Burger King in Denmark vs Burger King in the United States..

[Jemmons]

32. I dont think that Bernie has misrepresented anything about Denmark in his speeches.

I have heard a lot of what he have to say, and quite a lot of it more than once. What he call democratic socialism pretty much matches what we have here: Free public health care for all. Tuition free university education for everybody who qualifies. Paid vacation and sick leave.

There might be a problem of "translation" if you by socialism understand an economy that is devoid of private capitalism or private enterprise. We have big, strong, high quality government programs. We have common sense regulation of business and environmental issues. We have wealth re-distribution by tax, that compensates for some of the extreme advantages and disadvantages that comes with wealth and poverty. We have far less "human waste" in the form of people being incarcerated, marginalized by poverty or by health problems. We have a high female job-market participation. Our socialism is a well oil machine that actually delivers, and delivers to all involved.
Our economy is benefiting from a highly skilled labor population. Our labor unions are not as strong as they were 50 or 100 years ago, but neither are they as weak and rare as the ones in the US.