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Motorcycle Forum / General / Sportbikes / October 2005Counterintuitive?
Egalitarian Finland most competitive, too Despite hefty government spending on social benefits, Finland tops global economies. Second in a three-part series. By Peter Ford | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor HELSINKI, FINLAND – Fifty years ago, Finland was known for little more than the wood pulp from its endless forests. A poverty-stricken land of poorly educated loggers and farmers on the edge of the Arctic Circle, few paid it any attention. Today, this small Nordic nation boasts a thriving hi-tech economy ranked the most competitive in the world, the best educated citizenry of all the industrialized countries, and a welfare state that has created one of the globe's most egalitarian societies... http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1026/p01s03-woeu.html?ref=aol >Egalitarian Finland most competitive, too > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > >http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1026/p01s03-woeu.html?ref=aol Sounds great for a nation smaller than my sparsely populated home of Arizona with Finland's 5.2 million people. OBTW, Finland has over twice the suiside rate of the USA. Hmmm....not all is rosey in Denmark...er I mean Finland;) BTW, Saddle, you may be an old regular but that doesn't mean you can ignore the OT: at the beginning of your post. Bob Nixon, Chandler AZ 01 Sprint ST "RED" 50K miles http://bigrex.net/pictures > Sounds great for a nation smaller than my sparsely populated home of > Arizona with Finland's 5.2 million people. OBTW, Finland has over > twice the suiside rate of the USA. They say the people that have it the best, complain the most. > Today, this small Nordic nation boasts a thriving hi-tech economy ranked > the most competitive in the world, the best educated citizenry of all the > industrialized countries, and a welfare state that has created one of the > globe's most egalitarian societies... > > http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1026/p01s03-woeu.html?ref=aol Yeah but they can't invade anyone they want to just for fun. >>Today, this small Nordic nation boasts a thriving hi-tech economy ranked >>the most competitive in the world, the best educated citizenry of all the [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Yeah but they can't invade anyone they want to just for fun. No, but they did kick the Russki's butts...TWICE. They also were the only folks that were able to get the Brewster Buffalo to work right, shooting down over 300 Russian planes with what everyone else derided as hopelessly obsolete.  SignaturePC Paul 89 PC800 77 R100RS Trip pics at: http://photos.yahoo.com/paul1cart "To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society" - Theodore Roosevelt PC Paul <pelliot@sbcglobal.net> wrote in news:eNL7f.6952$q%.2816 @newssvr12.news.prodigy.com: > No, but they did kick the Russki's butts...TWICE. They also were the > only folks that were able to get the Brewster Buffalo to work right, > shooting down over 300 Russian planes with what everyone else derided as > hopelessly obsolete. http://www.warbirdforum.com/faf.htm Q: Why did the Finns achieve so much with the Buffalo? A: First off, the Finnish Brewsters weren't Brewster Buffaloes, or Brewster 339's, or F2A-2, which were very bad fighters. They were Model 239's much closer to the original USN F2A-1, which were reported to be delightful to fly. Finnish nickname "Taivaan Helmi" "Pearl of the Skies" reflects this. Q: How was it possible to achieve victories with Brewsters over the Soviet planes even as late as 1944? A: Tactics, especially using Brewster's good dogfight qualities, excellent command and control, high quality of Finnish pilots and low quality of Soviet pilots. pierce > Egalitarian Finland most competitive, too > the globe's most egalitarian societies... > > http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1026/p01s03-woeu.html?ref=aol Biggest weakness though is that whole country hangs on one company - Nokia. I wouldn't like to live in country with such little diversification. I mean, look at USA for example.. really diversified, so many ways of killing people...;) |
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