And so it is clear which group the Swedish government is prioritizing, in its ongoing race to commit national suicide.
“Swedish minister says the country’s elderly are the problem and not refugees,” by Joshua Cullen, Voice of Europe, April 29, 2018:
Sweden’s Minister of Social Affairs, Annika Strandhäll, told newspaper Aftonbladet that the country’s elderly and not refugees, are overloading the healthcare system….
When readers of Aftonbladet claim that it is the acceptance of refugees that has made Swedish healthcare worse, the minister answers:
“That’s not true, that’s not true! We have a rapidly aging population in Sweden. Life expectancy increases by 3.5 hours a day and we have a larger number of chroniclers with life-long relationships with healthcare today than 30 years ago.”
According to Strandhäll, “the number of people aged 70 years and older will increase by 300,000 by 2025. That is the big problem, according to her. Refugee reception has nothing to do with it”.
FYI says
Minister of Social Affairs?
Given it is dhimmiwit Sweden shouldn’t that be..
Minister for Social Breakdown…?
Why do the swedes allow their government to betray them,their country and their heritage so disgracefully?
It used to be called …Treason.
mortimer says
SADOMASOCHISM !
It is not the raping, robbing savages who hate Sweden that are the problem. It is Swedish PATRIOTISM that is the problem! Ah! now we understand. Sweden must cease to exist.
The love of inflicting or receiving pain is called SADOMASOCHISM.
This is ELDER ABUSE.
Doghouse Riley says
She’s right. The elderly ARE the problem. They can’t defend themselves. So when the Muslims beat them bloody, they run to the local hospital and put a huge burden on the health care system. Damn geezers.
Ralph says
Exactly.
gravenimage says
Grimly spot on.
Richard says
Seems to me they’ve come up with an answer to the problem that Swedes are living longer daily: Import more Muslims to kill them! It reminds me of the old story of the child who sees his parents carrying Grandma out of the house in a big basket. He asks, “Where are you taking Granny?”. The mother answers, “Well, your Grandmother is old now, so we are taking her down to the driver to drown her.” The child responds, “Well, that’s alright – But bring back the basket!”
Save Europe says
.. And import more Muslims who, in the majority, will never work….(and never pay those taxes)….and then import more…..kind of like a Ponzi scheme.
BC says
What she is saying is immigrants are a priority over the welfare of Swedes who have given a lifetime of service to their country paying heavy taxes to support the welfare system, and in fact paying her salary. Migrants on the other hand who have contributed zero, are a priority just because they have decided to take advantage of Sweden’s Welfare System. Nobody invited them into Sweden to receive everything free of charge and contribute nothing
gravenimage says
That’s *exactly* what she is saying, BC. *Ugh*.
Skeezix says
Those rotter selfish senior citizens! Imagine wanting to reap the benefits of the system you’ve been paying into your whole life! Much better to give that money to muslims who dont work
Frank Anderson says
“don’t work” and never will.
gravenimage says
+1
Tjhawk says
It’s true that an aging population will lead to difficulties. These are difficulties that every true Swede should feel obligated to address. The migrants give zero focks about paying into a system designed to care for Grandpa Oly and Grandma Lena.
mortimer says
The OLD TIMERS have paid into the system through 50 years of paying high taxes. The migrants have paid nothing to Sweden and have earned nothing.
What a horrible slander. The witch would be turfed out of cabinet if the Swedes had any self-respect.
Apparently, they are all afraid.
Jan Sobieski says
Afraid or happy? She seems happy to wipe out the Swedish tribe for new ones.
Richard says
Spoken like the great warrior whose name you bear!
Tjhawk says
You are right, the old timers have paid a lifetime of some of the highest taxes on the planet. That just magnifies the tragedy of their being ill served by the idiots in charge now.
Andy Tara says
Sound’s like “Logan’s Run” is coming true – if you get rid of anybody 30 and older you can eliminate all of those pesky health costs – premise sounds great if you’re 18, not so much if you’re 29.
Karen says
Sadly, they probably are afraid. At the very least, they have been thoroughly conditioned to accept what the state deigns to offer. When your health care credits are doled out by the high and mighty State, you probably refrain from rocking the boat, ticking off the death panels, etc. A sad state of affairs for the elderly, who paid into the system for decades, dutifully building their socialist paradise, and are now considered a burden.
