Reply #3: Schengen in the West made sense. Schengen in the East only helps big biz [View All]

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As soon as they could, Nokia closed their huge plant in Bochum, Germany for the simple reason
that they could build the same plant in Romania and pay the workers a third as much. They went
ahead despite howls of protest from Germany and warnings from product quality control experts.

Cost savings won the battle, but lost the war. The poor quality of phone produced by the new
Romanian Nokia plant forced Nokia to withdraw the phones made there from the market. Instead
of making less profit on the good phones they produced in Germany, they are making nothing on
the junk produced in Romania.

As of May 2, the EU overlords want to open the borders completely for citizens of Romania and
Bulgaria. As if organized crime in the West perpetrated by these people wasn't already at epidemic
levels, as if the German and French workforce wasn't struggling with enough unemployment as it is.

These shortsighted moves are a slap in the face of German and French labor, and provide a feeding
frenzy for extreme-right movements that so far only got single digits (at best!) in national
elections, and all because a few big conglomerates were smacking their lips at super-cheap labor.