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Europe
Sweden to rein in generous welfare
2006-12-21
Too late.
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#9  Maybe the Swedes = Norwegians want things to become as bad as in Commie Zimbabwe, where attacks by Radical Islam may actually be a good thing.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2006-12-21 21:18  

#8  SWEDEN = NORWAY? > EMPLOYMENT LEVELS CAN'T BE TOO HIGH. Didn't believe it until I read it - a Euro-Nation/Govt does NOT want high levels of employment, but by its converse logic favors = demands the opposite, HIGH UN-EMPLOYMENT.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2006-12-21 21:16  

#7  Ummm ... gentlemen, you overlook the fact that the one thing required in all of your success stories is the single most lacking thing in people who aspire to be a parasites. Namely, vision.
Posted by: Zenster   2006-12-21 17:46  

#6  Someone I know has parlayed a "badly-paying" job into owning the company. He improved profit in sales by over 40% in his first three years of a $10 an hour job. Now the owners, who have no children who want to inherit the business lined him up for onwership within 5 years.

Now he owns the store. It took 8 years from the bad salary start.
Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412   2006-12-21 15:54  

#5  I took one of those "poorly-paying" jobs about fifteen years ago - $8/hour, no benefits, through a temp agency. Ended up working for the company, full benefits, at $18/hour in less than six years. Best job I had outside the Air Force. Maybe some of these people need to try some of these "badly paying jobs". Maybe they'd learn something.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2006-12-21 15:46  

#4  The Swedish Confederation of Trade Unions, which represents 15 unions, opposes the new laws, arguing that the proposed cuts in unemployment benefit would force people to accept badly paid jobs.

First, I simply don't understand why anyone believes it is better to pay people not to work than it is to have them work in poorly paying jobs.

Second, someone has to do those jobs. How's that work going to get done if everyone's paid not to do them?

Posted by: DoDo   2006-12-21 12:04  

#3  Or you could handle this the old-fashioned way: Make newer "Swedish" citizens work in the furniture mines while allowing multi-generational residents drink catastrophically taxed liquor.
Posted by: Excalibur   2006-12-21 11:47  

#2  Muslims seek countries with good welfare systems-FACT!!!

In Muslim counties the welfare state is minimal/non existant and as they have to pray 5 times a day they cant work????!!! and seek countries that give them money/benefits for not working!!!!
Posted by: Ebbolump Glomotle9608   2006-12-21 11:45  

#1  "welfare" is a transfer.

You can only be "generous" to people who haven't earned it, by by harsh on people who have.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles in Blairistan   2006-12-21 11:12  

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