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What I meant was that that

A Guy Called LULU — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 17:40:11 +0000

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What I meant was that that there is a chicken-egg situation in which we know what comes first. Horrible situations [mostly wars] are creating refugees and as ,ong as refugees are being created there will need be ways to deal with them and the dealing with them does not [necessarily] affect the creation of more unless maybe we make their places of hoped for refuge worse than the place they want to escape from.

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Flavius — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 16:52:26 +0000

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Could you elaborate on your second sentence: where you distinguish

No, but I do suggest that a plan to deal with the settlement and care of hundreds of thousands of people driven to refugee status is not the same as a plan to deal with the refugee problem

I see that one of the "plans" in your link is a subsidy of 6K euros for each refugee accepted.That sum is about equal to the $5,000 I propose.. There may be some underpopulated "stan" for which that sort of payment would tilt the scale.

But what won't work IMHO is relying on humane impulses to solve the problem. Rather , I guess it's only a matter ot time till we hear of refugee camps attacked by the local population..

Got a better Idea? No, but I

A Guy Called LULU — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 13:57:22 +0000

In reply to What was the matter with Raul?

Got a better Idea? No, but I do suggest that a plan to deal with the settlement and care of hundreds of thousands of people driven to refugee status is not the same as a plan to deal with the refugee problem. Nor do I see a humane way to deal with the migrant problem so up front in our current electoral politics, a problem with powerful forces pushing the migrants yet those forces are much more benign than the life or death decisions made by so many war refugees. Maybe we should identify who is causing the wars and bomb them. Has that been tried yet? Might work, might not.

Today in my in-box is a one day free access to Financial Times. One of the headline articles claims to be an in-depth study of the European refugee crisis. There are many sub-articles. I have only skimmed the headlines at this point. Most appear to be descriptive of how the problem developed. One was suggesting a mandatory allotment of refugees to the different EU countries but I doubt it mandates the nature of their care and feeding.

I hope the link will works, there may be some or much of interest but I doubt there is a workable plan offered that has any chance of being adopted.

http://www.ft.com/intl/migration?ftcamp=engage/email/paywall_freeze/dayo...