Hey björn - back from thailand into politics ;-)
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Originally Posted by Bjorn_Tasty1
Germany First?
City food bank gives Germans precedence
Ministers and charities reacted with outrage to an announcement by a food bank in Essen that it would no longer take on immigrants-in-need.
On Thursday, a charity organization in Essen that hands out food to the needy said that for now, would only serve newcomers if they hold a German passport.
Jörg Sartor, who heads the branch of the Essen Tafel charity, said that 75 percent of the 6,000 users of the service were immigrants, up from 35 percent in 2015. The charity is run mostly by volunteers who parcel up the food which is often the surplus from supermarkets.
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yes and this shows that we do not take in rich people and nobody plans to let them stay forever.
the tafel is a private organisation and gets the food (as you correctly stated) from supermarkets and shops. it is mostly stuff what they can not sell anymore for the reason of expiring date.
so it is not really the tafel who gives and not really the tafel who have to decide who have the right to receive.
but anyway it is a discussion what came up here what does make sense and it is worth to discuss. it is the discussion about poorness in Germany.
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Essen Tafel is part of a national charity, Tafel Deutschland, and is one of 930 food banks operating throughout Germany. “Tafel” is German for “table” and recipients must be registered for social welfare in order to be eligible for the food parcels. Essen Tafel is the only one with a policy of this kind, a spokesperson for the umbrella group told local media
Mr. Sartor defended his decision: “We want German grandmothers to be able to keep coming to us,” he told a local newspaper, explaining that over the last two years, single mothers and older women had been scared off from the service because of all the young men, speaking different languages, in the queue for food. Mr. Sartor said he had personally seen “a lack of respect for women” among male users. “When we opened the door in the morning there was always pushing and shoving without any thought given to the grandmothers in the line,” he said.
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i completely understand his decision and his statement but on the other hand I can also see that we haven´t been prepared for this huge number of poor and hungry people who are used to fight for a handful of rice.
btw. I saw the same in 1988 from Germans to Germans.
When east-germans where allowed to come to the west and fight for the banana and walk man they saw - not knowing that there is enough on stock for all.
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The decision in Essen takes place against tensions which have been high ever since the refugee crisis and an increase in the number of people from the Middle East and North Africa who sought asylum in Germany after fleeing war and poverty. Through 2015, the authorities struggled to register and house many refugees. Even now, many asylum seekers still lack access to jobs and affordable housing.
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correct - Germany was not prepared for that many of them because they thought they get more help from other EU countries.
yes we do - but it will not be that easy as predicted.
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With the news in England, Poland and everywhere it looks like the EU will make a wall soon.
Oh wait, The Wall is already there and bigger than the Iron Curtain.
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also correct - but this wall was not made from people who wanted free trade and same prosperity in all EU countries. this wall was made by people who want to go back into the middle age.
I agree also that the EU have now members who should not be there because this countries are knowing for swinging from one extreme to the other.
this is not a reliable base for a union.