[lrtoinbert]

They sure do. I know a fair number of Swiss people. They are educated and don't generally expect handouts. I find the standard of living is better to a large degree too: Like many Europeans, they don't take a week's vacation a year, they take six. Even the blue-collar Swiss seem to be pretty well-educated too. The Swiss government (right now, kock on wood, never will) doesn't seem to have decided it has a need to micromanage people's lives.

Oddly enough, having heavily involved in the gun control thing for the better part of two decades, mostly gun control advocates have also pointed out to me that Switzerland's "advantage" is due to the virtual racial uniformity.