MacGuffin
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Yeah, I'm also against certain things. Like rain for instance. Also I hate when the air is really humid. And please spare me temperatures above 25? C... surely there must be a way to prevent that kind of annoyances.
Sorry for the sarcasm but you clearly seem to fail to recognize that the theoretical construct of EU rules has been defeated by reality.
Of course there have solutions to be found to deal with the situation and it's most important to limit the number of refugees coming to Europe. But that's only possible if you eliminate the factors that made them come here. And those factors cannot be eliminated quickly, it needs time. Time of which already too much was wasted due to inactivity and indifference in European politics.
Objective fact is now that they are coming. In masses. And that we have to deal with them in one way or another. They won't go away simply because we wish them to. Of course there are individuals among them who try to cheat their way into our societies. Black sheep are everywhere. I know many Germans for instance who take money from the state but go moonlighting to raise their income a bit. For every misdeed foreigners might do, locals have done the same thing ten times over...
A close friend of mine works as a police woman and she confirms that certain young refugees make a lot of problems, also because they have lost all respect for authorities. But she also says that they are a minority and that the vast majority of them are peaceful and frankly too exhausted and demoralized to make any trouble. And just because there might be a few foul apples and oranges, you cannot throw away the whole container with fruit...
The main challenge now is to accelerate the bureaucracy in order to make the operations and the regstistration faster. What we need, is a "refugee infrastructure" and it is being made on the fly right now. Politicians are currently trying to get ahead of the wave of refugees in order to act again instead of only reacting. Things will eventually sort themselves out and the necessary structures will be put in place.
Meanwhile -- if you can't be bothered to get actively involved in helping with the situation like many other voluntaries -- lean back and relax. No need to break out into agonal respiration about it. This is not the downfall of the occident. On the contrary: If we handle it clever enough, we can even take profit from it.
Sorry for the sarcasm but you clearly seem to fail to recognize that the theoretical construct of EU rules has been defeated by reality.
Of course there have solutions to be found to deal with the situation and it's most important to limit the number of refugees coming to Europe. But that's only possible if you eliminate the factors that made them come here. And those factors cannot be eliminated quickly, it needs time. Time of which already too much was wasted due to inactivity and indifference in European politics.
Objective fact is now that they are coming. In masses. And that we have to deal with them in one way or another. They won't go away simply because we wish them to. Of course there are individuals among them who try to cheat their way into our societies. Black sheep are everywhere. I know many Germans for instance who take money from the state but go moonlighting to raise their income a bit. For every misdeed foreigners might do, locals have done the same thing ten times over...
A close friend of mine works as a police woman and she confirms that certain young refugees make a lot of problems, also because they have lost all respect for authorities. But she also says that they are a minority and that the vast majority of them are peaceful and frankly too exhausted and demoralized to make any trouble. And just because there might be a few foul apples and oranges, you cannot throw away the whole container with fruit...
The main challenge now is to accelerate the bureaucracy in order to make the operations and the regstistration faster. What we need, is a "refugee infrastructure" and it is being made on the fly right now. Politicians are currently trying to get ahead of the wave of refugees in order to act again instead of only reacting. Things will eventually sort themselves out and the necessary structures will be put in place.
Meanwhile -- if you can't be bothered to get actively involved in helping with the situation like many other voluntaries -- lean back and relax. No need to break out into agonal respiration about it. This is not the downfall of the occident. On the contrary: If we handle it clever enough, we can even take profit from it.
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