Re: Fwd: Study: Germany needs 260,000 immigrants a year to meet labor demand _News Deutsche Welle 12.02.2019

Thanks.  There are clearly all sorts of angles to this, and I look forward
to learning more.  Clearly, as women get more education (among other
reasons) they're having fewer children, and that has its own benefits.  And
to my mind, immigration is a net positive.  But, much to learn

Dan

On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 3:47 PM Lampros Kallenos <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I have read since many years ago that a solution to the dropping birth
> rates of Europe, not only Germany, could very well be a generous policy
> for the increase of births. Say, 20000 euros to every woman who bears a
> third child. Soon, the country will need more teachers, more schools to
> be built, more houses for the young. More taxes will start to flow.
>
> The very policy for increasing births will imply a collective, national
> point of view. Also, it will mean that we do this because economy and
> society is something you can and must influence. This point of view will
> benefit social movenments. And I mean movenments about labour, not about
> personal problems, real or perceived.
>
> Instead, the powers leading the Western part of the world choose another
> solution. They choose to import immigrants from other countries. From
> their point of view, this presented some advantages. Immigrants will be
> payed less, unless ...they have a visa. Immigrants will be payed less,
> pressed and controled more because they so happen to be more dark
> colored or Muslim that the usual.
>
> Further, societies will be divided in mutually exclusive islands of
> various cultures. Many more loosely grounded cultures will be encouraged
> to flourish. No common identity will be promoted. The very concept of a
> national state will become a target. Instead of social problems, they
> choose to promote personal problems about sex, gender...
>
> With no common identity and perspective, with concerns about personal
> matters promoted to the extreme, indeed with a personal point of view
> raised to an absolute criterion, social movenments will sink. Also, the
> national state will be undermined, and the powers of the market will
> even more happily pursue the goal of globalisation.
>
> Still further, with this policy the more active or radical persons from
> "the third world" will not benefit their country with their actions.
> Rather, they will abandon their countries and become immigrants. People
> of these countries will be encouraged to think that the solution is
> immigration. Not a collective, political action in their country.
>
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> Lampros F. Kallenos
> Idalion, Lefkosia
> Kypros
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