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Re: all the posters gone?

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Tue, 31 Jul 12 7:44 PM | 74 view(s)
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hi faul,

though you (and doubtless others) have abused the system, the funny thing is it continues to generate wealth and to survive crises like the current one relatively intact.

per capita gdp (ppp) puts them around 13th in the world.

unemployment runs 7.3% which is better than the US currently and far better than the european average.

their neighbours in norway run a fairly similar model, and their per capita gdp is even higher while running 3% unemployment and having greater social mobility than the us.

considering everything, i'd say the scandinavian model has worked pretty well.


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Re: all the posters gone?
By: faul in ALEA
Tue, 31 Jul 12 7:35 PM 		Msg. 09096 of 54959

Alea......

I lived in Sweden for 3 years,worked for 6 months which
enabled me to claim 18 months benefit at 90% of my
work salary..........one crazy system,but as a 20 year old
from the UK i couldn't help but take advantage of it!

You know the government also use to pay me to
Learn Swedish at school...I had to attend 4 hours
a day 5 days a week and got paid $8 per hour
and that's 25 years ago...........like I said one crazy
Unsustainable system.......it worked because there
was so much social shame associated with claiming
Unemployment at the time....

I doubt that the benefits are the same today.....too much
Immigration and that wealth collected from exporting
to Nazi Germany must have dried up by now........

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