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Speaking of Behemoth
This year, the long arching leaves of Behemoth are tickling my fancy and giving me the urge to add to my collection. I lost my Behemoth over the winter and can't find one locally. I will be on the look-out for one when I start traveling at the end of the month.
In the meantime, I was looking for hostas that have the long arching leaves like Behemoth. Anyone have any suggestions?
I would recommend Mikado as a look-a-like for Behemoth.
Here is the link to a REALLY old post showing a very mature Mikado.
This post is the reason I bought mine. I got it last year from Chick @ Bridegwood.
It seems to be a slow grower thus far, not putting on too much growth from last year when compared to some of my other first years. Then again, it also had some rotted roots this spring I noticed when I repotted it out of the topsoil mess I created. I imagine that set this yearâÂÂs growth back a bit.
There are also hostas King Michael and King James, but IâÂÂm not sure you will be able to find those ones since they are such old cultivars.
There is some ongoing dispute that hostas: King Michael, King James, and Mikado are all really the same plant. Is this true ? I have no idea.
ItâÂÂs the montana heritage you are after with the long languid leaves. So, if none of these IâÂÂve mentioned come up on a vendor search, look for montana in the lineage.
Good luck in your search and let us know what you end up deciding on. :)
My youngling âÂÂMikadoâ on 05/30/2013
And a very old King Michael I saw while up in Michigan
Yeah, Ludi has been doing his homework in the forum archives. I noticed the return of Sidney1515 as well......a welcome return for sure. Hope to see a lot of Sidney in the coming months. Like Gesila, who can resist one or more or all the above?
If I could have ONE, which would it be? Or throw Empress Wu into the options. NOW which one? This is getting critical. Should I cancel the remodel of our house and look for another with a larger garden? Maybe an AIR CONDITIONED garden?
This may be a wee bit off topic for the original post in this thread but...speaking of archives - is there a way to search for a particular user's posts?
For example: I would like to see more of UK's pics from prior years. I am searching for the name of the bright yellow pie crust edge hosta that he has.
My vote for best green with large leaves, upright form, arching leaves... would be Niagara Falls. It won the ultra-prestigious Benedict Award last year.
I don't have NF, but I have War Paint and it is a special favorite. It starts off in the spring with the form of NF, but with a multicolored light center - very striking. It will, over just a few weeks, go completely green. Some folks are bummed by that, but since when it becomes all green it is a dead ringer for the very-elegant Niagara Falls, I don't consider it a detriment. I just think of it as getting 2 hostas for the price (and space) of one.
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Landscape ideas - dug-out tree
Hi all -
I would love to leverage the collective, creative minds out there! I have a maple tree that was slightly buried when our house was built (when they brought in fill for the lawn). It's been dug out for years to relieve the base of the tree from stress of being buried. (hopefully pics are visible below).
I need to clean up (re-dig out a bit) around the tree - but in short, it is ugly and I would love to hear any suggestions on how to better landscape the "hole" around the tree.
I've been thinking of some stone around, but this would entail building a wall around the hole - not sure if there is something more simple yet effective.
Any ideas welcomed! Pictures as examples even better.
Many thanks!
If you want to eliminate the sudden drop-off, peel back the sod perhaps 6 feet all around and regrade the soil to a gentle slope down toward the level of the tree, then re-lay the sod.
Building a ring wall, putting in a circle of rocks, etc., is rarely good design.
Alternate idea -- eliminate the sod around the tree altogether. Instead, extend the planting bed (on the left in the photo) in a natural flowing line to incorporate the tree into the bed. Looking at the photo, you could more or less follow the shadow of the tree to extend the bed.
Seeing only the base of the tree in isolation doesn't give me much to go on in terms of design.
From personal experience, incorporating a maple into a planting bed is grounds for disaster. Nothing is going to grow in its canopy. I am liking the idea of the tree seat for my own situation. Someone incorported a maple in our planting bed and nothing does well under it. You will be lucky to get thugs to fill in. Tree roots of maples surface and take every bit of soil available. The base of that tree doesn't look like a maple to me. If it's buried that deeply, tree roots will still come to the surface and Maples don't do well when roots are buried.


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You really mean Scandinavia and not the Nordic Countries. Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark = Scandinavia. N.C. includes Iceland, which I believe you omitted.
Finland is not usually considered part of Scandinavia so the Nordic countries is the correct term.
Finland is not part of Scandinavia. It is part of the Nordic Countries.
If the Nordic countries ever create Scandinavia as a democratic federation do I believe as a Dane, that it would be good to have Finland as a memberstate if they would like to be part of Scandinavia
Most Nordic people, including the Finns, regard the Finns as Nordic. Of course, most people in Finland, together with the Estonians and East-Karelians, have a different language and a different ancient origin than the Scandinavians. Nonetheless, Finland cooperates closely and equally with the Scandinavian countries, that also are a part of the Nordic cooperation. It also shares a lot of culture and social systems with the Scandinavian countries, and most probably is closer to Scandinavian Sweden than Iceland is (even if we disregard Swedish speaking minorities in Finland and Finnish minorities in Sweden).
