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Re: How very convenient
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Odd. I'm not a subscriber and it showed up for me the first time. Not the second, though. Try this cache version. If that doesn't work, let me know.

The relevant part:

^On Sunday, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt of the Moderate Party secured a second term in office, while the formerly dominant Social Democrats suffered their worst result in almost a century. Mr. Reinfeldt devoted his first term to cutting taxes (or, in the case of the wealth tax on personal assets, abolishing it altogether); privatizing state-owned companies, such as Absolut vodka maker Vin & Sprit; deregulating previously closed sectors, such as pharmacies, which used to be a government monopoly, and trimming welfare benefits. Today, there are 50,000 fewer Swedes on the country's much-abused sick leave and early retirement schemes than there were when Mr. Reinfeldt came to office.^

^Still, this is Sweden, so Mr. Reinfeldt has had to take care not to cast his program as a smashing of the welfare state itself. Instead, he has branded his free-market reforms as the only way to secure the finances for an inevitably leaner welfare state. Voters liked the results, including an expected growth rate this year of more than 4% this year and an expected budget deficit of just 2.1% of GDP, the smallest in the European Union.^

It's interesting that you consider us "renters" on the property of the State, using their land and being allowed to live within their borders. Not sure where to go from there, either.

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