" We hear that Australia's wages are too high to build anything so how can others do this sort of thing ----"; PM Stubb sees risk of another lost decade for Finland
After boasting of its tight fiscal policies during the euro debt crisis, Finland has stumbled through three years of economic contraction and its debt ratio is now close to the European Union limit.
Finland's economy flourished until the financial crisis but was among the worst hit when demand across Europe slumped. It has struggled with high labor costs, a decline in the paper industry and the demise of once-dominant mobile phone maker Nokia (NOK1V.HE). Sanctions against Russia have deepened the pain.
I'd suggest before one can create anything,one must rid oneself of the vested interest which sustains the status quo.
I commend you to look at the American gun lobby to substantiate what Ive opined.
WHEN a young man walked into an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut in December 2012 and murdered 20 small children and six staff with a Bushmaster rifle from his mother’s gun collection, some wondered if a tipping-point had been reached. Surely America would now enact laws to keep lethal weapons out of the wrong hands?
No chance. Bids to curb sales of the most powerful guns and largest-capacity magazines failed. Congress even refused to expand the number of gun-buyers checked for histories of crime or severe mental illness—though 90% of Americans support such checks. In March this year federal regulators dropped a bid to ban a type of bullet that can pierce body armour, of the sort that police often wear, after 285 Republican and seven Democratic members of Congress objected.