On the other hand, it does not surprise me that some people in some parts of the Nordic countries feel less close to some people in some other parts of the Nordic countries. There always are people that focus on their own region or country, and even a few that focus on the 'proto-Vikings' or 'proto-Uralics'. In addition, the relations between Finnish and Swedish speakers in Finland has recently entered a mild and temporary conflict, that sometimes result in less sensible thoughts and actions on both sides.
A person with Sweden Finnish and diverse Scandinavian background, presently living in a part of Norway were there apart from Scandinavian Norwegians are many Sami, some Finns, and also some people from other so called ethnic groups.
Being in the lead of government reform (e.g., Thatcherism and privatization) does not mean that you have the right solution.
Innovators. by definition, are usually wrong.
Being in the lead of government reform (e.g., Thatcherism and privatization) does not mean that you have the right solution.
Innovators. by definition, are usually wrong.
Yes but let´s be careful. Northern countries are a model in many aspects. But it is not easily exportable such a model to bigger countries. Imagine the size of State in the US under a Northern model. It should be a kind of Leviathan. I admire the northern model but I can´t avoid not to trust in an oversized State. It´s always dangerous, especially in big countries.
The very first words said "smallish countries"....
Why is it that whenever the virtues of Scandanvian countries are written about there is an immediate counter reaction along the lines of "Yeah but that socialism!". "it's a nanny state"....maybe the Scandanivian model is holding up well because the philosophy is that the state can play an active role without interfering.
I know in my own country there is a move away from state involvement in the very fundamental that make a country competitive such as health and education. This is driven by the "spook" of socialism and that anything state involved is bad and highly inefficient. True, governments are not the best administrators but at the same time civil services that generate a plural society hold enormous value. Free marketeers and proponents of small government have been calling the collapse of Scandinavian economies for over a decade. The only collapse in Europe has been those countries with liberal economic policy......seems rather ironic doesn't it?
Critics of Scandinavia's "toxic socialism" fail to realise the value that social equality plays in a stable society. Have a look at the reasons behind the GFC.....this so called "toxic socialism" was the too by which the free marketeers used to stabilise the problem......another example of irony....?
It seems you didn't read the article. Moving away from socialism is exactly what allowed Scandinavian countries to set their fiscal houses in order and avert the crisis that affected many other European countries (incidentally, those big on spending like Greece and Spain). By reducing the state's role, countries like Sweden actually *increased* in standards of living and economic standing.
Perhaps you should look in the mirror for a case of irony?
One more thing: historically, a big state does not correlate with civil liberties. Quite the opposite.
How is big spending and debt 'liberal economic policy'?
In Sweden semantics are a little different from rest of the world. For example; racism = criticism on immigration politics, liberal = conservative socialism and integration = welfare. 1984 Newspeak realized!
I did read the article. The irony of your commentary is that you didn't read my reply properly. Where have I mentioned civil liberties? You've just jumped to the conclusion that I was referring to civil liberties.
Free marketeering isn't what saved Scandanvia from the ills of US sponsored largesse....
" The only collapse in Europe has been those countries with liberal economic policy......seems rather ironic doesn't it? "
If you are reffering to the PIGS, please take into account that all of them with the exception of Italy have had socialist governments in power for at least one or two terms prior to their economic meltdown.
You do not know the concept pos socialism. The nordic states are NOT socialist. Socialism means the government ownership of means of mass production. Communism means the governmet ownership of all means of production, even the small businesses. Even the Soviet union never reached communism but North Korea is very close to it. The nordic countries are all based on free enterprise.
The Economist persists in misconstruing government spending expressed as a percentage of GDP as "the government's share of the economy". In a modern state, 80% or so of government spending consists of transfer payments, which do not count towards the GDP. Thus if government spending was once "67% of the GDP", the government's actual share of the economy was about 20% of 67% = about 13%. The Economist knows this perfectly well, but enjoys being alarmist (not to mention dishonest). There are no doubt some savings to be had from transferring a load of government spending to the private sector, but it's not anywhere as great as the Economist makes out. The automatic assumption that the private sector does it better is pure ideology.
I was expecting to read an article on all nordic countries, not just Sweden.
Number of times mentioned:
Sweden: 12
Denmrk: 5
Norway: 4
Finland: 1
I someitimes feel like non-native scandinavians don't know the difference between the three words "Scandinavia" "Nordic countries" and "Sweden"
Those are three different words with different meaning.
In the "old days" it was a common fallacy in the US of A to regard all Scandinavians as "Swedes" probably because Swedes were the largest group of Scandinavian immigrants.
Some years ago I met a guy from Nebraska who told me that "we have many Swedes in Nebraska; they have their own towns like Dannebrog and Dannevirke". For me as a Swedane I found this amusing, even cute.
You have a point. As an American living in Sweden now for 17 years I learned that Sweden has had for decades the most efficient propaganda machine for creating an image of the Perfect Country and spreading that idea so Sweden always is mentioned.
Don't get me wrong, I am as happy here as I was in the USA, probably happier but that is partly because the years from age 70 to age 80 have been so great.
