USA - Lobbying or corruption to feed the 1% at the expense of the Middle Class

 Having this and that lobby in Congress is already a corrupt Government. And having campaign donations by big oil, big pharma and big wall street conglomerates that gives rise to such lobbies is further proof that corruption is being practiced without restraint. Those that donate lavishly to political campaigns for particular candidates are looking for favors and are the super-rich owners of those entities, a component of the Deep State. Therefore, it is no exaggeration to say that the USA Government is of the 1%, by the 1% and for the 1%.

Kamala Harris is talking about bringing back the USA Middle Class. This clearly shows and had been proven that the USA Middle Class had been cannibalized by the super-rich over the decades, leading them to their demise today. What the Middle Class built up over the decades have all been taken over by the top 1%, leaving them as poor as the bottom feeders. As the predators, the top 1%, have exhausted all the spoils of the Middle Class leaving none for them to exploit further, therefore it is time to begin building up the Middle Class to provide food for the top 1% to cannibalize again in decades down the road.

The top 1% of USA elites have taken more than US$50 trillion from the bottom 90% of USA citizens. The system enables the top feeders to continue to cannibalize the rest of the USA people, which are the Middle Class and bottom feeders.

Anpnymous

Next China is still China. MAGA is turning into a joke

 Trying to lure manufacturing back to the USA is as good as flogging a dead horse. It is over and just trying to re-industrialize the USA is no longer an option. China will be around, and many are saying the next China will still be China, not the USA or India.

The USA has to live with it or shoot its own foot trying to counter China. There are so many issues working against the USA. China has all the scientists, engineers and skilled workers, control of raw materials, well developed logistics and hardworking and innovative people leading the way. The USA is led by clowns and charlatans. Good for making loud speeches and promises that were never fulfilled. Make America Great Again had turned into a joke.

With skilled labor deserting the USA, raw materials in the hands of Chinese, refining logistics controlled by China, cheap energy available to China, what can the USA produce to compete with China? No amount of tariff increases, or banning is going to stop China doing business with the Global South countries. The African market alone is much bigger than USA and Europe combined. Poor as it is like China before but given another decade or two and we will see Africa rising in importance as a consumer market. The West can write off Africa like they wrote off China three decades ago, at their own peril.

Anonymous

Singaporeans lack talent, not creative, not innovative, unemployable...despite world best education system

 This is not what Lawrence Wong said about Singaporeans in his National Day address. This is the narrative being spread by foreigners and foreign HR agencies that are involved in the placement and selection for hiring in the private sector, especially top positions. The foreigners may also be engaged to recruit for the ministries and GLCs. The foreigners have hijacked the hiring and selection process by worming themselves into HR positions in many companies or in headhunting agencies...and they call the shot.

For a long while, these foreigners with their fake degrees or funny degrees from funny universities that are hard to verify, have been spreading this toxic narrative against Singaporeans in the job market. And in their recruitment and placement process, they would favour foreign talents and dismiss Singapore talents in a 'self fulfilling prophecy' way. 

As they keep on passing negative remarks against Singaporeans while praising foreigners, and when the Singapore authority allows this to go unchallenged, the end results, foreigners really think they are the real talents and Singaporeans begin to think they have no talent. And with each failure to get employed, they get demoralised, get to loose their confidence. The whole process becomes a vicious cycle against Singaporeans and destroyed their chances of getting employed. Can't imagine the morale of the banking and finance industry if the next DBS CEO is not Su Shan but another foreigner with funny degrees from funny universities.

The picture of Singaporeans having no talent, not creative, and not innovative, is the total opposite of what Lawrence Wong said about Singaporeans, about the high quality Singapore education system, from young to university levels. Singaporeans went through a very thorough education system with the finest teachers, finest processes constantly being reviewed and upgraded along the way that would put many foreign education systems to shame. A lot of thoughts and hardwork have gone into our education system. And Singaporean students have often come up tops in international competitions, judged by international judges and competing against the best of the foreigners for their maths and science knowledge and for being innovative and creative.

How then did this negative narrative about Singaporeans come about and being taken as the truth to the detriment of Singaporeans?  And seeing many top jobs being offered to foreigners, with foreigners finding it so easy to get full time employment here while many Singaporeans with good qualifications find it so hard to land a full time job and ended in the gig industry?

