Monday, March 29, 2010
The "Swede" Life
My 74 year old mother finally learned how to use a computer about five years ago and ever since she's been forwarding me random email forwards; everything from extolling the virtues of bananas to pictures of funny toilets. Last week she sent me this article on the lives of Swedish women. I should also mention that my mother is, in fact, Swedish and is always relating how sweet it is to be a Swede. Well, as it turns out she's right, according to the article Swedish women are living the good life. The amazing public services in Sweden allow women to juggle careers and family without actually seeming like a circus act, basically they're having their cake and eating it too. Can't help but wonder when we American women are going to wake up and realize the grass can be greener and actually do something about it, I guess the problem is we're all too busy trying to keep our balls in the air.
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The reason this will not happen soon in the US is the political parties are too busy bickering (to put it mildly) with each other to effectively get anything done. Becoming more like Sweden would be spun as sinking deeper into (gasp!) Socialism. Let's face it, the American government is completely self-serving and almost completely broken.
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