Well done, Australia!

[abaris]

You know what doesn't help? Cutting foreign aid and at the same expecting no people coming to our shores. It's common sense actually if we're talking about failed states or third world countries of the worst kind. If there is no future to be had, people got nothing to lose and will try anything to escape the shithole they were born in. Everyone of us would too, if we are honest with ourselves.

So, out the window goes the dubble whammy of no foregin aid and closing off our shores some populous politicians want us to believe in.

Secondly, as for Australia, I wonder how many refugees they actually have to resort to something like that. I haven't got the numbers, though I'm sure they're in the public domain, but I do know that Amnesty, one of the few NGOs Iactually respect, paints a rather bleak picture of Australian treatment of refugees.

Third, closing of the shores of any given continent doesn't work. Unless you build a behemoth of a combined navy, with money that's needed elsewhere and can be put to much better use to improve living conditions. Also, you have to be ready to shoot at already helpless and hopeless people posing no other threat than seeking a better life. There are already thousands of deads washed to the shores of Greece and Italy, countries being at the frontlines, so to speak. Countries that get next to no support from the rest of Europe.

So no, I don't wish for Europe going down the same road. I don't wish for Europe to go even more populous and brainless in it's approach. Tons of money have already been wasted on useless fences on the borders, because there was a populous demand for them. I don't think, or at least hope, for a second that the ones responsible are stupid enough to think something like that actually works.