> Dear Tor:
>
> Thanks for such an interesting post. Someone has to set a standard that is
> different than the neo-con philosophy of trashing every poor person in the
> country and I'm glad to see your government is making the attempt. What is
> especially interesting is that it comes after a neo-con government of
> Broderlund (spelling?) which gives hope that when this madness of
> corporatism has run its course other options of a more humanitarian kind
> will surface again.
>
Hello again!
Spelling is "Brundtland"
Our new government is neither "progressive" neither "conservative",
but more "tradisionalistic", and that is not too bad.
The political parties that formed the new government of Norway some
months ago were going along for a neo-con policy for some time, but
about 1990-92 they changed, and they have won a lot from that.
To be "traditionalist" is today to protect the wellfare state and to
work for a cooperative society with cooperative solutions, instead of
only market solutions, and for a more inclusive society. Because that
is how things use to be here.
But I do not like that the new government is less fond of the
agreement that has been reached between the Norwegian
Confederation of Trade Unions (LO) and the employers' federation
(NHO) about the right to have education as part of work, than the
former Labour government was.
All the best
Tor Forde
