The pain and angst of having too many foreigners employed here with equally too many Singaporeans unemployed at the same time is going to be a hot potato issue in the next GE. The Covid19 only makes this situation even more dire with more Singaporeans losing their jobs and more going to lose their jobs. With heavy responsibilities to bring food on the table, losing jobs, losing an income in Singapore is very tough for Singaporeans. There are big housing mortgages to pay, expensive education fees for children, household expenses and other financial commitments that are essential and must be paid, are going to make many Singaporeans very miserable.
And like it or not, the jobless or retrenched Singaporeans are going to look over their shoulders to notice that many foreigners are still having a good time here, fully employed and some even resorted to pass sarcastic and insinuating remarks about how good they are and how bad Singaporeans are. The feelings against foreigners, the sight of foreigners, are not going to be soothed in times like this.
On the other hand, several key ministers, Hsien Loong, Swee Kiat and Chan Chun Sing, the 3 ministers that matter most, not Tharman, Shanmugam or Vivian, find it important to keep on harping about how important it is to bring in more foreign talents, how bad it is to close the door, how it would impact our economic growth model not to have foreign talents. There seems to be a lack of sensitivity to the plight of Singaporeans falling through hard times but playing music to the ears of foreigners. This could be one of the reasons why the foreigners here are getting so cocky, so arrogant to sneer and smear at Singaporeans losing their jobs to them in times like this.
Why is there a necessity for these key ministers, not kucing kurap ministers, to keep on reminding Singaporeans of how good foreign talents are as if without foreign talents Singapore is going to collapse, that the Singaporeans are not good enough. And to some certain extent some foreigners even got the cheek to claim they are running Singapore. Is there something that Singaporeans ought to know?
Seriously, how many jobs really need foreign talents, I mean real talents not the fake talents that earn less than $10,000 pm or the mediocres that earn less than $500k a year? A good example is branch managers of banks. Are foreigners better than Singaporeans to become local bank managers when the business is local, customers are local? Then the hordes of Human Resource Managers, you mean Singaporeans cannot do these jobs? Then there is the spread of ministry jobs that don't need a foreigner with foreign experience to do a better job. There are many of these jobs that I termed 'chicken rice' business that do not need foreigners. Singaporeans are more than adequate to be in these jobs.
And to think that there are a few hundred thousand foreigners here, is the govt saying that these few hundred thousand jobs need the expertise of foreigners and Singaporeans would not do? Chicken rice business do not need foreign talents. Period. There is no need to hire foreigners so that one chicken rice biz can compete with another chicken rice biz and pushes up the cost and price of chicken rice.
Again, I am puzzled by the constant reminders, and appearing to be urgent and very serious and must be spoken, by the 3 key ministers to make it a point to repeat the need to open our job market to foreigners and the guise of 'foreign talents'. Is the message meant for Singaporeans or meant for foreigners, foreign investors? Many of the foreign investors and companies need not be here, we would not miss them, if they hired mainly foreigners. Their contribution cannot be significant unless they are the Fortune 500 companies.
Who are the 3 key ministers talking to, or why or who is pressurising them to keep repeating these unpleasant jingles that are painful, hurtful to the ears of Singaporeans? Is there something else that Singaporeans did not know and need to know? There are good reasons to want to have some good foreign talents. But why is this need to keep blaring about it like there is a need to assure the foreigners that we will always want them, begging them not to go away? With a few billion foreign talents out there all queuing to come in, what is the fear if a few did not want to come, a few are unhappy? What we need is only a few, not the whole world, not 100m or 10m foreign talents. Not the few hundred thousands of fakes and funny degree holders here. And definitely not wildlife.
Foreigners can come but must accept our terms. There is no need to bend backwards to bring in foreigners unless the long queue waiting to come in is a lie, no foreigners want to be here,... so the leaders are panicking, trembling and wetting in their pants and as good as going down on their knees to tell the foreigners...please come, please come.....
When Singapore is offered to the world like a prostitute begging for business, then you will have long queues of foreigner workers waiting like in Geylang.
ReplyDeleteIf Singapore is offered to the world as an exclusive club with a price, only the super talents would come. Super talents do not want to mingle around with foreign workers. Just like in the US and UK, when a black moved into the neighbourhood, the whites would sell their homes and move out.
If Singapore keeps attracting third world wildlife, it would turn into a third world slum. The real super talents would not want to live in the midst of third world wildlife.
More and more don't trust them, as the latest GE results showed.
ReplyDeleteThey can urinate down your back and tell you it's raining.
What is the difference between animals and human being? Human have historical events to learn from to manage their survival. Covid19 is just another episode that occurred once in a long period of times. It reminded us that crowded cities are vulnerable to pandemic. Therefore the density ratio are very important. Social distancing is an example. Crowded cities like Singapore should be actively looking into reducing population size instead of increasing it. The Nordic countries have been actively keeping their countries less crowded. This showed us our leaders have blind spots and can't get out of their mindset. A disasters if others in their team can't challenge them.
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Sin Regime knows the Moment Singapore closes its doors,
Singaporeans shall suffer hunger and then agonizing death.
