The growth of Finland’s economy in the past fifteen years has been disappointing with our indebtedness growing at an alarming rate totaling today about 75% of GDP, according to Yle. If we were to point to the elephant in the Finnish room, it’s clear that our rapidly aging population and too few immigrants are the culprits.
To top it off, when Finland’s debt-to-GDP ratio started to rise worryingly in the early 2010s, Finland was hit politically by the Perussuomalaiset (PS)*, which made it to the major political league in the 2011 election, when its numbers rose to 39 MPs from 5 MPs previously.
During the past decade, Finland needed to attract labor immigrants in a big way but chose instead to spread populist xenophobia. Today the PS together with the National Coalition Party (NCP), and its minor partners, the Swedish People’s Party and Christian Democrats, are planning to significantly tighten immigration policy.
You don’t need to be a sociologist to understand that the whole concept of immigration and how it is supposed to work is tainted by racism and discrimination thanks to the PS and its obeient partners, the NCP. The government is doing everyting possible to keep Finland white and non-Muslim.
Read the full story in Finnish here.
It is curious, if not worrying, how little attention the media and politicians are paying attention to he elephant in the Finnish room: lack of immigration in the face of an ageing population.
In many respects, Finland has not done enough to solve its demographic problems thanks to the PS, which have posioned the atmophere.
As long as Finland continues to rely on the bigotry and xenophobia of its politicians and base its knowledge of immigration and cultural diversity on prejudice, the more harm they’ll do to our economy.
It’s the immigration, stupid!
