Outlaw Yogi wrote:Well I'm a mongrel, bitsa this and bitsa that (English, Scot, Irish X Irish, Afgan, German), which all migrated here, have an adopted sister from Korea, had girlfriends from various places (Fiji, PNG, Japan, ect) and I've been saying for 20 years or more immigration should be halted. Completely. Not just because of the competition for reasonable priced rentals, but for the congestion and general lowering of living standards for those already here, which intensifies yearly with our average 200,000 intake. That's a million new people every five years, who need somewhere to sleep, eat and $#!+, plus most require some form of welfare benefit.
Thirty odd years ago, or there abouts, the CSIRO came out with a statement that Australia could only sustainably support a population of twelve million people. At the time Oz's pop was about fourteen million, so two milllion over capacity at the time. People don't seem to realise without our lifestyle being subsidided by cheap petro-chemical fertilisers and mining, we would have no export industries and probably barely enough food to fight over.
So .. these characters from all over the world, for whatever reason, want to come here and impact on my lifestyle.
Well tough titties, I'm sick of being responsible for everyone else's problem people.
If I was dictator, immigration would be abolished, and the govt dept responsible for, morphed into the Dept of Deportation.
But what this country needs is a civil war, so we have an opportunity to ethically cleanse ourselves back down to a sustainable population.
Conducting such activity on the grounds of ethnicity may be unfair, heartless, ect ect, but in reality that's generally how it's done.
Want an angry population?
Simple, just import more people.
We need to stop the boats and slow immigration down, at least until our infrastructure, education, employment and housing sectors catch up.
We have migrants staying in motels and hotels at the tax payers expense, paying a nightly rate ... because we have no place else to put them.
1) They should be financially secure. This is, not require government housing or expect government benefits for a goven period of time as we have enough existing Australians waiting on government housing registers for several or more years, particularly the elderly and disabled.
Why should immigrants and refugees be given priority housing over existing Australians?
Charity begins at home.
2) Should be a skilled worker, skilled in an area where we have a GENUINE shortage of skilled workers.
3) Be prepared to assimilate, become Australians. Naturalise. Attend classes to learn what it means to be Australian, learn our culture, our way of life.
4) Be able to speak English, our national language before they get here.
5) And be in good health.
6) Should not have a criminal record, minor infringements ok.
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I could list more, but it's time I hit the sack.
- Kevin457
