The American Interest via Instapundit: Chancellor Faymann may just be acting politically to defend a policy that polls well, rather than having had a moral epiphany. But his comment cuts to the heart of the moral and intellectual hypocrisy of the “Refugees Welcome” policy: the pro-refugee factions, which see themselves as humanitarian paragons, have nonetheless managed to devise a program which in reality boils down to “if you survive the trip here, you’re welcome to stay.” . . .
If you don’t want to use ships and ferries, then feel free to fly the refugees. A direct, one-way plane ticket from Istanbul to Berlin this Friday can be found for as little as $44. People smugglers, on the other hand, will charge between $800–$1300 (and up) for a seat on a rubber raft from Turkey to Greece. Then there’s the $335-435 charge to get between certain countries in the Balkans and southern Europe. And at each leg, there’s a chance of death—by drowning, by suffocating in a truck.
So if it’s true that “refugees welcome”, why not just let them fly? Because an increasingly restive German public would go ballistic—but also because even the supporters of Angela Merkel’s policies know that Germany does not have the means to house and feed, much less employ and integrate, the numbers that would then come. Yet until recently, speaking of restrictionism was taboo among the German and European elite; even now, movement toward embracing deterrence—toward sending real signals that the journey north won’t be worth it and so not to come—progresses only slowly and haltingly in Berlin and Brussels.
Right now, a series of do-gooder decisions have turned the journey from Syria and Africa to northern Europe into the Hunger Games. Is that really what moral policy looks like?
Instapundit: Virtue-signaling is never about real world consequences. And the more people virtue-signal, the less virtuous they tend to be.
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In some venues, this is known as polishing one's halo.
And it's as sleazy as it sounds.
The same goes for our own "refugees," the tens of thousands of children and "children" who suddenly, "unexpectedly," show up all at once at the border. Our government and the governments of their home nations and the nations that they passed through (esp. Mex) surely conspired to allow this to happen. There is evidence that our government knew this would "unexpectedly" happen and was staffing up in preparation. There is evidence that Mexico, out of character, allowed them through with minimal checking and provided boxcars for them to transect through Mexico to the U.S. There is evidence that officials in central (and south) American knew this would happen, took steps to ensure that it would happen, were racially/ethnically triumphant about their reconquista notions of flooding America with la raza. Moving people around like chess pieces for political gain is disgusting. Painless moral preening at someone else's expense is vile. You can be concerned about the plight of people in other countries, and suggest/develop policies to assist them, without inviting them over for life. Most Mexican and Central American people that I have met don't really want to be here. They'd rather be living in their own countries. But they can't because those governments, through socialist greed and mismanagement, have rendered their economies moribund and their streets dangerous. The "refugees welcome" policy only excuses those nations and allows those unsuccessful policies to continue. There's a reason for that: Liberal Fascism with a Smile (shit-eating grin). It's self-perpetuating.
Same goes for the Persian kids who flooded my junior high and, later, high school, back in the late 1970s-early 1980s. They didn't want to live here. Their parents were rich enough to escape and now they were living in much reduced circumstances in a country where they barely spoke the language and had all kinds of unfamiliar aspects. Some of them fit in, some eventually fit in, but I bet a lot have either returned to Iran or joined the Discontented Horde of whinging America-haters. These are not your Father's refugees.
I read that some of the refugees in Germany decided they didn't like Germany and flew home. Hasta la vista, baby. I believe that's known as tourism. Sorry y'all had a bad vacation.
Refugees Welcome. Translation: Germans drop dead. Literally.
Re: Amartel's comment: It is harder and harder to deny that there is a NWO plan to bust nations, especially white western nations with strong cultural histories of individual autonomy, and create in their place mega or super-states ruling over slave populations. Sounds insane? Look at how successful (terrible but successful) the deliberate outsourcing of our industrial capacity has been at breaking the white working and middle classes, both economically and in terms of morale. Perfectly understandable that most shy away from conspiracy theories. But when the evidence piles up and up.....
Mass immigration into the U.S. has been going on for decades. Government tools (I refuse to call them "the elite") just stumbled on a way to make it work for them. That's hardly insane. In fact, it makes perfect sense.
We don't need to build a wall, we need to build an airport along the border with multiple non stop flights to Berlin. Catch and release illegals in the EU.
The population in the US is ageing and ageing fast. Social Security is a sustainable program only so as long as there are 3 or more workers actually employed and working for every Social Security recipient. In 2010, for the first time ever, the ratio dropped below 3 workers, to 2.9 workers for every recipient. It has continued to drop and in 2013 it was at 2.8 and it is believed to be at about 2.5 today. Here is the government's own data showing the dropping ratios over the decades.
The theory being applied is that by importing mass numbers of young able-bodied males they will seek out and take all those jobs out there that Americans just don't want to do, thereby swelling the ranks of the employed to, hopefully, over 3 workers per SS recipient.
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