In India this weekend, Obama remarked that the Indians were not stealing jobs from the West, rather that they were creating them.
This is a bit like Gerhard Schröder's famous need to import 20,000 Indian IT technicians to Germany as the "skills did not exist and we need them to get economy moving".
You want to know how many IT specialists there are unemployed in Germany at the moment, and remember one of Merkel's cohorts commenting the other week that Germany doesn't need any more immigrants to do IT work ....
So if the Indians have not stolen my job and created jobs instead, what I am doing unemployed? Where is my job? What am I supposed to be doing? Why do I keep sending out applications by the dozen and getting no reply?
Of course there is the US Republican Party answer to this (in line with "the poor have created their own poverty" and their denial that the financial crash ever happened in 2008) - namely that the unemployed are lazy and don't want to work.
The jobs don't exist therefore I don't want to work. The problem is that this weekend even Obama subscribed to that.
If he were right about the jobs being created incidentally, then please let me know where! Something in line with my qualifications, experience, intelligence, and something that will at least keep the wolf from the door!
I will happily do German to English or French to English translation work as an alternative incidentally.
I would like to see Obama proved right for once (can any sensible person on this planet want to see the Republicans back in power in the US with the same bankrupt ideas and their need to start unnecessary wars?), but he increasingly comes across as being brilliant at rhetoric and that is it.
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