It is a surprise that you will wish to digress from the main
issue which began with your false claim that it is critical for
Singapore that - "The
economy need to be expanded to the max possible, so that we can
have the widest choice possible in goods and services"
.
Have you simply resigned from your position without even
bothering to make a reasonable defense for the false statement made
above - which you claim is the reason that justify the need
for the huge influx of foreign labor to Singapore ?
It is not too clever to simply dismiss my preceding reply as
digressing when you could have attempted to be honest with
yourself by addressing the issues raised.
It is also not too creative to simply hide behind a simple
excuse that there is "the
bone of contention between any persons who have their own opinion
and care to express them".
If you believe in your opinion as valid you would have the
conviction in yourself to push your ideas through instead
of resigning from fear of having to change your views, or fear of
something worst - to be debunked.
To put it all in a nutshell - are you prepared to see Singapore
being so dependent on foreign labor to justify the maximum economic
expansion for Singapore - to the extent of ignoring the pitfalls
experienced by other countries such as the named Middle-eastern
countries ?
What kind of resilient Total Defense for Singapore is there -
when continued economic progress is dependent on an ever
growing need for foreign labor to sustain the growth ?
Can this be digression ?
Surely you can learn something about being honest to yourself
?
I digress?, I am keeping to the topic.
I have reiterated my stand. I think because of your scorn
for LKY and his party, it did not register with you.
Anyway my statement is my statement. It cannot be false, it
can only be resonable, acceptable, or absurd.
You ask this question, and it shows that you already know
what my stand is.
"To put it all in a nutshell - are you prepared to see
Singapore being so dependent on foreign labor to justify the
maximum economic expansion for Singapore - to the extent of
ignoring the pitfalls experienced by other countries such as the
named Middle-eastern countries ?"
What makes you think that only you are privy to the details of
the Middle-eastern countries' experience? Isn't knowledge of
their experience the the cause of the statement which is the
title of this thread
S'poreans must not create an image that new immigrants
are not welcome.
Foreign workers here have their horror stories to tell too, but
as can be seen they are by and large well treated. This
eliminate or reduces one of the causes of foreign labour to
leave.
Why did the foreigh labour exit en mass from those
countries? International crisis, marked improvements in their
homeland, or simply there are greener pastures
elsewhere. Whatever the reason the danger is there. Singapore
knows it.
To answer your question, (which is cleverly crafted for me to
accept or reject a negative situation), I say this: I would
like Singapore to make hay while the sun shine, to take
all the opportunity of the present circumstances to move ahead
and to progress as much as possible. Yes this would spread our
resources thin, requiring the influx of foreign labour. I have
stated I am agreeable to this, and do so again, as opposed to
being restrained by the dangers of being too dependent on foreign
labour. When the time comes, and they leave Singapore in a
lurch, that would be another bridge to cross. In the mean
time, Majulah Singapura.
So should I expect Singapore, in view of those pitfalls,
to restrain from going all out?
No.
