Europe- economy, immigrants, and a potential inspiration

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barneystinson69 said:

Right. So those immigrant ghettos in parts of Western Europe don't exist? And is it not true that immigrants use the majority of welfare, have high unemployement, and are a drain in certain countries? Why do people keep insisting that Europe needs immigration? Europe was a great society for 100s of years without immigration, but now they NEED it? Merkel said it herself that multiculturalism was a failure. Also, you know the demographic consequences as well. Europeans are almost a minority in London, Brussles, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and soon many others.

Immigration in general is most definately something that Germany needs. They had a birth rate of less then 1.5 since 1975 (currrently at 1.36. Take note that this includes immigrants, who have a much higher birthrate, in average.) That's not sustainable.