Merkel "Let's train Muslim refugees to be truck drivers"
Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2016 3:46 pm
German Chancellor Angela Merkel in September tried to push through a plan that would allow refugees to be trained and hired as lorry drivers – just months before a lorry was used by a suspected asylum-seeker to mow down civilians during Monday’s Berlin terror attack.The lights are off in that wacky cow's head.
Merkel encouraged companies to hire refugees and promised financial assistance for the training and other costs – even if they hadn’t yet been granted asylum – as drivers and also wanted to make it cheaper for migrants to trade in their foreign driver’s license for a German one, The Daily Express reported.
"We all need to be ready to implement practical solutions,” Merkel said when introducing her plan.
But the Organization of German Profession Lorry Drivers (BDBK) fought back.
“We give a definite no to use refugees as lorry drivers,” BDBK chairman Wolfgang Westermann said at the time. “Professional lorry drivers need a thorough and qualified education. You cannot just let everyone drive off in a 40-ton lorry. How do you control the safety of our citizens by allowing that?”