Larry Lundgren Only-NeverInSweden.blogspot.com
In many ways, the Nordic countries are the best places in the world to live in. However, there are huge challenges that will put the Nordic model to a test in coming years. Public spending remains on an unsustainable level and the combination of ageing populations and growing number of welfare-dependent immigrants is rapidly making things worse. In Sweden, ultra-liberal immigration policies combined with generous welfare has already sown the seeds for massive problems in the future. This will put an enormous burden on the welfare system and already reflects in declining scores in international student assessment tests, for instance. Finland with its much-lauded education system is slowly following suit. In Finland, access to public health care is already worse than e.g. in UK and this is causing increasing inequality. Norway is a special case with its vast oil wealth. Out of the rest Denmark is doing best at the moment. They have implemented wise moves like flexicurity and rationalised their immigration policies. One hopes that Sweden and Finland will learn from them.
Approximately 2 years ago did the economist make a special report upon the solvency of retirement systems in the world
As far as I remember was the Swedish retirement system among the 3 or 5 most solvent in the world. Can not remember their exact position
I have lived and worked continuously in Sweden as a Swedish citizen for the last 29 years. I am now 66 years old and my monthly pension has been fixed at 4800 Skr because, probably very rightly, that is the amount I have earned towards my pension. If Sweden were an utopic State, despite my poor past earnings, should not the Government have stepped in here and ensured that I be paid at least the minimum amount that is required to pay my house rent etc.? This should give the readers the true picture of Sweden!
It is easy to have a socialist nation where a substantial number of the population lives off the government when your total population is tiny and you don't have to spend much on something like the military.
I suppose if your success measure is everyone equally having very little but surviving ok, then Scandinavia is it. Clearly obvious when the author makes false claims about America's so called inequality. Everyone has equality here, equal opportunity. The outcome is up to the person. It is places like Nordic countries, Much of Europe and other areas where a few elites, aristocrats and politicians have the vast majority of all resources, they own the land, the money, the ideas, everything and the people have very little ownership at all. In America the vast majority of people do in fact have plenty. Not that America is immune to the inequality caused by socialism, Most americans still do in fact reject the Euro model of equal misery for all except Elites.
Another uneducated clueless comment. Equality in Scandinavia is miles ahead of the US. Just look at the most simple measures like the Gini coefficient. You write "very little but surviving ok" , where do you get this from? And where do you get this idea that you have equal opportunity in the US, that is a fairytale told to the poor masses.
Your view of Europe and the Nordic countries is that of a mediaeval feudal society, one the US is rapidly moving in the direction of. You talk of aristocrats.. do you know that the aristocracy in Norway was abolished over a hundred years ago. Aristocratic titles, family crests etc does not exist, except in some countries like France and the UK. Anyway, just do some basic research; travel to these countries and I am sure you will agree.
In America we have a 13% high school drop out rate. This a source of most our problems. There is simply no viable jobs for them anymore. A HS dropout age 25-55 has medium income of 450 US dollars per week. Below 25 the unemployment rate is 40% and worse in urban areas. Given these numbers most of them are on public assistance. They also make up 70% of the prison population. They have significantly shorter life expectancy and more often ill than the general population. America outspends most of the world when it comes to education so that's not the problem.
todd t's take on this is laughable, 'where I was born is best' I presume, I wouldn't even know where to begin. "a few elites, aristocrats and politicians have the vast majority of all resources" - this is the year 2013, not some medieval era from a storybook, and what makes TT think that the USA is not also controlled by a tiny rich ruling elite, talk about naive. the equal opportunity is entirely present in most of western europe, and in many cases, far more versatile than any supposed opportunity you'd find in the ridiculously unequal USA. "Most americans still do in fact reject the Euro model" - nevermind I'm confused about this supposed 'misery', but, rejection of a model by the average american is hardly an indictment of that model; americans are practically known for refusing that which would help them most, including small doses of socialism. I don't live in europe or the USA but from the outsider's PoV, on freedom, opportunity, and social welfare, I know where I'd rather live.
I'm not North American or European, but I've lived in both places in the past.Although Todd was a little bit rough and too patriotic, I can understand his point of view:
In the US Equality = Equal opportunity.
In Europe Equality = Equal Income.
A Great Gini coefficient value should and it is pursued by both places, Europe and the US and if inequality is raising in the US, it will raise in Europe too, as their kids are not working that much anymore. Eventually, some groups will take advantage of the weakest either in the US or Europe. The History never ends.
In the US you have much more purchase power and financial help to make you succeed as a capitalist or entrepreneur. Its normal to be ambitious there, its human.
In Europe, you will need more money to start, because every socialist country makes its entrepreneurs life more difficult, you are inclined to get a job, not to create your company, money is more expensive and rare as its used to cover governments social expenses.
It might even be genetic, some people stayed safe at home and others sailed away.
Its because people in America actually believe this narrative that Americans are often seen by the rest of the world as ignorant....and of a type of ignorance that knows little, believes much that isn't near the truth but believes they have a monopoly on wisdom because of their superiority. Not for nothing is 'the ugly American' a truism.
And its a well known principle that if you don't have social insurance or a social safety net you are less likely to take the risk of starting your own business. If you have a couple of kids and are poor you aren't likely to take the risk of quitting your job to start that micro-business when you know that if you get sick you won't be able to pay and your family will be screwed.
