Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Sweden’s Great Welfare Heist

Click here to access article by Adam Bott from Red Pepper (Britain).
The ‘New Nordic Model’ promises to finally free the public sector from the dead hand of bureaucracy, although curiously no other Nordic country has actually implemented it.  
When I tell Swedes this they laugh. Then they squint at me uncomfortably, trying to work out if this is one of those off-key English jokes.  
At home the system is felt to be in crisis.