I half-expect Ms. Strandhäll to address the elderly, and scream “You didn’t build that!!!”.
Maher says
We went to USA for vacation, when we came back we surprised as refugees invaded home then bicycle stolen , they invaded nearest church. Not all refugees are Syrian. Balkan and Pakistanis are among them. Surprising. Very difficult to assimilate things, what is going on Europe?
Save Europe says
Only 13 percent of the 1.5-2 million Muslim invaders between mid 2015 into early 2017 were Syrian! And that was what Frontex admitted!
gravenimage says
So sorry to hear this, Maher–but sadly not surprised.
Phil Copson says
Is it just my imagination, or does Strandhall actually look mad ?
Still, the UK now has another problem given that the fake-Conservative Home Secretary Amber Rudd has been pushed out over the fake-row regarding the setting of targets for the removal of illegal immigrants and has just been replaced by the equally fake but closer-to-muslim pressure-groups Savid Javid.
See this from Fahrenheit211:
https://www.fahrenheit211.net/2018/04/30/rudd-goodbye-and-good-riddance-but-her-replacement-could-be-even-worse/
Rob Crawford says
I thought it was just me. Her eyes have more than a hint of mania to them.
They’d have to… it isnt the pensioners who are leaving grenades all over the place.
Berengaria says
As Sweden decides to use their Elderly as Scapegoats, for their Bad Immigration Policies, other Muslim OCCUPIED Countries will follow.
We, in the USA, have bought a little more time, because of Our “America First” President Trump, but we have one Political Party, DEMOCRAT, that is committed to Open Borders.
I have a Terrible Thought that our Elderly & Unborn are being sacrificed to accommodate the desires of the UN & EU in their March toward One World Government.
The Mobs from Central America, including Muslims, are NOW massed at our Southern Border, with their threats & demands. They were able to climb our puny barriers, with the help of our Own People, masquerading as Immigration Advocates.
May God Protect each Country’s CITIZENS, because the Governments have already abdicated that Responsibility.
pragmatist says
The UK has been saying this for ages – our old people who were responsible for setting up the welfare state in the first place and have maintained it through the years have now just turned suddenly into a massive problem. What an ignorant selfish generation we have spawned.
Garfield says
+1
Phantomfighter says
She has now laid sacrafices before the alter of Evil Islam. She has been corrupted by the Evil which invades our societies. May she be inseminated by Muslim seed over and over against her will and show the rest of the Sane World how we should allow these sub-humans to treat us. A sick creature, she is.
Save Europe says
Respectfully, it’s not just that. There are weak (other) Republicans who are soft on Islam and would have accepted loads of faux refugees, if Trump hadn’t been elected. That’s the point. Look at Dubya – Islam is a religion of peace, and all his mantra. It’s not unlike where I live. In the UK, there are tough Conservatives and weak Centrist ones.
Barbara Ethel says
These people, the gravediggers for freedom and democracy all have the same vacuous smile and crazy eyes. I wonder if they are all mindcontrolled. I can no longer find a rational other explanation for the utter madness that has befallen Europe and the West.
IanB says
You hit the jackpot with the mind control comment. Here in the UK it comes from Common Purpose. Google for an erudite explanation.
IanB says
Google Pat Condell Common Purpose.
Peggy says
Lady, you’re the problem.
One day when you get old will you call yourself a problem and do something about it?
What am I saying, you won’t reach old age because the Muslims will have murdered you by then.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Peggy.
Gart says
But the refugee’s older, one day will they be -Yoda.
Notmoron says
By the year 2025 she will become an elder and I wish her new muslims friends will take care of her according to shari’a.
Good Luck B_TCH!
Glenn says
I’m offended – doesn’t that mean she should go to jail?
dan christensen says
The photo of the swedish minister reveals that this female is around the 45 of age; and probably looking forward to a fat government pension in around 15 years.
That old people’s hard work through a long life procured the swedish welfare system and now this is completely forgotten.
Reports from Sweden tell about:
1) Old peoples pension now cannot even pay their rent.
2) Swedish pensioners must scavenge food and clothes in order to survive.
3) Swedish pensioners have to beg for food at the local church in order to survive.
4) Swedish local counsels habitually organize eviction of pensioners from their flats to make room for newly arrived migrants.
5) Migrants always bypass swedish pensioners in the health system.
6) Swedish pensioners are easy prey for young criminal migrants.
