SO… HOW’S THAT FLOOD OF MIGRANTS WORKING OUT FOR GERMANY? In 2011, Thomas Friedman wrote a much-parodied headline which asked, “Can Greeks Become Germans?” Friedman was asking if left-leaning but profligate Greeks could adopt the left-leaning but (at least in comparison with Greek) financially frugal values that have allowed Germany to dominate the EU.

But today, Jazz Shaw notes:

These are only the earliest reports coming out of Germany since the initial flood of “refugees” began to arrive and they are expecting up to a million more in the months to come. As noted above, barely a third of them are actually fleeing Syria, with the rest coming from other places like Pakistan as “economic migrants” who are looking forward to enjoying Germany’s generous welfare state. By this point it’s not too difficult to imagine that the Germans are beginning to wonder how much more they can absorb. Their largely Christian nation is being overrun by a different culture, and while Germany has been one of the most prosperous members of the EU, just how many “guests” can they afford to feed and house? How many new police units will they have to fund to keep track of the spiraling crime? And when it comes to people like the brothers from Pakistan interviewed for the article, how will they manage vetting all of these people and trying to evict those who are not victims of ISIS, but simply interlopers looking to cash in on Germany’s generosity?

To be fair, I’m sure Germany will integrate their new “refugees” into their culture just as well as France has been doing over the past few decades…