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Swedes increasingly questioning the sustainability of their fabled cradle-to-grave welfare system.
Resentment has built over the influx of more than 600,000 immigrants over the past five years
Hassan_Rouhani saysSwedes increasingly questioning the sustainability of their fabled cradle-to-grave welfare system.
Resentment has built over the influx of more than 600,000 immigrants over the past five years
These two facts are actually the same.
Diversity causes immense social harm, the primary one being a shattering of the feeling of national unity, and a resulting unwillingness to pay high taxes to support foreigners who showed up explicitly to take advantage of the generosity of the state.
Sven has no problem with high taxes that support people he's familiar with and probably related to, but once that social system is being scammed and drained of funds by foreigners who are there mostly for the free money, it doesn't seem like such a great idea anymore.
Resentment has built over the influx of more than 600,000 immigrants over the past five years, many from war-ravaged countries like Afghanistan and Syria, a huge number for a country of 10 million people.
There are also soaring crime rates, gang violence, complaints about education and pregnant mothers even being turned away from maternity wards due to a lack of capacity. The number of people waiting longer than 90 days for an operation or specialist treatment has tripled over the past four years.
“The Swedish social contract needs to be reformed,” a dozen entrepreneurs including Nordea Bank AB Chairman Bjorn Wahlroos and Kreab Founder Peje Emilsson wrote in an op-ed in the Dagens Industri newspaper on May 31. “Despite high taxes, politics isn’t delivering its part of the contract in important areas. We get poor value for money.”
https://www.bloombergquint.com/politics/2018/06/26/now-even-swedes-are-questioning-the-welfare-state