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Swedish Welfa Some Find It More Rewarding Not to Work



 
 
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Old April 6th, 2007, 08:08 PM posted to rec.travel.europe
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Default Swedish Welfa about the economy


"Lennart Petersen" wrote in message
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"catalpa" skrev i meddelandet
news:97mRh.7222$jZ3.5815@trnddc06...

"Gregory Morrow" wrote in message
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Lennart Petersen wrote:

"PJ O'Donovan" skrev i meddelandet
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http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/2027

Swedish Welfa Some Find It More Rewarding Not to Work
From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Wed, 2007-04-04 12:35

Could be possibly interesting for Mr O`Donovan to know about the
Swedish
economy. There's a plus in the trade balance against the outside

at
an
amount of around 170billion SEK/year. There's a plus in the
government
finances at the amount of 64 billion SEK/y . The currency have

gained
against the USD from around 11SEK a few y ago until today's 6,94

against
the US$. So what's used in the country is paid from the country

itself.



Besides which unemployment is low, standard of living high, and the

economy
is generally booming. Sweden has a large number of big top - class
companies. A real success story as compared to the world's most

powerful
Third World country (the USA)...Sweden could teach the world some

lessons
on
how to run a successful country. They've managed to handle well

problems
that other sclerotic European countries (France, Germany...) have

deemed
"intractable...

IIRC Sweden is home to Europe's richest person (IIRC the guy that owns

H
&
M)...which proves that both private wealth and state enterprises can
exist
well side - by - side... :-)

As for Peej's "Brussels Journal", it is hardly a news source, just
apparently the natterings of some old right - wing bloggers. As a

"news"
source it's risible at best...

--
Best
Greg


Ingvar Kamprad, Europe's richest person and the founder of Ikea is a
Swedish
citizen, but has lived in Switzerland since 1976. He isn't dumb enough

to
live in Sweden and pay for the social welfare state with his money.

And how is Sweden any better run than Denmark or Norway?

Why must it be better run ? And who compared with Denmark,Norway ?

Or
compared at all ? All I said was that trade balance with the outside

is
excellent, so is also governments finances and so are also my private
savings.
I can afford to travel anywhere in the world without problem and still

have
a good life so what's the problem , if there's a problem ?



If you read the thread you would see that I replied to Greg's post and not
yours. He is the one who compared by saying "Sweden could teach the world
some lessons on how to run a successful country. They've managed to handle
well problems that other sclerotic European countries (France, Germany...)
have deemed "intractable..."

EU unemployment statistics for February 2007 show Sweden with 6.7% and
Denmark with 3.4%. Statistics Norway shows a 2.7% for January 2007. So at
least when it comes to the social welfare states putting people to work
Norway and Denmark do a much better job than Sweden.



 




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