Looks like another European nation that has long been especially averse to President Donald Trump is poised to become freshly angry at America once again.
“Volvo to cut 3,000 jobs as Trump tariffs rattle auto market,” The Hill ominously intoned.
“Rattle.” Way to use the melodramatic language … though it seems one super pro-migration Scandinavian nation is likely “rattled” by Volvo’s announcement.
That’s right: None other than Sweden – perhaps the most egregious nanny state in Europe – is learning the very hard way that economic policies have consequences.
In this particular case, Sweden’s flagship automaker – Volvo – is apparently set to slash upwards of 3,000 or more jobs amid widespread economic uncertainty.
Or, as Volvo puts it, the company will be slashing 3,000 or more “global redundancies.”
As if globalism didn’t already have quite a bad rap.
“Volvo Cars today announces global redundancies, as part of its recently launched cost and cash action plan. The action plan aims to build a stronger and even more resilient Volvo Cars at a time when the automotive industry is facing considerable challenges in its external environment. The SEK 18 billion action plan includes the creation of a leaner, more efficient organisation with a structurally lower cost base, which corresponds to an estimated reduction of around 3,000 positions, including consultants, at Volvo Cars’ operations around the globe,” Volvo announced in a press release.
The company also admitted that these jobs would equate to “around 15 per cent of the total office-based workforce globally.”
Well then.
“Global redundancies” seems to be an especially insensitive term to use in the wake of that shocking 15 percent.
Who would have thought that a company from a typical nanny state would use such cold language to detail the firing of several thousand people?
Frankly, it would appear that the enthusiastically anti-Trump nation is learning more and more about economic realities the hard way.
From the state-controlled enterprises in Sweden to the sudden tariffs from the United States, it is rather clear that the Swedes – much as they bitterly complain about Trump – are probably waking up to the fact that they should learn a thing or two about the economy.
For instance, Swedes pay absolutely gargantuan taxes on alcohol … thanks to the government literally commandeering all alcohol sales and transforming the entire industry into a “state run monopoly” – otherwise known as communism.
For a nation that has long held that its own government can do anything and everything – a clearly mistaken belief – Sweden sure is learning the hard way that the nanny state is indeed quite fallible after all.
Especially when said nanny state allows in hordes and hordes of unvetted immigrants from the Middle East, spurring a massive public crisis in a nation poised for insolvency, barring a dramatic change in economic policy.
Perhaps the “global redundancies” at Volvo might capture their attention about economic realities …
Or perhaps they will keep “protesting” Trump’s own economic policies by attempting to attack the American economy.
As reported by AA, many Swedes have apparently decided to “boycott” the United States in the wake of Trump’s tariff war.
“A boycott of American goods in Sweden is spreading in reaction to US President Donald Trump’s rhetoric and policies … A recent survey by Verian on behalf of public broadcaster, SVT, showed 29% of Swedes have refrained from buying US goods in the past month as a political protest, with 10% saying they have completely boycotted and 19% only certain goods,” AA reported.
By all means, Swedes, keep on “protesting” against the United States while deepening your ties with China … as evidenced from hordes of Swedes opting for Chinese BYD vehicles instead of American Tesla vehicles.
Clearly, Swedes have not contemplated all the surveillance contraptions embedded within such vehicles, especially if they’d rather “get back” at America.
Because cooperation with communists hellbent on global domination will work out so well instead … especially for those who actually take Beijing’s words at face value.
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Author: Ofelia Thornton
