Myth 1 and Myth2 Polls

The two polls on the top right have expired and the numbers shown are not amusing. In fact the numbers are jumping up and down daily. My earlier polls received about 600 votes. These two could barely get 20 votes each. Yesterday I saw one showing 50 votes. Of course the real numbers were much higher. The first poll reached about 60 but crashed down to below 20 a few days latter and had been at that level since then. The second poll suffered the same fate.

I do not believe that Blogger offered a poll facility that is flawed or unreliable. But the fact is that the Poll facility is not showing the real data and it is quite pointless to use it any more.

Blogger.com/, if you are reading this, you need to rectify this as it reflects badly on Blogger itself. Until this error is corrected I shall refrain from using the Poll again.

The issue raised as to whether Singapore is providing more good and high value jobs to foreigners or the other way round is quite obvious to some. Look at the few hundred PMETs here is enough to tell a picture. These foreigners must be getting a good deal here, some may not even get a job if not of Singapore, or else they would not be here, they would have scooted. And there are many CEO jobs given to foreigners and paying millions, several millions that could have gone to able Singaporeans. How many such jobs were created by the foreigners here for Singaporeans? Or how many thousand PMET jobs, paying good salaries, have the foreigners created for Singaporeans?

This is a piece of statistics that is not available yet. This issue should be discussed to confirm that bringing in the foreigners and foreign companies really contributed to more and better jobs for Singaporeans and not the other way. And those foreign companies that are not contributing anything of good value to Singaporeans is best to tell them to find their cheap source of labour elsewhere. There is no value for their presence here. And the Govt should consider keep all the top jobs for Singaporeans wherever possible unless it is a case of no choice, where the business will turn turtle without the foreign talent. In most cases the difference made is marginable and not earth shaking and Singaporeans should be the preferred candidates especially in Govt institutions and GLCs. We don’t owe the foreigners to give them high paying jobs.

As Hsien Loong pointed out, there is a dearth of Singaporeans in the banking and finance industry at the senior leader, the specialists and leaders. This is not good for the country.