And equal opportunity is a myth...a discourse of power trotted out by the elite. Opportunity is based on how much capital you have. Financial and material capital, social capital (e.g. relationships with people and especially those with power), personal capital (education and health). Mitt Romney has a lot. A guy working two jobs on minimum wage and no health insurance has little. Mitt Romney has more opportunity than the other guy.....but tells everyone that there is equal opportunity. And most Americans beleive what they are told....by the people who want to keep the playing field tilted in their favor and that of their kids.....to keep inequality as high as possible
Ok, I'll follow your example: universal health care.
Then you have to believe that decent health care for everyone is financially and technically possible.How can you assure that? Socialism itself doesn't guarantee that instability. Some years ago, in Portugal and Spain public health care system, for every 5 doctors going into retirement 5 new doctors were hired. Today for every 5 doctors going into retirement only one is hired, thanks to the crisis. Brazil wants to "import" the other 4 to work in very poor areas, where Brazilian doctors won't work. The King Of Spain and the Portuguese prime minister are asking Brazil to "import" them faster, otherwise they will help to increase the unemployment rates in those countries. The Portuguese and Spanish workers or entrepreneurs won't get the decent health care for their couple of kids from their socialist governments either. Meanwhile in Brazil, where there is something the left government likes to call "public health", the doctors are abandoning the public service because they are watching their colleagues making 20 times more money in the private health system due to demand. Only Fidel can guarantee his doctors in his island(by shotting them if they try to leave), although the Cuban health care is declining year after year.
But of course born rich Americans have much more opportunities than average Americans or most people in the world, "equal opportunity" is a tricky term, and the US has not the same opportunities anymore, what I'm trying to say is that socialism can't guarantee that instability forever, but is expensive to the tax payer from the beginning.
sorry, where you read "instability" I meant "stability"(and I speak a Latin language, no excuses)
"Everyone has equality here, equal opportunity" So you mean that a black a kid growing up in a near slum area with alocoholic and abusive unemployed parents have the SAME opportunities in life as a white kid growing up in a wealthy home? Wake up.
You get your opportunities in life from your parents, and you don't choose your parents. Therefore, a country who's state doesn't compensate with free education and healthcare will always be unequal. Hence tax payed welfare states.
The US has a lot of problems, one serious one being patriotic myopia when comparing the US and the rest of the world. Having lived and worked in six foreign countries and having visited thirty seven, I am well aware of my country's shortcomings. Unlike some posters here I am not blind to the positive things.
I am also well aware that the US is the oldest modern federal state and that the states have far more autonomy than elsewhere. Saying America this and America that often leads to incorrect assumptions and conclusions. Massachusetts, Texas, California, Puerto Rico and Alaska are as different from each other as many European countries are. Not everyone speaks English, nor do the English speakers speak the same dialect.
I find the misperceptions here in the Economist particularly troubling, as the staff and most readers generally seem to be well educated and [selbstverständlich] well read.
Sweden also has a high school drop out rate but also nearly 50% of non-European (read Africa and Middle East) immigrants fail compulsory school to. However, they make more than 450$US per week from welfare.
The youth unemployment rate is officially 23% at the moment but if you include all government subsidized works that rate is probably around 40% (yes, the Swedish government pays companies 80% of the salary to employ people from Middle East and Africa.
Swedish taxpayers pay tax to make themselves too expensive to employ.
No, socialism never worked for anyone but those who want to live on other peoples hard work.
How true. If we didn't have these parasites in America there would be lower taxes and a balance budget.
"The US has a lot of problems, one serious one being patriotic myopia when comparing the US and the rest of the world. Having lived and worked in six foreign countries and having visited thirty seven, I am well aware of my country's shortcomings. Unlike some posters here I am not blind to the positive things."
As a Dane who has lived and studied for several years in the US I very much agree with this. The United States is a great country and if the occasional arrogance of the government (towards foreigners both as visiting "aliens" (since Sigourney Weaver's movies that term has the wrong ring to it in this context...) and towards "small" European allies expected to follow the lead of the "leader of the free world" and say "yes, of course!") and myth-based hyper-patriotism of some Americans are my least favorite parts of it, the friendliness, openness, charm and ordinary courtesy you meet almost every single day from ordinary Americans, is my favorite part of the USA.
The nordic countries are not socialist. Do you even know what the word means?
You should get your facts straight.
Nordic countries have traditionally spent quite a lot on military. Sweden due to being neutral. Norway and Finland did since they had borders with the Soviet Union. Today the expenditure is not any lower than for most other countries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Military_expenditure_by_GDP_2008.png
The social mobility and equal opportunity in the US is largely a myth prestented as an excuse for the high level of inequality in the US.
The US has very poor social mobility. The American dream does in fact not exist anymore. Quite contrary to your belief Nordic countries offer the highest level of social mobility. It is in the US were the elite sit with all the power and the money. It is the US which has the 1%. How many make it in American politics without being wealthy? In Nordic countries politicians are quite normal people. Being wealthy is quite rare.
You might have been right about Europe and the US if you talked about the 1800s when massive amounts of Europeans emmigrated to the US. You know Europe and the US has changed since your great grand father emmigrated.
The US is not that great of a country for startups: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/10/think-were-the-most-...
Having lived in Europe doesn't say much. There are vast differences between many European countries.
Nordic countries makes it easier for you to start a business than the US, because you have a social safety net. You are not putting your families future and health on the line by starting a business.
