* * * * * Leviathan III > Why are the Nordic countries doing this? The obvious answer is that they > have reached the limits of big government. “The welfare state we have is > excellent in most ways,” says Gunnar Viby Mogensen, a Danish historian. “We > only have this little problem. We can’t afford it.” The economic storms > that shook all the Nordic countries in the early 1990s provided a foretaste > of what would happen if they failed to get their affairs in order. > Via Hacker News [1], “Norther lights | The Economist [2]” You know … if the Nordic countries are saying they've reached peak government, do you think we might actually have reached peak government? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/ [2] http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21570840- Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org .