Yes I agree. But, it chills me every time I hear someone go on about their loved ones needing to go to Germany on medical needs grounds. Like they have some automatic right to do so. Its a rare thing for me to admit, but this is one topic where I’m actually NOT being a troll for once. Like I said though I probably watch way to much news. Cause I wouldn’t know where to start with RTL,and Pro7, and Co. thatshit is moronic at the best of times and, more brain dead the a zombie the rest of the time. So perhaps I’m just overly sensitive on the subject.

@Ichijoe
 
It does also make one wonder if the very wealthy and more stable oil states of the Mideast should be extending more of a helping hand doesn’t it? Seems like everyone should help, not just/mostly the western countries.

@ArkyNoid  

 
Its the question(s), like that that scare me most. On the one hand, you’re “heartless” when you say sent them home, or to carry on… To anywhere other then here. On the other hand all these Imergants are set to take up all the low end wage jobs, plus whatever addional burden placed on the Tax Payer needed to support em.
 
As to what to do? Its a hard call, as nobody really wants, or cares enough to want to fight both ISIL, and the Assad regime, and I doubt the UN really has the mandate to push the idea much further. But, sadly its not just them, so though it would likely help. I have to doubt it.
 
But, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t more concerned about the E.U. immigration, then say the same problem per say in the U.S. Given the diversity, and religious differences. I’d rather see them all go to Turkey myself.

@Ichijoe
 
Then what should be done in your opinion? I’d guess maybe more should be done to fix whatever ails them back home.

Look I’m as tollerent as the next guy… Probably more so then when I was younger. I have a Black stepmother. Worse still being raised by a deeply southern grandfather, and a very old-school German Gandmother. It took some considerable time to accept this. Now I like to think I’ve matured a bit. But, if you’d actually bother to watch any European News Channels BBC News24/World, CNN, Tageschau24 N-tv, or N24. I think anyone would have the right to be scared. Perhaps the Media are guilty of over reporting the story. But, where the UK only seem to give a buck about French Ports in Calais. We’re being fed a line of Imergrants fleeing every corner. To enter Greece, who couldn’t give a toss! In turn killing each other just to get to Hungary, and the E.U.
 
Jokes on them though if they actually think the Streets here are paved in AU79 (See Joycall6), ’Cause its NOT! The sad thing is to such People, they may as well be.

@Apple Senior  
“And with all the refugees coming, maybe one has to ask, why they’re fleeing there home countries?”
 
Hmmm I may have been wiser to step away from this conversation like I intended, but can I guess?
 
Do a lot of those people recently massing into Europe come from (for examples) Iraq, Syria, and Libya? Countries in turmoil? Countries where in the past decade or so a certain international meddler country from the opposite hemisphere had in some way or another either took up direct military force or supported the armed insurrection against an established government? And now those countries are being overrun with radicals amid the power vacuum?
 
If my theory is correct, then I guess violence only breeds more problems that grow out of control. Naturally that wouldn’t be the ONLY reason people are fleeing their countries. Of course some don’t fit that category and may only indeed be economic opportunists. But I have a feeling I’m correct about many cases.

@Apple Senior  
 
 
 
these are just some of the images from my country, which is basically just a transit state for seekers of asylum, migrants or immigrants, as most of them wants to get to the European Union (mostly Germany). There really hasn’t been any problems, apart from its been REALLY hot here recently and we just can’t provide enough accommodation for all of em, so they end up squatting in public parks. But no one here has been shouting bigoted or racial slurs from the rooftops, the people are just depressed to see what some of them have to endure to escape death in their countries, and the politicians, mostly, have just been going on how we have to help them but we need money from Europe to do so.
 
But I fear that the longer the immigrant crisis lasts, the more people will start turning against them…

@A-T-S  
The Problem is mostly, at least here in Germany, that those who are most afraid of immigrants are those who have nearly no contact at all with them. The parts here were houses are burning are the parts with an immigrant quota >1%. In my appartement house over 50% of the People living here are of non german /european Background and it is no problem at all.
 
And with all the refugees coming, maybe one has to ask, why they’re fleeing there home countries?

@Ichijoe  
The only depressing thing about it is how Europeans seem to handle it. America gets more immigrants from more countries than Britain ever will, and we didn’t feel the need to start two neo-Nazi parties over it. What matters with immigration is how you handle it, compared to the UK America has more Arabs, more Romani, more Africans, more Hispanics, as many Europeans, and yet better race relations.

@Ichijoe
 
Yes the immigrant/refugee crises in all Western countries are appalling. Even more mouths to feed and bodies to compete for housing and the increasingly worthless currencies. Everyone deserves better where they live IMO as a humanitarian but the way it is being dealt just does a partial trade off of benefit and burden and is no less fair in a certain economic sense than the less privileged individual’s previous circumstance. Plus immense cultural differences.
 
There must be a good solution for all stake holders in such an exchange. But this is such a touchy subject so that’s enough I guess.

Bitcoins so many pixels on screen reads well enough… But, the only winners are the Ones selling Bitcoin mining Boxes. That have no guarantee to ever uncover a single Bitcoin… Then there are the shady bitcoin Wallets (e.g. Mt Gox), that will conveniently loose all your hard earned Bitcoins.
 
Worse yet, the World Governments are starting to treat Bitcoin as an otherwise real taxable Currency. Personally I’d give it a miss myself.
 
One thing is fur sure… The Americans, can be thankful that its mostly Mexicans that are invading their Country…. Europe meanwhile has to deal with the rest of the Worlds Refugees. Very depressing actually…

@Ichijoe
 
Maybe we should all use bit-coins? Just thinking aloud here, I don’t even know the usefulness of such a thing. But hey the concept. An international system that sounds like Equestrian currency?

And the German, and French… (Who are themselves sitting on the razors edge of collapse), are just blindly throwing our Tax Euro’s out of the Window, and down the crapper! Never even having bothered to wipe with em first.

@AaronMk  
Well, no wonder Greece is in trouble. Cow is delicious.

@landshark15
 

Fleece please pay debnts.

Greece should probably be called Fleece in real life too.

@ArkyNoid  
About as much as Europeans keep mistaking maps of Equestria for the US.

@AaronMk  
brilliant:D let me sing you the song of my ponies!  

Average American knowledge of geography (or lack thereof) would probably have some people believe this map is legitimately Europe.

@b4betty
 
Spurbia removes kebab.
 
god spurbian is, anu.

@Wiimeiser  
Spurbia does not recognize the self-proclaimed country of Coltsovo!

In Itali c’è la MAREmma! XDXD

(Federation versus unitary government with devolved powers – po-ta-to puh-tah-to.)

@Appletart  
The point is, it’s exactly the same as Texas. Internationally, the UK is considered a country. (Who cares what it’s considered within?) Wales used to be independent, as was Texas, but now it’s just a state that’s part of a federation. It’s literally exactly the same thing!