[MrBuddyCasino]

Many points are exaggerated, but the immigration issue in Sweden is very real. It has gone completely off track. The thing is, you are not allowed to talk about it. People have lost their jobs doubting the official policy of unlimited immigration, which simply should not happen in a free country. Sweden currently spends half their health care budget on immigration costs.

Of course the right wing will gain popularity, and while I'm not sympathetic, its very understandable.

[sago]

" Sweden currently spends half their health care budget on immigration costs."

[citation needed]

For example: http://economics.handels.gu.se/digitalAssets/1455/1455743_fr... directly contradicts your claim.

I don't know enough to claim you're wrong. But the claim is rather extraordinary and sounds very much like common right-wing propaganda from other countries. So a good study would help.

[MrBuddyCasino]

I think it was in reference to a 2011 official statistic, but I have been unable to find the direct source, and the sources are all in Swedish. Sorry, should have hunted down the precise numbers before blurting them out!

[m_eiman]

The thing is, you are not allowed to talk about it.

Really? Then how come I get the impression that politicians and newspapers are full of talk about the topic?

Sweden currently spends half their health care budget on immigration costs.

On the national level [1]:

47 billion SEK spent on migration and foreign aid.

63 billion SEK spent on health care.

Note: most of the health care in Sweden is financed on the regional level; a rough approximation of total amount spent on spent on health care based on [2] would be about 260 billion SEK.

[1]: http://www.regeringen.se/artiklar/2015/04/statens-budget-201...

[2]: http://www.ekonomifakta.se/sv/Fakta/Offentlig-ekonomi/Offent...

[MrBuddyCasino]

That makes sense - though 47 billion SEK is still a lot, don't you think?

The other thing I was referring to was that the Swedish newspaper Expressen exposed the identities of Disqus users, and at least one of them lost heir job as a consequence:

http://www.thelocal.se/20131212/millions-of-disqus-comments-...

I don't know what these people posted, and I suspect it wasn't that great a contribution, but this is unacceptable.

[m_eiman]

47 billion is a lot of money. In my opinion it's money well spent, but everyone is allowed to have their own opinion of course.

The aid part of that is 29 billion. If we did what we're expected to (what every country is expected to, even if few live up to it), that part should probably be 40 billion - the UN(?) has a goal that every country should spend 1% of GDP on foreign aid.

About the Disqus thing, I'd say that it's ok to expose "public persons" who claim one thing in public and do something different when they think nobody knows its them. This includes politicians, judges, police, other public authorities. Doing this to "normal" people isn't generally justified, IMHO. On the other hand, we have huge problems with bullying online that we need to do something about - and exposing bullies may be a useful part of that.