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Diclotican

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25. midnight

Mon Jan 12, 2015, 01:47 PM

Jan 2015

midnight

The nordic model works - even though the conservatives want to destroy it - bit for bit - all the time, like they have been doing it in UK and US for the last 30 or so odd years - and if they are not fight nail and toes - all the time they will do it - destroying enough of the nordic model to do devastating damage to our system - they claim it cost to much - even if they have some tax-brakes for the rich who they want to get true the parliament - on the back of the sick - the infirm - and others who live on disablity...

What they really want - is to go back to pre 1814, where we had a small class of rich - and nobility - and the rest who if they was not able to work, either had to cared for by their families - or was left to starve to death - and be buried in graves who's was marked for poor - with no gravestone - to tell where they ended...

Or as Allan Gryson so eluquent put it - Get sick when poor - die sortly...

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