Posted on 01/29/2017 6:28:50 PM PST by Olog-hai
Wolfgang Schäuble, a veteran ally of Angela Merkel, has admitted the cabinet made “mistakes” during Germany’s large intake of refugees in 2015. He wants lower standardized EU welfare payments for asylum-seekers.
Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble told a citizens’ panel brought together the “Welt am Sonntag” newspaper that the situation “got out of control” when Germany kept open its border to 890,000 refugees, mostly people who had fled violence in the Middle East and trekked through the Balkans to reach Germany.
“We politicians are people and we also make mistakes,” said Schäuble, a former German interior minister, adding that “one can at least learn from mistakes.”
A Bavarian municipal employee, a finance executive of a family firm north of Frankfurt and a maritime turbine maker near Hamburg posed questions to Schäuble, who said all parties across Germany’s political spectrum needed to “draw the necessary consequences.” …
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And the walk-back begins in Germany, caused by their plummeting poll numbers and the increasing number of attacks...
"Mistakes were made." No one resigns, no one is investigated, no one is prosecuted.
And the dead don't say much. The ones who were raped can be counted on to keep quiet. Too embarrassing.
Mistakes; right. You allowed the swarm of invaders and didn’t even try to record them all. Some of you German government agents need jail or tar+feathers or ...
Not a mulligan.
“one can at least learn from mistakes.”
Sorry, buddy. It’s too late now.
People died, people were killed and assaulted by the Muslim invaders. German government officials starting with Merkel need to be tried and judged.
Mistrakes!?
Fehler? Dumbkopfs! Was werden Sie jetzt tun, über Ihre Fehler?
Well, yeah, it was a whopper, wasn’t it?
Mistakes were made...
What’s missing is, by whom? Have they resigned, and have the mistakes been fixed?
They are basically handcuffed into the corner. They have to spend via the EU....three billion Euro a year as “gift-money” to the Turkish government to hold back the rest of the group. On any given day....Erdogan could say enough....and let a million refugees go.
Every single silver bullet has been used in getting three billion Euro deal to occur via the 28 EU member states. Over half of the membership now has zero interest in taking any additional refugees and the political stance is going right-wing.
It’s amazing to sit and view this downfall....over a five-year period. Step by step, they dug themselves an enormous pit, and there is nowhere to turn at this point.
It was a “mistake” anyone with a room temperature IQ would not have made. So what is Germany’s real intent?
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