Posted on 07/11/2018 11:02:31 PM PDT by Cronos
As of April, more than 800,000 had left the country since late 2016, alarming domestic companies concerned that the foreigners cannot be easily replaced.
..Saudi business owners are having difficulty getting locals, accustomed to undemanding work in the state sector and generous unemployment benefits, to work for them. Reports suggest many Saudis are put off by what they regard as poorly paid, low-status jobs.
.."Employers say young Saudi men and women are lazy and are not interested in working and accuse Saudi youth of preferring to stay at home rather than to take a low-paying job that does not befit the social status of a Saudi job seeker,"
MBS hopes to generate some $17.33 billion through the new expat taxes by 2020 in order to help address the budget deficit — projected to be $52 billion in 2018 — and finance new economic projects. ..."Taxation of expatriates, before Saudi Arabia turns into a productive economy that depends on industry, is like putting the cart before the horse," Tariq A. Al Maeena, a Jeddah-based commentator, said in Gulf News in October.
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Saudi Arabia is an American ally and always has been
This is a job for Mexico!
can we trade them immigrants for oil?
All coming to America.
Back to the Philippines.
Too bad Mexico’s not on their southern border.
My daughter was assigned to tutor some Saudi exchange students while she was in college.
According to her those people are utterly worthless. Pampered, spoiled, lazy, sex-obsessed, drunken, drugging, partying, unserious, emotionally arrested at age 13.
Without foreign workers they will all starve. Their population has no clue how to live in the real world.
They just have a more extreme case of what we’ve created by bringing in illegals to do our “lesser” work.
Saudi Arabia has high unemployment among its young people. Have them do the work.
Much of this shift is simple foreign drivers going home, and women will drive themselves.
That alone will help improve their economy.
It is going to be a painful multi-year adjustment - a major cultural shift, to get Saudis to develop a broad work ethic.
To get them off the couch, and off the Government dole (Government jobs, unemployment, and other programs), will mean changing the lives of millions of individuals - hearts and minds and values. More than half of Saudi workers are directly employed by the Government - they sometimes work even less than the private sector’s many tea-sipping token Saudi employees.
These are strong policy measures that have been put into effect, as compared with the kind of gradual policies we see in the USA, so the Government is trying. It will require powerful policy incentives over many years, because the Saudi workforce is so far outside of the global norm (at least they are highly literate and educated).
Beyond just policy though, a lot of people will need coaching and encouragement, to turn their lives around like the Government wants. I think they should have the media and education establishments working hard to encourage people, and promote good role models.
They don’t need to work as they get huge unemployment money.
Saudi Arabia is a welfare state trying to avoid collapse, because it has too many people collecting and not enough producing.
Letting women drive and having foreign drivers go home results in less money paid to foreigners that goes abroad, and it may lead to more women working.
The hard part is getting more men to work instead of foreign laborers.
Half the reason they were building mosques abroad was to export a lot of their religious studies graduates, a group that is a large minority of their graduates.
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