Sigurdhsson

Well, as you may know (or not…) the political right won the election in Sweden this autumn, and they had promised a lot of changes. Now, a couple of months later, the changes are being made and you start to see the effects they have, both on society itself and on people. People get mad because they didn’t realise what the changes really meant, and I have a very strong urge hijack some large news site and replace it with “I told you so” written in huge letters. The following changes have been made, and none of the effects they have are good.

• Grades in behaviour

  Yes, I know, many think this is a great idea that will make all the problems in school magically go away. Now, I’m only going to say this once, and I’ll try to make you understand too. The problems won’t go away. They won’t. The only teachers that will “use” this allegedly good change is the bad teachers that can’t handle children. They will use it to threaten kids whenever they do something the teacher doesn’t like. And come on, do you really think that kids who fail half of the subject will care if they fail one more? Didn’t think so…

• Lower employment taxes

  Yeah… you wish. They actually decided to increase it instead. That will probably create a lot of new jobs for the unemployed like you originally thought, you bums. Not that lowering it would do anything in the first place…

• Lower real estate taxes

  Yes, more taxes going away… if you’re obcsenely rich and live in the extremely fine areas around Stockholm. This is a great example of how the political right really just wants to make things better for themselves. Seems like their motto is “Up yours poor people”.

• Shutting down the “Svenska för invandrare“ project

  Great, how do you think immigrants will get a job if they don’t know Swedish? And how do you expect them to learn Swedish if you don’t teach them? I really have no idea whatsoever why they did this. It makes no sense at all.

• Stricter wellfare rules

  I’m not against the stricter rules, there’s always people that try to fool the system and the fewer they are the better the system works. The bad thing is that the fee you pay when you’re not on the wellfare is raised and the actual wellfare is lowered. That makes no sense, first you take more money from the employed and then you make it even harder for the unemployed.

• “Pigjobb“

  “Hey, why don’t we fund cleaning companies so they can charge less when poor people clean rich people’s toilets”. Need I say more?

It’s obvious that this country is going downhill, fast. But, I’m just gonna sit back and relax and in two years when they give up, I’m goin to join the rest of Sweden and say, very loudly, I told you so.