The most positive news for a long time

The Danish students are failing "Operation days work".

Operation days work is a leftover from from the ages of the cold war. Students with likely commnunist connection arranged a charity where students in High School became truant for a day and worked in various businesses and send the money they earned to specific projects in the third world.

First some of the project chosen by the group behind this event has been critised for being a cover of terrorism. Most of the teenagers today know very little about Nicaragua where left wing terrorist did overthrow the happy government, which had ruled the country for many years starting a period with killings and riots. Recently they supported regions of Mexico where drug lords also operate and the police are trying to bring order to the society by introducing a zero-tolorance policy. I could write for long about several other reasons for not supporting this project, but I will leave it to others representing both the right and left side in our parliament.

The most important question is: Why support third world contries at all?

I have to ask this question because:

1) We have a lot of problems in Denmark which should be solved. We have no early retirement more. It was this single welfare benefit, which was the keystone in our welfare society. Without it, it is almost impossible to claim that we still are a welfare society. Why not start to help those in our society, who suffers every day?

2) Aid to third world countries do often damage more that they help. When people gets things for free, why should they go out in the field and work? People becomes lazy when they are helped all the time. Some third world countries have realized that. India are trying to send people to the moon. It cost a lot, while people die from hunger. When the tsumani hit back in 2004 India was ready to provide aid to other countries while their own population suffered. They were smart because they realized that the torment would enable their own population to work hard to regain their former status and put them in front in the global outsource business where they already are a huge player. They do not redistribuate their goods like most western countries do. They let the poor starve and even die, so the population are forced to work and be competitive.

3) Corruption takes their part. Corruption is normally a good thing which enables the businesses to pull themselves up and try to understand the mecanismes in the market they enter. Employees in a Danish firm was cleared in relationship with their export adventure in Germany because the court acknowledged that corruption was a tool in the market down there. If they hadn't done it, they could have stayed at home from the very start. The verdict enabled a lot of Danish firms to enter this market.

Thats why the recent news about the danish students failing supporting this project and use the day for sleeping out binge drinking from the evening before or simply work for their own good is a good news.

It shows insight when it comes to global issues and it promises good times in the years to come, when we at some point decide to solve the problems our society suffers from.

I am so proud of the new generation of Danes.