I think the source of the confusion about the US being a great country for startups is that the US has an excelent supply of venture capital. It might be easier to start a business in Nordic countries but it is much harder to make it grow large, than in the US, because there is often not as much venture capital available.
Another problem is size of home markets ambitions etc. Because Nordics have small home markets the businesses can often not get that large. Before they can grow outside their borders they often get bought by big international companies.
The Scandinavians are so cute, aren't them?
The text offers a good lesson to all countries where very few people live, many are old and all the ambitious ones are expelled from that environment system. But those wannabe countries would have to fit.They will have to keep their population small and "everybody would have to be equal since their births".
Its not easy. This model works because of what Scandinavia is.The problem with the "big governments" is that you won't know if its gonna work before they get huge and expensive.
The text don't tell that in Sweden, Finland and Denmark the income tax is around 60% and in Norway is around 40%(thanks to some Nordic God who gave them oil).
Furthermore, its much easier to fight corruption in countries where the contracts values are not so big, and everybody is paying attention to the few big ones signed, as the infra there is already built and is enough, the infra is not growing in the same pace as in the bigger and more production oriented countries.
And I believe fewer and homogenic voters and less lobbying counts to their success.Lets see when the immigrants votes start to count for real, will the current kind of Scandinavian politician keep being reelected?
I agree that the taxes are too high, I'm paying 17,1% including the local municipal tax. The highest tax payers don't usually pay much income tax (which rate is high in high incomes) but capital income tax rate which is about half of it. So you pay yourself dividends instead of salary.
You write a lot of odd things. Where do you get your information from? 60% and 40% income tax is quite misleading statement. That is perhaps marginal tax rate. Effective tax rate for most people is closer to 30%. I make over 100 000 dollars and pay around 34% tax in Norway.
Your logic around corruption makes no sense. You can compare a nordic country to a state in the US. Contract values will be the same. There are plenty of small corrupt countries all over the world. By your twisted logic corruption should grow with the size of government.
If anything Norway should be extremely corrupt given that it is a oil country. How many oil exporting countries can you name which does not have lots of corruption. We must be doing something right in Norway.
As for voting. The immigrants typically vote for the left wing parties which largely created the welfare state to begin with. So your argument makes no sense. What might be more realistic is that the support for the welfare state drops among the native population if they see immigrants getting too many benefits and working too little.
I don't think American voters are any less homogenic. In forums you always see the same kind of opinons being expressed by Americans. The main difference is that American politics is more adverserial. And all the lobbying Americans can thank themselves for letting money rule in the political campaigns.
¨The ¨¨Success¨¨ of Norway seems to be based on hoarding or husbanding its subsurface (petroleum) wealth.
¿Could this be used as a comparison among countries( Brazil, Venezuela,Australia, Argentina,Indonesia?
We might have a low national debt, but the private depts are pretty high. Especially the housing loans which ended up on $36100 per person in the summer of 2012, and is rising steady.
/The Swede
Fox News and Rush Limbaugh would never make money in the Nordic countries. There is no audience for those products.
In America, the state does not work for the people, it has become subservient to vested interests, operated by lobby groups; a legalized form of corruption. It is very sad to see such a progressive and innovative state losing its bearings, involved in endless war and a mountain of debt. Americans are very intelligent people, I am sure they will do the necessary to bring back sanity.
Like states everywhere. No Difference. The Bank families are running things in this world!
Oh I can see it now! American politicians telling voters that cars will become un-affordable and you need to ride a bicycle :) Even better everybody will pay a 50% of their income in taxes. Also there will be a federal 20% VAT. Why does the Economist engage in the theater of the absurd? Why is Norway included? It's Petro-state and not a model for anybody except another Petro-state.
Casino capitalism can awe with vulgar displays of excessive wealth, dazzling examples of entrepreneurial success and creativity but at the end of the day it is not sustainable.......
tell me which system is better? ups....
Sweden will soon drop out of this league and implode as a country. The country's entire political and media establishment is united in a stubborn defense of the world's most extreme immigration and multicultural policy.
The asylum immigration per capita is the highest in the world and most new immigrants come from places like Somalia and Afghanistan, with up to 90 percent being illiterates.
Swedish exit polls (VALU) show clearly that non-European immigrants (in particular from the MENA region) overwhelmingly vote for left-wing parties (60-80%). Combine this with incredibly generous rules for winning citizenship (3-5 years residency, no demand for language skills, no citizen test). The result is that the present centre New Moderate government is transforming the electorate into an unbeatable eternal left-wing majority. PM Reinfeldt will lose the 2014 election due to left wing voting immigrants and the new socialist government will continue to allow more future left wing immigrant voter into the country.
Any facts based and rational debate about immigration is suppressed in mainstream media by politically correct moral panics, where any objection is condemned as xenophobic by the totally dominant multi-cultural left wing politico-media-pundit establishment. Facts about the problems are suppressed, most mainstream media have stopped accepting alias reader comments, alternatively aggressively delete any comments that is critical of immigration. News reporting is biased on every level. For example, the names and photos of non-European immigrant criminals are never mentioned by the media (not even after a conviction). However, ethnic Swedish criminal suspects are displayed with name and photos when arrested – before trial and conviction. If a police report states that "several witness saw three men of African origin flee the crime scene" the news articles will remove any mention of the suspects ethnic background.
