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A realist would say that there are "indisputable facts":

  1. one, that the first insecurity most poor people face is economic insecurity, and that you don't solve that by making work more "flexible" (ie giving the freedom to corporations to pay people less, fire them more easily, and impose inconvenient worktimes);

  2. two that immigrants in addition to being discriminated against by their looks in the pursuit of jobs and other activities, are scapegoated and (conveniently) blamed for the economic insecurity that other lower class people feel;

None of these facts are ideological, they are there, on the field. There actually is a minority of barbarians (demagogic politicians and employers willing to exploit vulnerable populations), hence need for public safety measures.

There actually is poverty and precarious life, so aid should be provided, and at the same time illegal use by bosses of immigrant workforces to lower wages should be pursued.

This is pure reality and rational approach.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Mon Nov 17th, 2008 at 06:04:14 PM EST
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You have made a good point.

I am against unlimited overtime work, against blackmarket jobs, and I am all for ordering bosses to pay more!

Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last! (Martin Luther King)

by ValentinD (walentijn arobase free spot frança) on Mon Nov 17th, 2008 at 06:14:09 PM EST
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