RC:
koko:
Crises or not VW will be bailed out regardless of what's going on.
anyway, this's getting too political for my taste.
Yes but the money has to come from somewhere, doesn't it?
Actually, shouldn't the UAE take in these (majorly muslim) refugees and provide shelter?
If you tell me now, that you have enough refugees (claims from officials in the UAE, same in Saudi Arabia), ask the UNHCR. According to them, there is only a handful recognized refugees in the UAE, which is ridiculous. Even less in Saudi Arabia.
Too political? Well, maybe I'm adding more to the mix: One UAE politician (foreign minister?) apparently claimed that one reason the UAE doesn't want to accept refugees from Syria is because there are cultural differences (oh well, I guess the cultural differences are not that high in Europe ) and also these refugees are traumatized and could pose a danger (oh well, no danger for Europe, right?!).
As you can see...everything is related to politics and money and VW is no exception. If VW needs financial help from the government, this means jobs are at risk. If jobs are at risk, some jobs will go away. If jobs go away, refugees won't find a job and even worse, they job market will get smaller and the jobless rate will raise.
Everything is related...industry, money, government, politics. You cannot ignore this, sorry. Unless you basically live on an isolated island. Oh wait...I forgot. No offense meant but this is the reality.
As someone from and who just moved back to the Middle East, I want to call nothing but bullshit on the way leaders in this part of the world are handling the migrant crisis.
For starters, I was raised around the world. I spent many years of my life in different European countries, cities, schools and educational systems and take frequent trips to Europe every year. I feel more culturally connected to Europe and North America than I do to the Middle East and were it not for my passport which lumps me into the Arab box, I wouldn't even be mentally or emotionally bound to the area.
Our leaders have nothing but words and pledges. Blah blah blah brotherhood, Arab identity this, Muslim support that - and it's all a pack of steaming lies. Yes, money may have been set aside but with all these people fleeing with the shirts on their backs, what's some well-publicized headline about millions of dollars pledged by royals and figureheads to mean to these people? Saudi Arabia eats up almost all the Arabian Peninsula; are you telling me that somewhere in the sand, they can't build a few fast-tracked compounds or towns using trailers or whatever else to house the migrants? Logistically, it keeps them closer to home should they need to go back, their culture is dramatically more similar to the area than it is to Western culture, language barriers shouldn't be an issue... So why not?
Remember that little Syrian boy who was found face-down in the surf? I saw a political cartoon published in some Middle Eastern newspaper [probably Lebanese] where it showed the drowned boy and around him, greyed-out figures of Arab sheikhs in their headdresses asking if the boy is Sunni or Shia. As someone who only discovered the difference at the age of 20 when I moved back to the Middle East, I can only attest to the ridiculous amount of emphasis that is given to this sectarian stratification, where Shia are commonly viewed as heretic degenerates by the Sunni or as impostor Arabs due to the fact that many of them come from Iranian ancestry.
It's a load of steaming shit. There are so many problems in this world and if people wouldn't squabble over things that should otherwise not matter, we wouldn't be in half the wars, conflicts or issues we're currently in.
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