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[quote=JABAROOTOO,257978]Why blame it all on the migrant farm workers.

Consider their lot for a moment.  Yes they come to the city looking for that dream - of earning enough money to put their kids thru school.

When they arrive the only skills they have are fit for labouring, shovelling sand and cement on fancy new residential buildings for the nouveau rich of today's China.

They, the farmer - lets drop the term MIGRANT since they are strictly speaking not migrants, they are Chinese Nationals working transient part-time jobs around their own  Nation - these farmers are underpaid, live in shanties on their work sites, eat Y1 bowls of rice and noodles at makeshift street kitchens and barely get a chance to go home for the holidays on overcrowded and for them expensive trains and buses.

Despair and destitution will drive people to desperate behaviour especially in the face of an affluence that they know they will never experience.

The above report appears to be poorly researched with and unbalanced look at the life of these farmers transplanted to the alien environment of big already overcrowded cities.

Perhaps they should be encouraged to stay with their farms doing what they know and already do well.  There is something seriously wrong in the farming industry if so many farmers want to leave????[/quote]

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