ah right. this is a us view, which i appreciate but i am unsure how much this applies to the eu and by extension the globe. thank you though, us property situation sounds horrid!   something i found is that the eu integrated a financial penalization for not taking migrants in based on quotas, 20k each. so the economic need for migrants to feed the economy must be desperate.   ironic that due to lack of spirituality and religion, we find ourselves exploited by those in power for their own short term gain and damn the rest of us. however, surely one country would speak up and say "actually, lets tank a temporary economic dip and introduce policies to maintain our population?" seems to be far more effective than swamping eu with migrants who are both unskilled and unwilling to assimilate.
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