http://www.siotw.org/modules/news_english/item.php?itemid=1135OSLO. Either the Norwegian Government has to stop the massive influx of immigrants from the Third World – or the Norwegians will have to forget a future functioning welfare state. You just have to choose what you want, writes two Norwegian journalists in a notable debate article.
“To maintain the current level of immigration in the coming decades while maintaining a generous welfare state today is not a realistic goal,” writes Hege Storhaug and Rita Karlsen, on NRK.no.
The authors, who represent the Human Rights Service (HRS), suggest that the overseas migration has been a blank lottery ticket for Norwegian taxpayers.
“Despite the fact that immigrant households have few people in retirement, they had still a deficit in the tax and benefit system, that is, they consume more welfare services than they pay in taxes. Households with Norwegian background, however, had a small surplus, “writes Storhaug and Karlsen and refers to new statistics from the HRS.
According to the latest projections of population growth from the Norwegian Central Statistical Office (SSB), the Norwegians will be a minority in their own country within 30 years. In Oslo, where the Norwegians will be a minority of only 15 years, the liver is already more than half of the non-European immigrants on welfare.
And as fewer and fewer Norwegians want to support more and more immigrants there will be no easy system to sustain any meaningful welfare system with basic social security, warns Storhaug and Karlsen, in spite of oil revenues.
“As citizens, we should be able to expect that all politicians are kept a check on the national welfare accounts and had future generations in mind when policy is made in the coming years,” concluded the writers.