Possible, but irrelevant. If good benefits would cause high unemployment or low participation in the labor market, it should do so irrelevant of credit deregulations, no? A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!
The low unemployment was artificial - we payed for that with high unemployment later during the 90's crisis. Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
The low unemployment was artificial - we payed for that with high unemployment later during the 90's crisis.
Now you are loosing me. It appears a step is missing in your argumentation.
So the low unemployment was artificial, but people also wanted to work - despite generous benefits - because ...? A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!
On one hand about incentives to work, an on the other about the Swedish crash 15 years ago, and the runup to it. Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
Then we can continue the discussion about incentives and stuff. :) Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
I understand that you are arguing that the pre-crash conditions caused the crashed, and well, that much is obvious. Still the 80ies combination of low unemployment, good benefits existed. So I am trying to understand how you relate those conditions to your theory. A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!
If you pay people a lot not to work, they won't work.
people would have stayed home and enjoyed their benefits in the 80ies. A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!
The important thing is the difference between working and not working.
And then you have the moral protestant thing. People who work detest paying for people who can work but won't. They have no trouble supporting people who can't work (sick etc) or people who are trying to find new jobs. In this way a basic state funded wage starts undermining the credibility of the ordinary welfare state in the mind of the voters.
While you have the right to be supported, you also have the duty to contribute and not be a burden, as much as you can. Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
