Comment Re:is it just me? (Score 1) 232
"As for Iceland, yo do realize the country went bankrupt because they insisted on having state controlled banks and made laws against larger international banks being owners/part owners"
This is complete and utter nonsense. The Icelandic banks Kaupthing and Landsbanki were privatised in 2003. They consequently became huge, borrowed vast sums of money and then crashed, tanking the Icelandic economy. Now they've been taken over by the state, and ordinary taxpayers are made to fork out to cover their private debts, much like in the UK and USA. No, Nordic welfare socialism is certainly not to blame for the state of the Icelandic economy. On the contrary, the reason the Icelanders are fucked now is because of their experiment with neoliberalism and mass privatisation -- an experiment that the next couple of generations will have to pay out the nose for.