basically, if u are in europe, u may be a sleeping on the street
on the cold winter nites waiting for welfare funds to be
distributed.
Singapore, without natural resources, is very much depend on
human resources, with a fast pace of growing economy
competitiveness, we can slack behind others and allow them to
overcome us, if that is the case, we are history.
Invest in technology also needs manpowers, aging population is
one of the main factor that we are engaging young foreign
talents and strength to helps us build our economy. We should be
glad that people find here conducive to work and thereby leave
their homeland to help us create business and technology here. We
are also lucky that these foreigners homeland are not doing well,
thereby given us the opportunity to drain both their brain and
strength for the benefit of you and me. Talking about problems with
foreign peoples, i think Singaporeans are also equally
creating problems here, these are norm of a society, as there can
never be a so call utopia society, as long as we can keep it at a
minimum, we should be the least crime rate in Asean.
Throughout the years of industrialisation, MNCs in one way or
the other bring wealth and knowledge to us, and in a short period
of time, the state created and privatised it own MNCs, the like of
DBS, ST technologist, Keppel, City developers...etc etc, all these
cannot be form without the know how and know why that we learned
from MNCs, we actually should thanks the Japanses, europe and even
the americans who invested here for the benefits of the world, the
likes of SONY, TATA, PHilips, Hitachi, etc etc had trained our
peoples not only in the knowledge of working and technology but how
the vision of how an MNCs works. As Such, we adopted a very open
door policies and make ourselves ranked as best
workers in the world under BERI survey.
The NTUC had managed to train about 100,000 peoples in this
recession resulting in less unemployment and less retrenchment, it
is the worst recession that hit us hard then 1998, but we still
have lesser retrenchment than 1998, 30,000 nos. It provided a
channels of reaching and helping the lower income and unemployed by
match jobs to jobs for them, train and provide hourly paid too.
Where else can u find these in Europe?? The recent strike and
protest by french and british workers on employer employing former
cheap Eastern European workers had totally cut their local workers
off..this led to clashes and riot which is detrimental to the
country and society as a whole.
Birthrate is a unique social issue by itself, we are not the one
having a low birthrates, since it is beyong one control, but we
have to be ready to look forward into the future, if there is no
grow from within, we hve to order from outside, that is the fact of
it, and luckily, peoples are coming, be it stepping stones or
whatsoever, at least a few will stay and make this a place they
call home.
In ur post, u agree that the locals are ranked as best workers.
Yet the govt still blames us for being choosy when it comes to
work.
Singapore are ranked the best place to do business in in an
international poll.
Provided that ur an entrpreneur. But not beneficiary for the
blue collar wokers. The govt only has itself to blame for the
declining birth rate because of the rippling effect of its policy.
It is because the govt has made its point that suppressing
its wages, keeping it low is one of the way of attratcing
foreign investments.
