THE LAST DAY TO VOTE IS JUNE 9. Democracy at Games The 2024 EU elections offer an opportunity to influence Europe's future. The red-green parties, such as the Social Democrats, the Left Party and the Green Party, stand for democracy, human rights, more equality and a more humane asylum policy. The left party also wants to change EU rules so that apartment rents in Sweden can fall. To vote for…
Category: Magdalena Andersson
Work for all provides a more stable, state-regulated mixed economy
Work for all is the goal society must have. Brilliant text on the benefits of full employment and its positive side effects. Niklas Blomqvist questions the idea that the market itself can create full employment. For example, Blomqvist points out that attempts to follow this path in the last thirty years have not produced the desired results. He emphasizes that work for…
The truth about immigration
A conservative view is that a country can either have a sustainable welfare state or high levels of immigration. But that view is wrong. The fact is that we can achieve both a well-functioning welfare state and increased immigration. By using progressive taxes and government deficits to invest in making everyone in society feel good…
Low popularity of benefactor Biden
President Biden has achieved a lot on the economy - especially falling inflation and a great many more jobs. Biden has also won several legislative victories. These will limit the rise in prescription drug prices, expand care options for veterans, slow climate change and rebuild the nation's infrastructure. Still, his popularity ratings are among the lowest in American history except for those of Trump…
Inflation is falling in the US and investment is increasing
Inflation fell much earlier in the US compared to Europe and Sweden. The US has abandoned the austerity policy and the save-in-the-barns that Magdalena Andersson and ulf Kristersson like so much. Biden's presidency instead invests in public investments, protecting jobs in the home country and regulating the market. Read more https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-state-of-joe-bidens-union-the More inspiration: The tough wage law…
No government deficits – society's unnecessary straitjacket
Vote for bigger government deficits! Deficits are part of how the state regulates the market and protects citizens and nature. Neoliberalism attacks this. How is money created? Can we afford to work? Sweden's Riksbank's prize in economic science in memory of Alfred Nobel in 2022 suggested that banks have an important role for the social economy even if this can…
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....
The red-greens must protect freedom and solidarity
Almost as many die in workplace accidents as in gang crime. Hundreds of workers, especially men, kill themselves every year because of the hard working life. The welfare increases of 2014-18 were too weak if wonderful and the slaughter of LAS and the attack on the low rent system and the tax cuts for the rich 2018-2022 horrible. Those who were hit hardest by the…
S is better at healthcare, integration, electricity supply and finance
1. Pension increase. S with the red and green increased the pensions and the housing allowance substantially in 2022 and wants to increase them more in the long term. At the same time, S wants to improve elderly care. S is better. 2. Healthcare. As an S, do you want to reduce market experiments in healthcare? Or should we – as S wants – hire more healthcare staff, scrap cream cheeses and clearance sales, and secure the healthcare guarantee,...
Expanded search rights can become a way to harass political enemies
The house search should be easier to carry out without concrete criminal suspicion. Magdalena Andersson said in her speech the other day in Gothenburg that the police should - without concrete suspicion of crime - be able to search every basement storage, every apartment and every car where gang criminals can hide their weapons. This means that the police should be able to search any residence...