David Miliband
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Think about Jordan, think about Lebanon.
So there's a whole macroeconomics, there's a whole international finance aspect involved.
to this, where the debt burden that arises when you are hosting populations, that's a massive issue for reform.
Secondly, there are costs associated with hosting refugees.
Europe is paying Turkey to host refugees because it wants to manage the flow of
people.
That actually makes sense because you've got to make sure that those poorer countries are actually getting the support they need.
If Lebanon and Jordan had had the proper support in the 2014, 15, 16, you wouldn't have had one and a half million people flooding to Europe in that period.
So there's an aid part of the equation.
There's also a diplomacy part of the
because the biggest reason for refugee flows is conflict.
People need to understand that a refugee is not someone who flees for economic reasons.
They're someone who flees for political or conflict reasons.
They're fleeing for their life.
I think it's a good point.
I mean, remember, what people say is we've got to focus on our own problems.
And it's important that those of us who are arguing for an international engagement aren't saying focus on the international instead of the domestic.
What we're saying is that for every $100 that you spend domestically, spend less than a dollar
In fact, the aid budget that's now being cut was less than 0.2% of national income in America.
So your income in America, your total national wealth every year is approaching $30 trillion.
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