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To: LarsA who wrote (44484)	9/18/2002 1:47:54 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) of 281500

- a major social safety net for temporay problems I can see why they like it, Lars, they are all quitting work. Daily Brickbat Absurd news bites, served fresh every day. By Charles Oliver Unhealthy Swedes (9/18) Some 340,000 Swedes, or one in 26, are getting sick pay from the National Social Insurance Board. A third of those have been getting checks for more than a year. An additional 470,000 receive disability pensions, early retirement benefits paid by the government to those who stop working before the retirement age of 65. These often are bigger than regular pensions. The number of people on government-paid sick leave has doubled in five years, and welfare benefits for the sick and disabled now exceed the government's military and education budgets combined. The governing center-left Social Democratic Party blames the increase on harder and more stressful job conditions. reason.com

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