Europe- economy, immigrants, and a potential inspiration

[barneystinson69]

palou said:

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. 

The reason birth rates are low is because of wealth. As society becomes more automised, less people are needed in the workforce, and it'll ballence itself out. Germany doesn't need immigration, its just there to import more labour...