President Halonen wakes up

[Pekka]

.. and realizes the thing I've tried to rant for a long time. In todays papers she says our system can not survive the 'social shopping'. Meaning, people get 'free education' 'free healthcare' and 'free pension (uh oh?)'
and then go to other countries in the meanwhile to make money because of their lower taxing.

OH really? Our president realizes people actually like to earn good money with the skills they have instead of joining the collective socialist hegemony? Well that's just strange!

President goes on and on about people trying to benefit from the social benefits, then not contribute back by braking their backs for 10 euros per hour for the rest of their lives while system takes almost half of everything you get and you can't afford crap anyway.

Surprise?! President goes on and on about 'people thinkg about this, be nice, be collective'. How about .. CHANGE THE DAMN SYSTEM IT DOES NOT WORK FOR US ANYMORE?!

Well well.. I'm feeling pretty good today!

[DaShi]

Halonen is a strange name.

[Pekka]

That's her last name.. first name is Tarja. Yeah, she definitely has a point though. The real question is what are we going to do about it.. Maybe not whole change of things, but little modificating could be in order.
Punishing these horrible people wouldn't work anyway, maybe thinking about how we can give more benefits and from where, how can we make them stay and make our place more attractive option. Obviously it's not enough to try to plead and say 'we will crumble if you all go away', we need some real measures.

Since we are not exactly manufacturing country, because it's more profitable to move that part to China or somewhere else where they do it cheaper, we need our knowledge to keep things rolling. But the brain capital is slowly moving away too.. we need to keep that.

[Dinner]

It seems to rhyme with hooligan.

[Pekka]

now it doesn't.. And for the record, I have the highest respect for the president. I think she's good and smart too.

[Dinner]

My suggestion: Cut taxes to incourage people to stay then set some sort of cap saying that they must have worked in Finland and paid X number of Euros into the system before they can draw benifets. This will of course upset house wives and other people who don't work but it will decrease the load the state carries and incourage more people to pay into the system.

[DaShi]

You need to have a capitalist revolution! You should go around arresting poor people and workers. Run down the streets shouting revolutionary slogans like, "Read my lips, no new taxes" and "Smart investing begins at home."

[zapnic]

tarja is one sexy beast
uuuuuuuhh jeeeee

[Drake Tungsten]

So what does her last name rhyme with?

[Pekka]

carsinogen? I think it rhymes with that.

Oerdin, that's something we should look into. It's basically a good idea if it works in reality. Like tax reductions they can do after time has passed and they have earned x amount of money. Definitely. That encourages to work too, so sure. But they'd have to be pretty good too, not just '20 euros from 10 years work here you go sir'. Tax benefits.. yeah. Though that should go with the hard working people too.. you know the make even less money, crap money, they should be encouraged to keep up their good work. After all, they are the hard workers, getting no rewards for their efforts. Or maybe the should like get massive pension benefits, that would encourage lots of folks I believe.. but then again people don't trust those things, since it takes decades when you reach that, and things could have changed..From what I think, we should really lower taxing companies and enterprenauters a lot..... at least the small ones.

dashi, As much as I like the capitalist system, I think it's not going to work here so good.. I mean American style.
We'd need to modify it to fit our needs, but still I doubt it a little.

[chequita guevara]

Here's what you can do. Cut the taxes, slash the social benefits, and then you'll all be stupid and sick and no one will want to hire any of you any more.

[Pekka]

You forgot worshipping Satan.

[Verres]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Here's what you can do. Cut the taxes, slash the social benefits, and then you'll all be stupid and sick and no one will want to hire any of you any more.

[The Mad Monk]

How's the job, Che?

[chequita guevara]

Well, I have at least one more week. They're finagling to get me a couple more months by making me "indepensible" to a VP's pet project (and he has lots of cash in his budget). This, however, requires that I learn more than just basic Flash very quickly.