Meanwhile, back at the ranch... What the hell is going on in Sweden?

[Guest032516]

Looks like cradle-to-grave government support can't buy you peace:

http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/...-social-model/

FIVE straight days of rioting. Damn. The Rodney King riots didn't last that long.

I guess this was pushed out of the headlines by the Islamist decapitation of the British soldier. Otherwise it would have gotten a lot more attention.

[i'va biggen]

Not even swingers can get along.

[Jackie S]

It's really pretty simple. The young workers are saying, "why should I work my ass off and support a bunch of old farts who lay around doing nothing".

As our population ages, we will probably face the same predicament.

[Guest032516]

Apparently, the point of the article is being missed.

It isn't lazy, young Swedes that are rioting. It is - of course - immigrants from the third world. Key quote:

"One expression of Sweden’s tolerant outlook has been the welcome extended to immigrants and asylum-seekers fleeing violence in countries like Afghanistan, Somalia and Syria. Around one in seven of its almost 10 million people are now foreign-born.
But many newcomers have been pushed to the margins, reliant on low-paying menial jobs and often concentrated in poor suburbs like Husby.
Unemployment among those born outside Sweden stands at 16 percent, compared with 6 percent for those born in Sweden."

They imported a bunch of unskilled, ignorant laborers into the country - none of whom know a word of Swedish. They fit in like a square peg in a round hole.

Now they are rioting.

[Old-T]

Originally Posted by ExNYer

"One expression of Sweden’s tolerant outlook has been the welcome extended to immigrants and asylum-seekers fleeing violence in countries like Afghanistan, Somalia and Syria. Around one in seven of its almost 10 million people are now foreign-born.
But many newcomers have been pushed to the margins, reliant on low-paying menial jobs and often concentrated in poor suburbs like Husby.
Unemployment among those born outside Sweden stands at 16 percent, compared with 6 percent for those born in Sweden."

Not agreeing with rioting, but two indicators of unrest that often leads to riots:
--too quick an absorption of "outsides"
--poverty/no feeling that things will get better

Whether it's foreigners, migration within a country, or stratification within a city. Those two are almost always a volatile combination. When it is foreigners who don't speak the language--therefore often have less opportunity to see light at the end of the tunnel--it can be even worse.

[JD Barleycorn]

So super liberal Bob Beckel was right, stop all immigration for a few years especially from muslim countries. He also said much the same about student visas.

[Jewish Lawyer]

Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn

So super liberal Bob Beckel was right, stop all immigration for a few years especially from muslim countries. He also said much the same about student visas.

It must be getting intolerable when even liberals tacitly admit their policies were a mistake.

[JD Barleycorn]

That was the sad part, Beckel didn't really admit that it was liberal policies. He implied that it was a natural happening shared by both the GOP and democrats so no one, or their policies, could be blamed.

[Guest032516]

More on the Swedish mess:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...stockholm.html

Nice stats:

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* In less than a single decade, the foreign-born share of the Swedish population has risen from under 10% to over 15%.

* Sweden's asylum seekers come almost entirely from very poor Muslim-majority countries, notably Iraq, Somalia, Afghanistan, and Syria.

- A broader study of crime statistics from 1997-2001 - that is, well before the recent immigration surge - found that immigrants and children of immigrants together committed more than 40% of all Swedish crime. In particular, immigrants and children of immigrants were five times more likely than native Swedes to be investigated for sex crimes, a rising Swedish concern.
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Do you think they will ever put two and two together?