Monday Morning

Today politics is the thing we're gonna discuss. Why? Because people still surprise me with their stupidity... and I don't really want to study at the moment or start up any console. So where are we at the moment? 5 months until election day and it's getting tighter, but the opposition still leads with a very small margin. Yeah, I'm leaning to the right this time, mostly as their politics makes sense and are possible to do with my limited economic understanding. The opposition just don't make sense. Raise taxes at the end of an economic downturn when we at the moment have the highest tax in the western world. I don't see to it. Yes, we don't have the best services in the world, but then the problem lies in other problems than the economics. Slim the bureaucracy (after you get me a permanent well paid job that is) and the money can be used to other things.

But to make you understand I find the left to be kinda likable as well, at least the old left, say before '68 in interior and somewhat the foreign after '68 till '86. The interior things just collapsed after '68 and I would probably attribute it to the change in leadership from Tage Erlander to Olof Palme. Erlander was a strong leader and could keep the union in place for what was best for the country, Palme... not so much. Huge inflation's and long strikes damaging the industry which forced the politicians to devalue the krona instead of taking are of the structural problems. Which is probably why Palme was so outspoken on the foreign policy scene as he could rally support that way. The fun thing that people don't like to mention (if you lean to the left) is that the tax was way lower before '68 and we were near the top of riches country in the world. Then '73 and '79 came along, tax rising and we ain't even in the Top 20 of the GDP per capita. Kinda sad isn't?

By the way, I think I know why some of the characters in Final Fantasy XIII has an australian accent, they come from the place "down under". I'm not kidding, these characters appear to have come from the outside world were everything is "evil and dark", at least from the heroes world point of a view. I don't know what the localization team thought this would imply. Scary Australians or what. It doesn't help that one of them acts like Steve Irwin and spears a flying dragon in the air and then tame it. And she's named Fang, enough with the dangerous wildlife.