Leftist In Canada Enthralled With Sweden Model

And thanks to PET's cradle to grave just society concept we see $$$$ being taken out of our pockets at an increasing rate but the problems with poverty, illiteracy, indians, homelessness, health care, etc. are increasing which will require more and more $$$$...look at the number of new taxes being contemplated by the City Of Toronto.

The real world intrudes on the Swedish dream and it’s wake up time
Filed under: Economics, Dissecting Leftism, Socialism, Culture Wars — Jerry @ 12:38 pm

Jobless migrants and women boxers rock the cradle of the nanny state
Roger Boyes in Malmö- Times online uk

If there is a revolution coming to Sweden you would not want to be on the wrong side of Josefin. Watched by open-mouthed sparring partners, she thunders her fists against a punchball as if to say: “Some iron has entered the Swedish soul.”

And so it has. Sweden, renowned for decades as the model of cosy womb-to-tomb welfare socialism, has suddenly become a much rawer place. (more…)

A few interesting facts:

— Sweden’s average tax bill (incl local and municipal taxes) is 56 per cent
— In 1970 it was the world’s fourth-richest country (GDP per capita); in 2000 the fourteenth-richest
— Official unemployment rate is 5.7 per cent; Eurostat estimates it at 7.1 per cent
— Since 1995 the number of self-employed people in the EU has risen 9 per cent; in Sweden it has fallen by 9 per cent
— State spending has almost doubled from 31 per cent in 1960 to 60 per cent in 1980
— Between 1975 and 2000 per capita income rose in the USA by 72 per cent, in Western Europe by 64 per cent and in Sweden by 45 per cent
— Average number of patients seen by a Swedish doctor daily has fallen from nine in 1975 to five in 2006

Source: European Commission; Eurostat, OECD, Swedish Office of National Statistics