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en ublid analyse af et samfund der er ved at implodere i fatal, falsk tryghed. Der er skam nok at føre valgkamp om, men Persson rider på en bedragerisk højkonjunktur, der kan få hundredetusinder bidragafhængige til at stemme på ham, og kun gøre en kommende lavkonjunktur så meget desto mere smertefuld.
Dette er kun et abstract:

THE SWEDEN MYTH
Recently, the so-called Swedish model - that is, the Swedish economic system with high taxes and a big welfare state - has been celebrated again in the press. However, if we look beneath the aggregate production figures, we can see deep structural problems, says economist Stefan Karlsson.

The number of people employed is now 6 percent lower than in 1990, a weaker development than in any other western economy.
By contrast, even with the weak job growth in recent years (by American standards), employment in the United States is 20 percent higher than in 1990.

And the number of people employed in Sweden is actually lower than in 1980, too, says Karlsson:

You have to go back to the mid-1970s to find employment numbers lower than the current ones.
While total employment has been roughly unchanged since 1975,
it masks a significant decline in male employment. And if you look only at the private sector, employment is now at a level lower than in 1950.

Supporters often claim that Sweden has a comparatively high employment rate, but this is based on deceptive employment statistics that count as employed many who are on long-term sick leave or who don't actually work, says Karlsson.
- Many unemployed are sent to so-called "labor market political activities" -- activities whose only purpose is to reduce the official unemployment rate; if we ignore this ruse, unemployment is 8 percent.
And if you also include the enormous number of early retirees and people who live off sickness benefits, the real unemployment rate is more like 25 percent.
The number of early retirees is 540,000, more than double the number of officially unemployed.
Among non-Western immigrants, the real unemployment rate is higher than 50 percent.

Ultimately, this artificial boom will have to come to an end, and although the ensuing crisis will likely not be as deep as in the early 1990s, the seemingly impressive Swedish boom will certainly be revealed as a fraud — just as the whole story of the success of the Swedish economic model is a fraud.

Source: Stefan Karlsson, "The Sweden Myth," Ludwig von Mises Institute, August 07, 2006.
Stefan M.I. Karlsson is an economist currently working in Sweden. Read his

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The Sweden Myth - full text
Mises Institute

Kanal Klog - tema-aften
oprindeligt lanceret som den smalle kanal for de der gerne ville lære noget, opleve noget, blive klogere, forglemme sig selv, bare et lille øjeblik.

'Lad andre klage over at TV er tidsspilde. Jeg klager over at det er imbecilt, narccistisk, navlepillende, nedvurderende, åndssvagt, pubertært og bare egnet til at fremme misantropi og livslede".

Og så har jeg ikke engang det fjerneste imod hverken kvinder eller bryster. Man tror sgu det er løgn:

20.50 DR2 Tema: Det er bare bryster
20.54 Bryster i 2005
21.00 Når brystet bryder frem
21.10 Det modne bryst
21.25 Bryster i parforhold
21.40 Det ammende bryst
21.50 Lise Nørgaard og brysterne
22.05 Fra hængebryster til silikone
22.15 Når brysterne bli´r syge

vi tager lige originalen:

"Lad Andre klage over, at Tiden er ond; jeg klager over, at den er ussel; thi den er uden Lidenskab. Menneskenes Tanker ere tynde og skrøbelige som Kniplinger, de selv ynkværdige som Kniplings-Piger. Deres Hjertes Tanker ere for usle til at være syndige. For en Orm vilde det maaskee kunne ansees for Synd at nære saadanne Tanker, ikke for et Menneske, der er skabt i Guds Billede.
- Deres Lyster ere adstadige og dorske, deres Lidenskaber søvnige; de gjøre deres Pligter, disse Kræmmersjæle; men tillade sig dog ligesom Jøderne at beklippe Mønten en lille Smule; de mene, at om vor Herre holder nok saa ordentlig Bog, kan man nok slippe godt fra at narre ham lidt. Pfui over dem!
- Derfor vender min Sjæl altid tilbage til det gamle Testamente og til Shakespeare. Der føler man dog, at det er Mennesker, der taler; der hader man, der elsker man, myrder sin Fjende, forbander hans Afkom gjennem alle Slægter, der synder man.
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