Their preoccupation is economic growth and big bonuses tied to it.
ReplyDeleteOvercrowding, high cost of living, suffocation are not their problems.
Oh they also think it is good to increase the population of mother earth, starting with this island, pump and pump.
They are putting more rats into the cage to speed up the rat race. Let the rats kill each other and eat each other. They are outside the cage watching in glee. You die your business.
ReplyDeleteBelow quote is from an article in TOC on false perceptions about Singapore workers.
ReplyDelete'In the second instance, Professor Ong Pinchuan of NUS was cited, claiming “foreigners tend to have a more international outlook than locals, and firms might be looking for that, especially in their managerial candidates.” I would be grateful if Prof Ong could substantiate his claim by sharing the objective measures he used to measure “international outlook”, and the studies (that are not based on the potentially biased perceptions of some employers) that support his claim.
If Prof Ong’s claims are indeed correct, and that somehow Singaporeans lack an international outlook, and that this is a hurdle to their employment as managerial candidates, then I must ask why there are no specific government initiatives to help Singaporeans obtain this “international outlook”. Perhaps Prof Ong can also share his insights with the government on how such a programme can be put together.'
My question, why is it a necessity to have an international outlook? Is the business targetting international business, international clients? Or is it another chicken rice business in Singapore, targetting Singaporeans as clients?
The continued perpetuation of such (potentially) false perceptions of Singaporeans is dangerous and divisive, especially in this time of difficult economic conditions and increased anxiety. It encourages a passivity and fatalism that somehow Singaporeans must be second-class employees in their own country. Even worse, it may be misinterpreted by some Singaporeans that the government believes that Singaporeans are somehow to blame for their own lack of employment.
ReplyDeleteIn his speech to the Committee of Supply in 2016, the then Minister of Manpower Mr. Lim Swee Say expressed a need to avoid an “Ugly” scenario, where the local to foreign workforce ratio falls “from the 2:1 today, maybe to 1:1, and beyond that, locals will become the minority in our workforce”. Since his speech, the local share of the workforce has fallen to 62.2% (2019) or a local to foreign workforce ratio ratio of about 1.65:1.
We cannot allow the perceptions highlighted in the CNA article to justify continued inaction. Instead of promoting the inevitability of foreign labour, all of us, the media, business owners, employees and the government, need to take positive action to increase the local share of the workforce.
The above quotes, as in the above comments are by Dr Joseph Teo in an article in TOC. Who are the devils that have been badmouthing Singaporean workers and praising fake foreign talents and cheats?
ReplyDeleteNow pap 61%.
Next GE, pap 69% or 49%?
You decide! What say you?
ReplyDeleteThe Paradox, the Conundrum and the Dichotomy
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally.
Paradox
A higher paradox confounds the emotion as well as reason and there are long periods in our lives when the truth as revealed by faith is hideous, emotionally disturbing, downright repulsive.
Conundrum
Have we not witness the dark night of the soul in individual leaders who are leading their flocks into the abyss of the hell with our Swiss Standard of Living? .
Dichotomy
If I am a Citizen of the Republic of Singapore,
I am called to die for my country as a NSman must.
For to follow the Command means death -
Death in the eyes of the foreigners.
A Citizen of the Republic of Singapore must die unto self.
If therefore, I am dead to self, I am, in turn also, alive.
For it is only in that death that I might live.
For if I am dead to self, I am now born again in the Spirit of LKY.
If I am a Citizen of LKY's Singapore.
I am therefore charged to hate those whom I love, and love those who hate me.
If I am struck, I am not to run away, but allow myself to be struck again.
For I am not to return evil for evil.
Being careful to do what is right in the eyes of everyone, not what's right by me.
If my leaders takes what is mine, I am to give them more.
If I have riches I am to give it all away as taxes and donations,
only to become poor.
For it is only the poor who inherits LKY's Singapore, when chips are down and leaders run away.
If I am a Citizen of LKY's Singapore,
I am to forgive those who do harm to me,
And forgive those who harm my love-ones too.
I am to forgive seventy times seven.
As 490 was once believed to be a perfect continuum.
If I am a Citizen of the LKY's Singapore,
I am in Singapore, yet not of Singapore.
I am a foreigner in my own country.
As I become a foreigner in my own country,
I am told to offer only love to those foreigners who call me their enemy.
If I am a Citizen of LKY's Singapore,
I am a prisoner, yet, I will find myself free.
I may be bound and persecuted in body, yet I will be free in Spirit.
For if the Son sets me free, then free I am, indeed.
If I am a Citizen of LKY's Singapore,
I must give to PAP leaders what PAP leaders demand.
Yet I am to give my heart and soul to defend Singapore.
For I cannot serve two Masters.
If I am a Citizen of LKY's Singapore,
I may be lost, yet, I am newly found.
I may suffer, yet, I will also rejoice.
I may cry, yet I will be filled with happiness.
I may die, yet I will live.
For it is only in LKY that we are offered new life.
