I welcome your alternate views
My opinion (and I believe many of the anti-PAP people share the
same) is as follows:
We need foreigners. That's a definite.
However, the usual way of bringing in foreigners is to bring in
foreign talents right at the top, OR bring in foreign labour for
jobs that Singaporeans shun.
You DO NOT
bring in foreign labour to compete in the middle.
That's suicidal, and will most definitely cause social issues (as
can be seen now in Singapore).
Jobs in the middle should always be reserved for the locals.
It's as simple as that. By calling every single foreign labour
as foreign talent, our govt is abusing the policy to forward their
own personal agenda.
I find it very depressing to hear our own leaders continuously
criticizing our own people. No country ever does that to their
people.
ONLY singapore leaders have the ability to slam their own
people, and get away with it. For this, we ourselves have to take a
part of the blame, for voting them into the govt even though we do
not want to. It's a sad and vicious cycle.
Uncle,
Bringing in top talents foreigners existed long ago, as i study
modern history of Singapore, in the 70s and 80s we got lots of good
Japanese, German, Dutch, British, US, French that we even have
shopping centres and schools for them, our productivity was at
record high. That was good, according to the author, not only they
helped us to build our economy, they also bring along good culture
and gracious manner to us.
But today, 2010, we are attracting the wrong crowd, poor China
or Indian PhD researchers, lecturers, so forth and so on, that
bring nothing much except lots of problem with a funny habit of
talking loud and not gracious at all. And bear this in mind, today
top foreign talents from China, mynmar, india, viet, malaysia come
into Singapore, get a top job or open an investment, then
they bring along their fellow countrymen as staffs and
workers to gather their strength, make up the nos by
introducing one after another in term of relative or friendship
with some bribery going on. So anyone can come in with
recommedation from the top.
Recently, an industrial officer just told me over a coffee, an
Indian HR director of a shipyards can call in 200 indian workers
with a flick of his thumb, and every worker have to pay him $4000
sing to get here, not to the company. Just imagine how much he
makes, next, a China construction project manager called in 175 PRC
construction workers( which some are actually farmers) to join him,
with each paying $2000 sing to him just to get the work permit and
the jobs. Now, are we becoming a place for human transaction??? If
you look at MOM last year, how much workers goes there complaining
that their bosses neglected them, and it is because of protest, MOM
then decide to take action, but who gives the work permit in the
first place??? MOM.
