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Europe
Merkel defends refugee policy amid discontent
2015-10-14
[AA.TR] German Chancellor Angela Merkel
...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom...
 has defended her open-door policy for refugees, highlighting the fact that Germany is capable of managing the refugee influx without imposing any new taxes or tax hikes.

A record 577,000 asylum seekers came to Germany between January and September; German authorities are expecting to receive around one million asylum seekers this year.
How exactly do you house and feed one million people at once? Let alone keeping them sufficiently occupied so that they don't cause trouble. And the million plan to send for their families at the very first opportunity so one million becomes five...
State and local governments own a good chunk of Germany's housing stock. Easy enough to evict the current tenants in favour of the newcomers -- and beautifully symbolic as well. The first round of notices has already been reported. And of course there are public buildings to fill with cots, and vacant, previously privately owned buildings to be confiscated in this moment of national crisis... The Germans are proud of their reputation as a problem-solving people.
Despite growing public discontent and dissent among the ranks of her own coalition government, Merkel defended her policy and said that she was also carrying out intense diplomacy with European partners to find a solution to the crisis.

"Germany is a country of humanity and rule of law. We have to be proud of that," Merkel said in an interview with Bild newspaper published Monday.

She defended her decision last month to open Germany's borders for refugees that escaped war in Syria and Iraq, and also underlined that Germany could not solve the crisis alone. She urged other EU member states to accept more refugees.

"It can only be solved with solidarity among the European partners. All the [countries in] Europe should do utmost for securing the external borders of the EU and at the same time distribute the refugees among the member states in a fair way," she said.

Merkel said that she understood the worries of some Germans about the record number of refugees seeking shelter in Germany, but highlighted that German authorities were capable of managing the situation without any need for new taxes.

"We should be pleased that for many years we have had a good economic performance and our economic situation is good," she said.
Posted by:Fred

#1  Refugees or National Defense. What to spend money on? Ask the East German Communist indoctrinated leadership. We have basically the same problem here.

To the last, I will grapple with thee... from Hell's heart, I stab at thee For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee!

They never give up even in the face of their utter historical failures and want to drag everyone down with them.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-10-14 07:53  

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