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Polands new immigrants from the West. [31]
Poland is being viewed as the land of opportunity for hard up PIGS.
Land of opportunity? Latest Poland’s official unemployment rate is at 12.5% and steadily rising compared to the 20% in 2003. One has to keep in mind that a significant amount of Poland’s labor force moved on to greener pastures when some of the European countries opened up their labor markets for them and that’s at the time when the world’s economies were in a reasonably good shape. Where do you see this opportunity you speak of?
The new wave will be here for quality of life, better to earn buttons in a cheap country, then have no prospects in your own country, they are on the way, you can quote me on this in 6 months.
Worlds’ economies are in turmoil, labor market is just the reflection of that reality. The greed of the banking institutions as well as that of the corporate world trying to save a buck or two in labor costs is what got us there in the first place. This problem will persist for quite some time into the future. I don’t see Poland or any other European country being able to absorb the labor force from abroad to make enough of the difference to keep the masses quiet for much longer or get us out of the mess we all find ourselves in. Imagine how angry the crowds will be upon their return when they come back bitterly disappointed by the empty promises of the likes of you who promise them a land of milk and honey where there is none. Although shifting the labor force from one European region to another worked to a certain extent in the past it’s no longer the case. I see chaos and mess protests in the near future engulfing all of Europe, Europe bickering and ethnic tensions rising, all due to the lack of work and opportunity which will be EU’s downfall (a good thing in my opinion). Poland is in the same boat as the rest of Europe, no worse off than some perhaps but a far cry from the land of milk and honey that you paint it to be.
Poland is seen as the land of opportunity as Pol gov have promoted it as unaffected by the crisis.
Keeping unemployment rate at reasonable level is not the same as creating new opportunities for domestic labor force let alone for the influx from abroad. In that aspect neither the previous nor current government of Poland do a squat except for exporting its labor force abroad where it was needed at that time and relieving the pressure on domestic front appeasing their masters in the process and boast about their achievements while haply relegating themselves to the role of a obedient vassal of the EU’s empire instead of being a full partner state and seeing themselves as equal. Not very persuasive PR campaign even to a desperate foreigner seeking work. If the **** hit the fan today, Poland is in no position to absorb its own citizen labor force currently residing and working abroad let alone a foreign one.
