There are 3 main issue that the govt need to address fast and
furiously
1. The cost of living, seem like after the initial vowed of "we
make sure no singaporean will be left behind" could end up "those
left behind, too bad, you are on your own base on our
meritocracy system". You just look at the inflation datas from
the past months or years, how can there be no one left behind, in
fact, even more are left behind. You read that the recent real wage
increase is going to in a deficit for wage earners, given a 4
percent increase, you are still lacking 1.2 percent because of
a 5.2 percent inflation.
Then they said, oh, inflation because of high car prices and
houses, dun they know about the domino effect in economy???? Even a
nasi lemak seller will know that if I need to pay high mortage for
my van and house, I will increase my lemak from 2 to 3 dollars
per plate, maybe just add abit more peanuts.
2. The foreign immigration policy, this issue is an chicken
and egg issue to the govt, they need to strike a balance and
truthfully tell themselves, you want to let go of
Singaporean faith on you, which is already in the last bar of a
four bar meter, or you want to continue to see a double digit GDP
growth everyear which translate into public servants bonuse and pay
increases.
Then they said, Oh, if no foreigner, companies will go away,
then singaporean end up also no jobs, this is a threatening
statement, a true blue singaporeans will not mind suffering if
all singaporean are to equal share the suffering without
foreign intervention, we went thru the oil crisis of 70s, the
economy crisis in the 80s and the financial crisis in the
late 90s, in the 60s, we went thru many crisis, but we
still stand up and move on, do we have foreigner during those
time? Maybe in the late 90s, yes, but not like today, today
singaporeans feel they had lost all the faith and true
identity.
3. Depressive wages against a backdrop of the first world
standard, Prof Tommy Koh had pointed out several first world
salaries against Singapore, and we are the lowest, fomer NWC
chairman said, all low wages must go up by 50%
inorder for peoples to face the reality of living in a
first world of high cost and high inflation. Then the govt thru
NTUC said, must have productivity first, what is productivity when
a person is not getting enough bread and butter on the table, you
fed the cow to do work, and not ask the cow to work n
work without feeding it, and moreover, we are not
cow.
You go around and see which companies produce good
productivity, we had bees and honey in our early 80 and 90s
productivity, today, just a mouth, some dining and wine,
and you want to talk about productivity when companies can
just save cost by employing cheap foreigners, that is productivity
to them
