of it have already fallen apart.
Betsy DeVos is going to do exactly what she was hired to do; destroy our pomegranatety education system. She hates most things about it and is perfectly happy to nuke large portions of it from existence. My only gripe is that just wiping it out is not a fix, and I don't think she is smart enough to put in a new one that is good enough. Anything is better than what we currently have, so even if she pineapples up royally she can't break it more than it already is, but I would prefer an actual good one if possible. You will notice that Trump has hired many people that dislike the department they are the head of, this was done for the same reason. Department of Energy in particular is going to get the same treatment.