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In reply to the discussion: The Week End Economists Take The Card. Apr 16-17, 2016. [View all]Gungnir
(242 posts)14. America's poverty problem Solved!
Apparently all we have to do is tell anyone (including infants) being given less than $68,000 per year to start negotiating with Europeans to send payment or "we" will become refugees to their area! (If your family of 4 is getting less than $272,000 per year contact Europe...)
Of course they aren't actually giving the $68,000/ year to the migrants/refugees/etc. it must be paid to all sorts of con-artists to "help" the "refugees".
Imagine what kind of life anyone could have if they were just given $68,000/yr! I'm going to go out on a limb and say they wouldn't become refugees, and their country would most likely be stable and a nice place to live.
Here's where all that came from: (can't people use a @%!$$@# calculator?)(34,000,000,000/500,000=68,000)
George Soros Warns Europe: Absorb 500k Refugees Costing $34Bn, Or Risk "Existential Threat"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-12/george-soros-warns-europe-absorb-500k-refugees-costing-34bn-or-risk-existential-thre
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Most of the building blocks for an effective asylum system are available; they only need to be assembled into a comprehensive and coherent policy. Critically, refugees and the countries that contain them in the Middle East must receive enough financial support to make their lives there viable, allowing them to work and to send their children to school. That would help to keep the inflow of refugees to a level that Europe can absorb. This can be accomplished by establishing a firm and reliable target for the number of refugee arrivals: between 300,000 and 500,000 per year. This number is large enough to give refugees the assurance that many of them can eventually seek refuge in Europe, yet small enough to be accommodated by European governments even in the current unfavorable political climate.
There are established techniques for the voluntary balancing of supply and demand in other fields, such as with matching students to schools and junior doctors to hospitals. In this case, people determined to go to a particular destination would have to wait longer than those who accept the destination allotted to them. The asylum seekers could then be required to await their turn where they are currently located. This would be much cheaper and less painful than the current chaos, in which the migrants are the main victims. Those who jump the line would lose their place and have to start all over again. This should be sufficient inducement to obey the rules.
At least 30 billion ($34 billion) a year will be needed for the EU to carry out such a comprehensive plan. This includes providing Turkey and other frontline countries with adequate funding to maintain their very large refugee populations, creating a common EU asylum agency and security force for the EUs external borders, addressing the humanitarian chaos in Greece, and establishing common standards across the Union for receiving and integrating refugees.
Thirty billion euros might sound like an enormous sum, but it is not when viewed in proper perspective. First, we must recognize that a failure to provide the necessary funds would cost the EU even more. There is a real threat that the refugee crisis could cause the collapse of Europes Schengen system of open internal borders among twenty-six European states. The Bertelsmann Foundation has estimated that abandoning Schengen would cost the EU between 47 billion ($53.5 million) and 140 billion ($160 million) in lost GDP each year; the French Commissioner for Policy Planning has estimated the losses at 100 billion ($114 billion) annually.
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Full original letter from Soros:
Europe: A Better Plan for Refugees
http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/04/09/europe-how-pay-for-refugees/
Note: if going with 300,000 per year, that would be an astounding $113,333/ refugee/ yr. or $533,333/ family of 4!
Of course they aren't actually giving the $68,000/ year to the migrants/refugees/etc. it must be paid to all sorts of con-artists to "help" the "refugees".
Imagine what kind of life anyone could have if they were just given $68,000/yr! I'm going to go out on a limb and say they wouldn't become refugees, and their country would most likely be stable and a nice place to live.
Here's where all that came from: (can't people use a @%!$$@# calculator?)(34,000,000,000/500,000=68,000)
George Soros Warns Europe: Absorb 500k Refugees Costing $34Bn, Or Risk "Existential Threat"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-12/george-soros-warns-europe-absorb-500k-refugees-costing-34bn-or-risk-existential-thre
...
Most of the building blocks for an effective asylum system are available; they only need to be assembled into a comprehensive and coherent policy. Critically, refugees and the countries that contain them in the Middle East must receive enough financial support to make their lives there viable, allowing them to work and to send their children to school. That would help to keep the inflow of refugees to a level that Europe can absorb. This can be accomplished by establishing a firm and reliable target for the number of refugee arrivals: between 300,000 and 500,000 per year. This number is large enough to give refugees the assurance that many of them can eventually seek refuge in Europe, yet small enough to be accommodated by European governments even in the current unfavorable political climate.
There are established techniques for the voluntary balancing of supply and demand in other fields, such as with matching students to schools and junior doctors to hospitals. In this case, people determined to go to a particular destination would have to wait longer than those who accept the destination allotted to them. The asylum seekers could then be required to await their turn where they are currently located. This would be much cheaper and less painful than the current chaos, in which the migrants are the main victims. Those who jump the line would lose their place and have to start all over again. This should be sufficient inducement to obey the rules.
At least 30 billion ($34 billion) a year will be needed for the EU to carry out such a comprehensive plan. This includes providing Turkey and other frontline countries with adequate funding to maintain their very large refugee populations, creating a common EU asylum agency and security force for the EUs external borders, addressing the humanitarian chaos in Greece, and establishing common standards across the Union for receiving and integrating refugees.
Thirty billion euros might sound like an enormous sum, but it is not when viewed in proper perspective. First, we must recognize that a failure to provide the necessary funds would cost the EU even more. There is a real threat that the refugee crisis could cause the collapse of Europes Schengen system of open internal borders among twenty-six European states. The Bertelsmann Foundation has estimated that abandoning Schengen would cost the EU between 47 billion ($53.5 million) and 140 billion ($160 million) in lost GDP each year; the French Commissioner for Policy Planning has estimated the losses at 100 billion ($114 billion) annually.
...
Full original letter from Soros:
Europe: A Better Plan for Refugees
http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/04/09/europe-how-pay-for-refugees/
Note: if going with 300,000 per year, that would be an astounding $113,333/ refugee/ yr. or $533,333/ family of 4!
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Too many people live paycheck to paycheck. They can't afford to save 20% of their income.
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