Anders Borg's confession and the false burden of debt In 2005, Anders Borg admitted that it was not welfare that caused the 1990s crisis. It was a misvalued exchange rate and poorly managed macroeconomic policy. Despite this, welfare was blamed. The Moderates used this narrative to push through attacks on wage earners, privatizations and cuts. Already in 2006, when Fredrik Reinfeldt won…
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How to save equality and the environment/nature all over the world
Global equality and the environment - how do we save these? Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is a macroeconomic theory that proposes that governments with their own currency have the ability to spend unlimited amounts of money on desirable sectors of the economy. Sustainably productive investments increase budget space According to MMT, government spending is limited by inflation and not by public debt....
"Survival" - Book for libertarian left-wing social democracy
Why did welfare in Sweden begin to be dismantled from the 70s? Can everyone get a job? How do we give people housing? The climate - how do we save it? Feel good in a challenging society, okay? The newly published book "Survival - for society and the people" wants to spark discussion about society and life. Read the review by Lars Gahrn,…
The Sossarna offer hope
Already exactly four months before the election, the #Social Democrats have presented several major #reforms that will be important parts in building a #stronger society. It is, for example, about a reform with increased #pensions for those who have worked hard in professional life, about big investments in more employees in care to reduce the #care queues and more #police to fight it...
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Investor protection threat to democracy
The TTIP trade agreement – an agreement between the US and Europe – has protections for investors. A protection that threatens our democracy. If a company believes that a political end threatens any future increased opportunities for profit, they simply want to be able to go to court. To a private court. Without transparency. In the video below you can…
Three future paths
Sweden has received an extremely high number of asylum applications this year. It has and continues to put enormous pressure on the Swedish systems. But it is something that will persist because of climate change. In Syria, it hadn't rained for several years, which was a big reason for the civil war there. Liberal Johan Norberg and…
The alliance made it even less profitable to be a medelsvensson
The alliance went to the polls to make it more profitable to work by cutting taxes for employees and by cutting social insurance and benefits. Internal party documents from the Moderates' time in government have already shown that the intention with this was to lower minimum wages by making people so afraid that they wouldn't...
Reinfeldt and the shortcomings of welfare
Reinfeldt KU registered — not anchored in the EU board
Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has been reported to KU for not having anchored a discussion document on the EU's future in the Riksdag's EU committee. The moderates have retorted with a wounded voice that it was certainly not a controversial document at all: