Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist.
1st Female PM of Denmark
Photo Courtesy Thorning-Schmidt Press Office
A major news story that deserves attention here is the election in Denmark. The Left won after 10 years of Right wing wins. How? They have a young, energetic liberal female leader named Helle Thorning-Schmidt. She now is the first woman prime minister in Danish history. Her:
..Social Democratic party celebrated the successful end of a campaign that focused on Denmark’s recent economic drift and promised to tax banks, to increase the Danish workday by 12 minutes, and not to “jump on the austerity bandwagon” as other European states are doing, as Thorning-Schmidt put it.
Female politicians are not unusual in Scandinavia. But a new left coalition and a young female leader may change Denmark’s image as an increasingly closed and often Europhobic state that this summer tried to create separate border control stations, angering Germany and European Union officials.
At age 44 with 2 children she is the focus of the Left in Europe. She ran on more spending to boost the economy, taxing the banks, and reviving the post World War II porgrams that put the Danes to work. This new prime minister is someone to watch closely and perhaps learn from in America.
And someday the U.S. might even catch up …
Austerity is about saving the rich; bankers helping their wealthy clients keep what they have . The middle class and the poor are simply fodder in this unrelenting greed. They care about the world economy only in so much as they care about their own wealth. Mr. Obama, in his never ending servitude to rich bankers has thrown his supporters into their money grubbing hands. Perhaps the people of Denmark have the intellect to realize that the rich have been using the entire world to feed their insatiable desire for more and more power ; something Mr.Obama either does not know or does not want to know.
I like her!
she is interesting and has the left to a govt takeover. its been 10 yr s there but its happened! and it took a woman to do it! if only america could progress that far
Tweeted… What a great story.
Oh, and by the way, my husband LOVED this post.
I wish her luck. I wish anyone luck who has that economic agenda. It’s the only one that has a chance of working.