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Originally Posted by rogueteens
Total crap, the reason why the corporations employ immigrants is because they are willing to work for peanuts and send most of that money back home. They don't have a family/mortgage/ect to worry about and so can work for much lower wages. The only people who benefit from immigration is the corporations that can bus cheap workers around the globe. Like the oil company that opened up in Scotland and ONLY employed cheap Polish workers. How does that help Scotland in ANY way at all?
The EU will not work as for it to be a success, every country has to be on a level ecconomic base, the richer countries have to lower their standards of living for the poorer countries to catch up.
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wtf? did all that come from a late night discussion at the pub? I would consider looking at actual facts and figures rather than flimsy word of mouth knowledge into this sort of thing.
You do realise also that customs unions take hundreds of years to succeed and get the balance right of rich to poor. Previous federations have shown that.
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Originally Posted by sperbonzo
Personally I will take the risks involved in freedom over giving power to a vast centralized government that only ends up representing itself.. Does the EU council care what individual people with individual cultures want? Organize 2000 people to march at your local government, and they will sit up, take notice, and you will be represented. Organize that same 2000 people to the EU council and they won't even realize you're there.
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Ok thats fair you hold that view, but you do realise that more wars occur in multi polar systems like that? Prime example in the late 1990's Kosovo war outside of the EU's control.
And erm... try organising a 2000 protest in Libya and see what happ.....