Re: Kerala

To Paul
>My Indian wife and I have been traveling in Kerala last summer and we
>spoke with a Indian young man coming back from the Arabian States. He told
>us Kerala's young men used to go to Arabian States to find a job, most of
>the time in pretty bad conditions, as immigrants. The salary from one of
>those immigrants was enough to maintain a full Indian familly... But,
>lately, the Arabian recession have forced the government to restrain
>immigration to favour their own citizen. This situation brought back to
>the country a lot of young men used to live abroad, producing a very high
>dissatisfaction in a unemployement atmosphere. So, this natural paradise
>is more than ever a pretty bad location for workers...
>So the question is not to ask if governements (in this case the Keralan
>communist governement wich invest a lot in scolarity and social welfare
>thanks to the taxes)  have to lay down their social adquisitions to
>compete one with another, whatever was the level -regional or national-
>but to find a solution on how we can propose a worldwide solution to avoid
>this bottom race wich benefits are exclusively reserved to the main owners
>of the humanity wealth whilst the four fifth of the world population is
>looking on how to be cheaper than their neighbours, their friends, their
>brothers, their father, their own integrity...
>
>>One more note on Kerala. Kerala suffers the highest unemployment rate in
>>India, a possible result of capital flight due to high taxes. As a result
>>Keralan workers, who are unusually highly schooled, are forced to
>>emigrate to find  work. Is life better for Keralan workers? Well, yes and
>>no, but this is hardly a "paradise" for workers.
>>Paul
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