nimh...
Quote:Not much, granted. But next time you assert and insist that immigrants are nothing but an economic drain who bleed our countries dry financially, I'll hopefully remember to remind you of this post.
Now you're becoming hysterical with paranoia. I have not once broached the subject of the economic benefits or otherwise of 40-years of Third World immigration into Western societies.
But I will right now venture to say that in terms of the economic benefit to Western nations the immigrant floods of the past 4 decades will be noted in the history books as an unmitigated disaster.
Walter will tell you that where once his country invited guestworkers to come in from Turkey to do a few years in the factories before returning home - the actual reality has turned into something of a self-defeating social and economic disaster.
Firstly, the Turks refused to go home - and so successive gutless leftwing German governments in their infinite stupidity decided not to insist that these visa-holding foreigners return home.
Secondly, (much to the consternation of government official) - everey last one of these Turkish immigrants were found to be sending a huge percentage of their earnings out of the country and straight into the national economy of Turkey in the form of remittances to their families... and to pay for home morgages in Turkey which they were servicing from their German wages.
Thirdly, these immigrants insisted on a mass-invasion of family-reunions - further adding an increased burden upon Germany's welfare system.
Fourthly, the boom years of 'The Economic Miracle' have collapsed into a heap as industry has been shifted out to cheaper labour markets in such countries as China and Mexico... with the result that Germany is now lumbered with a huge pool of unemployed who consist mostly of those very same immigrant Turks who once refused to go home.
Fifthly, crime from those of Muslim background is in plague proportion across the nation.
And then there is bitter resentment amongst native Germans that their immigrant population is simply not integrated or assimilating into the broader community. Turkish colonialism is rife across the German nation.