So the muslim migrants gets an eager helping hand from swedish authorities to discard the original swedish taxpayers, who collected the riches wasted on the very same migrants.
Many adult swedes today feel ashamed of the ungrateful and treacherous behaviour displayed by their own politicians.
Peggy says
She doesn’t believe that any of that will ever apply to her.
She will get old one day if Muslim don’t kill her by then and I hope that she loses her money and depends on the state to survive.
There was a radio host who has entered politics now who always kept remind us that the only difference between us and the elderly is that they got there first.
Very wise words and this idiot should remember that.
boris says
Demographics are so predictable. If ‘aging’ is suddenly a political problem it’s because of decades of head in the sand politics. In the Netherlands, where i live, renting a house has become almost impossible because of the influx of immigrants and asylum seekers, since they get a preference treatment with rent houses. Dutch from origing you get back in the line. With Healthcare it’s the same. Turkish and Moroccans overstretch the system. Which makes it very expensive now. Dutch have to pay monthly premiums for Healthcare and rent for housing. Asylum seekers get it all for free!
Wyldeirishman says
It’s becoming much the same situation here in the U. S, though not quite as rapid; I’m not sure if that’s better or worse. National sovereignty is viewed through an at-large liberal lense of “racism,” branding any who dissent from merely allowing anyone and everyone through our borders cart blanche as some sort of neo-Nazi.
Tom says
This moron is typical of the progressives’ attitude. They have no respect for the generation that preceded them and who built and paid for what they have in the way of social programs, including their public health system.
Allowing hundreds of thousands of refugees, from third world countries, who have most likely not had much medical care, and as a result have more than the norm in degenerative and chronic health problems, into a country that has such generous, but very expensive, health care provided to all, is a recipe for disaster.
Blaming those who paid with their very high taxes throughout their lives, in favor of those who have never paid a cent into the system, but who will take the most from the system, is the ultimate in hatred for ones elders.
This woman and her progressive left wing radical feminist government will start the euthanization process of their elderly while bringing into Sweden even more of those who will suck the sustem dry.
This will be one more way of removing then replacing the indigenous population in favor of the radical replacement one.
Paul says
They could shoot or gas all the elderly native Swedes so
as to make way for yet more ‘refugees’ and bring the country
much more badly needed ‘diversity’.
That would be very ‘progressive’ and what better way to atone
for the unforgivable sin of being Swedish?
Well, I’m joking right now, but you never know what their
policy will be tomorrow…
boris says
Knowing the loony left too well, i think they rather let foreigners rob the elderly, or terrorize their neighbourhood so the elderly will die sooner of fear, heartfailureor physical injuries.
Paul says
I guess that’s pretty much the plan already. They’re essentially
foot soldiers for vicious leftists, hence the virtual immunity they have
when committing the most appalling crimes. We see this all across
Western Europe.
jayell says
One inconvenient fact. The Swedish pensioners have already PAID for their healthcare.
Save Europe says
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Sam says
“Sweden’s Minister of Social Affairs claims country’s elderly, not Muslim migrants, are “the big problem””
Call me what you want but I do not have empathy for these liberals when they get raped by the evil called Islam. So refugees are not a problem but her aging parents who established her freedom to be so stupid to see what is going on around her.
Let Sweden have Sharia. They deserve it.
dan christensen says
Funny enough – the Swedish politicians seam to have no qualms when it comes to importing old parents to invading migrants.
Are parents of invasive migrants more important than parents of Swedish taxpayers ???
It looks like it!
Save Europe says
Mostly agreed, but let us be pragmatic and say ~ those Swedes who didn’t vote for Leftard political parties, don’t deserve it.
Peggy says
No they don’t but majority rules.
Then again, vote tampering would not be a problem these days.
Parker says
Well from a limited health care POV, she is right. the Elderly do consume way more health care per capita. But so what?
boris says
They’ve paid all their lives premiums. Asylumseekers paid nothing yet!
Save Europe says
Correct Boris ???
Peggy says
Children are a lot more expensive than the elderly and also use a lot of health care resources. We have to build schools for them too. Wow, that’s costing a lot so we really should stop having kids and that will save us money too.
Everything is expensive so it’s only a matter of priority.
Our children and elderly come first then us and our pets and if any money left over maybe we can help out the useless invaders.
What irritates me is that scum like her moans about welfare bill but she is the one who created it. Why bring in so many who are only going to sponge off us?
