Sunday, March 13, 2016

WHAT THOSE GERMANS ARE ASKING

Republican Presidential hopeful Donald Trump isn't the only one catching hell over his immigration views. If you're a female, your name is Angela Merkel and you're Chancellor of Germany, join the fray.

Merkel, once a booster when migrants started flooding into Germany enjoyed public support for her support of migrants. But as they say: "Oh, how things can change!" Six months ago Merkel opened the doors of Deutschland to throngs, hundreds of thousansd, according to media reports.

Criticism, often cynical of Trump and his supporters, is popular in MSM and among airway talking bobble heads. But from reports we see--and this is just one of many--"Today, the hospitality is wearing thin. As hundreds more arrive each day, Germans worry the influx will permanently change their towns and seed crime or terror."

As a result, Merkel's power base--"middle class sometimes called Mittelschecht--is growing estranged from her and her generous policy. Many economists there are predicting the influx will cause higher spending, unemployment and more taxes."

Are these Germans just loco? Are all the Americans, unlike their elected politicians, who bother to consider unintended consequences all racists and hate mongers? Well, here from Reuter's are the election results Sunday in Germany.

Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives lost in two out of three state elections on Sunday as Germans punished her accommodative refugee policy with a big vote for the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD), exit polls showed.
The losses in both Baden-Wuerttemberg and Rhineland Palatinate represented a worst-case scenario for Merkel, who has staked her legacy on her decision last year to open Germany's doors to over 1 million migrants - a move voters snubbed.

The backlash was also visible in Saxony-Anhalt in former East Germany, where Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) remained the largest party but saw the AfD grab 21.5 percent of the vote as it burst into all three regional parliaments.
No doubt many will claim those Germans who voted their conscience in Germany are just a bunch of racists. But that's the easy, cheap way out. Is cancer more real to you or the guy next door who actually has it and has to live with it.

Now we're not labeling immigration a cancer, for all of you conclusion-jumpers out there. We're just asking this question: How many of you think Merkel, Obama, Trump, Sanders, Clinton, Warren, Pelosi, Cruz, Rubio, Boehner , Reed, Schumer, Bush, one, two and three, Romney and their like will have to live with that migration?
That's what those Germans are asking.

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