The borders are de facto wide open for anyone who knows what to tell the immigration authorities and once accepted for "asylum" you are pampered with generous welfare, free medical care (ethnic Swedes have to pay) and priority track to subsidized housing paid by the tax payers. Once accepted you are also allowed to bring in all your relatives and offer them the same welfare benefits as well.
Any kind of control or reality check on made up stories by the "refugees" are considered to be xenophobic. Smugglers instruct their client to destroy their passports and travel documents and give them a story that can't be verified. Sweden hands out ID-cards and citizenships en masse to people with no identity check. "Relatives" are never checked with DNA-testing. Asylum seekers that don't even speak the language or know the geography of the place they claim to have fled from are still given asylum. The most popular loop-hole today is "refugee orphan child" (ensamkommande flyktingbarn). Men in their late 20s claim to be under 18 with dead parents and get away with that. In the other Nordics, medical examinations of the alleged children have shown that 90 percent are older than 18 and denied asylum, but in Sweden any demands for medical exams have been condemned as being "xenophobic". And by the way, once the "children" have their asylum status, they suddenly discover that their parents and five brothers are alive, and they will of course also be offered residency. If their parents are above 65 (or claim to be above 65) they will be offered "Äldreförsörjningsstöd", which is a state pension that is higher than the pension paid low income Swedes who have worked and paid taxes their entire lives. And the immigrant pensioners get free medical and dental care, which Swedish pensioners don't.
These facts are never reported in mainstream media in Sweden. Swedish public debate is a madhouse. The naivety and denial of the Politically Correct establishment is horrible. And by the way, the members of elite establishment that claim to embrace multiculturalism never live themselves in the areas that have been "culturally enriched" by immigrants. They never send their teen age daughter to schools in these areas. Hypocrites.
Myopic Taylor - each and every word you say is true! I have been wasting several years myself writing to media and politicians about this, but to no avail. There is now a timid attempt, much too late in my opinion, to try and correct the situation by a newly formed political party named the Swedish Democrats which according to opinon polls have around nine per cent of the electorate. But I'm afraid that it is too late. Much too late....
(But how do you know all this...? Being myopic, I mean...)
Your efforts are probably to no avail since your views are askewed. The Swedish Democrats (SD) are an embaressment. As are conspiracy theories about a political correct establishment. SD believe all problems can be solved by first blaming and then throwing out all immigrants. Even more pathetic: the scandals involving the party - such as video of SD members of parlament chasing a homeless guy with an iron bar or threatening a well known comedian (who is a 2nd generation immigrant) - only seems to make them more popular. And populists they are. They are capable simultaniously holding two completely opposite beliefs a) immigrants steal jobs from swedes and b) immigrants rather stay on welfare than work.
You risk creating the same counter reaction as in Denmark
After the 10 black years with Danish People party's influence and all the unacceptable increased requirements for family reunions for Danish citizens and their foreign spouses have the center party obtained power and it is reforming society with a vengeance
Basically, the center is
1) Multicultural and in favour of globalisation and immigration of skilled foreigners and the foreign families to Danish citizens
2) Fiscal Hawks demanding healthy long term budgets and healthy current account balances
3) In favour of reforms improving competitiveness, reducing taxes on work income and companies, increasing investments in science, education and infrastructure.
4) Prepared to work to both sides in parliament and not caring if they bring down a government or obtain or keep minister positions
5) Without mercy as a direct counter-reaction to the many tough family reunion requirements.
Agree - The unfortunate thing about your comment is that you are correct in all your statements, they are facts. It is a sad, sad fact that things have gone so far. Let's hope it is not too late for Sweden, let's hope the populace wakes up and demands change.
You forgot to mention that the current administration in DK have the lowest rating in the past 35 years and they will surely be replaced by the liberals come next election. The Danes do not tolerate the current administrations slack towards immigration legislation - the majority of Danes monitor the weak Swedish administration and their " berufsverbot " approach towards handling immigration issues publicly i.e the press.
Yes, I read about the disgraceful incident, but the real question here is whether the present immigration is good for Sweden. Don't you agree with MyopicTaylor's posting? If not then why not?
For further views on immigration look up the special report section "The Ins and the Outs" and check postings from commenters Sweden101, erniejpdx and David_Swe.
And then tell us whether you think they are wrong.
The center party in Denmark is doing fine in the polls
The labour party and one of it's left parties are bleeding
That is not a problem for the center party
1) There has been a lot of reforms in Denmark involving left, center and right. Those reforms are made in political deals there will endure after an election according to the political tradition in Denmark
2) The right party is going to need the center party if they want to push through any economic reforms after an election. Basically, the right do not have the money for doing what they did in the previous 10 years right government
3) The center party will just work with the center-right parties.
You have to understand, that the centerparty is liberal.
It is persons there believe in fiscal responsibility and reforms to improve competiveness, reduce taxes, expand size and qualifications of the work force and defend peoples right to live without interference from the government regarding how they are to live, that is, the centerparty do for instance want reductions in the requirements for family reunions.
Basically, in fiscal and tax policies is the centerparty probably to the right of all the right parties.
During the previous 10 year right government did the right government have the money to bribe the labour voters with wellfare spending and a lack of reforms. They do not have the money for doing that after the next election
Basically, what is happening, is that the young generations are becoming massively in favour of reduced requirements for family reunions due to the amount of young welleducated danish citizens there marry foreigners.
