The Greenlandic finance minister Palle Christiansen has declared the steady exodus of manpower from the country as the biggest hurdle facing Greenland’s ongoing quest for independence.
While acknowledging that other factors have hindered short-term prospects, Christiansen suggested that emigration trends would seriously undermine long-term hopes for the autonomous country. According to figures published in Sermitsiaq, 2008 saw 638 people depart the country on a permanent basis. This is consistent with the record level reached in 2006, when 644 out of a total population of around 50,000 emigrated abroad.
Christiansen expressed a desire to instigate a range of measures designed to lure Greenlanders back home, predominantly those young people who leave to study in Denmark. At present, a mere half return home at the conclusion of their education but student groups have confirmed that the prospect of greater autonomy has resulted in a forecasted increase in returns. Employment inside Greenland remains the biggest hurdle to repatriation. Christiansen has also identified housing as an additional barrier, but hopes to address the issue by constructing several new estates.
Greenlandic Students Association in Denmark head, Anne Berit Nielsen, has claimed that childcare and family issues also compounded the reluctance to return for many Greenlandic youths. Herself a medical student, Nielsen said simply that “there are just a lot more opportunities in the Danish health service.” Nielsen advised against adopting the proposals of her homeland’s lawmakers to make émigrés repay education subsidies.
Christiansen empathised with those students in Denmark but hoped future decisions would be encouraged by a sense of national identity. “If you’re settling down in Denmark, you can’t be a part of building our country. To them, I say: I hear what you are saying but you need to come home and help us.”
Joseph,
Forty years ago, I would have said the same thing. Your assessment of the United States sounds like the usual sophomoric defense of what you’ve been taught to believe. Joseph, you have no idea how deep the rabbit hole goes or you wouldn’t have used such a trite response to my posting. You don’t even know what Fascism is! Fascism is the collusion of government and private corporations for the benefit of the private shareholders. Yes, the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and the FEDERAL RESERVE *ARE* privately-held corporations. Unlike Wal-Mart, Monsanto, BP, Union Carbide, Cargill, etc. the U.S.A’s products include derivatives, military hardware, military force for hire, tax revenue, all property, and labor-time value. We The People *ARE NOT* the shareholders OR beneficiaries!!! Fascism and nationalism (populism) are contrary to each other. It is clear you haven’t experienced the psychosis and nihilism of Wall Street, big private equity firms, and the cynical views they hold.
Forget what you learned in skool and listen. The U.S. economy is run on fraud, malice, malfeasance, global narcotics, money laundering, derivatives, private prisons, and murder. Four (4) percent of the U.S. “economy” is you, me, and the two-bit small – medium businesses that don’t count for anything. What the Big Boyz do matters and they don’t care if America falls into a Mad Max hellhole because of their malice and globalist agenda. Wealth has long been disconnected from national economies and moved to the global finance grid. Global finance capital are like the clouds above the earth and they will rain or dry up at the whim of the elites who really rule the world.
There IS NO LAND OF OPPORTUNITY if the financial capital doesn’t serve the body-politic. To satisfy your threadbare claim of Land Of Opportunity, you will have to define “opportunity” down to the level of two-bit MLM franchises, gypsy tradesmen, companies that serve the police state surveillance grid, or a consultancy for Homeland Security. We are all technically SERFS. SERFS cannot own property. We have recently become SLAVES when Lord Bush removed our right to HABEAS CORPUS. SLAVES don’t even have the right to own themselves! We will all feel that reality soon enough. Even you, Joseph, will reach for your tattered rights one day and find they are long gone.
Greenland is not the warmest place to start over but it may be the last chance, where men can be freeholders and reclaim their natural rights, if Nuuk and Copenhagen have the wisdom to see what’s coming and prepare for it. Greenland could reap thousands of quality refugees escaping from communist Amerika.
Sincerely,
Jim
Jim,
It is ridiculous to believe that Americans will move away from the ”
Land of Opportunity” to Greenland, the “Land of No Opportunity.” Your assessment of the United States also sounds like a Fascist Diatribe.
Sincerely,
Joseph
This is not a hard problem for Greenland to solve. About two thousand miles or so to your southwest is The United States, ready to erupt into civil war. There are millions of white Americans in need of an escape route. Even a life boat. The U.S. is too far gone into barbarism and corruption to save. Some Americans would be willing to come to Greenland and bring their skills and energy as new pioneers. If Greenland could market itself to American Populists and Patriots as the New Frontier for Americans fleeing tyranny, you would benefit from an enormous wealth transfer. If Greenland plays its cards right, it would also inherit a rabidly loyal people; ready to regroup and galvanize Greenland into the world’s last hope for freedom.
This time, however, Americans expats who come to Greenland will be vigilant to not repeat the same mistakes that brought 230+ years of history to naught. As much as Greenland needs labor, it must be careful about who it invites in. Quality of immigration is vital and only those with skills, trades, education, ability, or wealth desired by Greenland should be granted entry. Loose immigration policies are destructive and history has proven it beyond any doubt, criticism, or argument.
I hope somebody takes this to Nuuk and they have the intelligence to run with it. Greenland can take advantage of a Golden Opportunity to rescue lots of bright and capable Americans if they just become the RMS Carpathia to a USS America sinking beneath the waves. You can’t save us all but, you will save some good ones who will be looking for you.
ITS A SAD THING WHAT DENMARK HAS DONE TO ITS GREENLANDERS THEY HAS DEPRIVED THE GREENLANDERS INSTEAD THE BEST JOB IS RESERVED FOR WHITE NORDIC RACE IMPORTED FROM DENMARK JUST TO CONTROL THE GREENLANDERS THEY HAS TO LOOK TO CHINA FOR ECONOMIC HELP IF GREENLAND WANT TO ACHIEVE TOTAL INEPENDANCE
yes they study allright in Denmark, but they never get any exams, that is the sad truth and the reason why we never get any numbers. Their nonsense about independence is just laughable – they get 4 billion Danish kroner a year, which is pretty much their whole income. Icenews should tell the truth abouth Greenland factories closing down around payday because the workers have gone drinking and children starving and being abused in Greenland.