In a broadly framed article entitled «This Is Your Life in Millions» on Wednesday evening, NRK sets out to explain what “you” cost society in public expenditure.

Since this is NRK, the deep state’s most important propaganda organ, the first question one asks oneself when reading any article is how they are attempting to deceive the public this time.

“From the first nappy to the last pension krone, the community pours money your way,” it is stated briskly from the outset. Very well, we understand the outline. It is the average Norwegian (Ola Nordmann) who is to be reminded of how grateful he ought to be to live in a welfare society.

The article is signed by five journalists who, to a tedious extent, make an accounting of what “you” cost from conception to burial. The state is generous towards you at all times. It provides education and health services, it gives you roads to drive on, and it is gentle and benevolent regardless – you fare quite well even when you are ill, a student, disabled, or a criminal.

The final bill amounts to 30 million kroner – 28.2 million for men and 31.7 million for women. Fortunately, however, we pay in a certain amount in taxes and duties over the course of life – 26 million kroner from men and 14 million from women.

Anyone can see that this runs at a deficit, so something must be done before the piggy bank is empty. We are to be admonished to pay more tax and expect less in return.

The elephant in the room is of no concern to anyone, and this is entirely deliberate. As NRK itself writes:

The figures in this article are based on calculations by Erling Holmøy and Birger Strøm in the research department of Statistics Norway (Statistisk sentralbyrå).

They have calculated what one additional Norwegian-born citizen costs on average, from birth to death.

But now there are as many as 987,200 – almost one million – of the 5,627,400 inhabitants of Norway who were born abroad, or approximately 17.5 per cent of the population.

The analysis, which is directed at “a completely average Norwegian”, thus elegantly disregards more than one in six inhabitants. One who employs such devices possesses no sense of shame.

The public is thus preferably not to know too much about what immigration costs the Norwegians.

The Minister of Finance Jens Stoltenberg (Ap) is given the floor in the article:

The Norwegian welfare society is a joint undertaking (spleiselag). Everyone contributes, and everyone receives much in return. The result is one of the best societies in the world.

It does not arise by itself, but is due to the fact that we pay taxes and that we continuously work to avoid waste, so that the money is used in the best possible way.

It is “Jensemann’s” joint undertaking that is to be emphasised, not that it is the Norwegians who are contributing to welfare for immigrants, against their will.

Stoltenberg’s audacity is boundless: We “work to avoid waste”. The situation is in fact precisely the opposite. They prioritise waste in favour of themselves and their own clients, they worsen the lives of ordinary Norwegians, and they exert themselves strenuously to conceal both – with assistance from NRK, at 8 billion kroner annually.