Re: Europe, you reap what you sow...

Quote from: lifeofbrian on June 27, 2016, 08:38:47 AM

Actually, many Muslim refugees are willing to convert to Christianity: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/05/european-churches-growing-flock-muslim-refugees-converting-christianity So not everything is lost, but Europe requires more confidence, a clear message for assimilation. The other important aspect is to finally enforce European border security. Those border fences are a good start: http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/624488/Europe-border-fences-migrant-crisis
But the maritime security and unified policy on migration is where EU could actually work, if politicians start listening to people. Right now, there is an almost direct route from Istanbul to Stockholm: http://en.cutway.net/distance/19169-18151/ And it can be traveled in 2 days of traveling time by modern means. It was never the case previously and puts an enormous demographic pressure on Swedish society and other European countries.

I'm not even going to talk about the fact that I disagree with you on the opening or closing of borders. I'm just going to explain you that Europe gots 1700km of borders.
You want to keep them? Fine. So first you need some kind of wall or fence. Let's say it costs nothing to build and maintain (it'll cost a hella lot of money but let's just forget it).
You need something like a guard for every 100m on average, otherwise it's useless. makes 17 000 soldiers
You need in fact 3 soldiers for each 100m because they work only 8h a day so it's more 51 000 soldiers
For every 3 soldiers you also need on average at least one person in the backline in charge of something, that might go from cleaning the camp to radio coordination. So 51 000 soldiers plus 15 000 suport persons.

Each of them has to be paid 1 500 a month at least when they're in activity. That's 100M a month. 1billion every year. Only in salaries, I'm not talking about any kind of equipment, wall construction or anything.

Seems like a good idea to you?