Tidölaget's strategy is to, after a short time, lower the unemployment fund by 5% every 100 days until it reaches a bottom of SEK 8030 before tax per month. This contrasts with the needs of the long-term unemployed. These are often functionally varied often functionally varied or long-term ill and cannot cope with the low-wage jobs the government advocates to solve...
Category: Government deficits
Visitation zones instead of competitiveness
In visitation zones, the police must be able to stop and search people without having a specific suspicion of crime. The idea is that it will make the streets safer, but many are against it. Critics believe that it can lead to abuse and violations of people's rights. This is especially true if it is used against certain groups based on skin color…
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…
S new social analysis a flop
S's new social analysis is for immigration but is it and everything else it is in a way that is most repressive. The class analysis and the workers' needs are absent. S is the big red-green society-supporting party. It must abandon the idea of "saving-in-the-barns". This austerity goal is only focused on subsidizing the wealth of the very few at the expense of…
Provide space for specially gifted children
How is a gifted student doing at school? There is an acceptance in the school for extra talent in art, music and sport but not in academic subjects. A particularly gifted student may be nicknamed "study horse" and try to hide his giftedness by deliberately giving wrong answers or underachieving. This risks giving…
Why should we not say loans about government deficits
It is the term loan that is so misleading and could be misused to borrow from capitalists or abroad. Technically, it is not a loan either. The state can request that the people do the best they can and the state must help the people according to its ability. Then the state directs or helps the people by creating money…
Neither demonizing nor releasing the right-wing extremists helps
Of course, it is important not to demonize any political movement, including far-right groups. But helping more extreme right-wing politics by inviting discontent parties on the extreme edge of the right, as The Economist advocates on 2023-09-14 in the editorial "The EU's liberals need better ways to deal with populists" solves nothing. Too often, the right-wing extremists are too…