Six in Ten Iraqis Unemployed, but U. S. Subcontractors Hire Cheap Migrant Laborers

[Les Schaffer <schaffer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Even though seven million Iraqis are unemployed1,
> U.S. sub-contractors are rebuilding the Iraqi infrastructure with
> cheap migrant labor from South Asia. The use of Asian laborers is
> at odds with President Bush's emphasis on the importance of Iraqis
> taking on the job themselves.

i've often heard Marx quoted as saying that things do not speak for
themselves.

but sometimes, i wonder.

les schaffer



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