(February 11, 2017 at 5:23 pm)Redoubtable Wrote: Merkel screwed up.
One of the major problems with what she did was that she's accepting all of these refugees/migrants under the pretense that the pressure on Germany will be relieved when other EU nations accept their share of these people. The problem is, with freedom of movement, these people aren't going to stay in Hungary or Greece, or Poland. At the first opportunity they will ditch what they deem the unsatisfactory countries they are placed in and try to get into Germany or other EU countries with better opportunities.
And the question must seriously be asked: how can you expect hundreds of thousands of people with no education, no specialized skills, and no adequate level of literacy or fluency in their host nation's language to be integrated in a way that they can contribute and not be a drain on their new country? For crying out loud, the Greek unemployment rate is still over 20%, how in the hell are they supposed to accept and support any refugees/migrants whatsoever if their own people can't find work?
It seems there hasn't been a smart German since 1945.
