You should see the islands they are building as tourist resorts. The Palm that Aristoi is incredible looking. From a friend who has lived there, there isn’t much poverty among the citizens, but the migrant and resident alien workforce is extremely poor.

To account 80% of those foreign workers as poor and destitute is wrong. Quite a few of that number are white collar workers that come from the U.S. and U.K. and are treated quite well. For the rest its unfortunate but foreign laborers have historically been treated poorly in any country they go to, ask the Irish that came to the U.S. in the past. How is it fair to treat UAE any different than all the other countries where migrant workers are living 10 to a tiny apartment.

Yeah the country is elitist about their citizens but thats standard for the region if not most of the world. Japan is very similar in that aspect (something which they are paying for in population loss).

I don’t necc. disagree with you I just think your criticism applies to most of the world.

I think this is a good thing. It shows that atleast one oil producing country is trying to build a post oil economy which will in the long run make the transition easier and hopefully reduce the number of deaths associated with oil (from production to the powers that be protecting the status quo). It’s much better than another country where everyone is starving.

Wha? i agree with you one hundred percent. I just meant they are planning for when that particular item runs out.

Dubai is the american embassy around there. Petrol is money!! They have sell their souls for money. Like most of people.

what did iraq teach little dubai to say thanks to the Americans