Why Is America Afraid Of Sweden?


by Elias Shams
This particular episode of The Daily Show is a year old. I can’t believe I had missed it. I have tried my best to keep up with all of The Daily show episodes. I guess I must have been out of country or something. So, here it is for those of you who also missed it.

In his show, Jon Stewart took a shot at the  socialism in response to our government who has been taking partial ownership of the auto industry, the banks and insurance companies. Not a surprise, such a move  made the folks at Fox shitting in their pants over how our country is turning into “socialist Sweden”. In his report called “The Stockholm Syndrome,” Jon made fun of our black-and-white view of the Nordic country’s famous welfare system.

I wonder if our Teabagger party realizes the goal was never to gain permanent control of the banks, but to save them and the banking system. The risk and responsibility were mainly carried by the banks and their shareholders, rather than by taxpayers.

Take a listen and kindly cast your vote below the video

more about “Daily Show — Stockholm Syndrome “, posted with vodpod

more about “Daily Show — Stockholm Syndrome Pt. 2“, posted with vodpod
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About Elias Shams
I have been a serial entrepreneur in telecom and social media space for past 12 years or so. I hold a M.S. degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the George Washington University and a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland. I’ve lived and worked in many countries and cities including London England, Tehran Iran, Bonn Germany, Paris France, Alicante Spain, Delhi India, and my favorite of all Washington, DC of great US of A. Two of the greatest Washington, DC based companies I worked for and very proud of are Yurie Systems which was sold to Lucent in 1998 for $1.23 B and telezoo.com that I founded in 1999. I am currently the founder and awesomizer @ awesomize.me

5 Responses to Why Is America Afraid Of Sweden?

  1. This isn’t very well thought out argument. Merely name calling. I would nsuggest getting your info from more sources than Jon Stewart.

  2. Elias Shams says:

    I agree. We have a category on Awesome DC called “Our Jon Stewart”.W e simply try to post the best of him in the category on weekly basis. I found this one hilarious so added my two cents to it, then posted it. Did you at least cast your vote right below the video? thx

  3. it was realy funny but in these jokes was somthing part of tuth:)))

  4. Elias Shams says:

    some part of truth? I think everything

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