Why are so many new graduates unemployed ?
Why are so many highly educated work force out of jobs?
With such unemployment, can we afford not to lower costs of doing
business and increase attractions to our own people to start their
own small businesses?
As far as I can see, the present government's pro-foreign
investment and employment policy is just a smokescreen based on its
claim that foreigners would come in to create jobs and help lift
the local's employment prospect.
There is no independent study to verify that this claim is true,
and it will not cause unemployment problems among the locals.
With so many policies and decisions in the past causing so many
problems as posted in the "20 major government policy errors", one
could see that it is bad for government to push such policy again
withut substantiation down the throat of the people.
There should be no judgmental or creative accounting method of
presenting what look good and avoiding mention of problems.
Until such government claim is properly presented, citizens could
only take it with a pinch of salt that it will be good as
claimed.
This type of leadership and government is still the old-style "we
know best" approach adopted by the past leaders which might be the
cause of our losing out in economic competitiveness, dropping of
wages and increasing high cost problems since the 1970s.
I could only see the jobs being taken away as all kinds of
foreigners are coming in to occupy all the businesses and positions
locals could handle.
Just because government needs to approve foreigners' applications
for starting similar businesses here must government be the one to
succeed in its invitation game while local are edged out and
becoming unemployed by large number.
If the foreign talents we want are categorized and identified, at
least the whole policy will become more transparent and we can see
it will not cause problems to locals.
Majority of local businesses are not doing well. Give them a chance
to succeed by changing the government present pro-big pro-foreign
procurement policy and local businesses will become vibrant
again.
About the only talents we badly need now is heavy-weight
foreign-talent ministers who have better ideas how to transform the
economy to value-adding technology-start-up and
knowledge-application model and some specialist scientists and
engineers.
The government now only generalize its claim that foreigners will
do a better job in existing investments and existing jobs locals
are doing.
Let the ministers tell us with facts and figures which special
categories of foreign talents we need and not generalise and open
up all businesses and employment liberally to all foreigners just
to save a few dollars.
In the long run, there is a social costs incurred by foreigners
which should be factored in as we can see in the great number of
study mamas working as moonlighting masseues in AMK and many
estates.
Show facts and figures and not presumed all major policies will
work by just making top-down announcement with no chance for locals
to ask questions.
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