February 2012 – We are being conned

The retirement age in Denmark is going one way – up.

Unlike the lazy population in the southern part of Europe the Danish population always had a high retirement age. Today it is 65. In a few years it is 67 year and within a generation they expect it to hit 70 years of age.

70 years!

In France the population established a nationwide riot because the retirement age should be increased from 60 to 62. I can only say one thing. Pussies!!!

Where is your pride as French citizens? You cannot even elect a president without the help of German. The German Chancellor had to travel all the way to France in order to teach you how to vote. It is quite simple. You just have to decide what corrupt bastard you want to run your country. I know that the Americans made it quite difficult when they obstructed a real man with genuine male values like Berlusconi from running for the office.

The Danish television doesn’t cover elections in the European kindergarten that much so I have to say that I am quite unfamiliar with the names in the political European scene. Instead our media are concerning themselves with more important stuff like the Republican Party nomination for president. I have to say that I have high hopes for Rick Santorum. I like the idea that you can be so unsatisfied with the education provided in your local school that you can be able to home-school your children. None of his children have been in public or private schools since 2006. His family has homeschooled the children so they can be taught the right values in life.

I happen to agree with him because we as Danes have done our best to shelter us from the outside world since 2001. But even with all the precautions which have been enabled with the aid of the Danish People Party, our children are challenged on their belief every time they meet up in school. At some school they have lowered the expectations for Christmas because they want to avoid insulting heathens who don’t believe in the birth of Jesus Christ. If we could home-school our children we could ensure that our children learned how to be real Danes. But home-schooling in Denmark is almost impossible because the social services don’t like that they cannot spy on families, so families who have been trying to home-school their children within the limits of the law, have only faced hardship by the social services.

Regarding the influence of the social services I happen to agree with the people stating that we are socialist country. We have a few awful cases where children have been molested by their family. It is just awful to hear that parents have abused their own children. When it does happen, the parents should go to prison and they should throw the key away. It does happen and the punishment is rightfully severe.

But if children in the foster system are abused or neglected there is no criticism. A therapist had sex with a 15 year old girl on an island in the northern part of Denmark and he got 60 days.

60 days!!!

It is wrong on so many terms, but when it is professionals who abuse, restrain and neglect children, the adults are almost never punished and when they do, they face sentences measured in days – not months or years.

Children in the Danish foster system are facing the risk of abuse 6-7 times worse compared with children who are living with their family. In Denmark adults can become foster parents with only 2 days education and the funny part is that 75 percent of the foster parents don’t even have those two days of education behind them before they start taking children in.

The system pays 30,000-50,000 DKK to have people who only process the quality to be Facebook friends with servicemen in the social services to look after vulnerable children. Can it wonder that the path of a foster child aging out of the system leads directly to the prison without the foster child to be able to collect the 4,000 DKK?

We do as Danish taxpaying citizens have a lot of expense with a are basically money being thrown out of the window and it brings me back to where I started this blog-entry.

We do finance EU. I hope that our politicians will come to the conclusion that it has to end. For Denmark the future outside the European Union would be better than remaining a member state. I hope our parliament will come to the same conclusion.

I will start to pray.

January 2012 – new year – same depression

Am I the only one feeling depressed?

Money: I have none.
Customers at my work: They are few.

None I have spoken with for the last 6 months can state that they had some positive months. Our government has increased the taxes for wine and good food, so we are close to starving here in Denmark. We have dropped a lot of bombs in Afghanistan and Libya and while it comforts me to see some suffering abroad so we are not alone it is hard to walk around and be hungry all the time just because the politicians with their special early retirement age collect while they have all the fun.

Fines for traffic violations have also increased and they are now so huge that our only choice is to outsource a lot of our transport to foreign firms who can hide in Eastern Europe and avoid paying the fines. There is no reason to put any Danish driver on to the road and expose them to the greed of the system.

It is cold. It is dark. If I was a resident in the United States, I would properly be on a large quantum of pill against various forms of depression, but I am Danish and everyone I speak with seem to have the same opinion of our present situation.

