Abolishing Germany – lessons for Australia
Andrew Bolt interviews Thilo Sarrazin on Channel Ten’sThe Bolt Report yesterday.
Thilo Sarrazin, the German banker whose recent book Deutschland schafft sich ab (Germany Abolishes Itself) upset the politically correct new class in that country, yesterday told The Bolt Report that Australia is better placed to avoid the kind of problems that have beset his country.
When asked by presenter Andrew Bolt yesterday how Germany is being abolished, Sarrazin identified three problems.
“The first way, the Germans have a very low birth rate,” he said.
“It means every generation is 35 per cent smaller than the generation before. The German population is shrinking.
“Secondly, the brightest people get the fewest children, so the intellectual potential of the society, it shrinks even more.
“And thirdly, the kind of immigration that we have in Germany does not solve these problems, unlike in Australia, it aggravates them because we have mostly immigrants from Africa and the Middle East of the Muslim faith and these immigrants have substantial difficulties in integrating themselves even in the second or third generations.
“And if these trends continue, Germany will not only shrink in its population, it will lose the present abilities and it will become less and less German, or less and less European, in every generation.”
Bolt asked Sarrazin if he could see the same kinds of problems in other countries.
There is a similar problem in Great Britain, France, Italy and the Netherlands, Sarrazin said, but the low birth rate in Germany aggravated the situation.
While the birth rate in France is about two children per mother, in Germany it is only 1.3, he said.
“Our problems are completely different to Australia because Australia, as I have learned, has a quite stable birth rate of about two children per mother and the structure of immigration is quite different in Australia.
“You get your immigrants mostly from the Far East – Indian immigrants, immigrants of Chinese origin, the British immigrants, you get the skilled,” Sarrazin said.
Some Australian commentators are not as confident about Australia’s future.
Recently, Merv Bendle pointed to ways in which the Australian situation parallels that of Europe.
“Will Australia follow the same path into social and cultural disintegration and decline that Dr Sarrazin sees overwhelming Germany?” Bendle asked in a 22 July post on Quadrant Online.
“While there are many economic and demographic differences between Australia and Western Europe, there are also many similarities, especially in relation to the aggressive and intrusive role played by the state and its adoption and implementation of the same range of vastly expensive social democratic and welfare state policies that have brought Europe to its knees – which is, of course, exactly the posture that the New Class and the intelligentsia would like to see us all adopt.”
Bendle also listed examples of similar “self-initiated separatist strategies” in Australia, pointing to suburbs in Australian cities “that have been deliberately made into ghettos where outsiders are harassed, abused and even assaulted.”
Lets let this modern day culture fall apart, It is sick to think your/our culture is better than anyone else’s, all culture’s have positive and negitive aspects and if we look at the home front we dont really act like modern future world leaders anyway. No modern country would want out dated laws or continuing to subject it’s own people to racist policys, we wouldnt want to contiue damaging land management practices and we definitly wouldnt sell all our wealth to other countrys for nothing, what smart country sells all it’s wood pulp to china then buy it back as blank school books. Australia is a primitive place with primitive people. A little to isolated
Like with the carbon tax,multiculturalism was never taken to an election.No leftwing party ever wants the people to have a say …
A government that costs the nation more than 15% of its GDP is a parasite. A government that costs more than 50% of the nation’s GDP is a cancerous tumour. The US government currently costs Americans nearly 40% of their GDP (it used to be 21% in the past)–and look where it led. Australians pay 25% of their GDP for their government. Europe is another disaster area. The only country over there the government of which costs its citizens less than 20% is Switzerland. The UK government costs more than 40% of Britain’s GDP. Most other European governments cost their societies between 30% and 50% of their GDP. There are few developed countries with inexpensive governments: good examples are Japan (15% of GDP) and Chile (18% of GDP).
Nick is quite right in his comments, and so was Sarrazin, except for his belief that Australia is well-positioned to resist the disintegration process.
The big problem is the way the multiculturalists work to stop debate on the issue, not just informal nedia censorship (eg on crime stats) but legal restrictions on free speech..
You might want to join the current discussion of Australian immigration policy on our expat blog.
http://rossrightangle.wordpress.com/2011/08/01/whos-this-georgatos-who-puts-aussie-down-in-foreign-media/
Socialst Western governments are destroying the West. Something needs to happen to stop it!
Australia is not too far behind Germany and other European nations in regard to the complete failure of multiculturalism and high levels of third world immigration. We are also suffering the cost burden associated with cultural pluralism.
When a nation encourages high levels of immigration from any third nation, be it India, China or Lebanon the host nation will deteriorate and eventually regress into a dysfunctional state.
Thilo said, “you get the skilled” – what nonsense. Most of Australia’s migrants are not skilled. Only 25% of migrants have skills and most come in under ‘family reunion category’. Family reunion is instant access to welfare.
We have youth unemployment hovering around 20% and our government persists in bringing in cheap and youth labour which displaces Australian youth. There is no case for high levels of immigration or third world immigration.
No nonsense, Nick. Compared to what washes up in the waiting rooms of Germany’s bankrupt social security system this here is bliss. You think this here is bad? Spend some quality time in Eurabia, but not on the tourist trail.
If people were really serious about immigration they would stop all the rich people fying in and buying everything, I guess its easier to beat up the minority groups. Get real