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Why not more immigrants from nations such as Norway?

To the editor:

Why would people from one of the healthy and happiest nations on earth want to come to our armed, angry, divided and fear-driven land? Norway has universal health care, guaranteed education through college (an investment in its nation’s future), assured minimum-income and old-age pensions, a vibrant and healthy economy, etc. Its governmental decisions are based on the well-being of all its citizens and not the greed of the few. Well, how do they (would we) pay for all that?

First, decide as a society what things are very important and, therefore, must be done — i.e., health care, financial security, education, etc. — and then determine that such will be the responsibility of everyone. No, it’s not “free stuff”; rather it’s what everyone pays for. High taxes, surely, but they wouldn’t want it any other way. They certainly wouldn’t want to have to live with the insecurities we face regarding the cost of health care, being able to send our children to college, security of income, security in our old age, etc. We Americans have grown used to perpetual worries. If I were a younger man, I would be heading to a nation such as Norway, which doesn’t believe its security rests in militarism.

Bill Cooper

Onchiota and Tupper Lake

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