The political left is mainly composed of do-gooders that do not want to do good themselves.

Imagine someone wanting to do good for the homeless, and instead of doing the obvious and going out there with food/money/coffee/blankets/whatever, they decide to moan about it to the press, politicians, and just about anybody else who is willing to listen (or just happen the hapless victim).

The result is that the tax payers are burdened with doing good for almost anyone. It is a rare person in Denmark that does not receive his share of all the do-goodery.

I can’t believe the news today. The danish bus drivers are on strike again. They want higher salaries, but then who does not?

It’s all thanks to the labour unions. They’ve made a big deal of whipping their members into a frenzy this year, talking about how Denmark can “afford it”.
To me, that’s a completely ridiculous notion. The Danish workforce has gotten so used to this twisted thinking that their salaries should always increase faster than the inflation.

I've been watching the blogosphere a lot these last six months, and I've seen some rather disturbing things that have more than confirmed my suspicions of the contemporary political systems.

Most of the videos I've seen comes from America. I think the people over there are simultaneously worse and better off than the people in Denmark, though it is hard to evaluate.

I've seen three videos I'd like to recommend:

• Money, Banking and the Federal Reserve – since I first learned about inflation when I was a little boy, I never understood what made for inflation, and why it couldn't be reversed. Later in school, I learned to take this for a fact. This brilliant video proves all that wrong, and although it is mainly concerned with the American system, it has torn down most of everything I thought I knew about economics. It is especially interesting, since we have the same system in Denmark, complete with the national bank that is not regulated by our government.
• Immigration by the numbers – the problem is not immigrants, but mass immigration. A very thoughtful demonstration of why the great nation that America was for a few decades is rapidly becoming a thing of the past.
• America: Freedom to Fascism – although the credibility of this movie is hard to gauge with my rather inferior knowledge about the United States, but I've been able to verify several of the things mentioned in the movie, and it dovetails nicely with the videos mentioned above.

I think the issues presented here strike deep into the fabric of modern society. Greedy men and socialists managed to do what Hitler, Stalin and all the obvious dictators singularly failed to do: Get people to choose slavery instead of liberty, bondage instead of freedom.

So, it would seem that we're really getting open standards in Denmark. A majority for a new law is forming in our parliament, Folketinget. If it passes, all public authorities are required to start introducing open standards for communication by 2008. You can read more (in danish) here.

I'd think that big Bill won't be pleased. I most certainly don't pray and hope that Microsoft won't get their new document standard ratified by ISO. If so, this might all be for naught. But let's see. Europe's goventments hasn't (yet) shown the same subservience towards Microsoft as many others, and most probably, ISO will not be inclined to accept yet another XML-based document format. After all, one should be enough .