Agriculture, Norwegian farmers | Shut down Norwegian agriculture

(Trønder debate) The paradox is that Norwegian agriculture has socio-economic objectives, but is measured and operated based on business economic objectives. This applies to large parts of Norwegian society. The health sector and the childcare sector also have socio-economic objectives, but when maternity and various operating departments, and primary and secondary schools are closed, it is based on a corporate economic thinking that income minus costs should go into surplus.

Why must we now equip the defense? Because it has not been profitable to have a defense for 30 years. The fact that local communities have weathered as a result of closure is a socio-economic side track that the administration could not prioritize.

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Norway has largely been one of the poorest countries in Europe, until we found oil in the 60s. As a newly minted millionaire, Norway has let its wealth go to its head. The farming community became redundant, District Norway became expensive and the EU became tempting for an elite of the new capital winners. We are becoming a nation that cannot afford the most basic services such as health, school, food, etc.

Promise of cheap food, low taxes and increased purchasing power and more have promoted privatisation, efficiency and centralisation. When through centralization Norway will have optimized the public tasks and services, the administration can triumphantly see the Norwegian tax dollars subsidize even more investment based on the community’s resources, preferably with the right foreign investors.

That much of the country then lies fallow without schools, health services, food production, yes without inhabitants, that has nothing to do with the matter. After all, we can always sell the land to massive German wind farms, made possible by binding energy market agreements.

So long the politicians get stuck in the blue Russian cobweb on Løvebakken, then centralization will take its course. New politicians with idealism and courage will be caught in a network of number crunchers with their own agenda. A profit-maximizing agenda that conflicts with the century-long Norwegian thinking of unity to build and develop our country even at the far end of the bare island.

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One can wonder why the politicians are unable to break away. I believe that the experienced but “settled” politicians on Løvebakken have become part of the system, and new politicians are peppered with “correct” thinking. The result is politicians voters find difficult to distinguish from each other, despite the great distance in the various party programs. Any idealists or rebels are quietly weeded out in a network of loyal party members. A network that extends all the way down to local team level with the “right people” who are interested.

So when the majority in the Storting do not want to listen to the agricultural industry regarding the new basis for figures, then it is probably related to the fact that honest figures will give the number crunchers headaches, and the road to full centralization will have speed bumps. The bumps are still no bigger than that over time the administration will be able to stay on the same course as the last 70 years, with full liquidation of Norwegian agriculture, and full centralization of public services as the goal.

About the government had now given in on both the correct numerical basis and proper remuneration, then it changes nothing. The course is the same, signed in a Negotiating Institute disclaiming liability! Despite persistent efforts from, among others, the Bunadsgeriljaen and the Farmers’ Uprising, the administration, with the politicians as a shield, maneuvers like an eel past the Norwegian people, who are most concerned with increased purchasing power. The art is just to get the politicians to talk as ambiguously and around the porridge as possible.

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If not the Norwegian people manage to turn the politicians and the administration around, I think Norway will once again be one of the poorest countries in Europe by 2050. A country that will be completely dependent on the outside world in a deglobalized world with food shortages, war and struggle for resources. The Norwegian people will have to pay dearly for electricity, water and food, and our once-proud right of way will be history.

Anyone who cares about their descendants must now retaliate. Time to fight the weeds on Løvebakken.