Reinfeldt says at the world summit in Davos that he wishes to see more low-wage jobs in Sweden. This fits in well with the Alliance's policy of lowering contributions and social security. Such cuts do not create new well-paid and meaningful jobs, but make people desperate enough to take jobs with increasingly worse conditions. It makes man for the rich and…
Month: January 2013
Sweden no longer a welfare state
Sweden has become a crude class society. Can we reverse the trend? http://www.svd.se/kultur/sverige-ar-ingen-forebild-langre_7840262.svd
Generous social insurance benefits the whole society
Generous social security benefits the whole society: they reduce poverty-related crime. Kidnappings of multi-millionaires and billionaires have increased avalanche-like since Reinfeldt's government took office in 2006. generous social insurances are called automatic stabilizers by economists. In other words, when there is a recession, high social insurance stops an excessive drop in demand, which leads to fewer people needing to leave work or...
Relative poverty also terrible
Janne Josefsson saw in the latest Task Review the alarm reports about the increasing poverty in Sweden. He pointed out that people in Sweden were only relatively poor, i.e. in relation to other Swedes, but not in absolute numbers as in relation to those who only live on a few kroner a day in e.g. Africa. However, Susanna Alakoski sets…
The right's ugly nose in the rent issue
The right can't seem to stand that poor tenants can afford to live in the center and barely even that they can afford to live.
The alliance offers unsexy cupboard food
The alliance cannot be sexy anymore for the middle voters. Same old cupboard food. Borg's bragging, Reinfeldt's morality pies, Lööf's neoliberal insanity, Björklund's incitement and Hägglund's incomprehensible pretend defense of welfare and vagueness in matters of value. And their support stool Jimmy's members turn out to be the lawbreakers they want to create law and order against.
The Muslim threat is as common as unfounded immigrant fantasy
Katrine Kielos has read a book about immigrant myths. Immigrant groups are always described as an invasion of people below their own cultural level and incompatible with their own culture, unlike previous immigrant groups. Roughly the same myths that are spread about Muslims in today's USA, used to be about Eastern European Jews and even about the Catholics. Read the article here! Though…
Balance between private and public sector
According to a national economist I interviewed, there is a balance between how much you can expand the public sector to create new jobs and how much tax increases this leads to and thus to fewer jobs in the private sector.
Europe on the brink of famine and rebellion
Metro writes today that large parts of Europe are facing the brink of famine and popular uprisings. Already 300 Spaniards depend on free food parcels as if the country were a developing country.