Whatever happened to the Germany refugee crisis?

[Harmonica]

They’re looking for a final solution to the refugee problem.

Glad to hear it.

Rumor has it that Germans are good at implementing final solutions.

 

[TheGreatA]

They adopted a tougher stance on immigration.

 

[Stoic1]

Germans won't talk about it in public but they do talk about it.

The change in German culture is apparent to all. The immigrants aren't assimilating. Crime and terrorism exploded (no pun intended).

 

[hitcher]

The refugees assimilated and everyone is fine. Germany actually needs more immigrants now to alleivate their aging population.

that is some fine trolling

 

[uppercutbus]

Those crime levels and unemployment rates show everyone needs more fighting age males from third world countries. Doctors and engineers.

 

[hitcher]

Theres not that much illegal immigration caused by "refugees" at the moment, but Germany has huge problems with the current amount of illegal immigrants and especially with the boys of 3rd/4th generation immigrants mostly being conservative muslims and not integrating / assimilating into the society.This leads to them mostly being leeches off society and being a tremendous burden on the social safety net. That is actually one of the problems that will in fact explode in the next 10 years if we do not act.

Edit: Here is an interview with Ahmet Toprak, a turkish Professor at a Germany university talking about one of the problems I mentioned, he also published a book about it if anyone is interested:
https://www.faz.net/2.1652/die-gruppe-der-jungen-maenner-ist-in-gefahr-16777414.html?premium

 

[Madmick]

Their economy has done really well lately. That’s all I know.

Yeah, about that measly "record" $14.7bn budget surplus...all it required was an increase in taxes while simultaneously neglecting infrastructure completely!

Angela Merkel’s government is coming under increasing pressure to spend some of its record budget surplus on tax cuts and investment in Germany’s ageing infrastructure.

Despite months of weakening economic growth, the German state had a surplus of €13.5bn (£11.6bn) of income over expenditure at the end of 2019, thanks to increased tax revenues and a low interest rate.

On Tuesday a banner headline in the Bild newspaper read “Chancellor, Hand Out the Money!” summing up the mounting cries by economists, commentators and lobbyists for the government to abandon its obsession with balancing the books – known colloquially as the Schwarze Null or black zero – and to use the money to invest in much-needed infrastructure projects across the country, as well as to reduce income tax levels.

The government on Tuesday signed a multibillion investment deal with the national rail network, Deutsche Bahn, to which the government will contribute €62bn, and the company €24bn.

But critics said much of the money, which was announced last year, would be insufficient to make up for years of neglect.

By comparison, the most recent projections of the costs of Britain’s High Speed 2 project are £88bn.

Across Germany, the strains of underinvestment in everything from school buildings to bridges, parks and town halls is growing increasingly visible. A lack of infrastructure in rural areas, including a failure to address digital technology, is contributing to economic decline and forcing people to move away.

In her almost 15 years in office, no Merkel government has ever reduced the tax bill. In 2007 the chancellor presided over a VAT rise of 3% to boost the ailing economy.

An editorial in Bild reminded Merkel how she had once promised to reform German tax laws and relieve the taxpayer but instead, in her 5,167 days in office had only ended up increasingly burdening them. The average tax rate – 19.7% when she came into office in 2005 – has risen to 23.2%.

 

[hitcher]

Yeah, about that measly "record" $14.7bn budget surplus...all it required was an increase in taxes while simultaneously neglecting infrastructure completely!

Additionally, much of the surplus come from negative interest rates for German bonds.

To be fair, the school and infrastructure problems do not concern all Cities/ counties, as some are actually very well equipped. Apart from that the above is spot on.

I do not think that Merkels Government will be viewed positively in retrospect due to a number of reasons, some of which are stated in the report you quoted. She further has not done anything to address the demographic change and corresponding growing problems of the welfare state Germany has become. How are we going to support the high burden of pensions when a big part of the current workforce will collect their pension? How are we supposed to support all the immigrants (new and old ones) when the taxes and social security costs are already among the highest in the world?

 

[lifelessheap]

Two options. They accept their planned genocide, or they go Hitler 2.0

Time will tell.

 

[nac386]

LifelessHeap might have just killed this thread by jumping right over the crazy line instead of tip-toeing around it.

 

[j123]

Glad to hear it.

Rumor has it that Germans are good at implementing final solutions.

If there are multiple finals, is it really a "final solution"?

 

[Wadtucket]

It became the new normal as in most other Western European countries where there are parallel societies emerging, with no-go zones, segregated schools, ethnic political parties, etc

 

[Post 2 Decision]

Not a big sweets guy, but I'd say German chocolate cake is an underrated cake.

It's not actually German though

There was a chocolate maker in America whose last name was 'German'

 

[Roaming East]

when i visit the inlaws in Dresden, that place is whiter than a Klan convention. all the mooslims must be in Berlin or Frankfurt or something....