For once,
let me agree with this mantra. How can Singapore survive and compete with the
best in the world with a small population of daft? Even our best would be half
bakes compared to the best in the world. And there are more than 6b people out
there with many that are much more talented than the best Singaporean in any
field, yes, in any field, including political leaders.
The head of
UBS Asia Pacific wealth management, Edmund Koh, said he is proud to be a
Singaporean. And he supported the idea of hiring the best man for the job,
regardless of nationality. He is concerned that Singapore is swinging too much
towards hiring Singaporeans and missing out on hiring the best from the rest of
the world. The fact that the ST gave him so much attention and prominence to
hire the best talents regardless of nationality is itself an endorsement of
this policy.
This
doctrine of hiring the best to make Singapore the best in all fields is a good
aspiration. Let’s make it real. Come on, look around and see the number of
clowns and half bakes everywhere. They
just don’t stand a chance when the best is to be hired. No need to look very
far. And look at the state of the Singapore economy, negative growth or zero
growth in the last few decades if not of the flood of immigrant workers. Singapore sorely needs the best talents to be
here. Let’s make it happen.
Let me for
once support this policy of hiring the best from the world. Forget about
Singapore as a nation, a country. If
Singapore is not a country, there are many advantages arising from it. We can forget about citizenship and national
service. We can give citizenship freely to everyone. Our young men no need to
be strangled by NS. These are age old
concepts, irrelevant today, outdated, out of sync. There is no need for a
country with globalization. There is no need to have NS and guarding a country
when there is no country. Everyone just go out there and be the best he can be,
competing with the rest of the world.
Singapore
should bravely step up this call for globalization. Not to worry, it is coming with the Asean
Community and the concept of free movement of labour and talent. Borderless,
and everyone within Asean can move freely to find jobs in any Asean countries.
And you don’t have to guess where all the Asean talents will gravitate to. Singaporeans
will shine if they move out into the other Asean countries.
We shall
hire the best from the world and pay them the best salary we can afford. I am
sure there are millions of people out there that are better than all the
politicians we have in Parliament, all the permanent secretaries in the
ministries, all the top bankers in all the banks, all the CEOs we find here
today. And these incumbents would most graciously to want to be replaced by the
best from the world, for the good of Singapore.
Let’s do it.
Let’s replace these duds and half bakes quickly. We don’t need silly Singaporeans here. I
support. Let’s make Singapore the greatest place to be, with the best talents
from the world. The average Singaporeans
and the duds and the sillies would find their right place in the hierarchy of
jobs. They will know where they
belong. We need a lot of security
guards, taxi drivers and personal assistance to serve the best talents of the
world here.
I heard many
sillies quietly saying to themselves, not to worry, I am the best, I would not
be replaced.
What do you
think? Plant your own timber? That mantra only bluff bluff lah. Hire the best
is the way forward. Singapore does not owe you a living. The politicians do not owe Singaporeans a
living. Stop the entitlement mentality, exception, it is ok to think you are
entitled to millions. What? I heard still got people talking about creating a
Singaporean core or looking after out PMETs? Am I mad or those people are mad?
Or am I out of sync? When people were talking about foreign talents good I was
talking about Singaporean first. Now people want to build a Singaporean core
and I am talking about replacing all the silly and daft Singaporeans with the
best from the world.
I must be
very confused.