“Spain: Jobless immigrants paid to go home”

A great man once said that “Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrations and revolutionists.” (Franklin D. Roosevelt). The Article “Spain: Jobless immigrants paid to go home” that was published on Friday, September 19, 2008 shows us, the reader, that this quote is an accurate statement. The article discusses how the nation of Spain plans to save its’ once booming economy. The nation plan is to pay unemployed immigrants to go home under a decree approved Friday by the nations’ cabinet, but this is just more evidence that the nation economy is sputtering in my eyes. The plan targets tens of thousands of non-European Union citizens who have been laid off in Spain and are entitled to unemployment benefits. Under the nation’s voluntary recovery plan, the government will offer a lump sum payment forty percent of that money to tens of thousands of non-European Union residents, once they renounce their work and residency permits, and the rest once they get home. For those non-European Union citizens residing in the nation who signs up must agree to exile themselves from Spain for three years, with the promise that they will be able to recover their work and residency permits after that. This was brought forth as a result that the nation is grappling with ever-swelling jobless ranks in an economy that had posted more than a decade of solid growth but is now flirting with recession. The nation unemployment rate is now 10.7 percent, and rates amoung the highest in the European Union. But my opinion on this matter is why should a nation that was built by the hand of immigrates suggest that its’ own residents to leave the nation that they call home in order to help solve the economy that they once help boom.

Article written by: Daniel Woolls

The Associated Press

Friday, September 19, 2008

Article on page A6 of the New York edition