Originally Posted by banter64 (Post 8744007)

let me give you an example, the Beach Road was the origional "jumeriah" where all the nationals lived, along came a Shk and said give me your land and I will give you a house fully built and worth more, he took the land, gave the nationals villas next to a sewerage plant and then sold of the land to non nationals at a greater profit,

Originally Posted by banter64 (Post 8744007)

65% of the small UAE population live below what expats would class as the breadline and that is sad.

Originally Posted by banter64 (Post 8744007)

65% of the small UAE population live below what expats would class as the breadline and that is sad.

Originally Posted by banter64 (Post 8744007)

Interesting I was with a national last night for dinner and we were discussing the UAE and how it had become, he is a pure national and he is horrified at the way the UAE has become, he said that there was no forward planning but just greed on behalf of the UAE, he used an observation that if you follow a recepie for a cake but decide to add ingrediants from another recepie you would end up with a mess and that is what the UAE has done, they did not test out having so many nationalities with different cultural and religious beliefs, he said it is a clear recepie for disaster.

On your final comment Shk Zayed did a great deal for his nationals, since he passed away this has all changed, there is a great deal of resentment from the UAE nationals towards to expats why ?? let me give you an example, the Beach Road was the origional "jumeriah" where all the nationals lived, along came a Shk and said give me your land and I will give you a house fully built and worth more, he took the land, gave the nationals villas next to a sewerage plant and then sold of the land to non nationals at a greater profit, the national feel that their prime land and positions are taken by expats who come and abuse the system, flaunt the laws and then go home leaving the nationals priced out of buying a home in an area that they came from and no positions available to them.

Having said all of that there is a minset with some UAE nationals that feel that they should be given everything for doing nothing, this unfortunatley has been bought about by greed and money and a false upbringing. They also feel they have the right to flout the laws and get away with it as it is their country, little do they realise that with this attitude they are making it far worse. 65% of the small UAE population live below what expats would class as the breadline and that is sad. To see an old man who has no children standing on the side of the road begging for a lift in this heat with no home to go to is a sad situation and the UAE need to adress and put some money back into the society at a lower level rather than keep feeding the fat money grabbers at the top.

Sad as it is, I cannot see things changing soon.