During the last year of the previous right government was 1/7 of all marriages in Denmark involving a danish citizen between a dane and a foreign citizen
It is coming to a point were, high income well educated young danes are increasingly saying to the older generations
Reduce requirements for family reunions for danish citizens and their foreign spouses or abolish the tax paid wellfare state. The right to live with your family is after all the most important wellfare right of them all.
If the older generations make it difficult for the young to obtain their family reunions will the young not accept high taxes to finance retirement benefits, healthcare etc for the older generations
The longer you take to implement those reductions in family reunion requirements the more reforms will be pushed through with the aim of reducing social transfers and reduce the amount of public employees in order to finance cuts in taxes.
Basically, the message from young well educated persons are clear
Reduce family reunion requirements and implement lots of reforms
If you fail to do so will the young just migrate away from Titanic-Denmark and let the older generations drown when they hit the icebergs of
1) Retired babyboomers there live longer due to expensive new healthcare technologies
2) Fierce competition from Asia
3) North Sea oil there runs out
Clear evidence that 5000 character limit is far too high. No clue here to who the writer is, what he or she has as a knowledge base but since I see the Swedish words and have sample the text sounds as if we might have a representative of the SD party. Perhaps the unhappy writer will reveal.
Larry - American living in Sweden 17 years
Larry, that was not a worthy comment. Instead of asking who the writer is why don't you tell us whether or not you agree with his comments and if not then why not - this is a debate after all! And if you want to find out more about MyopicTaylor you can just click on his pen name and access his previous comments.
For further comments on immigration read the section "In or Out" and you will find plenty of commenters who all take a negative view of bogus refugees and other immigrants. So tell us what you think about it; don't start questioning people's identity or background. Come on now!
Hej I accept your "not a worthy comment" evaluation. As a subscriber to the print copy of The Economist I almost never look OnLine so I was a little overwhelmed by the system, the abundance of comments, and the scale of the subject.
I write comments in the NYT every day. There the character limit is 1500 and every comment is reviewed unless you, the writer, have been Verified by the Times. In my view a system that allows direct posting results in lower quality comments, including mine.
You perhaps have dual roots - doesn't everyone - perhaps Swedish and Danish whatever that might mean. I think that names should be posted, you do not. Oddly the NYT requires full name and correct geographic location for Letters to the Editor but not comments.
In any case, I work with refugees at the Red Cross at least 3 days a week, and follow discussions about Swedish practice fairly carefully. There is no way one can reply to a post that is 5000 characters long and contains samples of a large number of the positions taken by the SD party. So as I noted at the beginning, I should have just kept quiet.
My first post was simpler and had better justification. It dealt with renewable energy systems in Sweden. Wish I had stuck with that.
Thanks for the comment, you had an effect.
Linköping SE
Aha Swedane I just filed a polite reply to your comment that my reply was unworthy. You stated there that I should have provided counter arguments.
Now I see that you do not at all follow your own advice. You simply state that every word Myopic writes is true. You then proclaim your belief in SD. Too bad for me that I did not see this first.
Enough said. Too much said.
Sorry but I can't understand your logic. You complain about the length of MyopicTaylor's message but you do not address its contents and you also ask for his identity or background. Why? And in your second message to me you tell me that I do not at all follow my own advice (i.e. counter arguing). But why should I counter argue with Taylor since I agree with his opinion?
But you, on the contrary, do not tell us whether you agree or disagree; all you do is complaining about the - in your opinion - excessive character limit.
American or not, your way of debating is sooooo Swedish. You don't discuss the facts or try to refute my arguments. Instead you complain that The Economist allows long comments and that commenters can use aliases (which you use yourself). If I am wrong, why not try to tell the correct story? You have 5000 characters at your disposal.
For international readers, this is a typical example of how any rational and facts based debate about the negative effects of Swedish mass immigration would be suppressed and censored by the Swedish establishment and their left wing attack dogs. TVAkogYBUh believes that by pointing out that my arguments are also used by the immigration critical party SD (Sweden Democrats) he has won the debate (or in the Swedish way have all critical comments deleted). Sorry TVAkogYBUh, but it doesn't work like that outside of Sweden. Here, you actually have to win a debate by presenting facts and logical conclusions.
In Sweden, if arguments or facts are also propagated by SD, these facts are immediately being stigmatized by the establishment as being xenophobic-racist-nazi-fascist. Anyone who dares repeating these arguments or facts are themselves immediately stigmatized and blacklisted as a closet SD-sympathizer. Fear will keep the critics silent. Swedish public debate is suffocating. It reminds of a combination of the McCartyism in the US in the 1950s and the moral panics and hysteria during the Swedish witch hunts during the 17th century.
The only way for the politically correct establishment to keep their hegemony is by distortion of facts, by half-truths, by lies, by threats, by bullying, by censorship and by suppression of criticism. They know that they would lose an open debate in a second. By the way, the latest YouGov poll showed that 75 percent of Swedish voters think that SD has the best immigration policy.
Brief reply to myopic.
1) As a subscriber to the printed edition I had never looked at The Economist OnLine but went on line to send the article to several who might be interested.
