As we speak politics: the reason that i hang around here is that I want to know more about the situation for aspies in america, though we have a far different type of society in my homeland (Sweden), with a long tradition of democratic socialism, even though we have a conservative government right at this moment (conservative in sweden means approximately what Obama stands for in US).
If you ask me, our system isn´t so bad as i guess many of you people over there think. Even in my country theres a lot of freedom for running companys, people ho work hard can be rich and so on..
But except that we also have a society which takes care of its people in a way I´m not sure that america does. For example: almost no one in sweden has to live in trailers, our health insurance covers everyone, everyone with good exames from high school has the economical ability to go to college, though we have free education and theres a lot of help for aspies getting jobs that fits your personal abilities, for example: you can get an ordinary job at an ordinary company, were you can work after your own abilities, with the same vage as your collegues (and the lowest wages in sweden is far higher than in US), though the government can pay a part of the wage cost to your employer et.c.
Despite all this, the Swedish economy is one of the strongest in Europe, and we´re one of the few europeans countrys which doesn´t have any threat of economical crisis at all over us.
-But of course, I have never been in america, and I´m sure that theres a lot of thing I don´t know about your society, I´m curious about especially the situation for aspies in america and why som of you say you symphatize with the republicans and/or the tea party movement, which sounds qutie weird in my world, at least if you have a weak poisition in society. But thats maybe because I don´t know so much about your situation, on the other hand, I guess that democratic socialism is qutie controversal in america, so who am I to judge?
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