Comments by "Lynott Parris" (@DenUitvreter) on "OBF"
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The Dutch population isn't growing, the number of foreign settlers is growing with about 300k every year. So demand isn't adressed, it's out of control. Stop allowing people in for one year and the shortage would be solved.
Government didn't ask universities to stop taking foreign students, they asked them to stop actively acquistioning them. It's out of control too because refuses to take control of it's universities and for example use those to educate the Dutch well and not ruining student culture, the Dutch language and general education levels.
The farmland is not the government's property, and the idea that you can just allocate that land to yoga studio's, housing of expat ICT workers or refugees on welfare is in denial of the fact in an economy the secondary, tertiary and quarternary sector sit upon the primary sector.
Housing is also private, even social housing is property of private non profit associations. But goverment has appropriated those to house 'refugees', not from the wars in Germany, Belgium or even Ukraine, but people who crossed several safe countries to get such a house, by letting the surpass the waiting lists of between 8 and 23 years.
It's not that agriculture shouldn't change, but the Dutch government is taking land, housing and education from the Dutch to give it to foreigners, abusing the welcoming and tolerant nature of the Dutch and demanding them to work harder to accomodate them. If you are a teacher, your job becomes much harder with every child who is not a native speaker.
So the problem is much more fundamental. Dutch government is breaking the social contract, the foundation beneath democracy, the Dutch declared in 1581 that government should serve it's people and fought an 80-year war for that. Now this government is serving people from all around the world and serving many corporata interests, but not the Dutch.
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Europe isn't well designed, no one designed Europe. The EU has been useless, there are few good international routes but travelling by train is generally unnecesseraly time consuming and far too much hassle while far more expensive than flying. The EU is a globalist organization and therefore gives air travel a free pass instinctively while it has failed to do anything to harmonize continental train travel so it actually works continental. Free travel within the EU is no more either.
Cycling as a serious transpart option is mostly Dutch, Flemish and Danish, and the EU has done absolutely nothing to not get in the way of it, by it's control freaks moaning about helmets. They have poisoned many cyclists by encouriging diesels for a small CO2 gain and then letting the car manufacturers fraud the emission checks. Not to mention the underpaid and overworked Eastern European truck drivers that because of the EU can use their local drivers licence to run of over cyclists in the Netherlands. But all the cars have a mandatory blue EU flag on their licence plate. Stable and comparable gas prices to keep the EU mobile was a bit too much to ask from the EU too.
Sometimes some infrastructure project is subsidized by the EU, adding 30% overhead cost while it's money that is taken from the country itself, as the EU has no money of it's own. Cyclists have not been part of any EU safety regulation for cars and it has allowed passenger safety to come at the expense of cyclists. As a Dutch cyclist, train user and occasional car driver, there's absolutely nothing I have to thank the EU for, on the contrary.
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