Borgerhout is a district of the municipality and city of Antwerp in the Flemish Region of Belgium. The district houses 41,614 inhabitants (as of 31 May2006) reflecting 90 nationalities. It is divided in two by three adjoining traffic arteries (the Ring highway, the Singel boulevard, and the main railway Brussels-Amsterdam). Local government areas called districts are used, or have been used, in several countries. ... A municipality is an administrative entity composed of a clearly defined territory and its population and commonly referring to a city, town, or village, or a small grouping of them. ... For other uses, see Antwerp (disambiguation). ... The Flemish region is one of the three official regions of the Kingdom of Belgium (alongside the Walloon Region and the Brussels-Capital Region). ... is the 151st day of the year (152nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
For every five inhabitants in Borgerhout, one is dependant on state benefits to get a minimum income (which is even below the unemployment benefits).
Confronted with this situation the policy of the city council is to copy the rhetoric of the neo-fascist Vlaams Blok, the biggest party in Antwerp with 33% of the vote.
This is clearly an attempt to blame one group of victims of the present system, something that does not offer a future to the many people suffering problems caused by that system.
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