Migrant Crisis: A BOON or a CURSE?

Rationale

The article that has been chosen was published recently on October 14, 2015 by Tom Porter, a reporter for the International Business Times UK who had previously worked for the BBC and the East London Guardian. It has a clear bias against the migrant crisis and provides facts and figures to concretely explain the negative impact of the crisis and the unpopularity of Angela Merkel's decision among the people of Germany.

This pastiche will look at how the influx of refugees may turn out to be advantageous for Germany. Personally, I believe in the ideology that although Germany may have had good intentions about helping people, it has now turned into a massive political and economic necessity to counter balance Germany's ageing population. This ageing population needs migrants to take the menial jobs in order for the economy to work efficiently, and this is going to be the basis of my pastiche.

FYI! This pastiche represents a perspective of a group of people and of myself on this massive world issue that is the refugee crisis caused by the Syrian civil war and the up rise of the extremist group, ISIS, or ISIL, or IS, or Da'esh.

ORIGINAL ARTICLE BY TOM PORTER, published on the IB times UK

Migrant crisis: Germans increasingly feel the country cannot cope with influx of refugees.

Most Germans believe there are too many refugees in the country and that Chancellor Angela Merkel was wrong to say "we'll manage this". Approximately 800,000 refugees and migrants are expected to arrive in the Germany this year.

The survey by YouGov, published on 13 October, found that 56% believe there are too many refugees in the country, a 10 point raise on the previous month.

It also found failing confidence in the German government's insistence that Germany could cope with the influx, with only 32% of respondents agreeing with Merkel's repeated insistence "we'll manage this", down by 11 points from a month ago.

Only 19% thought the country could take in more refugees, down from 28% in mid-September.

The survey comes as support for Merkel's Conservatives dropped to its lowest levels since June 2014 in the wake of the refugee crisis. The Forsa poll conducted for broadcaster RTL and Stern magazine showed that support for the party has slipped to 38%.

Merkel and Horst Seehofer, the leader of the Conservative's Bavarian sister party, are currently locked in dispute, with Merkel favouring an open door policy towards those wanting to enter the country, and Seehofer threatening to take the government to court unless it does more to stem the flow of refugees and migrants, with Bavaria often their point of entry.

PASTICHE

Many say that Germany's attitude towards the refugees stems from an event that happened in the dark history of Germany, the Holocaust of 1941 when the Germans were forced to be refugees themselves. But, realistically, that is just a load of nonsense, these scholars might have been on moonshine!

The way to look at it politically is from statistics that are completely entrenched in economic values and not in values of the general German populace. For a country like Germany to take in so many refugees there’s no two way about it. Of course, it is easy to fool the people and make them sympathize with the refugees, this will only benefit the German economy.

Generally in the EU, over 50% of the population is above 45 years old and as humans, the older people get, they become less active and therefore it becomes harder to do menial jobs that require no skill but a lot of physical labor. For countries like Germany, people inflow requirements can't be met just by policy changes that allow more migration to the country. The fact is that most western European countries need an inflow rate of 7x- 8x higher than the current rate. 

So what is the advantage of this influx of refugees?

Angela Merkel announced late in August that Germany is willing to accept a massive 800,000 refugees this year. Merkel's decisions are ones to be admired though as she is trying to make economic as well as political gains by taking advantage of this the crisis. She uses the ideology articulated by Michael Heppell in his book 'FLIT IT: How to get the best out of everything.' and turns this crisis into a massive boost for an ageing economy. 

The introduction of younger, healthier refugees into the German workplace will surely benefit the German economy as it may be able to increase its output overall as an economy as the immigrants bring specific skill sets with them. The real tragedy here is that the pitiful plight of the persecuted masses might turn out to be an excuse to cause them still more pain and adversity.

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