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Title: The Swedish Welfare State Is on Fire
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URL Source: http://lewrockwell.com/north/north1285.html
Published: May 28, 2013
Author: Gary North
Post Date: 2013-05-28 10:49:24 by christine
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Comments: 14
Stockholm’s rioting goes on, night after night. The police seem powerless to stop this. Immigrant youths are in the streets, burning cars that belong to immigrant adults. Certainly, wandering around Husby last week, it was hard at first glance to see quite what the problem was. Built in the 1970s as part of the “Million Programme” that aimed to give affordable housing for all Swedes, the estate is one of dozens on Stockholm’s outskirts that now house mainly immigrant populations, including large numbers from Somalia, Eritrea, Afghanistan and Iraq. It turns out that open immigration, a generation of state handouts to immigrants, and tolerance greater than any in Western Europe has not work as planned. Surprise, surprise! Two decades on, though, “white flight” has left only one in five of Husby’s flats occupied by ethnic Swedes, and many of their immigrant replacements do not seem to share his view that a new life in Sweden is a dream come true. Last week, the neighbourhood erupted into rioting, sparking some of the fiercest urban unrest that Sweden has seen in decades, and a new debate about the success of racial integration. “In the old days, the neighbourhood was more Swedish and life felt like a dream, but now there are just too many foreigners, and a new generation that has grown up here with just their own culture,” he said, gesturing towards the hooded youths milling around in Husby’s pedestrianised shopping precinct. “Also, in Sweden you cannot hit your children to discipline them, and this is a problem for foreign parents. The kids can feel they can cause whatever trouble they want, and the police don’t even arrest any of them most of the time.” Liberalism is coming home to roost in Europe’s model welfare state. The disturbances erupted in Husby last weekend, after police shot dead an elderly man brandishing a machete inside his house. Angered at what they saw as police heavyhandedness, youths torched cars and buildings and stoned police and firefighters. Police were then forced to draft in extra manpower from outside Stockholm as the trouble spread to other immigrant-dominated suburbs of the capital and towns such as Orebro in central Sweden, where 25 masked youths set fire to a school on Friday night. So, they burned down a state-funded school. This is the equivalent of sacrilege in statist Western Europe: worse than burning down a church. What caused this? Liberals know. “Meanwhile politicians from the Swedish Left, which has ruled the country for most of the post-war period, blamed the trouble on social spending cuts introduced by Mr Reinfeldt, whose Moderate Party vowed to trim – though not slash – the welfare budget when he took office in 2006.” That’s right. Sweden needs more wealth redistribution, more taxation, more handouts. That will fix it! Certainly, claims of racism upset many Swedes, who have little colonial history, and whose decision to admit large numbers of Third World migrants from the 1980s onwards was born of no particular political obligation, more just a very Swedish sense of humanitarian duty to the wider world. From the very start, the government also sought to avoid creating a German-style “guest worker” class by promoting immigrants’ rights and introducing a plethora of programmes to promote racial integratkion. Yet despite Swedish language education being offered free to all long-term immigrants, ghettos of foreigners have flourished in recent years. No kidding! Will wonders never cease? “We have tried harder than any other European country to integrate, spending billions on a welfare system that is designed to help jobless immigrants and guarantee them a good quality of life,” said Marc Abramsson, leader of the National Democrats Party. “Yet we have areas where there are ethnic groups that just don’t identify with Swedish society. They see the police and even the fire brigade as part of the state, and they attack them. We have tried everything, anything, to improve things, but it hasn’t worked. It’s not about racism, it’s just that multi-culturalism doesn’t recognise how humans actually function.” Swedes ask: “But where is the gratitude?” Swedes are silly. Still, some of Husby’s younger generation argue that it is unreasonable of Swedes to expect them to be perennially “grateful” for taking them in, even from the dire circumstances in their homelands. Among them is local youth worker Rami al Khamisi, 25, whose family escaped to Sweden from Saddam Hussein’s Iraq back in 1994, smuggling themselves first through Turkey and Russia and then across the Baltic in a fishing boat commandeered by a people smuggler. “I was six years old and the boat was packed with about 60 people,” he said. “An old man died, and they threw him in the water because his body was smelling a lot.” That, though, he says, is his only real memory of the hardships of his early life, and as such, he finds it hard to be as thankful as his parents still are to his adopted homeland. “They compare it to Baghdad or Somalia,” he said. “But we younger immigrants only really know Sweden, and we just compare our situation to the one around us.” And then they torch cars in their own neighborhoods. This is envy in action. It is resentment against visible signs of success. It cannot be placated. The very fact that the welfare state liberals offer to buy it off with more welfare breeds resentment. The fact that white Swedes have money to use to buy off the rioters enrages the rioters even more. White Europeans no longer reproduce at replacement rates. The future of Europe is in the immigrants’ ghettos. As Dr. Phil asks, “How’s that working out?”
