14 billion, or roughly the same amount as the third step of the job tax deduction costs, could have saved the 30 jobs in the public sector that are threatened as a result of falling tax revenues in the country's municipalities and county councils. Read more at http://josefin.brink.riksdagsvanstern.org/000/2009/politisk_matematik.php
Month: March 2009
The robber class is expensive for taxpayers
Sick (well-adjusted)
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." - Jiddu Krishnamurti
Tribulation on a human level
The road to success is lined with diligent effort, but there is a vast difference in how much effort you have to put in in a good or bad organization, in a red society or in a neoliberal society. The machines do a lot for us and will do more and more. The people should be able to enjoy this through a little…
Cheap to hire publicly
Aftonbladet shows that it would not cost that much, but might even be socially profitable, to invest publicly in creating jobs for the unemployed. Public jobs speed up consumption again, which means that companies survive and can afford to hire. Then even more people can afford to consume and the good...
Another capitalist paradox
The masters and ideologues of capitalism admit that man is lazy, but build society so that he must not be lazy. Certainly this can be seen in the short term as a smart if egotistical and unsympathetic move by those who rule over capitalism. In the long term, however, it is not sustainable. The sick leave due to stress-related ailments shows that in the long run people do not...
Capitalist paradoxes
A capitalist paradox is that all people with so-called unskilled jobs are not expected to cope with all qualified jobs. But a person with a skilled job is expected to be able to take all unskilled jobs as if unskilled jobs required no effort at all. Another paradox is based on the false claim that unskilled jobs are…
Pay cuts not a constructive solution
Pay cuts are not a long-term solution. Today's crisis is not a crisis caused by too high wage costs, but is due to a lack of demand. If wages are reduced, demand will only decrease even more. A writer at Aftonbladet even believes that salary cuts can lead to depression. Read more at http://www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/article4563908.ab
The bourgeois view of man
The bourgeois view of humanity is disgusting if it even exists. It sees man only as a tool to be consumed without regard to his own well-being and then tossed on the rubbish heap when it breaks or has reached the end of its life.