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Old 9th Apr 2009, 04:45
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Yep Dubai is crap!

I come from good England along with the Panorama programme makers. We have it much better there. In Dubai they pay a bunch of workers much more money than they can earn at home, don't forget if you have a job you get $100/month but unemployment in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh runs at astronomical levels and for many workers the sheikhs generate some hope propping up whole families at home.

In England we pay taxes so that we can look after the unfortunates by paying benefits and giving them houses. Those lucky ones in receipt then bring their entire family over to get more benefits. After a while the benefits get spent on TVs (made by exploited Chinese workers), clothes (made by exploited Sri Lankans making $50/month) and all sorts of other trinkets made by exploited workers around the globe. Then because they are bored they go to the mosque listen to Abu Qatatda and blow us all up.

Now some of you will cry racism but it isn't, its realism. Rather than exploitation of workers, the story sounds more like the British and Australian habit of enjoying Tall Poppies being cut to the ground and then p!ssing on the remains.

As I said at the start, Dubai is crap but nowhere near the bottom of the world crap rankings.
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