2) I did not realize that The Economist assigns a pseudonym and only discovered that when I read your comment.
3) Your original comment contains what we often critize Swedes for - påståenden/assertions - and in 5000 character text it is possible to make a very large number of such assertions. Therefore it becomes impossible for another reader to analyze so many assertions. You make similar assertions in the reply to which I am replying. We are all free to make such statements,that is fine.
4) I had a carefully reasoned comment published in the NYT today, written as carefully as I know how because there all comments must pass review. Quite possibly my first reply to you or Swededane would have been rejected by a reviewer such as the Times has. Here at the Economist anything goes.
5)You emphasize the presentation of facts but we may have different ideas about facts. I want the facts to come from real research. Case in point. In Dagens Nyheter today you can read a Debatt Artikel presenting findings that the worst problems often attributed only to refugees actually are just as common among ethnic Swedes in smaller villages. So if I were going to use that I would first want to read the original source.
I think I will stick to the Times in the future but this has been a useful experience.
LLundgren (former TVAkogYBUh)
Let's assume that you are intellectually honest. If you are presented with facts you haven't seen before you will evaluate these facts, verify them and then integrate these facts plus the conclusions that can be drawn from them into your worldview. Right? If they contradict your previously held viewpoints you will most likely be extra rigorous and try finding other corroborating facts before accepting the new viewpoint.
This is exactly what I did. A few years ago I lived in the information bubble created by Swedish mainstream media. I assumed they told me the truth and where reasonably balanced. I dismissed anti-immigration arguments without looking into them more carefully. Everybody "knew" that they where just some prejudiced crap from young angry men with no education who where losers in society.
But then I started reading the Swedish dissident blogs and international news about immigration. I started checking facts and statistics. Then I realized that I had been systematically misled by the Swedish politico-media establishment. The entire Swedish public debate is a sham. Touching anything that will question "multiculturalism", "tolerance", "refugees", islam or immigration policy is an absolute taboo.
If you think you are right and that mainstream media is telling you the truth, try visiting blogs such as: Avpixlat, Fria Tider, Affes statistikblogg and varjager.wordpress for a few weeks.
Look at the Avpixlat article trashing the arguments by Fölster in DN Debatt yesterday.
Great article. Plus ca change. 19th century British travellers to Sweden were always amazed at the harshness of the blasphemy laws, the long prison sentences punishing transgression and the lack of interest in religious discussion among the Swedes. Religious discussion being in those days the equivalent of general, moral, political discussion, like we are having now.
In fact, you can find on google books early equivalents of the Index of Censorship shaking its head at Swedish unfreedom. The state church was absolute.
That is why so many Swedes lash out. They don't have a debating culture. It is not in their history. To call Sweden a dictatorship is wrong, but it has always been a control society - and, for generations, millions of have fled the country to escape precisely that - to escape the priest and taxman who told him what to think and how to behave. Of course, the discipline allowed Sweden to prosper rather than drink itself to death like Russia, a country with which ut has surprisingly much in common.
Surely both assertions are capable of being true at the same time? One million immigrants arrive. Half a million stay on welfare, the other half - very industrious ones - steal Sweish jobs. It is not controversial in the UK to say Poles have stolen British jobs, and they probably have. A lot of people say that they are better workers, and they probably are. And the employers say: we employ them because they are better workers. And so what? You Swedes have got start learning how to argue logically.
There's plenty of treachery, madness, thirst for vengeance, and incestuous ties in Washington already. All we have to do is throw in a skull and a couple of poisoned daggers and the resemblance to Denmark will be complete.
Finland and her ultra efficient public sector. Last week I visited our local Police Office to see the Magistrate for a statement of my family's particulars. Using my social security number, in less than 30 seconds the Magistrate had my entire family details ready to print. The two page original stamped and signed cost 7EUR, and each copy 2EUR. The statement included full names, dates of birth, places of birth, current address, citizenship statuses, family statuses, child statuses, and social security numbers. Transparency of citizen information is a Finnish norm, and I understand similar in other Nordics such as Sweden.
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Thursday, April 10, 2008
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The Cheyenne Diner has been on Ninth Avenue and 33rd Street for 68 years. But today's the last day to have a lumberjack breakfast in the 20-by-100-foot railroad car eatery, before a nine-story apartment complex replaces it.
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City Honors Female Garbage Collectors
Saturday, March 29, 2008
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The women who help rid the city of its trash are being honored. Eighty-five women were honored at the ceremony Friday — both uniformed and civilian employees — including one who's worked there for for 45 years. WNYC's Kathleen Horan has more.
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Friday, March 28, 2008
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008
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Monday, March 24, 2008
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Senator Charles Schumer and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly lobbied on behalf of two fallen New York City auxiliary police officers who were denied thousands of dollars in death benefits by the Department of Justice because they were volunteers.
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008
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Coney Island Opens for 2008
Monday, March 17, 2008
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Friday, March 14, 2008
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The TV monitors, credit card machines and GPS systems that many drivers worried would be an invasion of privacy are now permanent.
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Thursday, March 13, 2008
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Monday, March 10, 2008
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The NYPD has charged more than three dozen people with running and operating an ID theft ring in Queens - but officials say the operation stretched as far as Asia.
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No Cause Yet in Building Collapse
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