This is a serious crisis. We must move close together and turn the back on the world while the crisis can be over with. Every penny counts and all we can do are to wait until the crisis is done. It is hard not to do anything.

There has been some talk about how poor our students are. All I can say supported by the most recent research is that you have to look at the financial situation of your parents and avoid borrowing money for your education. The chance of a job after graduating is not good and research show that education seldom pays if you have borrowed money for it because the income measured over the entire work life in Denmark does not differ very much education or not.

I have recommended my children to stay out of computers and likewise because during the summer of 2011 working with computers was made a low-income job area due to the interference of CSC by importing cheap work labor from India. The oldest is now having his own McJob career after dropping out from a computer academy. I feel that his future is just as bright as when he was studying. The youngest is having a part-time job beside his studies but is properly dropping out to work full time in construction because our tax department has introduced a new law where private citizens are forbidden to pay construction workers in cash and now he has to pay tax which makes his school too expensive to attend.

It is hard times. I hope you readers have some good news for a change to tell me. Please comment if you experience something positive.

December – looking back at 2011

Now where the year is over, I just want to look back at a year which proved to be very hard for us Danes. The country once known as the happiest country on the earth is hardly to recognize. It is basically a shadow of itself.

First we got a new government. Of course the old one was worn down and too tired to be able to govern Denmark further. We needed new blood instead of Mr. “Excuse me with my banging” as we saw it at COP15.

But they came into office with a lot of empty promises. They had nothing and it seems that they are able to succeed with nothing because the old government got everyone involved with spying on the tax paid by the present prime minister. What exactly went wrong with this case I don’t know.

In countries Denmark had compare itself with like Russia the public employees do spy on members of the opposition. It is standard behavior. In Russia the public employees succeed in protecting the political elite, but not here in Denmark. What is there to say? We are amateurs in normal political games!

Denmark is no longer a welfare society. In Denmark families are bankrupted if they seek treatment for their children before the illness is life threatening. A lot of families with children suffering from mental illnesses like depression seek help by the local child protection services only to discover that they shouldn’t have reached out for help but waited coldhearted until the illness explode so their child is close to death. Then they can get free treatment in hospitals. If they don’t wait then the law – (Order number 498 of 2011) – allows the social services to send a huge bill every single month. How do you tell your child that you have lost your home because you wanted to save the child? How do you tell siblings that they have to give up everything? Friend and a school they like because they have a sister or a brother who is ill?

No Denmark is not a welfare society. In some nursing homes diapers are used twice in order to save money.

The obvious question is: How can we improve the present economic situation in Denmark so we can regain our right to early retirement and by this reclaim our previous status as a welfare society?

The answer is: The undeveloped countries must suffer. We cannot provide aid to anyone abroad as long as our own population suffers.

A country like India should not have one cent. With help by unorganized labor they undermined the jobs in the Information technology business so none can earn a living which enables them to feed their family. Any IT-job in Denmark has become a charity because workers from India came to Denmark ready to work a full day of work for a cup of rice.

The case with the author and humanitarian Niels Holck showed us that they can some kind of wrong kind of image of themselves which should enable them to make demands of a culture so much more developed than they are. I don’t understand why we haven’t cut them off long ago but continues to provide aid to the part of their population they don’t care about. Maybe if we didn’t support the poor part of their population and they started to die as result of the neglect they are victim off due to a corrupt government, they would start to rebel.

Fact is that we don’t need India. They are only hiring to destroy our industry and put employees out in unemployment or to lower salaries so much here in Denmark that our workers will no longer be able to feed their families.

2011 was a hard year for Denmark and 2012 is not going be better. In fact if the world broke down in 2012 as some state it would do, it really wouldn’t matter much because without early retirement there and with increased fines for traffic violations there is nothing left to enjoy in life.

I wish that I had something more positive to say about 2011, but that I am not able to.

Merry Christmas and a “happy” new year.