The welfare state is an amazing spectacle of the phony
Yes and No
There are those with a dozen children only 2 their own who get paid for the other 10 they took on their marriage booklet I hear say
so officially they have 12 and the state has the money to pay them but not to control them
There is this child surviving for like 3 years in a flemish hospital because in Algeria it would have died 3 years ago I seem to remember TV reported
There is all those immigrants who refuse to take off their headdresses but whose husband or friend or brother are driving second hand Mercedes Benz or lately second hand Beemers and who buy houses without bathroom and central heating no flemish want and renovate them with all their family which is probably on social assistance paid because they do not find work whilst doubling the value of their house
This is all hearsay of course
But then there is those Flemish infirms whose city budget has been reduced to give more money for youth houses for the immigrants
In all fairness and not to be accused of immigrant bias I have to say that I know quiet some Flemish who are gaming the system too
The real loosers are those like my wife that suffer from Fibromialgy which disease is NOT recognised and others which are really too ill but have a problem that is not recognised by normal medicine.
We have people living and dying in the streets of Brussels because they are too marginal to understand and use the system
They sleep in the streets and die in the streets
They are paid infirmity or social security meaning they are unable to work or unable to find work ....