Originally posted by Atobe:
'One way is to upgrade' - some fancy term with this word 'UPGRADE'
?
What is the program to assist those who are need to 'UPGRADE' ?
There are many training programs available, are you a
Singaporean?
And what is your suggestion to help the needy in the long run? Have
them suckered on welfare?
The fact that there are needy persons is due largely to the
dislocation of workers from their jobs due to added competition -
and without Government assistance in terms of legislation and
programs, companies are forced to downsize or go bust.
You mean govt need to subsidise businesses?
How to do that? pls explain.
Competition between Singaporean Companies against Government Linked
Companies, and against Foreign Companies in the Global Market place
- has resulted in this dislocation of the Singaporean workers..
The inclusion of GLCs actually create job sin Singapore and not
teh other way around. Had there been no GLCs, the economy would
have beeen weaker and more people would be employed.
There is a multitude of supposedly help programs to assist the
Singaporean Companies but all tied to fancy bureaucratic red tapes
that demand costly restructuring of ongoing businesses to become
more transparent - meaning exposing to additional tax.
You mean you want tax payers money to subsidise businesses w/o
accountability? What rubbish are you talking about?
Workers have been dislocated due to competition from FOREIGNERS,
who are let in freely even when there is a Singaporean with the
relevant skills for the same post - but there is NO LAW TO
PROTECT the Singaporean, where even in the First World
economies, laws are in place to protect the jobs intended for its
Citizens (Australia, France, Germany, Japan, UK, and USA).
Again you are wrong. Had there not been competition, even more
jobs would have been lost and our people would have been less
competitive.
The Hotel and Food & Beverage Industries have seen a large
influx of foreigners - (mostly Caucasians) - filling up the posts
at the same salary scale paid to Singaporeans.
And why not if they can do a good job? Don't you want better
service? Don't you want our people to grow w more
competition?
Did anyone ask for the Government to tax the Rich and redistribute
wealth ?
So where will the money come from? The poor?
This has always been the 'justifiable response' to any call for
government to help the needy - but financial help from the
Government has been meagre and publicized out of proportion for the
same of political image.
I don't think help was meagre by any measure. How much is enough
for you?
The recent S$1 billion assistance - if its distribution ever reach
the account of the intended Singaporeans - will be diluted, and
become insignificant in any amount that can
SUSTAIN the Singaporean over a sufficient period
to help those needy in overcoming their circumstances..
Why is that so, pls explain your claim.
The key word is a SUSTAINING PROGRAM that will see the NEXT
GENERATION -of those in the lower strata of Singapore Society - get
out of the vicious cycle of poverty.
Then welfare is not the answer. Upgrading and behavior change
is.
This problem has been with us for the last FORTY
YEARS since independence, and the present Government a.k.a
the Ruling Party has been interested more in its FINANCIAL
GAINS and BOTTOM LINES of all its
adventures overseas - operating more like a MNC than a Government
Administration working for the [b]BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE.
Good focus, on the bottom line. We sure don't want to subsisdise
money losing enterprises.
