March 21, 2010
Published: 30 Dec 09 11:45 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/24126/20091230/
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Swine flu beat out both the June death of Michael Jackson and the Stockholm helicopter heist in September as the top Swedish news story of 2009, according to a new study.
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Sweden bought 18 million vaccines and had to use them up and they did so by creating hysteria and attempted to convince people with such propaganda as
"If you don't take the vaccine you will die"
In summary, its quite criminal the way the government behaves...if people were behaving the same way we would be arrested for fraud.
Interesting to see how many people actually took the vaccine.
Such government behavior as this, the passing of the FRA act, and the continual taxation levels which are causing industry to flee.... only reinforces in my mind that Sweden is really a petri dish for political and social experiments.
As china becomes increasingly "free" I am sure they will be learning additional tricks from Sweden on how to maintain the status quo in a democratic society.
As for krigeren's comment about taxation levels and your industry fleeing - might want to look at what W. Bush and the Republicans did - cut the top tax rates twice and lost 3.2 million manufacturing jobs (Source: Economic Report of the President, 2008 [W. Bush president's report])
It is not all in the taxes - when you let China buy Volvo and whatever else you will be sending jobs to them, no matter your tax rates.
What do Bush and the Republicans have to do with taxes and job losses in Sweden? Did you get lost? If you want to bash conservatives in the US, Fox news forums can be found here. http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/index.html