Golden Dawn Showered by Raids

[PanzerJaeger]

That my expression of sympathy and understanding for the Greeks enduring the uncontrolled influx of welfare immigrants resulted not only in the usual, thoughtless cries of racism, but also an entire sidebar of conjecture about what could possibly motivate me to feel that way, including suggested Nazi sympathies, shows just how detached this forum is from what is going on in Greece and many parts of Europe.

Fragony is correct; fault ultimately lies with a political/intellectual class that has succumbed to the idea that anything short of an open door policy is tantamount to racism and inhumanity. These are indeed the same people who are the most insulated from the results of such a policy. But placing blame solely at the feet of the political class removes any fault from the immigrant himself; conforming to the idealized notion of the immigrant that passes as reality among the middle and upper classes who have little day to day dealings with them.

Yes, Strike, I am a first generation immigrant to the United States, which gives me a unique perspective on the subject. My family and I came to the US to become Americans, not Germans living in America. We created a successful business and through it contributed to our community in the way of created jobs and taxes paid and even contributed just a little bit to the GDP; we did not come to this country to take advantage of a generous welfare system. In my relatively young 26 year life, I've already paid a significant sum to the government; I've never collected a check. We have made every effort to become American and conform to the cultural norms of our new country. My parents disallowed Deutsch spoken in our home; and while it certainly was not easy to fit into the culture of the American South, I made every effort to understand America - its history, its political structure, its economy, and its culture - better than the Americans around me. We did not seek out other Germans and attempt to build a nation within a nation off the largesse of a bloated welfare system and a paralyzed host population.

Welfare immigrants are the scum of the earth. The come to take, and leave when there's nothing left. In contrast to the popular notion, they do not strengthen a nation, they drain it of its resources and destroy labor markets. We endure a similar situation in America, although certainly not on the same level as what has occurred in Europe. Mexicans come to this nation to send American dollars back to Mexico and now demand that we change our laws to accommodate their desire to be fully accepted into the welfare system. They have become so numerous that it is now infeasible to deport them; thus some form of amnesty is the only realistic option. And yet, in the depths of the recession, when our nation was on its knees, many of those mexicans simply packed up and went back home because the US was no longer a teet worth sucking. The whole situation is disgusting to those of us who went through the arduous citizenship process. Germany is a wonderful country, but the United States is my home - not my current transitory benefit check provider. I'll be here through the good times and the bad.

Any sensible immigration policy would limit entry to those who could reasonably be perceived as a providing a net benefit to the nation in question; however, the short term benefit for those proponents of socialism to import dependent votes is more than enough to ignore the long term impact such a policy will have. There is a reason that Golden Dawn receives its largest share of votes from neighborhoods that have been filled with third world immigrants living off of the government dole. It could very well be that all those Greeks are secret Nazis longing for the heady days of German occupation (), but maybe, just maybe, they are reacting rationally to the reality around them.