2aguy
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Sweden is getting an influx of very poor foreigners into their country...and they are about to suffer from the culture clash...and the increased crime......
Shantytown Sweden by Johan Wennstr m City Journal May 28 2015
Many Swedes feel that their sense of home is deteriorating because of the rise in crime, vandalism, and homelessness, and the loss of public space: parks, libraries, and other public institutions are increasingly used as places of shelter.
The tragedy is that this state of affairs has been tolerated and in fact encouraged by most politicians and opinion makers across the political spectrum. As one libertarian author put it, “it is often better to live in a shantytown on the outskirts of Stockholm than on the outskirts of Mogadishu.” That may be true in the narrowest sense, given the horrors of places like Somalia, but it shouldn’t serve as the guiding principle for allowing beggars to continue sleeping in the streets or in Johannesburg-style shantytowns. The Left, which traditionally has championed the welfare state and the abolition of poverty, now defends the “right” to beg in the streets. Degradation is reinterpreted as empowerment and getting a leg up in a prosperous society.
Shantytown Sweden by Johan Wennstr m City Journal May 28 2015
Many Swedes feel that their sense of home is deteriorating because of the rise in crime, vandalism, and homelessness, and the loss of public space: parks, libraries, and other public institutions are increasingly used as places of shelter.
The tragedy is that this state of affairs has been tolerated and in fact encouraged by most politicians and opinion makers across the political spectrum. As one libertarian author put it, “it is often better to live in a shantytown on the outskirts of Stockholm than on the outskirts of Mogadishu.” That may be true in the narrowest sense, given the horrors of places like Somalia, but it shouldn’t serve as the guiding principle for allowing beggars to continue sleeping in the streets or in Johannesburg-style shantytowns. The Left, which traditionally has championed the welfare state and the abolition of poverty, now defends the “right” to beg in the streets. Degradation is reinterpreted as empowerment and getting a leg up in a prosperous society.
