Xenophobia = fear of that which is foreign and strange. So you think I am a xenophobic bigot specifically towards Muslims, even 2nd generation ones ? Well, that certainly depends what type of Muslim we are talking about. If it is the kind that blow themselves and others up, you bet I am phobic and by the way weren´t the 7/7 London bombers 2nd generation immigrants ? Do I have scant sympathy for the likes of Anjem Choudry, his gang and those who subscribe to his views ? Yes.
Am I worried about unlimited immigration ? Yes I am, however, not for xenophobic reasons, but for the reasons detailed in the reader´s letter below, which starts off mentioning the nearly empty coffers. By now they are not nearly empty, they are empty, the State Budget for 2012 has a deficit of 100 Billion DKK.
Denmark has passed the tipping point and 49% of the population now has to provide for the 51%. This is untenable and if it continues or escalates, it may lead to the collapse of the welfare state (which, as a good Soc.Dem. I am in favour of) and as I wrote in a post to Musivore a year ago, If immigration takes place at a rate that the recipient countries cannot absorb, the welfare systems will collapse and that will benefit neither those already here or the new arrivals.
Expensive to run Social Security office
Immigrants : As Bent Kalstrup writes, (NS 23.5.) it is inconceivable that no politician, no matter what party, mentions a word about the immigrant burden in their zeal to find some millions for the nearly empty coffers.
MSc. Ebbe Vig, Aarhus, calculates in Jyllands-Posten (19:11:10) the annual net costs to be 194 billion. DKK.
Over the past decades a majority in parliament opened the Danish borders wide to mass immigration of foreigners. It costs a fortune and they still owe us an explanation for doing so.
Ekstra Bladet (21.5.11) writes that the ultra criminal Levakovic family from Croatia, who came to Denmark in the 70s, has cost the public purse at least 73.9 million. Imprisonment and time in other correctional facilities account for 37.3 mio and social benefits for the remaining 36.5 mio.
Comprehensive criminal activity among the 40 family members, the majority of whom have Croatian citizenship, is the rule rather than the exception.
And to top it all, the family has offered the City Council of Copenhagen to leave Denmark, if it gets paid 24 million. DKK
Some members of the Levakovic family
And no, it's not April 1st.
And yes, the examples are legio.
Like Khalil Salem, called Fiz, Fiz. Lebanese (not a Danish citizen) who 29.3.11 was sentenced to six years imprisonment for major crimes.
Expulsion ?
Oh no, which was celebrated for three days in Vollsmose.
His eight children annually cost the taxpayers 600,000 DKK
The non-expulsion has been appealed to the Supreme Court and if they overturn the sentence of the lower court his wife, who lives off benefits, threatens to commit suicide.
The text reads : Congratulation on the 6 years. Your street is waiting for you Fizfiz. Together with us.
They could also have congratulated him on keeping his early pension payments even while he is in jail.
There is the family Alkhastov from Chechnya (JP 29.1.11), whose case for eight years has been reviewed and rejected by the Immigration and Refugee Board.
In the course of those eight years they have produced five children that the father today claims, are Denmark's responsibility.
The family was expelled in February this year but is still here and applying for humanitarian residency.
According to Jyllands-Posten (February 2011) 30 percent of every resident over 50, of non-western origin, are on early retirement benefits, although Ekstra Bladet has revealed that some Iraqis are healthy enough to work on the side in their homeland. (DR TV 11/08/2009)
Information writes (21:10:10) that in Copenhagen alone there is approx. 3500 EU citizens, who receive child allowance, which annually costs the municipality 30-50 million DKK. (My note : Their families are not in Denmark, but in their homelands, while they are here for x no. of months building whatever their compatriot entrepreneur has won the contract on, in many cases being paid less by him than what a Dane would get. Don´t worry Q, the unions are on to it and are doing something to stop the underpayment.)
As I said, it costs a fortune that we have evolved to be the Social Security office for much of the world.
And it is shameful that we have to pay welfare benefits to foreigners who have not contributed to the society, while at the same time we are told that we have to take out private insurance if we want benefits. So where is the logic in this circus?
And if we allow ourselves to make demands or ask for conditions to be met, shame and guilt are poured over our heads by politically correct people who believe they have a monopoly on being good, but only show solidarity when the bill is paid by others.
When you read NORDJYSKE Stifttidende´s opinion page, there's no limit to how many worn out and needy fellow citizens, the left wing parties can see and will cater to if they win the upcoming election.
Though traditionally the poor only become visible around Christmas time.
According to Statistics Denmark (DR-TV 14.4.) every 4th citizen aged between 16 and 64 in 2010 was on social benefits.
So the worn out and needy must surely then be among the 25 % who are productive and working to keep the business Denmark running, but there are probably not many votes to be had there.
For, as Asger Aamund writes: "The country cries out for reforms, but it is actually the voters on social benefits, who determine who the next Prime Minister of Denmark is going to be. So probably not much is going to happen reform wise.
"But in only about ten years, three million people will be on benefits out of a total electorate of four million. So the politicians are too late in their efforts to balance the economy ." (Berlingske Tidende, 31.8.10) "
We are a long way from old Stauning´s (Denmark´s 1st Soc.Dem. prime minister) thoughts, that the 80 per cent. of the population who are strong and can work should help the 20% who are weak "(Jyllands-Posten 21:11:10).
Karl Marx wrote :"Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as
the people learn that they have a voice in the fiscal policies of the
government, they will move to vote for themselves all the money in the
treasury and bankrupt the nation.” (Quote from Peter Kershaw "Economic Solution).
And obviously it goes even faster, when, in a welfare society, you invite hundreds of thousands of foreigners to join the party.
http://www.nordjyske.dk/artikel/10/2825/53/3875938/3/dyrt%20at%20drive%20socialkontorI don´t necessarily agree with everything she wrote.
I have nothing against my Palestinian background baker of likewise Palestinian bicycle repair man (unless of course they are secret members of Al-Qaida) and I rather like this Palestinian co-host of a Danish TV show
Abdel Aziz Mahmoud
very sympathic. Easy on the eye too.
There are many others I could mention who have integrated well and are assets to the Danish society, but this post is long enough as it is.
Oh, just one more, Omar Marzoug (Egyptian) Stand-up comedian, who has just made a series of shows on Danish TV called : Make fun of God, in which he visited congregations of various faith communities, Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim and some others and cracked jokes about their rituals and beliefs. Most of them laughed good naturedly at the jokes. He did receive 2 death threats though and as it pained him to say, from his Muslim brethren.
Topic: Muslims killing other muslims in the last 50 years