After reading, and seeing confirmed, that Paul Ryan (candidate for US Speaker of the House) is an open borders advocate, this poem by Berthold Brecht pretty much says it all (emphasis mine)
After the uprising of the 17th of June
The Secretary of the Writers’ Union
Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee
Stating that the people
Had forfeited the confidence of the government
And could win it back only
By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?
(H/T: The Daily Brief) The Brits have already tried this – and are declaring it a failure as they are losing their country. We see this in Europe – and my jaw dropped when Germany’s Prime Minister, Angela Merkel, openly embraced the open borders immigration for her country with the Muslim invasion now hitting Europe with words “It will change Germany”. Of COURSE
it will change Germany – forever. As well as the other EU countries – and they now know that the pie-in-the-sky-high-Socialist-value policy that permitted this is now having really bad effects. Alfter all, we are now seeing that Milton Friedman’s words:
“It is one thing to have free immigration to jobs. It is another to have free immigration to welfare. And you cannot have both.”
…are proving to have been prescient for those smaller EU States that are the “entry points” for this invasion just cannot accept and pay for 10s or 100s of thousands of mostly illiterate and ill prepared “better economic life” migrants. Bernie Sanders points to the “wonderful” economic policies of the EU yet if you really examine the metrics, you will see that their economic freedoms are decreasing, labor laws are stultifying, stagnation has set in, and unemployment is institutionally high and unchanging (especially for the youth). HOW are they going to absorb these migrants into economies that can’t even absorb their own native populations?
Sidebar: and yet our Democrats believe this is all economic goodness as they hurry ??
And with 94.6 million American under-or unemployed and a 64% labor participation rate, why do we want to implement more policies that will make it WORSE? And here are some words from the Hungarian Prime Minister – one of those smaller countries – on this invasion which Democrats (and some Republicans) want to implement on our Southern border (emphasis mine):
In a blistering speech at European People’s Party conference in Madrid, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban drew applause at the expense of Angela Merkel as he called for a new approach to the migrant crisis in Europe—one not buttressed by unrealistic idealism and politically correct bromides.
“We are in deep trouble”, Orban intoned. “This is an uncontrolled and unregulated process. We did not get authorisation from [our citizens] for millions to walk into our continent.” He accused left-leaning parties of “importing future leftist voters to Europe” while trying to “hide it behind humanism.”
And spot on with his next observation:
“The German, Hungarian or Austrian way of life is not a basic right of all people on earth,” he continued. “It is only a right for those people who have contributed to it.”
Yet, we see communitarians very much saying that it is a right – and ignore the cultural differences that both created such environments and the differences that have kept those other societies from developing them.
Orban is a genuinely unsavory character, who has taken advantage of the migrant crisis to give his government quasi-fascist police powers in Hungary. But he is also speaking eminently good sense when he points out that immigration and refugee rights cannot be as unlimited as the EU has promised by law. Orban’s good sense on that point has been making a lot of the bien pensants in the corridors of Brussels and Berlin uncomfortable—as well it should. What does it say about your policies when it takes a figure like Orban to finally acknowledge that the Emperor is naked?
(H/T: American Interest via Instapundit)