A society is judged by the way it treats it’s most vulnerable, children and elderly and that doesn’t look like a good society to me.
gravenimage says
+1
Aaron says
Send the free loaders home that will help take care of your citizens who paid the taxes
traci94 says
Oh, I see. It’s the elderly that are setting cars on fire, establishing no-go zones and raping women en masse. WHAT is going on with the mindset of leaders in these countries?
Save Europe says
They just require more votes from the invaders, whom they pay welfare to.
somehistory says
Her eyes appear to be those of someone who is being threatened and told to “Smile”.
Everyone gets old unless death comes first. And illness comes with age as the body breaks down.
However, if not for all those “kids” coming in from moslim lands, there would be fewer old people…and young too…being raped and stabbed and beaten and forced to need medical help.
With the blaming of age, she’s cutting her own throat, as she would eventually be there.
Garfield says
I think she looks like a typical idiot in denial with some kind of savior complex, a good measure of self hate, and a fascination with anyone foreign and exotic. Sicko. These people buy Soros funded idea about diversity wholesale, then sing kumbaya as their fellow citizens are raped and killed. They live in denial.
somehistory says
She does not have any fear of the elderly. She knows they are unable to form a mob, rape and beat her and then claim she wanted their attention.
Denial or fear, the result is the same. Blame those who pose no threat.
AJS says
Well there it is – the full blown swivel-eyed insanity of European politics. It is beyond parody. “The trouble with this country is the voters” was a joke on an arrogant politician whose policies have cost him the election. Now it’s reality.
Europe does have a demographic problem. The native population isn’t making enough new people to support the old ones who are living longer on generous pensions and consuming expensive healthcare.
It was probably the most foreseeable crisis any civilisation has ever faced. Birth rates fell in the 1960s and have been problematically low since the 70s. Throughout the intervening decades politicians ignored the problem or followed the intellectual fashion of worrying about over population and a lack of resources.
You can plan for this the way most people anyway plan for their retirement. Cut your spending, boost your savings, make investments. To the point that you have more resources than years and bequeath the remainder to your children.
They did none of these things. They carried on buying votes at the expense of a future which is now upon us. Their bequest is a wicked combination of debt and high expectations.
Their answer is ludicrous, but it appears to be the only one they have. To import millions of people who hate us from a region which is openly hostile to us in the insane hope they will pay taxes and look after the elderly, like the kids we never had.
This will only change if and when we grt rid of them.
Garfield says
Right…and when there is no one else but Muslims to take over and run the museums, all the European art treasures (paintings of white women NOT wearing burkas?) Will be labeled as non sharia compliant and burned. How about that, sweden? Is that what you want to happen to your history?
Cheer Bear Girl says
This woman is absolutely insane!
Save Europe says
Yep, she’s a nutter.
Rarely says
KICK THEM ALL OUT!!! Send those parasitic seniors back where they came from. The nerve.
Ren says
Sweden’s Minister of Social Affairs has a dumb smile. That explains.
Nigel GFF says
Read between the lines and you find euthanasia staring back.
I suspect that is the true message here. Guilt for being (Swedish) and a burden on society and/or ones children. Let’s not forget the guilt of the northern Europeans of a certain age while the ‘southeners’ are the deserving victims. Yep, take yourself off forthwith and remove your burdensome self.
Of course, the pro refugee status of this ‘person’ remains intact and hey, that’s the text.
utis says
There is always the fear of de facto euthanasia (excluding of course the elders killed by caretakers’ carelessness and migrant rage against an easy target). The socialists promised everything but planned little; their “solution” seems to involve population replacement. Their Ponzi scheme is collapsing, and now the elderly will pay, even though their taxes paid to sustain the scheme so far.
Why can’t all these geniuses at hotshot universities figure a better way to run an economy? Capitalism isn’t perfect, but it’s better than socialism.
Meanwhile, Americans should stop voting Democratic until they think of a better way out of desperation for their power (their chief motivation).
JM says
Swedish progressives are more terrified by the country’s deserving pensioners than by an army of aggressive alien parasites. The population replacement project views the elderly as a financial threat to its survival. But the mere existence of old people is an intolerable reminder of the finality of death in Sweden’s post-modern Godless utopia.
However, elderly Muslim migrants are welcome as New Swedes. The social engineers expect that they will make good babysitters for their grandchildren, while the parents are both working hard full-time to pay for future generations of pensioners.
