‘Free stuff’ really isn’t free. It’s rationed... Scum Housing in Amsterdam'

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[virgil283]

" Entitlements attract dependents until the point where government can’t afford it any more. Then the system breaks down. Take Amsterdam which is creating shipping container ‘villages’ to house its riff-Raff. Years of tolerance attracted them like flies. First there was an effort to clean up the red-light district in Amsterdam. Then came new laws regulating who could frequent “coffee shops” in the city and elsewhere in Holland for a joint. Now, the Dutch capital is introducing a plan to punish bad behavior by sending chronic neighborhood bullies and vandals out of the city center for a punitive stay in uncomfortable housing containers......Western literature is full of warnings about such the dangers of creating false gods over yourself, the story of Babel, Faust, Frankenstein’s monster, Skynet. It is perhaps no coincidence that Joseph Stalin’s standard for literary excellence was in fact Goethe’s Faust.”

[virgil283]

'...Bartho Boer, spokesman for Mayor Eberhard van der Laan, responded to claims that the new housing centres are similar to the scum villages proposed by Geert Wilders. But Boer rejected the comparison. “This is supposed to be a deterrent,” he said. “It has to work.”

[GeronL]

Organizational Sclerosis: There are so many benefits given to so many special interests that the standard of living is lowered for everyone.

[Salgak]

And if they can be locked from the outside. . . and a can or three of “disinfectant” tossed in. . . it might work.

Of course, that would be “controversial”, so they’d never do it. . .