Damn Those Viking Bastards!

The Washington Post today is running an article on how the US has slipped from first to sixth place in annual rankings from the World Economic Forum. First, Second, Third and Fourth place are taken by Nordic countries; Switzerland, Finland, Sweden and Denmark respectively.

As the article says:

…the reason the Nordic countries score higher in the WEF study is that their governments run surpluses instead of deficits, cave in to special interests less often, operate efficiently and spend their money wisely.

I love the growing anger that the Post has been showing recently concerning the wannabe oligarchy of American business, and never was it more obvious than in their damning of “The business community’s fantasy is that the United States would soar to the top of the rankings if only we had Ireland’s tax regime, China’s environmental controls, Singapore’s legal system and Chile’s social-safety net.”