{"id":5442,"date":"2009-09-22T08:00:28","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T13:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5442"},"modified":"2009-09-21T12:59:05","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T17:59:05","slug":"building-me-a-fence-building-me-a-home-thinking-id-be-strong-there-but-i-was-a-fool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5442","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Building me a fence, Building me a home, Thinking I&#8217;d be strong there, But I was a fool&#8221;*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sweden, often held up by &#8220;progressives&#8221; as a model of socialism&#8217;s efficiency has collectively come to realize the error of it&#8217;s ways and is employing a radical tact to stimulate job growth.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sweden&#8217;s centre-right government on Saturday announced  income tax cuts&#8230;to stimulate the job market, its primary  objective.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[needle scratching on Abba record]<\/p>\n<p>Income tax cuts! To stimulate the job market?!!!<span class=\"lingo_region\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Back here in the U.S.S.A, Obama would be focused on bolstering the job market too if it weren&#8217;t for his Magical Mystery Tour promoting health care reform that most of America doesn&#8217;t want or need, and the government can&#8217;t afford.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The proposal, to be presented to parliament on Monday as part of the 2010  budget bill, is the fourth leg of a tax cut programme introduced in January 2007 to stimulate employment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tax cuts stimulate employment? Really? I wonder why Obama and his <strike>stooges<\/strike> uber-czars haven&#8217;t thought of <em>that<\/em> (you know, cutting taxes for those that are in a position to hire employees, versus cutting taxes for those that don&#8217;t pay them)?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The coalition government has agreed on reforms for jobs and entrepreneurialism that will  increase employment in the long-term. It has to be more profitable to work and more companies should be able to hire employees,&#8221; the government said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Companies<\/em> hire employees in Sweden? Naw, really?  Here in America, under the Obama administration, the <em>government<\/em> hires employees. Are we missing something?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since coming to power in late 2006, the government has launched a series of  measures aimed at inciting Swedes to return to the job market instead of living  off of state  subsidies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But that would require effort. Here in America we are sustained by Hope<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> and Change<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The government said it would also propose a series of measures in the budget  bill aimed at boosting incentives to start companies and improve the business  climate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously, somebody should text TheOneWhoWon this innovative idea.<\/p>\n<p><small>*from <em>Winner Takes It All<\/em> (Abba)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweden, often held up by &#8220;progressives&#8221; as a model of socialism&#8217;s efficiency has collectively come to realize the error of it&#8217;s ways and is employing a radical tact to stimulate job growth. Sweden&#8217;s centre-right government on Saturday announced income tax cuts&#8230;to stimulate the job market, its primary objective. [needle scratching on Abba record] Income tax [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitalism-v-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}