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As full employment as possible with the strongest team

I read Anders Borg's speech today at Nya Moderaterna's conference and I think I learned something important.

Borg maintain that every economic crisis has earlier led to a lowering of the employment of the country. Alliansen have countered this expansion and the challenge is now to get employment back after the current crisis to avoid a continuation of the trend of loss of employment after a crisis.

Is this possible? If the reason for loss of employment is an increase globally in the competence of the work force, then we will see more and more people falling out into the "utanförskap", or outsideship.

This might be impossible without the changes that Niklas Wykman and Magnus Andersson, the chairpersons of MUF and CUF, respectively, is talking about, i.e., changes in the LAS law where employers can fire not so competent employees and replace them with more competent individuals irrespective of how long time they have been employed. Drastically speaking replacing the zombies with the best young ones. Such changes would lower the security a little but increase the productivity of companies and make it possible to compete with other countries.

This is of course the same as saying that we should listen to values from other countries rather than sticking frantically to the typically Swedish ones, i.e., social democratic ones.

Munkhammar, Wykman, Fjellner on same issue.

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