The problem lies in the hiring process when the selection committee, the interviewers, were mostly foreigners, some now carrying pink ICs, the same bunch of people with fake or funny degrees from funny universities but arrogantly condemning Singaporeans as no talent and unemployable. If this recruitment and hiring process is not address, and foreigners continue to dominate the selection and hiring positions, the excellent Singapore education system and its products, the well trained students, would not stand a chance against a system controlled and rigged by foreigners, with some now calling themselves Singaporeans but with their empathy and biases in favour of people from their former countries.

Not only Singaporeans were sidelined and by passed in hiring, when hired, they are often ostracised and victimised in the office by the foreign gangs and eventually forced to leave, appearing like incompetents.

Lawrence Wong and the MOM must take a serious look into the hiring and recruitment process, to drain the swamp of foreigners in positions that could discriminate against Singaporeans. A pink IC does not change a foreigner into a Singaporean overnight. Their hearts, emotions and loyalties are still somewhere out there. They are closer to their former countrymen, relatives or villagers than to Singaporeans.

Honestly, how many first world countries have an education system on par with Singapore's system? Then again, it is a no brainer to equate the education systems of third world countries to that of the Singapore education system. The third world fake talents with their fake or funny degrees must not be allowed to denigrate and discredit the Singapore education system and its products from their high horses. They must be taken down before more damage is done to harm our Singapore talents and our education system. Ya, it is a joke to be a product from the world's best education system but unemployable vis a vis third world products with funny degrees from funny universities...and in home ground, in Singapore! This is a sick joke. And the joke is on the stupid Singaporeans from the best universities and world best education system.

Who's fault is it to allow this negative narrative, and plight of Singaporeans, to go on for so long, unprotested, and to allow so much harm to fall on Singaporeans looking for a full time job but ended up the losers, while fake and funny foreigners could be hired so easily over Singaporeans, as better and more talented than Singaporeans?

What do you think?

Ukraine War - Foolish Zelensky attacking Russia!

 Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Zelensky and his backers are totally ignorant and blind about Soviet Union/Russian war history, that led to the defeat of Hitler and Napolean, two of history's most notorious war mongers. Russians love to fight wars of attrition, the longer the more advantageous to them. They are patient, and this is clearly evident in Ukraine, with Putin still using kid's gloves against the Ukrainians. Russia is a war machine that even Trump knows very well, and he has warned Zelensky.

Sacrificing Ukrainian soldiers to do an incursion into Kursk is a no brainer. If it is meant to gain an advantage and force the Russians to crumble with concessions in any peace negotiations, Zelensky and his backers are totally mistaken. Forcing concessions by actions to escalate is never successful. If it is meant to escalate the war, Ukraine is going to be razed to the ground. What is done in Kursk is just a pinprick against Russia. Russia is a massive country to conquer and Zelensky is just a snake attempting to swallow an elephant.

Ukraine will be reduced to a wasteland if this carries on. NATO's claim of raising 800,000 troops to invade Russia is a pipe dream that will totally destroy NATO for good. That will also end their dream of having an Asian NATO. We in Asia will await to thank Russia for putting an end to NATO's dream of expansion in Asia. Good riddance!

Anonymous

USA political system is the most corrupt in the world

 The USA political system can be said to be the most corrupt in the world. The USA is not a functioning democracy. It is a plutocracy, a system of Government where the super-rich rules. It is a system of Government of the 1%, by the 1% and for the 1%.

And the system works when money buys positions in Congress or the administration through connections to the elites, with promises of returns that are far more if they push through policies to cater to the agenda of those in big corporations, big oil and big Pharma.

That is why I always say, Ukraine is the conduit for money laundering and kickbacks that goes into the pockets of Congressmen and women voting for all the aid to Ukraine. Sam Bankman-Fried (or Fraud) the owner of collapsed FTX, played a big role in such money laundering activities back to Washington. Of course, we will never be able to connect the dots and neither will Sam Bankman admit to such activities. His life hangs in the balance if he does so.

Didn't one Congressman or USA Government leader even gloated that all the aid to Ukraine will go back to the USA? In what way is a vital clue to understand his words.

How corrupt is the USA system is also shown in the Jeffrey Epstein case, where the names of top elites connected with the child sex ring can never be revealed, only speculated on in social media circles. A crime is a crime, but only for those at the bottom of the food chain. Those at the top have immunity because after all it is a government of the 1%, by the 1% and for the 1%. For them a crime is not a crime. Think about that!

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