Yep.
Just like the burden on the 80 million country Germany is comparitively laughable to the numbers that Jordan & Lebanon take in.
@Postironic
But then you have radicalised and violent extremists at home. I'm not advocating for any measure here btw, it's one of those situations where I really don't have an answer. A lot of drawbacks associated with every path you choose to go down.
Exactly what happened here in Europe as well (and is still happening). Of course, 95% those who now scream for "our poor homeless" are exactly those who never gave any shit about the homeless ever before, while those people and organisations now helping the refugees are exactly the same that were, and still are, trying to help the poor & homeless. The homeless argument is just a convinient pseudo-argument that makes them sound like caring people instead of the xenophobis egoists they are.
Exactly.
The bolded part is just....what?
And to the last part, what responsibility have the refugees for their situation? What responsibility do large parts of the Greek population have for the debt crisis? Was the BRD in the 50es wrong to pay reparations to the victims of Nazi Germany seeing as it used money from all its citizens, even those who fought against the NS? You fail to understand the basic principle on which a global system of nation states is founded.
Actually, the US doesn't give "a ton of foreign aid". It gives 0.19% of its gdp. Virtually of all western Europe is well above that, as is Japan, New Zealand, Canada, and Australia. So it's really among the very last among the developed nations. Although you can certainly criticize the principle of foreign aid in itself, there are some interesting studies about its efficiency, a lot of them rather negative.
Virtually all, maybe all of the terrorists have been second/third generations. If you're referring to the terrorist attacks, they've got next to nothing to do with the refugees.
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I'd say it's better than in most parts of the world (and it should be considering the economic wealth), but yeah, that statement is pretty laughable & arrogant