Posted on 04/07/2017 9:57:15 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A new study shows how Germans are still for welcoming in refugees in principle, but at the same time feel like their country can’t cope with more arrivals.
A large majority of Germans still say that immigrants and refugees are “welcome or very welcome” in their country after the country took in over a million asylum seekers in two years, the report by the Bertelsmann Foundation found. […]
But despite the fact that a majority of Germans said refugees are welcome in their country, a majority also felt the country had reached its limit in terms of taking in more asylum seekers.
While in 2015, 40 percent of respondents told the study that Germany had reached the point where it could take in no more refugees, in 2017 this proportion had risen to 54 percent.
“The willingness of Germans to take in more refugees has dropped significantly,” the report observed. …
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This would be awesome, if someone cared what German people think.
What?
Where is their humanity?
I think there’s still some gästezimmers left at the houses of government officials that supported all the previous refugees coming in.
In other words, "Let's dump them on Poland."
"WHO WON THE BLOODY WAR, ANYWAY?"
Assumed the translation - and learned of what is likely a great movie - thanks!
Instead we have moral posturing and tearful statements of principle, insistence that they press on with this policy regardless of cost because by golly, it's the right thing to do. A policy maker who declines feedback and has no backout plan is a fool.
My point in that discussion was that the problem is not restricted to the EU, it is what brought Trump into office. (Does anyone pretend that men in women's bathrooms would survive a popular vote anywhere in the country?) The Era Of Big Government morphed into the Era Of Deaf, Arrogant, and Stupid Government precisely as predicted, and getting rid of it is proving to be a long, dirty fight.
"The Boat is Full" is a Swiss movie about how Switzerland gave no thought to saving any Jews during the war. In the opening scene, a fireman on a Swiss steam locomotive throws a screaming Jewish refugee into the locomotive's firebox to feed the steam pressure.
"The Boat" is a five hour German TV epic about a U-boat captain and his crew. It was cut drastically for theatrical release, but I caught the five hour version on pay cable about a decade ago. It's well worth the time to view it.
In other words, we’d prefer that no new ticking time bombs enter our country. But the ticking time bombs that are already here can stay. And they are free to produce more ticking time bombs.
Doesn’t seem like a good long-term strategy to me.
Anyone who calls the EU “irreplaceable” is a socialist. That construct always was imperialistic, first mentioning “ever closer union” and “respect for the principles of the United Nations Charter” (which is based on the 1936 USSR constitution) in the 1957 Treaty of Rome. It in fact has been the cause of conflict many times, especially in the Balkans; and it is consistently anti-Israel and pro-”Palestinian” (the EU has been caught building illegally in Area C), which indicates it has designs on that area of the world in particular.
They better get rid of Merkel or she’ll enslave and kill them all.
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