tbaldwin said:
What if I am?
From what i can gather from talking to lots of different nurses from the phillipines.A huge % of the most educated phillipinos go into nursing in the hope of getting into the UK and USA...It might be good for them as individuals up to a point.
It's not good, it's FUCKING BRILLIANT!
People pay up to the equivalent of their first 9 months salary to get the chance of a 2 year job (with no security) in some countries - in some much more. And that's just to scrub other peoples shit out the toilet and, more frequently than
any "host" country should be happy about, treated like a slave. And yet, if you crack it right, you can work hard for a decade, maybe 13 years, and earn enough to support a family of 18 in relative comfort, including putting your own 3 kids through school (to become nurses, believe it or not,
,) and still have enough left over at the end to retire, buy a nice plot of land, build a house and dispose largesse in support of the local community.
Nurses, on the other hand, get the chance to emigrate to the US as nurses. That's why people become nurses fer fuck's sake. If it wasn't the case, nobody would become a nurse. Why would they? In the Philippines, being a nurse is completely fucking shit. And even in the (few) good,
private hospitals, the pay is so low as to condemn ones family to a life of abject poverty.
Fuck that!
.....If you can call travelling thousands of miles to get a well paid job,good..
Most people would, given the chance.
But for other phillipinos its not so good..If the phillipines continues to lose its most skilled workers it will obviously not develop as quickly as it would if it managed to keep them.
The reasons for the country's economic woes are complex and manifold. The loss of skilled peeps is a consequence, not a cause. Indeed, it is a Godsend, the country would collapse if policies such as you espouse were widely implemented.
So fuck you!
Your views that everything will be OK and that there will be a trickle down effect are just typical free market nonsense.......
Oh Christ!
I give up.
This is NOT a fucking academic argument as far as I'm concerned.
You
are Batboy, and I'm off to bed with my fiver - it's after 12:30am.
Nite!
Woof