Post: #586

(09-09-2015 06:28 AM)UncleSam Wrote:  

(09-09-2015 01:25 AM)speakeasy Wrote:  Will they be given good jobs? What exactly is the plan for integrating them into the society as productive people?

A plan? You expect a little bit to much I guess.

There is a mysterious number of 500.000 free jobs here in Germany paraded around by business lobbyists which could be filled instantly, they say.

I think the plan is mostly agricultural jobs. Poles and Romanians, who are usually picking the fields, are becoming ever more expensive. Spain for example has used their huge influx of Africans for exactly that purpose, with the cheapest tomatoes in Europe now coming from Spain. The french farmers have already been protesting in the past few weeks, and Marine Le Pen is accusing the Germans of this behaviour: French far-right leader says Germany seeking "slaves" in migrants

Concerning jobs though, I think the german government will be fine with say 100k unemployed migrants, if it means 10k german citizens getting a new job as a social worker, language teacher, police officer, bureaucrat etc.

Also, before the migration crisis one of the big political subjects in Germany was the "minimum wage", unwanted by the ruling CDU but finally instituted for a select few low-level jobs: interns, hairdressers etc. The pressure by hundreds of thousands of un- or low-skilled job-seekers who would only be fit for jobs like this will prevent any further discussion about trying to raise the living standards for workers doing low-level jobs at the cost of having to raise consumer prices for the middle class - problem solved for Angela Merkel.