I have been executed for Crimes that I did not commit,
And now I am dead, no longer live.
The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son, who said he loved me and gave himself for me.
Therefore, with foreigners taking away my ricebowl My family and I will surely starve to death.
But never mind lah. For even if we are all dead, it's okay lah.
For we know we will live in the Son, and he in us.
For we are One Country, One People, One Party, One Leader,
Alive or dead, in Heaven or in Hell, there is no need to tell or yell.
We know we will do very well with foreigners giving us hell!
Foreigners are welcomed here to have good jobs and to despise the Singaporeans.
ReplyDeleteSingaporeans are good just to do NS and be Grab drivers to drive the foreigners around.
What they are committing is citizen cleansing by financial genocide. Just to stay in power for ever and ever.
ReplyDeleteCan't imagine what they would become when they lost power.
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ReplyDeleteWhat will happen when they lost power?
Answer: 4 probable courses:
1. Some batteries can be recharged and they get back their power again. But they cannot last long.
2. Most batteries cannot be recharged. So they have to be thrown away into the rubbish chute for the Bangla to dispose them off.
3. Some batteries though can be recharged but will not have sufficient power to perform properly. Therefore, they become a spent force that hangs around looking pretty but totally useless, actually waiting to be kept in the cold storage.
4. Some batteries cannot be recharged and also cannot be discarded. They have to be locked away for safety purposes, for fear they might explode and cause harm to the people.
Mr RB, you wrote " The pain and angst of having too many foreigners employed here with equally too many Singaporeans unemployed at the same time is going to be a hot potato issue in the next GE. " Next GE??? All this happened before the last GE. What happen? After all the sweet talks and sweet promises, nothing happened. PAP still got 61%. Nothing will happen in the next GE. Singaporeans will again be bribed and conned.
ReplyDeleteIt all depends on the pain level and threshold and how widespread is the pain. Covid19 only makes the situation that much more painful as the people going to be hurt badly are going to be the Singaporeans. Mortgages, debt, financial responsibility, high cost of living, all would become too big a sum to bear when there is no income or miserable income.
ReplyDeleteAnd while facing dire straits, they will see the contrast in the foreigners having a good time here and living it up after stealing their lunch.
i think the economic pillar holding Sg up, is not so much the quality of foreigner, but more the rental market. We have oversupply of condos, many Sg borrow heavily beyond their means, but they survive coz the foreigner rent helps pay the bank loans. If foreigners exit, how will the mortgages be repaid? Bad debts if unchecked and allowed to mushroom, can cause banks to collapse. Lehman brothers was one of those stuff that bundled bad debts subprime loans in an attempt to settle the banks debts.. thereafter the rest is history...Foreigners even if they have low IQ, are keeping the 100,000s of aparment and houses occupied and prevent catastrophic subprime loans financial crisis in SG. The error of too many mortgages is unsustainable withour cashflow to service the debts.
ReplyDeleteThe ones that bought many properties to invest for rental income are those people having million dollars salary and annual bonuses.
ReplyDeleteThese include the bankers and the politicians at the top of the food chain.
These already made themselves filthy rich at the expense of the masses, are using the property, real estate and stock markets to fatten themselves further.
These are the cunningly smart and ruthless selfish scavengers that seek wealth, fame, position, status and power to control over others in the food chain.
These are the 1% that must be eradicated from the face of the earth to make life better for all the others.
Using brain to defeat them simply cannot do. Only way to defeat them is the once in a blue moon revolution, like the one in Russia and China during the Industrial Revolution.
It requires the masses to rise up as an united force to find them, chase them and capture them at all corners of the earth, like hyenas going after the big fat piece of meat. But the masses cannot rise up unless they have suffered enough, beyond their level of tolerence and patience. This is the big problem.
And also it requires good leadership at all levels. Such leaders are very rare. Even if such leaders arise, they could be nipped in the bud by the ruthless and unscrupulous filthy rich cunning bastards that hold the power of the police and the law against the masses. This is the biggest problem.
That's the reason the masses continue to suffer like slaves of old, but they still do not know and cannot fight back. This has been the situation over the last few thousand years of human unkind.
That's why God imposed a limit on life-span. This is the only equalizer. Rich or poor, powerful or powerless, smart or stupid - all must die. The average limit is 70 years old. if you are unlucky, you may die at 100 years old and beyond. If you are lucky, you die much younger, before 70 years old.....
@832, not quite right. you miss my point. Buying an extra property does not need you to be filthy multi millionaire, esp. when you catch the bubble ten years back. Banks give loans easily. Everyone happy becaure foreigners rent the units and effectuvely pay the mortgages. So many many families have committed, and the total bank loans supported by foreigners in such way... is very very huge. If foreignrts exit, we will have a bank crisis. In the final analysis, this is the classic sub prime loan which caused collapse of financial system in the usa. It is very dangerous for banks to lend out so much money to non filthy rich non billionaires.. that IS THE REAL problem.
ReplyDeleteMost sinkies cmi. That's why need 2M foreigners here. To recover from recession & make S'pore great again, we will need to import another 2M foreigners.
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