More Socialist Advocacy

ABC morning morons, Roberts and Cuomo, marveled at the Finnish early childhood development program that mandates that employers give new parents large amounts of paid leave to care for and bond with their babies, and the wonders of the Finnish educational system in general. Diane Sawyer who generated the story from Finland and the New York anchors were trying to illustrate the lessons we can take from this socialist paradise. I'll help them draw the conclusions that they will miss. In a small, culturally homogeneous country with a Lapp indigenous minority and only a few well-absorbed refugees from the Third World, almost unlimited educational advancement is possible, but in the polyglot US, with plenty of teeming refuse who were poor and illiterate in their own countries, the Finnish model can never translate.