On Tuesday 10 Mar 2009 4:09:40 pm Eugen Leitl wrote: > I'm not sure there will be enough money. There might well be better > opportunities at home after the smoke clears.
Don't bet on it. There are enough people here to make living poor in Europe seem attractive - so the xenophobes may well get business. "Enough money" is a relative thing. If a given European country says that the minimum wage is X Euros and hour - this may seem expensive. But if a mass of Indians are willing to work for x/10 Euros an hour - the only thing holding them back is a law that demands a particuular minimum wage. Change the law and its done. This is how Britain subsidised its health service and acquired a lot of its Pakistanis And Indians, Bangladeshis, Nigerians and Sri Lankans) . Workers (doctors) from the subcontinent were employed in all the junior posts with little hope of rising to higher levels and little hope of settling permanently and claiming a pension at a later date. So the work was done cheaper. shiv
