Comment: OH MY FREAKING GOD!!!!    " The social safety net is tightly woven and has wide public support."

They are economically strong and they treat people well!!!   WTF is wrong with those people!!! Someone needs to hurry up and tell them they can't do what they are doing!!!  It won't work!!   Furthermore, treating the citizenry well is abuse of a part of the population that wants to see abuse be the norm in society!!   How can we ever be happy if we don't continue to brutalize everything alive for the sake of the ruthless?   

I hope they got a good dose of reality while they were in Alaska.    God help us if people here ever started being that intelligent and decent.   The entire world would go to hell if that happened.