Listening to NPR this morning, the topic was the flood of
Syrian economic “refugees” (people who
won’t fight for their own freedom and, instead, move to some other country to sponge off
of that nation) attempting to enter western Europe, in general, and England and
Germany in particular. Lest my
definition seem unduly harsh, NPR has been full of interviews where the “plight”
of the refugees has been reported.
Repeatedly, I hear the complaint that “We are stuck here when we had
expected to be in Germany (or Britain) by now where my wife could have had her
baby without us paying for it, and we would have housing and an ‘allowance.’”
At this juncture, most are being stopped at the Hungarian
border as Hungary attempts to protect its sovereignty. (My guess is that Hungary has a legitimate
fear that if it lets them in, they will be stuck with these people when the
rest of Europe says “Enough is enough.”
In a blurb for later programming, I caught a remark by some European
commentator complaining that the US is not taking its “share” of these people.
That is an interesting comment, coming as it does in the
year that we remember the 70th anniversary of VE day. For the last 70 years, we have spent blood
and treasure to keep Europe free and to allow it to develop. We funded the
Marshall Plan. We have spent huge percentages of our GDP to maintain troops in
Europe, while the Europeans invested in developing their economies.
Recently, we have been inundated by economic “refugees” from Central and South America who are illegally
entering our country. I have not heard a
single offer from Europe to take these deadbeats off our hands. It is time for Europe to man up and solve its
own problems without foisting them off on us.
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