Quote Originally Posted by Fragony View Post
All EU countries closing their borders because Germany is expecting 3.6 million migrants at about 2020. That plum workhorse expects others to fix it for her but nobody wants to, and is going to, what you see there on that map is countries that are back to controlling their borders, these millions are just about all on the shoulders of the Germans, who can't house them, can't provide anything but basic needs, and most of all can't provide them with any prospects. Promises have been made that can't reasonably be kept and nobody is going to like that. I assume you mean well, so do I, what kind of life are these people going to have? They would be better off in the place they came from, get away for a while where it's safe and go back and rebuild.
This is not entirely wrong what you say here. Given that people are housed in sports places and other housing that was barely scraped together, it is not entirely unreasonable to say that without a major effort and investment, we cannot take many more people without having them freeze in the cold in winter. Not to forget that housing prices and rent were going up due to scarcity even before all these people came, definitely an issue the government needs to address. What we could do is look for the companies and investors who wanted more influx of workers or have in the past released German workers to hire immigrants in unusually large numbers (yes, this actually does happen sometimes) and then we could just have the government levy and extra-tax from them to have a lot of housing built. You want something, you pay for it. It's just too bad that most of their money is probably stowed away in tax-havens.