Stephen says
Ahhh! The old timers have woken from their slumber and are finally making noise.
Not to worry, Abba is coming out of retirement to lull you back to sleep!
Should of listened to the iranian girl when you had a chance.
Save Europe says
I also blame Roxette.
Peter says
Yeah, the real problem is all those elderly who gave birth to and raised idiots like this minister.
Phantomfighter says
She has now laid sacrafices before the alter of Evil Islam. She has been corrupted by the Evil which invades our societies. May she be inseminated by Muslim seed over and over against her will and show the rest of the Sane World how we should allow these sub-humans to treat us. A sick creature, she is.
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Rufluc says
It had to be yet another woman doing the ‘denial of the truth’ bit again didn’t it? What is it with them? Is it their female hormones that make them so left wing and blind to the truth? Why do they grasp at every other reason imaginable, rather than expose and state the truth? The truth being that their catastrophic Muslim immigrant policy is literally demolishing their utopian dream from the inside out, and still women like her, just flatly refuse to ever acknowledge it. Very similar to another woman in Germany!
gravenimage says
Oh, good God–another idiot claiming that despising old people while coddling Muslim is an intrinsically female trait. What calumny.
You find dhimmis of both sexes–as well as brave Anti-Jihadists.
I see that Rufluc wants to ignore people like Pamela Geller and Jihad Watch’s Christine Douglass-Williams.
Lydia Church says
Um… didn’t these elderly citizens work all their lives to pay into the healthcare system that is supposed to support them now in their frailty???
So much for socialized civility in Sweden, no?
Rufluc says
Lydia, the elderly are being used as scape goats, so as to divert questions away from the real cause of the catastrophe that is happening there.
The Liberal PC sickness that causes this, attacks that part of the brain where reasoning, processing of the facts and judgement normally exist. But in this woman’s case, the sickness is so far advanced it’s been obviously reduced to gunge!!
Granddaddy says
Lesson to be learned from this:
Don’t grow old in Sweden.
Matthieu Baudin says
She seems to have skipped over the fact that Sweden’s elderly are Swedish whereas the mass influx of young men are foreigners – a purely voluntary intake by a State intent on destroying the cultural vestiges of it’s past.
Fred Rawls says
One day she will be old too…..
gravenimage says
If she is not murdered by Muslims first.
Frank Anderson says
One more time, please watch Logan’s Run. Might even want to watch Charlton Heston in Soylent Green.
New name for Jews in this current manifestation of Nazi/islam government: Elderly.
New face for Hitler, Himmler, Heydrich, Eichmann and . . . .Does it make walking into a Swedish death camp any easier?
How many elderly will be killed by denial of medical access to provide that access to invaders? I heard one of the architects of medical death panels found in Obamacare speak for about 4 hours in 2002. “Animals have more rights than humans who are less than 15 years old or more than 55.” Complete lives system.
How many Germans, Jewish and not, were sacrificed to Hitler’s plans?
“Those who cannot remember the lessons of the past. . . .” Jorge Santayana, The Life of Reason (1905)
gravenimage says
Spot on, Frank.
linda goudsmit says
Swedish Minister of Social Affairs Annika Strandhall is just about as dimwitted as it gets. Muslim migrants refuse to work, refuse to assimilate, are living entirely off the taxes paid by working Swedes (and elderly Swedes who paid taxes their entire lives). Muslim migrants are raping, robbing, murdering native Swedes according to sharia law, and are creating no-go zones where the police cannot even go – and this Social Affairs moron says the ELDERLY are the problem?? Annika Strandhall is the problem with Sweden!
Im4truth4all says
Two Einstein quotes:
“The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has limits. ”
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidly, and I’m not sure about the universe.”
Frank Anderson says
*Beautiful* *Priceless* quotes.
Thank you.
Hot Hatch says
These Swedes have paid into the health system their whole life – migrants have paid nothing – yet it’s the Swedes’ that are the problem. That makes no sense !!!
Hogdude says
Farewell, Sweden; we hardly knew ye…
gravenimage says
Sweden’s Minister of Social Affairs claims country’s elderly, not Muslim migrants, are “the big problem”
…………………………..
Well, this is *just appalling*.
Of course, Swedes won’t have to worry about living longer the more Muslims invade their land. No chance of that…