Posted on 11/25/2005 2:16:10 PM PST by Daralundy
“America’s social model is flawed, but so is France’s,” the Parisian newspaper Le Monde recently wrote. According to Le Monde Europe should adopt the “Scandinavian model,” which is said to combine the economic efficiency of the Anglo-Saxon social model with the welfare state benefits of the continental European ones. On the eve of the EU’s Hampton Court Summit (October 27), one could even read that “Britain might be forced to discuss the advantages of Scandinavian models, which rely on more social security.”
The praise for the Nordic model comes from Bruegel, a new Brussels-based think tank, “whose aim is to contribute to the quality of economic policymaking in Europe.” The think tank is a Franco-German government initiative and is heavily funded by EU governments and corporations. In October Bruegel published a study “Globalisation and the Reform of European Social Models” [pdf] propagating the Nordic model.
A paper [pdf] from the economics department of Ghent University does the same. This paper, Fiscal Policy Employment and Growth: Why is the Euro Area Lagging Behind, was also subsidized by the government. In the selection of data comparing the performance of EU economies, the authors arbitrarily eliminated Ireland, Spain and Portugal (three of the four best performing EU economies) from their research and added oil-producing non-EU member Norway (which has a GDP more than 20% of which is based on income from oil). It is hardly imaginable that professors of one of Belgium’s major universities would not be aware of how this arbitrary selection must distort the results. Hence one must read their text as an ideological pamphlet rather than a scientific study.
(Excerpt) Read more at canada.com ...
Tough crowd today.
The Scandanavian Model = Scandanavian women being raped routinely by Islamic savages, and nothing is done about it.
Yeah, copy that.
*shakes head*
What a terrific commerical. I remember it.
Here is the substance of the "Scandanavian Model": Have a lot of oil, and then no one has to work.
Nice healthy specimen!
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Those stats are from a report for 2000. Where do your numbers come from? I googled around a bit, but I could only find a couple of op-ed type sites with no sources cited.
It's amazing how quickly an interesting post can melt down into nonsense.
Last time I checked, the "Scandanavian Model" involved importing large numbers of Muslims, who then commit 90% of the rapes of Scandanavian women. Great model.
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HO Ho Ho Christmas comes to Santa this year.
Lots of great information there.
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Gunilla!!!!
CA....
What happened in Europe, after WWII, that people thought they did't have to work anymore?
Wow. Did not realize it was that bad there.
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