"What would things have been like without them?"
This is not a surprise to me, not in the slightest. I suspect most on here have noticed what I have, that the indigenous European peoples have been lied to about the economic contribution that immigrants make. I have never understood how GDP growth is considered to be a good measure of economic performance. Surely per capita GDP would be the best indicator?
Aside from that, housing costs are exorbitant, and in the UK younger generations are renting or living with their parents instead of purchasing their own homes. Today's youngsters are supposedly the first generation that will be poorer than their parents for a hundreds of years. Net immigration is running at six million per decade and yet apparently people do not seem to understand how this is contributing to the problem, if indeed it's not the actual cause of the problem, as I suspect.
The National Health Service is on its knees and there are reports of folk dying waiting for ambulances and operations. Yet when I went to casualty recently there was an inordinate number of visible minorities waiting for treatment.
Many years ago I read that for an individual to be a net contributor to the Exchequer they would need to earn an average of £35k over their lifetime. I do not see how the armies of Just Eat delivery drivers, car wash attendants, security guards, etc are likely to ever be anything other than a drain on the public purse.
What amazes me is the fact that people can actually deny any of the above. Yet my own father, a highly educated man, does just that. He has a subscription to
The Economist and somehow they have managed to convince him that immigration is good for the economy. It helps that he lives in a village where there is literally not a single person from an ethnic minority background, rarely uses public transport and is in good health.
I think the problem can be summarised in the following way:
1) Economic arguments are used which confound the masses, but since they are the view of 'experts' are simply accepted by the majority.
2) Those that are likely to see through the spurious claims made by the media are insulated from the reality of the situation by virtue of living in a desirable location.
3) If they do entertain thoughts that contradict 'the narrative', they will likely dismiss them as being the product of racism, which they have been conditioned to believe is the symptom of a diseased mind, and suppress them.
4) Even if they accept the obvious, the social cost of speaking the truth means only a minority will voice their opinions.
5) If individuals are prepared to speak out, they feel powerless and their is no political party (in the UK) that represents them.
As I have stated previously, I do not blame immigrants for coming to Europe and would probably be do the same thing in their situation. It is those who have engineered the situation who are to blame, along with those who work in the media and the political class.
I used to worry about such things, but now I simply observe the madness and marvel at how the Bible has predicted things with such accuracy. The End Times are here.
