ALLIANCE FO§ DEMOCRACY

Immigrants criticised

What have Mr. Sarrazin and others railed against immigrants, who come to our beautiful country and claim Hartz IV, but are of o benefit to the country. Actually, the situation is different: Families come for example from Kosovo, Serbia or Romania and believe that Germany is a land flowing with milk and honey. But that is not the case. The emigrants, who hope to find work and a home here, live either off the inadequate Hartz IV allowances or other state support. They can only work several months later. Even then, they usually earn only a pittance. If they have a business idea and become self-employed, then they have to pay taxes, and again little profit remains. Too little to live, and death is also expensive. The emigrants of course came in order to improve their situation. In their countries, they could expect nothing due to failed economic and social policies, while in Germany, again due to failed economic and social policies, they can expect nothing better. Instead, they also pay off the debts which Germany has incurred with other countries of the EU, the Euro community or the rest of the world. The grotesque feature is that they are also paying for the debts of their home countries, which they had to leave because they could not exist there on the material level, and no changes could be expected from politics. Those who rebelled were forced to flee and come to a country which itself is struggling against bankruptcy, and whether they like it or not, makes all citizens pay for the liabilities and the delaying of the insolvency of other countries. To this extent, they are not the useless burden so virulently criticised by Sarrazin and Co., no, they are the willing workers who are fighting against the downfall of Germany and Europe, and for this they are looked at askance, even though we are all in the same boat. The worst of it all is that the immigrants have lost their homes – and they cannot find a new one. We could still however show them the respect due to people who leave their homeland in order to live and work elsewhere. And even if this is only because they expect a little slice of heaven, which has long since disappeared. Not for those people who are looking for a home in Germany, nor for those whose home is already Germany. We are all in the same boat, and are paying with our work and with our penchant for thrift, the political ranks to prevent the crash of the Euro. And all future generations will also have to do this, so it is practically irrelevant which country they come from, those who will pay for the bankruptcy of the Euro.