IMF wants Spain to import 5 million African "migrants"--supposedly to make Spain's pension fund solvent??

If you want proof that the socialist leaders of the EU are either crazy or dumb or actively trying to destroy European countries, consider this:

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has declared that Spain must import more 5.5 million illiterate, unskilled, uneducated migrants by 2050.

At this point people with an IQ over room temperature are asking, "Why the hell does the IMF get a voice in Spanish immigration policy?"

Glad you asked.  The reason the IMF states (which is a flat lie, but the morons will buy it, cuz "experts") is that they need to do this "to fund the pension system."

The person most responsible for pushing this is socialist Christine Lagarde.  The purported reason is that like every other socialist country, Spain has lots of people who are nearing retirement, but doesn't have enough working people to pay for their promised pensions.  Both those things are true (and may strike you as very familiar).

The obvious fix is to get more people working, thus contributing to the pension system.

Here's the flaw--and it's both obvious and fatal:  Right now 3.5 million Spaniards are unemployed.  So the country doesn't need any more people looking for work.  The situation is even worse for young Spaniards: the country’s youth unemployment rate is a staggering 34 percent.

So importing more bodies looking for unskilled work won't put more people to work.

Amazingly, Democrats and socialists (including Lagarde) don't understand that.

Of course you can't believe anyone educated enough to be a government leader could possibly not grasp that, right?  Well, Spain's minister for Social Security, Octavio Granado told voters that only by welcoming newcomers from Africa can the nation “maintain our lifestyle.”  So he definitely doesn't get it.

“Our social protection system needs millions of contributors,” he said, in response to the opposition Popular Party protesting that Spain “cannot absorb millions of Africans who want to come to Europe in search of a better future”.

Spain's foreign minister Josep Borrell said Spaniards should be grateful for an influx of illegal immigrants from the world’s poorest and most violent regions, saying “Europe’s demographic evolution shows that unless we want to gradually turn into an ageing continent, we need new blood, and it doesn’t look like this new blood is coming from our capacity to procreate.”

So none of 'em get it.  But worse yet, think how many billions of euros Spain will be paying in welfare and housing for the 5.5 million "immigrants," for most of their lives.  Seems to me that has to be a huge net loss, even if some of 'em eventually get jobs.

Read the whole article here.