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Germans ‘stealing our jobs’: Swiss politician
Published: 26 Apr 12 07:01 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/money/20120426-42177.html
A right-wing Swiss politician left her audience gobsmacked when she denounced German immigrants who were coming to Switzerland and “stealing our jobs”.
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“Honestly, people are getting worried because there are too many Germans living in Switzerland,” she said while taking part in Sunday’s SonnTalk political talk show on the Telezüri channel.
Wednesday’s Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper said she talked of a flood of Germans coming over the border and putting pressure on the job and housing markets. She claimed she had received countless letters from Swiss people who had lost their jobs to young Germans.
“There are many, many Swiss who think like this,” she told the host, but could not give any examples, instead referred to the ‘young Germans’ who were allegedly snapping up jobs.
Other guests on the talk show were shocked by Rickli’s claim, including the head of the Green Liberal Party Martin Bäumle who told Rickli that the idea of preventing Germans from entering Switzerland was “obscene” as the majority of them were doing “a super job.”
The Swiss government just passed a law limiting how many Eastern European immigrants would be granted a work permit this year. The limit applies to eight countries including Poland and Hungary.
The reform has been under discussion for some years in Switzerland and was touched on by Rickli on the television show. She told the host that she wished the law had been passed in 2009, when there was a chance of it including Germany.
The Local/jcw
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A truly hypocritical society.
...and she added: "multiculturalism has utterly failed".
Oh wait... that was Merkel.
'Stealing jobs' is a bit off the mark, 'obscene' is off the IQ scale. Why is it always the left-thinking mindset that flows so effortlessly into attempted moral blackmail? It's pornography that's obscene in my dictionary but Greens have probably lost sight of that.
In ecology, there's a concept of 'stewardship', which the Greens above all should know by now. Opening your borders dismantling them, which is what the EU wants means giving up the responsibility to look after your own country, region, town, street. Think global, act local. All forgotten? Or is the mantra now 'Think global, act global', in tune to the marching bands of Brussels?
The Swiss have one thing very few of the rest of you so-called democrats do: referenda. It makes the Swiss less sheepish, less cowed by the moral bullies of the Greens etc. It makes them look after their own country first. Not a bad way to go about things, though practical mistakes will always be made. But that's no reason to start sneering at them for exercising their obligation to put their own interests first. If other Europeans were less ashamed of standing up for themselves, more competitive, more individualistic, this much-mired continent would be a lot more dynamic than it is.
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It is my experience that people and places that work too hard looking clean, wealthy, advanced, liberal, and/or organized often try to hide that deep down they really aren't.