On Nov 19, 11:51*am, wrote:

This article will be difficult for you to understand:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/17/bu...mark.html?page...

IOW, fewer people looking for work ---- "lower unemployment."

Denmark is undergoing a highly destructive swing to the right. The
wrecking ball for the comfortable, middle-of-the-road, cradle-to-grave
socialism was a completely open door policy on economic immigration of
uneducated and unskilled benefit abusers. While suffering the highest
taxation levels in the world, for work, services and goods purchased,
the usually moderate Danes saw that these incomers were unwelcome.
They did the only thing they could: They voted in a right wing
government to stop the poisonous influx. Sadly one doesn't just get a
block on immigration. You always get the whole toxic, right wing
package without any of the potential benefits. Taxation hasn't really
changed and goods and services are still far more expensive than
anywhere else. The country is being drained by an illegal war and a
rapid redistribution of wealth to the already wealthy.

The Danish unions were once a force for long term stability and
equality but are being rapidly sidelined in the recession. While
employers are abusing cheap labour from impoverished Eastern Europe
and breaking long-standing agreements on minimum wages. Now combine
all this with the mass export of all the unskilled jobs to China and
Eastern Europe.

The Danes have badly lost their way and will probably spiral down into
levels of crime, racism and poverty to match other, poorer countries
further south. Which is a tragedy for the entire world because
moderate Scandinavian socialism worked remarkably well and could be
held up as an example to others, far less lucky. Sweden seems to be
going the same way for precisely the same reasons: Parasitic economic
immigration without integration, or the slightest sense of
responsibility, to their host nation. Ghettoes and mosques and hate
speech and traditional dress greatly outnumbering the natives in their
shopping malls and schools. While the Danes and Swedes continue to
work for ever reducing returns on their lifelong investment in their
own countries and former lifestyles.