Saturday, September 5, 2015

EU Refugee Crisis

Refugees from various Mid East and North African disaster areas (Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya ) are pouring into the EU.  No EU country wants to accept any of them.  Nobody in the EU has the stones to deport them back to where they came from.  We are seeing horrendous pictures of dead and dying refugees, little kids dead on beaches, refugees clinging to train track, refridgerator trucks abandoned with the back of the truck full of dead refugees.
  It's a EU problem but we in the US caused the messes in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya.  And we shirked our responsibility in the case of Syria. 
   None of the Arab Gulf states (Saudi, Qatar, Emirates) wants anything to do with this Muslim, Arabic speaking crowd of refugees. 
   What the EU ought to do, is  take these people in, find them jobs, find them housing, and settle them down.  But the EU cannot find jobs for their existing citizens.  They are running 10% unemployment overall, with pest holes like Greece and Spain running better than 20%.   Any refugees let into an EU country just go on the welfare rolls, which are so big as to crush the EU economy.
   If we could clean up the source countries (Syria Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya) most of the refugees would happily go home.  We had a chance to do just that, not very long ago, but we pulled out and let those countries sink. 

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