Gulf Population: Blame it on Fate, Blame it on Greed, Blame it on Rio……….
“The statistical report, issued by the Public Authority for Civil Information, stated that Asians make the majority of foreigners in Kuwait, 56.5%, and the total number of non-Kuwaiti Arabs amounts to 36.8% while the total number of Europeans, Africans, Americans, and Australians does not exceed 2.3%. Statistics show that out of the total population of Kuwait, estimated at 3.44 million, almost 2.34 are foreigners (of which over half a million are housemaids)…….. On the other hand, officials saw this demographic imbalance as a natural outcome of development plans in Kuwait. The economic growth the Gulf state has been witnessing, officials argue, necessitated opening the door for foreigners as the number of nationals was not enough to meet the rising demand in the job market. Hiring foreigners, they added, was important in order to satisfy the country’s needs, especially as far as services offered to citizens like infrastructure and social projects………”
Interesting this government stance: blaming it on “development”. It is the old argument of chickens and eggs. It is defeating itself, this foolish policy, and all over the Gulf states.
Here is how it works, the mechanism simplified:
More unskilled foreign labor imported leads to more demand for imported products and for slum-type housing, controlled by the plutocrats, which leads the latter to build more of these units and import more Chinese junk. Then the more units built and more Chinese junk imported leads the plutocrats to pressure for leaving the gates open wider for more imported menial labor who would create demand for their slums and their imported Chinese junk, then they all start to voice concern about too much “marginal” foreign labor who……etc and ad nauseam……………
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