Originally posted by Atobe:
When a Government strongly believes that ONE foreign worker
can affect the jobs availability for ONE HUNDRED Singaporeans ?
WITHOUT qualifying the kind of jobs that the SINGLE foreign worker
is allowed to do, it is as good as telling Singaporeans that we are
INCAPABLE of creating jobs for ourselves.
Reply inserted by Tripwire
since when govt got say like that?? dont bluff
lah.... 
Where have you been for the last ten days? Did you not read what SM
Lee say in his recent lecture to the Tertiary Students, which was
telecast twice on TV and published widely in the local press.
Originally posted by Atobe:
Compared to Japan, a country with stiffer internal and
external competition than Singapore, the Japanese Government does
more for its Citizens job protection than the Singapore Government
does.
Reply inserted by tripwire
you one of the brainy talent or one of the
brainless delans?? read your sentence above and see....
Maybe you should try reading the text slowly, comprehend in real
time English instead of reading with Singlish then maybe you
can understand the context better.
Originally posted by Atobe:
Even when comparing to a similar size country such as Hong
Kong, there are more policies that protect the Hong Kong Citizens
than there are any defining the occupations and positions that
Foreigners can be employed in Singapore.
Reply insert by Tripwire
because HK does it... does it means its
correct and therefore singapore if not the world world should
follow?? Since when HK became god?
You make too much assumption in reading my post. If you prefer HK
to become God so be it. The comparison of Hongkong protecting
jobs for their own residents is exemplary. While in Singapore, PhD
holders who lost their job is expected to clean toilets instead of
being RE-TRAIN to be Supervisors or Managers in a Restaurant or
Hotel Housekeeping or some other useful job to tap his talent.
Meanwhile, a lowly job such as a Restaurant Manager is open to a
Foreign Talent (talent needed for such a post?).
Originally posted by Atobe:
There seems to be too much double speak? on the part of
the Singapore Government in these difficult times.
On the one hand it claims to drop its non-core activities of its
Government Linked Companies, and allow it to be privatized.
However, their form of Privatization is to form a smaller GLC unit,
headed by prominent members from the Singapore Community that has
confidential dealings with the Government.
From Steel Mills to Telecommunications to Parks Management, it
takes about the same form - in a smaller size.
These new? smaller and supposedly "Private Companies" will then
end up competing with the Private Sector that are wholly owned by
the Singapore Citizens with true PRIVATE CAPITAL.
Reply inserted by Tripwire
see.... another delan argument.....
sorry hor... but i dont wish to kill my brain cells trying
to help you grow a few brain cells...
Why do you even bother to post at all, if you have no wish to kill
your brain cells, and no thanks for your effort to help me grow
mine; I have no wish to end up with tripwire cells.
Originally posted by Tripwire
tell me the difference if you got beaten by
a foreign company
.... as i see it... either way... you just got run over by
a 5 tonner....
If my business enterprise is run over by a foreign 10 tonner, in
fair competition, I will feel more satisfied that I have competed
and loss based on the same rules. Do you think it is fair for our
familiar traditional family run neighborhood provision store to
compete with the likes of NTUC Fairprice or Cheers?
Originally posted by Atobe:
The full impact of this economic downturn and its causes
have yet to be fully appreciated by the academia and the lay
citizens of Singapore. Inserted by Tripwire
you must be kidding... 
how
could one didnt realise they his stomach is growling for
food??
Yes, the common person, the lay Singaporean Citizen will only
understand the economic downturn only by the pathetic growling of
his stomach. Beyond the growl of his empty stomach, will he
understand that he is being squeezed out of a job, as some
government GLC has been less competitive, or that a GLC has brought
his Company to its knees through unfair competition?
Orignal posted by Tripwire
you got a better system.... say lah... dont just
criticise... i also can...
Unfortunately, you started without even knowing the big speech of
SM Lee trying to convince our tertiary students that ONE
foreigner employed in Singapore, can create 100 other jobs.
Perhaps the Tertiary Students had more grey cells than you, which
explain their reluctance to put forth any sensible questions to SM
Lee during the Q+A session; and which everyone seems to have
criticized the Tertiary Students present - for the loss of a
supposedly golden opportunity.
Did the Tertiary Student really lost a golden opportunity to tap
the mind of SM Lee?
The Tertiary Students present probably were smarter, knowing that
it is pointless to enter into a debate with an old man, who is dead
set on his views, irregardless of any other alternative
opinions.
They are also probably aware that SM Lee is not "GOD", and had made
several major mistakes in his personal views with regards to 2
Child Policy, Womans Charter, Dogmatic implementation of the 40%
CPF ruling, and other policies that have resulted in major
structural impact to Singapore
