8/21/2021

Animal Farm - The workers have had enough, their voices of despair are ignored

 

Below is another article screaming out from the lungs of angry Singaporeans, Singaporeans that refused to be pushed and dumped into the sea by the pigs that are paying themselves millions and telling the Singaporeans 2 legs are good, 4 legs are better. How many more times must this be repeated before the people chase the pigs out of the Animal Farm, from their luxurious lifestyle and humongous pay, feeding, cheating and exploiting the poor Singaporean workers? Be good, work hard, tighten your belts, be Grab drivers, be cleaners....times  are bad, we need foreign talents from shitty third world universities to help you upgrade. Be thankful, be grateful and know your place.


The purpose of my narration is this. WHEN THE GOVERNMENT SAYS THERE ARE LOTS OF JOBS THAT SINGAPOREANS CANNOT HANDLE, THEY ARE LYING.  

Our CECA policy will hollow out the Singapore talent base. Today, a lot of the C-suites are gone. The CEO, COO, CFO, CIO etc. Without its lieutenants, captains, sargeant majors and regimental majors, etc, an army cannot function. We have actually gone down the rabbit hole. Supervisory and middle line managers are also getting displaced.  If this situation is not reversed soon, irreparable damage will be done to the country.

WHEN THE GOVERNMENT SAYS THERE ARE LOTS OF JOBS THAT SINGAPOREANS CANNOT HANDLE, THEY ARE LYING. I can't stress this enough. When a small country has only a few universities and which are high in world rankings, and the government set policies that favour graduates from a country whose universities are hardly ranked,  policy makers need to have their brains examined.

We should stop using the term FOREIGN TALENT. This is one of the government's methodology to normalise the policy. It drills into your brains. They are talents, you are idiots. Granted foreign companies that set up base here want to bring in a pool of their specialists. These are the expertise in their particular fields. And what we want to welcome are the deal makers, the visionaires, the risk takers, those with high networks in high places, the knowledge drivers in their field, such as those
 in the cutting edge technologies. We understand this, and support them as host country, we want them to succeed just as much. 

Under CECA arrangement, we all know there has been an invasion of PMEs from India. The government's argument that these are FTs are blatant lies. A simple check at Linkedin is all it takes to call out the government.  Why do we need foreign admin managers, facility managers, HR managers, etc. I won't be surprised that companies here will be advised to ban their foreign Indian employees from registering with Linkedin. Information suppression is a new old-fashioned government control protocol.

If hollowing out Singapore talent is a dangerous path, why are'nt Singaporean elites calling this out? Where is the NTUC chief? Where are our industry leaders? Where are the Kweks, the Ongs, the Jumaboys? The business class are sleeping with the governing elites to enrich at the expense of a depressed wage market forced by the huge supply of foreign Indian PMEs. Not a single soul has stood up to say "Singaporeans are suffering. Singaporeans helped us to make our billions. It's time we stand up with Singaporeans, never mind that higher wages mean we make a little less."

Listening to Minister Ong say in parliament recently, that Singapore's success created it's own problem, made me puke. In his scholastic view, many companies locate here, we have high employment, but there is not enough Singaporeans. CECA helped alleviate the problem. The reality is the government policy helped companies lower cost on the backs of cheaper South Asians and at the expense of Singaporeans. Their message to attract FDIs is come here, we have a cheap labour force. 15 long years of the easy way out of building GDP on depressed wages have made it impossible for policy makers to realise that companies chose to base in Singapore not for the low wage advantage. For if that were so, there are a hundred much cheaper other countries they can relocate to. 

!st gen leadership told us we Singaporeans are valuable and trusted. Rolled up your sleeves, get educated, we can make it together. 3rd gen leaders are telling us we are idiots, be good and either work under 3rd world supervisors, or go and be a graduate Grab driver.

Pat Low

https://chem-post.blogspot.com/2021/07/government-thinks-singaporeans-too-stupid.html?m=1

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Heard a woman shouted kangaroos in Singapore. She should also shout, ostrich, ostrich, ostrich.

