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The Taxpayers' Association released the results of their annual wasteful spending poll earlier this week, declaring that climate policy had been the biggest waste of money, largely due to the fact that despite the spending, emissions in Sweden had actually slightly increased.
In 2014, the Swedish national government spent 5.2 billion Swedish krona (£419 million/$547 million), a number that has more than doubled to 12.6 billion krona (£1 billion/$1.3 billion) for the planned 2020 budget.
"The government has more than doubled the appropriations for climate policy, but despite this, emissions no longer decrease. In 2018, emissions even increased. That is why climate policy has been voted the worst waste of the year," Johan Gustafsson, Waste Ombudsman at the Taxpayers' Association, said.
"Too much tax money is wasted without benefit to those who pay. It is no less important that money has an effect when it is invested in something that is important — rather the opposite," he added.
In second place in the poll was a project from the artists' commission that saw over a million krona donated to a project focused on art for earthworms and fungi.
Mats Caldeborg and wife Katrin Zackrisson Caldeborg were behind the project and told newspaper Expressen: "Art for birds, bumblebees, beetles, worms, and fungi is a project that wants to turn upside down in our habitual way of seeing and understanding the world. Here, nature's smaller inhabitants are not those depicted, but themselves, in their own right, recipients of the art."
The wasteful spending poll results come as many Swedish municipal governments face financial hardship or even bankruptcy due to a lack of money to support recently arrived migrants who have largely remained out of the labour force.
An estimated 90 per cent of migrants who came to the country during the height of the 2015 migrant crisis and received permanent residency are unemployed.
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If I actually believed the alarmists, I would kill myself because there is no hope in the proposals of the West to reduce pollution in any meaningful way. Not as long as governments are working for industry and not for the people.
The game is for the masses to turn on each other while the one percent are exempt with their swimming pools and golf courses. All of it an engineered scam to divide the masses.
This "poor" class tend to be authoritarian followers who heavily rely on the state and credit institutions to live their false concept of "Middle class" success. In reality they tend to be useless cowards who support their own demise.
Even the survivalists and "prepper" communities are mocked or ridiculed, as they represent knowledgeable and skilled people who have little need for the state to interfere in their lives.
Hollywood has many contributions that attempt to reinforce the notion of self sufficiency as a form of anti-social behavior. The brave individual is vilified while the "State" is exalted.
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"Guenther Schwab joined the advisory panel of "The Society of Biological Anthropology, Eugenics and Behavior Research." Schwab was especially concerned with the burgeoning population explosion of the Third World that he was sure would eventually overrun Europe. By advocating modern racial science based on genetics, Schwab believed that the population bomb, together with its associated environmental degradation, could be averted. Here, Schwab shows his basic commitment to the Nazi SS doctrine of 'blood and soil' -- an explosive concoction of eugenics and environmentalism loaded with eco-imperialistic ambitions that had devastating consequences on the Eastern Front in World War II."
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It has gotten so bad that every time I see her face or hear he voice I have to go outside and fire-up the V8 for an hour. Let it idle, do some stop and go driving (even if no other cars are on the road), accelerate briskly, all the while yelling out the window; "Take THAT Bitch!"
Counterproductive