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#1. To: christine, coming to a country near you! (#0)
A few years ago, I would've thought she would be too old of a target for rape by nignogs. Happily, I have since learned that I was wrong. "Mr. Prime Minister, there is only one important question facing us, and that is the question whether the white race will survive." -- Leonid Brezhnev to James Callahan
Are we talking about the dour Zionist who made the 'tube?
Diversity for thee (suckpoop goys), but not for me (jews). If you're not an anti-semite, you're not paying attention, or criminally stupid. Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner. As the late pitchman Billie Mays was fond of saying, “But wait there’s more!”
Barbara Specter.
"Mr. Prime Minister, there is only one important question facing us, and that is the question whether the white race will survive." -- Leonid Brezhnev to James Callahan
At least the shriveled dessicated rotting jew cunt was being honest. How often does something like that happen? If the Germans went into Russia as liberators, none of this would be happening now. ------------------------------------------ Invite turd-world trash into a first-world nation and, SURPRISE!!!, they don't act White no matter how much welfare you give them. Sweden is reaping what it has sowed, fuck 'em.
#2. To: Jethro Tull (#1)
#3. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#2)
#4. To: Jethro Tull (#1)
(Edited)
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#5. To: Esso (#4)
#6. To: Jethro Tull (#3)
#7. To: Jethro Tull (#1)
#8. To: christine (#0)
Immigrant youths are in the streets, burning cars that belong to immigrant adults.
-Alex Kurtagic
#9. To: PSUSA2 (#7)
True. See the quotes from the last days of General George Patton. If the Germans went into Russia as liberators, none of this would be happening now.
#10. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#2) (Edited)
He said that? Russians / Ukranians are to muslims as oil is to water. Been reading up on them, not necessarily because of politics but because I think their women are so damn hot. But I've learned a few things about that culture. And they don't like niggers either. Or jews for that matter. Nigger muslims wouldn't last long there. Sad to say but I think it will take Russia to hold the line. We're too far gone here, as is Western Europe. "Mr. Prime Minister, there is only one important question facing us, and that is the question whether the white race will survive." -- Leonid Brezhnev to James Callahan
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#11. To: PSUSA2 (#10)
At the end of a meeting Callahan remarked that there didn't seem to be any important points of contention between them. Brezhnev muttered an emphatic reply to himself and Callahan asked for a translation. Brezhnev's translator was reluctant, but Callahan insisted. Upon hearing the translation, judaized boobus Callahan had no idea how to reply. Post-Stalin commies knew all about the "rootless cosmopolitans." Then there was Che's wicked waycism. This is why we had to fight the Cold War. What a bunch of rubes Americans have been. He said that?
"Mr. Prime Minister, there is only one important question facing us, and that is the question whether the white race will survive." -- Leonid Brezhnev to James Callahan
#12. To: PSUSA2 (#10) (Edited)
There's hope for parts of Europe, and parts of the U.S. We'll have to sacrifice some land. Even a lot. But it's a good deal if we end up with at least some that belongs to us. We have to want it first. Whites have to want to live, first. The "anti-racist" right's failure here is the last gasp of the assumption of white supremacy. We're too far gone here, as is Western Europe.
"Mr. Prime Minister, there is only one important question facing us, and that is the question whether the white race will survive." -- Leonid Brezhnev to James Callahan
#13. To: Prefrontal Vortex, JT, 4 (#11)
But the kike god smiles. What's good for the kikes is good for their god. Interesting though how that video reinforces what I always thought, that the kikes pull the strings not just of christians but muslims too. Common history after all. But I wonder if mohammed really existed or if he's just another made-up religious character. This is why we had to fight the Cold War. What a bunch of rubes Americans have been.
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#14. To: X-15 (#8)
I can't say that about Swedish children, though many of their parents may deserve it. White children deserve better from their parents; redemption for their parents remains possible. Sweden is reaping what it has sowed, fuck 'em.
"Mr. Prime Minister, there is only one important question facing us, and that is the question whether the white race will survive." -- Leonid Brezhnev to James Callahan
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