A-Non-Yes-Mouse said...

Don't need much evidence to prove that the government is lying.

The Tripartite that the government has been propagating repeatedly like a mantra that it serves the interests of 3 parties, namely the workers, employers and government, is itself the biggest lie.

The glaring facts are there staring so clearly right into our eyes. They are:

1. The government is the biggest employer in Singapore, and it is being controlled an run by multi-millionaires ministers, who are logically more inclined to represent and serve the interests of the millionaires and private businesses, such as Temasek Holdings and its huge spread of sub-holding companies, rather than whole-heartedly serving the interests of the workers in Singapore.

2. The NTUC, that is supposed to be a labour movement representing the workers, is the actually the second biggest employer in Singapore.

3. The Group representing the Employers has, of course, the interests of the employers at heart all the time. It has have very strong influence upon the government in many ways. Therefore, its power has become the total of the whole Tripartite instead of just the single separate power it has by itself.

4. Therefore, for all intents and purposes, the Tripartite represents the Employers more than the Singaporean workers or employees.

5. Moreover, if the government really and truly has the interests of Singaporean workers at heart, it would not have signed the lob-sided CECA agreement with India in its present form, in the first place

6. Furthermore, having signed the CECA and having allowed it to operate fully at the disadvantages of Singaporeans, the government keeps defending and upholding it to the extent of illogical frenzy and lunacy, repeatedly like an emperor without clothes unaware that he is in reality totally naked from masses' perspective. Why?

The probable answer is:

Perhaps, the government is blinded by its need to look good and its believe that it is infallible, and therefore it has to keep defending the indefensible, like in the Twilight Zone of a surreal Animal Farm?


LIPS.

Anonymous said...

The next PM could be a party to this silly CECA.

Voter For Future Generations said...

In the Singapore Animal Farm, so far, there are no candidates from the PAP who has the required leadership qualities for the PM post.

Scrapping the bottom, only Lawrence Wong is a decent person for consideration to hold the PM post.

The others are ethically and morally bankrupt.

It is time to choose a PM from the Alternative Political Parties.

A-Non-Yes-Mouse said...

Next Singapore Cabinet comprises:

Dr Tan Cheng Bock, PM.

Dr Chee Soon Juan, DPM

Dr Jamus Lim, Finance Minister.

Dr Paul Tambyah, Health Minister.

Dr Ang Yong Guan, Defence Minister.

Sylvia Lim, Home Affairs Minister.

Pritam Singh, Law Minister.

Tan Jee Say, National Development Minister.

Muhamad Faisal Manap, Culture, Arts & Sports Minister.

Gerald Giam, Education Minister.

Leon Pereira, Foreign Minister.

Dennis Tan Lip Fong, Human Resource Minister (Manpower Ministry renamed).

He Ting Ru, Communications and Information Minister.

Louis Chua, AI and Technology Minister (New Ministry).

Raeesah Khan, Social Services and Sustainability Minister.

Leong Mun Wai, Trade, Industry and Investment Minister.

Hazel Poa, Transport Minister

A-Non-Yes-Mouse said...

All other elected members will be Ministers of State, Ministers in the Prime Minister's Office and/or Parliamentary Secretaries in each ministry.

Power to the People said...

@LIPS - Top 5 positions all doctors? Cannot. Too elitist.

Must include at least one or two Grab drivers. They can relate to the ground.
Also must have one local Olympian, not import.
All must serve NS (women must have husband and children serve NS)
Must speak all the official languages.
Must study in local university/polytechnic for one degree/diploma
Salary limit to 2x HDB household max.

Anonymous said...

If this becomes true, will become a real nightmare to the ex ministers. No more able to glare at the opposition MPs like fierce dogs. Oops, maybe no longer in parliament.

Anonymous said...

Time to scrap GRC
Time to cut the ministar pay
Implement work for your citizens not outside forces...
Set up a agency to right all the wrongs done so far against Sg.
N strictly forbidden to use terms such as far right....
If we truly have a far right it will be like little india riots only thing is done by the local born!!
No more bubble wrap for any party......