Global village? More like Chinese and Indian villages. Well, it
takes a bigger bigot to know another bigot. I suggest you look up
the meaning of the word bigot before using it on me. 
You should look at the issues first before passing
judgement and taking the moral high ground with me, my issue is
with too many foreign talents extracting profits out of Singapore,
I am not against foreigners.
There is a maximum amount of immgrants that Singapore can take it,
we are not like the US or Australia, where the economy is huge
enough to absorb all those immigrants without causing social
tensions. Well, I am not totally against immigrants, provided they
are really "talents". But at the current situation, think we taking
in the sub-standard ah neh from India and sub-standard ah niu from
China. How does his add value to Singapore?
They are constantly displacing Singaporeans from their jobs, due to
cheaper wages which we are unable to compete with. Why aren't we
able to compete with them for cheaper wages? It's because they have
a lower cost structure for their families living in China, each S$1
earned here converts to RMB 5.00, without CPF, they stand to remit
more back to China. The 4-6 average Chinese workers is able to
squeeze into a room. Is the average Singaporean family able to
squeeze 4-6 persons into a room?
Frankly I have nothing against these immigrant workers, it's not
their fault, it's more the fault of the P4P government for failing
to restrict the numbers of foreign workers. These worker cause the
average Singaporean to have a lower standard of living by competing
in terms of lower wages.
If you look at other countries, like Japan, UK, Australia, they
have policies to restrict these immigrant workers to protect their
own citizens. But Singapore has to take the idiotic route of
competing for cheaper cost instead of quality. Ask yourself why is
the price of a Rolex on the increase, while other generic
electrical goods keep falling in value? To me, Singapore is just
chasing a falling rock into the bottom of the well.
Not too long ago, this house was delapidated, the immigrants of the
past came over from distant land to build this house to it's
greatness today. These folks did not reap the benefits of building
this house, instead they have been made poorer with the increase in
new immigrant workers, as wage price drops, it cause a domino
effect, wage levels below it dropped as well, causing these old
folks who use to be able to make more from jobs at hawker centers,
to be relinquish to picking up cans and boxes for a living.
Why was cheap foreign labour allowed to enter Singapore so easily?
It's because of the governments intention to lower wage levels, as
wage levels are always price sticky downwards. Their downward
pressure of these foreigners caused the average wage level of
Singaporeans to decrease. Talk to some taxi drivers, some use to be
managers in factories, now they drive taxis because their bosses
tell them, with your wage I can hire 3-4 Chinese workers. Would
this have happened if there were less foreign labours being
seconded to Singapore?
Like I said before, Singapore reliance on using cost economics is a
negative sum game that will work against them in the long run.
China and India with a huge labour force cannot be challenged by
Singapore. How many more years of depressed wage levels does
Singapore have to endure before India and China reach our levels of
GDP per capita?
Don't you think by changing the demographical composition of
Singapore will result in social tensions in the future?
