{"id":4240,"date":"2012-10-09T15:47:03","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T20:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=4240"},"modified":"2012-10-09T15:47:03","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T20:47:03","slug":"dutch-government-goes-apeshit-over-benefit-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2012\/10\/09\/dutch-government-goes-apeshit-over-benefit-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch government goes apeshit over benefit fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nIf you get any money from the Dutch government in the form of social benefits of any kind, they&#8217;ll now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.24oranges.nl\/2012\/10\/09\/two-strikes-and-the-government-will-make-you-homeless\/\">reserve the right to come in your house to search it for fraud<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nWhile everybody has been distracted by other news, the Dutch Senate quietly passed two laws that allow the government to enter into people\u2019s homes on suspicion on fraud without having a shred of proof. The second law states that anybody caught committing fraud for the second time will see their entire income automagically disappear for five whole years.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnybody on benefits of any kind is \u2018at risk\u2019 of having a pencil pusher at their door at any time now. As well, anybody who receives money in the form of a government allocation (kids, housing, etc.) is also a candidate for a pencil pusher\u2019s visit. Old people and parents are not amused.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s something that has been slowly creeping into the &#8220;debate&#8221; over social benefits here, the incessant need to be able to check up to see if somewhere, someone is cheating the taxpayer and nothing is sacred to make sure this doesn&#8217;t happen. And if you do &#8220;cheat&#8221;, you deserve to die in poverty.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBut let&#8217;s not do anything about those poor bankers who made millions through losing billions, legally and illegally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you get any money from the Dutch government in the form of social benefits of any kind, they&#8217;ll now reserve the right to come in your house to search it for fraud: While everybody has been distracted by other news, the Dutch Senate quietly passed two laws that allow the government to enter into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dutch-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4241,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240\/revisions\/4241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}