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Danish govt wants foreigners to work to access welfare
The Associated Press ^ | September 8, 2021

Posted on 09/08/2021 4:53:42 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — The Danish government presented a proposal on Tuesday which is aimed at getting foreigners and people with an immigrant background to work 37 hours a week in exchange for welfare benefits.

The proposal of the minority Social Democratic government said that “there are still too many people, especially with non-Western backgrounds, who do not have a job to get up to” in the morning.

“If you come to Denmark, you have to work and support yourself and your family,” it says.

Many women of foreign descent remain outside the labor market, especially women with roots in the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Turkey, the proposal read.

The government wants “effort and performance go hand in hand” with social benefits, and “if one cannot support oneself, one must have a duty to participate and contribute what is equivalent to a regular working week to receive the full welfare benefit,” said the 40-page government report, entitled “Denmark can do more.”

As of July 1, immigrants and their descendants represent 14.1% of Denmark’s population of nearly 6 million people, according to official figures. The largest groups are from Turkey, Syria and Iraq.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: denmark; europe; immigration; migrants

1 posted on 09/08/2021 4:53:42 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If the Danish government wants these immigrants to actually do something, they are obviously a bunch of racists. /S /S /S


2 posted on 09/08/2021 4:56:58 AM PDT by Mark17 (USAF, Retired. Father of USAF officer and trained pilot, who loves flying US Air Force aircraft. )
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To: Mark17

I mean it is fair, if you are able bodied and are capable of working you need to do something to access benefits, otherwise you are leeching on the system. Something is changing in Denmark for sure.


3 posted on 09/08/2021 4:59:11 AM PDT by the_individual2014
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To: the_individual2014
I kind of thought, the whole reason for working, was so they could STOP leeching off the system. But hey, what do I know?
Maybe the Danish government, is telling the professional racists of the world, to shove their racism where the sun don’t shine.
4 posted on 09/08/2021 5:06:00 AM PDT by Mark17 (USAF, Retired. Father of USAF officer and trained pilot, who loves flying US Air Force aircraft. )
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To: the_individual2014

Reminds me of a story , black women was interviewed on local tv years back. She felt that since she worked a full month that she deserved unemployment as well as other services that were due her


5 posted on 09/08/2021 5:07:36 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Deport them.

Problem solved.


6 posted on 09/08/2021 5:14:57 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (Election Fraud Deniers--Won't follow the science, won't follow the law.)
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To: SharpRightTurn

Gee…I guess they ran out of the ‘tolerance’ they accused the US of neglecting


7 posted on 09/08/2021 5:19:14 AM PDT by SMARTY (Republics decline into democracies & democracies degenerate into despotisms. Aristotle)
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To: the_individual2014

“... Something is changing in Denmark for sure....”

Someone quick... tell Rick Steves!!


8 posted on 09/08/2021 5:20:50 AM PDT by SMARTY (Republics decline into democracies & democracies degenerate into despotisms. Aristotle)
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. . . immigrants and their descendants represent 14.1% of Denmark's population of nearly 6 million people . . .

True story. I grew up in an area of the country full of Scandinavians (Danes, Swedes, Norwegians and even a few Icelandic). They were, in many cases, only a generation or two away from the old country. Some still had the accents.

Almost all of them were kind-hearted, Lutheran and very industrious. They could not, for the life of them, comprehend how someone would want to live off the system when they were physically able to work. The very concept of doing so was repugnant to them.

Almost, I might add, as repugnant as the concept of working for an Infidel is to far too many Muslim "refugees" today.

9 posted on 09/08/2021 5:21:15 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s about time.


10 posted on 09/08/2021 5:27:48 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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True story. I grew up in an area of the country full of Scandinavians (Danes, Swedes, Norwegians and even a few Icelandic)

You must have grown up in the same area I did.

11 posted on 09/08/2021 5:29:07 AM PDT by Mark17 (USAF, Retired. Father of USAF officer and trained pilot, who loves flying US Air Force aircraft. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
White Priviledge = work?
(How racist)
12 posted on 09/08/2021 5:44:39 AM PDT by blam
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Great idea. Now do it!


13 posted on 09/08/2021 5:47:44 AM PDT by I want the USA back (There's nothing in the Constitution that allows the government to become fascist. )
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And they believe that every international problem like murderous Islam can be solved by enough talking over weak coffee and kringla.

They lost their warrior DNA invading Poland and Russia long ago.


14 posted on 09/08/2021 5:59:33 AM PDT by jjotto (Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Pssst…do that for Danes, too.


15 posted on 09/08/2021 6:03:22 AM PDT by jdsteel ("A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it." Sorry Ben, looks like we blew it.)
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To: SMARTY

No kidding. Rick Steves will be disappointed.


16 posted on 09/08/2021 6:07:51 AM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Bookmark


17 posted on 09/08/2021 7:07:42 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What an interesting concept.


18 posted on 09/08/2021 7:21:00 AM PDT by bgill (.Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The horror, the horror.


19 posted on 09/08/2021 7:26:31 AM PDT by FrankRizzo890
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Perfect example of why ‘Democratic Socialism’ will FAIL in any country with a significant minority population.

Denmark and the rest of Scandenavia did just fine with the Democrat Socialism when they were lily-white, but that was ONLY due to social pressure. Deadbeats simply weren’t tolerated.

But they’re still trying it with other groups, and to those groups, people who work are sellouts and ‘acting white’. Plus, as they note, women from most Muslim cultures simply are not permitted work, even if they want to.


20 posted on 09/08/2021 7:47:29 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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