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Swedish Welfa about the economy
"Lennart Petersen" wrote in message ... "catalpa" skrev i meddelandet news:97mRh.7222$jZ3.5815@trnddc06... "Gregory Morrow" wrote in message hlink.net... Lennart Petersen wrote: "PJ O'Donovan" skrev i meddelandet oups.com... http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/2027 Swedish Welfa Some Find It More Rewarding Not to Work From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Wed, 2007-04-04 12:35 Could be possibly interesting for Mr O`Donovan to know about the Swedish economy. There's a plus in the trade balance against the outside at an amount of around 170billion SEK/year. There's a plus in the government finances at the amount of 64 billion SEK/y . The currency have gained against the USD from around 11SEK a few y ago until today's 6,94 against the US$. 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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