[The Express - Published: Sat, Oct 11, 2008] A controversial taxpayer-funded "job centre" opened in Mali this week is just the first step towards promoting "free movement of people in Africa and the EU".
Brussels economists claim Britain and other EU states will "need" 56 million immigrant workers between them by 2050 to make up for the "demographic decline" due to falling birth rates and rising death rates across Europe.
The report, by the EU statistical agency Eurostat, warns that vast numbers of migrants could be needed to meet the shortfall in two years if Europe is to have a hope of funding the pension and health needs of its growing elderly population.
It states: "Countries with low fertility rates could require a significant number of immigrants over the coming decades if they want to maintain the existing number of people of working age.
"Having sufficient people of working age is vital for the economy and for tax revenue."
The report, by French MEP Francoise Castex, calls for immigrants to be given legal rights and access to social welfare provision such as benefits.
Ms Castex said: "It is urgent that member states have a calm approach to immigration. To say 'yes', we need immigration ... it is not a new development, we must accept it." Appears to be long in the making and entirely self-inflicted. The current unrest is likely viewed by the ruling establishment as little more than growing pains.
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Strange, the big socialist government required walls to keep people in 1948-1990. Those were to keep the productive agents in the harnesses. BTW, those on welfare and dependent upon government to sustain them (non-productive) don't generate much in the way of taxes.
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what have the governments frittered away the taxes on? Those people paid tax while they worked. It should have been saved and invested for pensions.
If you try to prop up the elderly with immigrants all you get is a ponzi scheme + social unrest
and you need to build expensive infrastructure for all the new migrants... new hospitals, schools, roads, these things are not cheap
it is a zero-sum game, it is a stupid idea this idea of endless economic growth through immigration
old people use less resources because they are mostly happy to sit at home and watch TV then go out for the odd lawn bowls and bingo. Give them free public transport and a very low pension they will be happier than if you open the doors to millions of people who do not speak their language or share their culture
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The logic only holds if you assume a large government providing lots of social programs. These are expensive and require a large tax base to support.
The leftoids think immigrants will provide this tax base, but in a democracy that's a foolish assumption. At some point large numbers of immigrants might decide that supporting aging Europeans isn't what they want to do with their spare cash.
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Bat Ye'or rocks. Eurabia is painstakingly documented, more footnotes than text. I assigned it as reading in a seminar on the EU I taught several years ago, and challenged my libtard students to present evidence that her thesis is wrong.
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Oh my, RandomJD. 'Tis truthfully said the best teachers are not falsely kind. And you once described lawyers as being like wolf cubs, biting and snapping hard at one another without malice.
One hopes your students took home that lesson as well as the other.
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In an era when people confuse facts with opinions, and even most scholarship is sloppy, Bat Ye'or's exposure and indictment of one of the more ominous aspects of the "European project" is damning. The Islamization of Europe did not happen by accident, developing mainly through shady back-channel deals with Arab governments. But those deals are enshrined in opaque language in obscure agreements that are accessible to the determined scholar. The combination of outrage and patience it took to research and write Eurabia is very impressive.
As for my students, well, there's only so much damage you can undo in 4 weeks. I think the more strident Europhiles at least walked away feeling less certain that Europe's future would be all gum drops and puppy dogs and rainbows.
[The Guardian] Karen Jennings patted her heavily made up face, put on a sardonic smile and said she thought she looked good after all she'd been through.
"I was an alcoholic first. I got drunk and fell in the creek and broke my back. Then I got hooked on the painkillers," the 59-year-old grandmother said.
Over the years, Jennings' back healed but her addiction to powerful opioids remained. After the prescriptions dried up, she was drawn to the underground drug trade that defines eastern Kentucky today as coal, oil and timber once did.
Jennings spoke with startling frankness about her part in a plague gripping the isolated, fading towns dotting this part of Appalachia. Frontier communities steeped in the myth of self-reliance are now blighted by addiction to opioids -- "hillbilly heroin" to those who use them. It's a dependency bound up with economic despair and financed in part by the same welfare system that is staving off economic collapse across much of eastern Kentucky. It's a crisis that crosses generations.
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There are more poor whites than blacks in America. However, due to their race, they don't get the 'victim' card for the power game. Springer folk don't invoke sympathy for their self inflicted choices they make in life.
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I've done a fair amount of work in coal-mining country in WV, Eastern, KY and southern Virginia. Contrary to say a Detroit, the poverty in these areas is long-standing. In Detroit, good neighborhoods often become blighted because of increasing poverty in these areas.
Recently, I had occasion to visit relatives in northwest Ohio. Traveling through small towns, I was struck by the blight in many of these small towns. Industry has moved out. Manufacturing has gone to China or just ceased. Many of these small towns are dying whereas 50-60 years ago they were economically vigorous and self-sustaining. They supported most who lived in these towns. And yes, poor whites in this country far exceed the number of poor blacks.
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I have read that domestic meth manufacturing is doing just fine in those almost abandoned places. Maybe some of these places are better off as ghost towns. I have a beautiful Windows 10 theme featuring Bodie, California.
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Obama outlawing coal is the cause.
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Obama outlawing coal is part of the problem but it's hard for me to feel too sorry for people who are content to sit around drinking and taking dope all day.
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