I thought he was Canadian, not Norwegian!
Posted on 09/13/2005 2:22:16 PM PDT by Murtyo
Norway's Labour leader Jens Stoltenberg, triumphant after his 'red-green' opposition ousted the centre-right government in the general election, has promised to spend more of Norway's oil bonanza on welfare.
'We will use Norway's great opportunities and income on the common good - jobs for all, good schools, security and care for the elderly,' said Mr Stoltenberg.
Mr Stoltenberg, 46, and his alliance beat the tax-cutting government of Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik even though the economy is booming and UN surveys have rated Norway as the best place in the world to live every year since 2001.
A trained economist who was Norway's youngest Prime Minister from 2000-01, the Labour leader said Bondevik's tax cuts had betrayed Nordic traditions of equality.
Mr Bondevik will stay on as a caretaker until parliament opens in mid-October.
With more than 99% of votes counted, the three leftist parties won 87 of the parliament's 169 seats, against 82 for Bondevik and his allies.
MORE WELFARE!
A Requiem for Norway.
Following the French road to success. Just speak softly and carry a white flag.
....the common good....sound famliar???.....Hillary.
They never learn...
...continuing to swallow the socialism that has poisoned them for decades...
Hey, they got lots of North Sea Oil - and oil is $65 a barrel today. So they can live off that and Nokia. Don't know what they'll do if oil falls to $20 or $30?
But who are we to talk?
from - http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/opecnon.html - For 2005 and 2006, Norway's net oil export revenues are forecast at about $46 billion
I wonder what percentage of their population is Moslem?
I thought he was Canadian, not Norwegian!
A welfare state works much better for a largely monolithic society like Norway. You never see the kind of societal decay in Norway like we saw in New Orleans. Maybe it's the natural Scandinavian values.
So I don't begrudge Norway this approach if it works well for them.
totally, Europeans seem to think the the US has no welfare state and Americans seem to think that the systems in European welfare states work well, but in reality the US has a highly interventionist govt. with lots of welfare programs and it doesn't work all that well and the Euro nations have systems that don't work all that well either.
I guess when you spend 98% of the federal budget on welfare, another 2% won't make a difference.
Norway Still World's Best Place to Live
For the fourth year in a row, the United Nations has ranked Norway as having the highest standard of living in the world. Sweden, Australia and Canada are next in line, while the United States is further down the scale. The annual ranking is based largely on average levels of education and income, combined with expected length of lifetime. The report measured standards of living in 177 countries around the world....
http://www.sibernews.com/content/view/1948/29/
"The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money to spend."
It's sickening. I've got family living there, and I've been watching this one with trepidation. It boggles the freaking mind how people can stand the CONSTANT taxation and "equality" where if the budget runs out on the social medicine in Dec, you don't get your damn surgery until next fiscal year, in Jan. Holy crap. And I've been watching things improve under this govm't... guess they can all kiss goodbye the tax cuts. Yea. Let's *all* be poor. Lest we all forget what it means to be "the most desirable country to live in", their standard of living is WAY below ours. The poor in America are FAR better off then the poor in Norway.
If it wasn't for the oil revenues, that country'd be in the shitter. O, wait... Socialist Utopia and Nordic principles of "equality"... right.
Finnish people live off Nokia.
Norwegian men live off of looking at those gorgeous Viking women.
Finnish people live off Nokia.
Norwegian men live off of looking at those gorgeous Viking women.
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