What the thread maker refers to as "unemployed bums" living on welfare and flat-our refusing to get a job (or even look for one) is a huge problem here in Sweden. Like Litigious points out, the new government (after the last election) have made it harder to try to weasel your way out of working and living on other people's expense, but it is still a big problem. There are also a lot of "unemployed bums" here who claim they have some kinda unspecified illness (usually including some vague, uncurable back-ache) and who are on permanent "sick leave" (without actually being "sick", of couse), collecting money for it all the while.
The Swedish government have tried to crack down on these people but it has proven to be very difficult. I remember when they first cracked down on those "unemployed bums" who don't want to work and who don't want to look for a job. Said bums put up huge stickers all over the school I attend, that said "DON'T TOUCH OUR UNEMPLOYMENT CHECK! POLITICAL STRIKE!!!"
"Yeah", I said to a classmate of mine, "That's pretty much the only strike they can threaten with, isn't it?"