WHY MALTA’S POPULATION WILL EXCEED 3 MILLION

by a Blog Reader

The Maltese government’s first wave of creating ghost jobs in the public sector for those who wanted a government job has led to the second wave, the importation of uneducated workers to fill the void in the job market created by the first wave. Wrapped in the thin veil of an artificially created labour shortage, this approach not only tears down the foundation of the nation’s workforce but also lays bare the emptiness of Labour’s economic model. This recklessness bypasses pressing issues with disdain and demonstrates a shocking disregard for the welfare of the people.

Rather than tackling the true source of the labour gap, the government’s decision to usher in uneducated workers solidifies its grim legacy of neglecting skills development in Malta. This policy brazenly signals that the government is content to forsake its own workers’ advancement, preferring instead a future tethered to foreign labour and essentially extinguishing the nation’s long-term economic potential. As a result, Maltese tradesmen, even in a leading industry such as construction, have practically disappeared.

Full Employment

The government’s boastful proclamation of full employment obfuscates the glaring mismatch between available jobs and the skillset of the workforce. The introduction of uneducated labour may temporarily plug gaps, but it fails to address the persistent epidemic of job-skills mismatch.

Once you import legions of foreign workers, demand for healthcare and essential services also rises as we can see from Labour having to double Malta’s national debt, hurtling the country towards bankruptcy. In the struggle to meet this heightened demand, prices and rent in the private sector are raised too, to the detriment of Maltese patients, pensioners and anyone seeking lodging. As wage and price pressures feed into each other in a self-reinforcing cycle, it results in overall price levels increasing further across the economy. There is no stop to it. The government is now clueless.

The government can be faulted for egregious dereliction of duty toward sustainable development as we are witnessing with the out-of-control demand for electricity and clean water. Its fixation on the present blinds it to the profound environmental and societal consequences of its actions. The negligent importation of labour without thought to ecological impact or long-term societal upheaval underscores a shocking disregard for the nation’s future.

A nation’s identity and unity hinge on its workforce, but the government’s uncaring embrace of imported labour betrays its apathy toward these values. This policy jettisons the significance of a native workforce, one that embodies the nation’s values, heritage, and aspirations. The government’s ill-advised approach alienates citizens and ruthlessly dismantles the very social fabric that holds a nation together. Just take a look at the worker’s monument in Msida. Its spirit of hard work and family unity is the antithesis of what Labour has promoted in its short reign.

Imported labour promises nothing but perpetual dependency and eventual discontent. A few months ago, Finance Minister Clyde Caruana announced that the way things are going, Malta’s influx of foreigners is about to surpass his government’s expectations. The population will need to double to 800,000 only about half of whom will be Maltese, he said. His was a gross underestimate. Take the UAE as a model for what’s happening in Malta. In the UAE everyone has access to a sweet government job, as if by birthright. As a result, the real work is left for imported labour whose numerous needs – since imported workers often leave their native countries carrying nothing with them – require more imported labour, which in turn requires more imported labour. It’s a vicious cycle. Today, foreigners constitute 88% of the population in the UAE. If the current 400,000 Maltese are equivalent to the 12%, the citizens in the UAE, the remaining 88% in Malta would have to be over 2,900,000 foreigners, leading to a total population of about 3.3 million people, way above Minister Caruana’s predicted doubling to 800,000.

Under this model, you may kiss bye-bye to the environment, culture, and many other sacred cows in the political lexicon. Malta has had three prophets who, ahead of everyone else,openly predicted in their idiosyncratic ways that Malta’s population was about to detrimentally explode. They were Norman Lowell, Adrian Delia, and Fr David Muscat. Prophets of doom always take risks in terms of ridicule and humiliation,and this is why all three paid dearly, in their respective ways, for daring to speak out loud. As if eviscerating the prophet changes the predicted outcome.

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