hink of it all - of the life that is! Study your friends and foes!
Study the past! And answer this: "Are these times better than those?" The life-long quarrel, the paltry spite, the sting of your poisoned pride! No matter who fell it were better to fight as they did when the world was wide.
Denmark's Welfare State
"Since 1899, Denmark has gradually developed a system that combines the best features of the free market and the welfare state, providing business with very flexible rules and a well-trained workforce, and workers with income security and a high standard of living.They call it "flexicurity". It's not perfect, but it shows us how to avoid the pathetic situation in which Australia was being held back by skills shortages while half a million young Australians were in neither full-time work nor full-time study.
When you lose your job, you are immediately eligible for government-financed retraining or education to help you equip yourself for a new job. In 2006, roughly 50,000 unemployed people went through training programs, and employers and unions have signed a new agreement to give employed workers the right to leave their job temporarily on 85% pay to undertake relevant training.
Denmark's system works, Fredericksen says, because it tries to protect incomes, not jobs. "We can't guarantee that your job will continue to exist," he says, "but we can say that if people lose their jobs they don't have to lose their house and home - and we will help upgrade their qualifications so they can meet the demands of new jobs."
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In other words the welfare state in Denmark avoids giving handouts to its jobless and unskilled citizens without doing something pro-active like re-training them, avoiding a situation which inevitably encourages apathy and also the purely economic need to import hordes of workers from overseas via immigration, as is currently the case in Australia. This simply divides society along the lines of ethnicity and additionally relegates, in terms of importance, the nation's pre-existing citizen body below the level of abstract short term economic productivity.
In Denmark welfare support for the jobless is not simply delivered in the form of money but also retraining. Thus it's not about reinforcing failure, or providing people with a mere means of subsistence while politicians forget them and replace them with immigrants, but rather the facilitation of holistic nation-focused change.
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