And lo on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:44:14 -0000, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> did  
spake, saying:

> Phil Cook <phi### [at] nospamrocainfreeservecouk> wrote:
>> Trouble is the cost of providing said pamphlets is quite high prompting  
>> a
>> lot of tabloids to complain about this waste of taxpayers money  
>> (ignoring
>> the fact that a lot of these immigrants are themselves taxpayers too)
>
>   I think that the tabloids are right if the immigrant have a total
> negative effect on the economy and wrong if they have a total positive
> effect on it. Has anyone dared to make the (unbiased) calculations there
> on which is the case?
>
>   Of course in modern Europe it would not be PC to make (and especially
> publish) such calculations if they show that the net total is negative...

For my country historically we seemed to get a positive result, unless  
they were Catholic or Norman :-) Then again historically we didn't bend  
over backwards to accomodate them.

I was at the Polish Club a couple of months ago and they were talking  
about how they were helping immigrating Poles, mostly a bit of translation  
of documents, legal niceties, how to open a bank account etc. unlike the  
tabloid portrayal of "Which way to Job Centre for free monies please?".

-- 
Phil Cook

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