Rome today is not the city it was even twenty years ago. Like white-flight from the US city of Detroit, large areas of Rome have the stamp of a city abandoned by Italians whose sense of civic responsibility has been turned upside-down by a corrosive self-blame culture of surrender -- a culture, many believe, endorsed by Pope Francis who publicly kissed the feet of illegal migrants in a show of solidarity with them as “victims”.
With such misplaced sentiment distorting the public’s sense of civic responsibility, it’s no real surprise the Italian police look on indifferently as law-abiding people are ruthlessly intimidated and robbed by criminal gangs.
And it’s not only Rome that has migrant problems. On a visit to the town of Vicenza in northern Italy I witnessed one evening an extraordinary scene.
A group of migrant African men were hanging around the Basilica Palladiana, a famous World Heritage Site associated with the Renaissance architect Palladio. Two of these men were urinating up against the famous columns, with several police officers looking on but studiously ignoring the criminal act.
For the Left, Europe needs unlimited immigration to support a non-replacement birth rate and a greying western population. Again, it’s a business model just as insane as the fast-buck free market model. And it’s insane for two reasons.
First, a study by Gerhard Heilig, former Chief of the Population Estimates and Projections Section at the UN, has dismissed as mind-boggling and absurd the notion that immigration could solve Europe’s demographic problems.
Germany, for example, over the next 90 years would need to increase its current population from 82 million to 490 million by bringing in 261 million immigrants, simply to maintain the current old-age dependency ratio.
It’s obvious to any sane person that such a policy would be economically catastrophic and self defeating because immigrants, amazingly, also grow old and become dependent on the state. What then, import another 261 million?
It would also, of course, be cultural suicide, as most of the immigrants would have to be non-Europeans. Is that what the Herr Schaeubles and Ken Clarkes of this world want?
But the second reason immigration as an economic solution does not work is that many immigrants, as the study of Turks in Germany shows, can be a major burden on the welfare state, not a support to it. Turkish immigrants in Germany, for example, have three times the rate of welfare dependency as ethnic Germans.
To say that is not to blame the immigrants. They come to Europe not to help Europeans, but to help themselves. They are rational people, and just like Europeans, they (particularly the unskilled) quickly figure out the welfare survival map. And who can blame them?
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Anonymous2015-08-27 22:27
Rome has always been shit. Even in the republican era, the dregs of all the conquered lands wondered to Rome for the bread and circuses and shat all over the place.
Those 2 things don't go together. In fact let me go further. People in general are nasty and selfish.
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Anonymous2015-08-30 11:10
>>8 Why don't these nasty and selfish people gather up and send the people who are fucking up their lives back to their Third-World shitholes, then? Nasty and selfish people should have no reason against fighting someone they don't like. Thus, their inherent nastiness and selfishness have been dominated by tolerast and anti-white propaganda in the media and schools.
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Anonymous2015-08-30 17:23
>>8 Maybe you should get out of your nigger ridden ghetto and live with white people for a week.