Which PAP MP wrote these words?

[scroobal]

Baey Yam Keng wrote this interesting and profound words. So where did Singapore go so wrong. Do Singaporeans no longer take pride in their work. Any reason why Singaporeans across the age group are replaced by cheaper foreign talent? Why can't the PAP leverage the diversity and richness of its people.

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My deepest impression of London was that someone like a bus conductor, a security guard or a brick layer would do his or her work with great professionalism and more importantly, a sense of pride. People around them also treated them with respect. This taught me that everyone could play a
meaningful role, whether big or small. For a society to progress, it must
leverage on the diversity and richness of its people."

 

[Loofydralb]

Baey Yam Keng wrote this interesting and profound words. So where did Singapore go so wrong. Do Singaporeans no longer take pride in their work. Any reason why Singaporeans across the age group are replaced by cheaper foreign talent? Why can't the PAP leverage the diversity and richness of its people.

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My deepest impression of London was that someone like a bus conductor, a security guard or a brick layer would do his or her work with great professionalism and more importantly, a sense of pride. People around them also treated them with respect. This taught me that everyone could play a
meaningful role, whether big or small. For a society to progress, it must
leverage on the diversity and richness of its people."

Singapore unknowingly operates on a caste system. Not in terms of race but $$$.

We may deny it but subconsciuosly Singaporeans it makes us tick. Nothing will change that.

 

[theblackhole]

the tissue elderly are doing their jobs with great pride and passion...go ask them..

 

[kingrant]

You can't have pride if you feel you're being exploited. They try to make a monkey out of you by offering peanuts to cheaper foreigners. So you either be that monkey or die. Would anyone be proud being a monkey? We stopped having pride in our work and in the service of society when our leaders - so-called paragons of Protestant work ethic - started taking millions of dollars home just to be the people's servants. The PAP leaders have indeed leveraged on our richness.

Do Singaporeans no longer take pride in their work. Any reason why Singaporeans across the age group are replaced by cheaper foreign talent? Why can't the PAP leverage the diversity and richness of its people.

 

[Dreamer1]

Always remember wat our great leader told us all the time:

When you pay a bus conductor, a security guard or a brick layer just like an enginer,or accounttant,tat is the end of this country,and yr sisters,mothers,daughters would work as mais in far away places.

 

[hokkienpeng]

My deepest impression of London was that someone like a bus conductor, a security guard or a brick layer would do his or her work with great professionalism and more importantly, a sense of pride. People around them also treated them with respect. This taught me that everyone could play a
meaningful role, whether big or small. For a society to progress, it must
leverage on the diversity and richness of its people.

Baey Yam Keng learnt the wrong lesson. The main reason British bus conductors, security guards, and brick layers do their work with pride and are treated with respect is because they get paid just as much as white collar workers. Unlike their counterparts in S'pore, these blue collar workers do not live from hand to mouth — they can afford a decent home and have time and money for leisure just like any other white collar workers.

If a brick layer earns as much as a pen pusher in MICA (like Baey Yam Keng), he won't feel any less worthy and neither would other people in his society. Only in Singapore would people think that writing mission statements is a more worthy job than laying bricks. The reason again is simple: the guy who writes mission statements gets paid a great deal more than the guy who lays bricks.

 

[po2wq]

... The reason again is simple: the guy who writes mission statements gets paid a great deal more than the guy who lays bricks.

n ze burger who write mission statements tinks he's a gr8er mortal n show no respect 2 ze burger who lays bricks, tinking he's a lesser mortal ...

 

[scroobal]

Have to agree with that. The stratification of society is clear when you have money as the main factor.

Early this year, a friend's son enrolled for Medicine at an Oz Uni and the cost is about $280,000 just for the fees. With food and lodging, it becomes clear that it requires one to have rich parents. I was told that there are approximately 20 Singaporeans in his cohort. And this just one university and there are about 8 in OZ and lets factor those that go to the UK, US etc medicine. The admissions to these courses carry high cut-off requirements so you must be good in your studies. So we are looking at about 150 students that graduate from OZ universities alone each year with an MBBS.

Yet this country end up employing foreign doctors from India, Myanmar and the Phlippines.

My understanding is that the bulk never return. Their local university has rejected them and therefore no strong link to bring them back.

So what does the govt do. They offer free food in a hotel in each city, send out emails and in those emails request that the notice be passed on to other Singaporeans and their names are taken down. The highly secretive population unit with its own Perm Sec in PMO who used to be with ISD, is now trying to throw carrots and hoping that they will return.

When parents were writing to the press and querying why their kids with many As could not get into pharmacy etc, they got condescending replies from the arseholes in our local universities. Now we are throwing taxpayers money and flying people around the world trying to get them back. So what was the PAP doing with their Scenario Planning Unit which was created in the 1980s in PMO - figuring out who to sue next?

Singapore unknowingly operates on a caste system. Not in terms of race but $$$.

We may deny it but subconsciuosly Singaporeans it makes us tick. Nothing will change that.

 

[Tristan]

Mr Baey should note that in most developed countries in the world politicians are seen to be one of the lowest in society. In a recent survey, they rank only marginally higher than that of a used-car salesman in terms of integrity and honesty.

 

[scroobal]

Well said and this clown still has not clue. The policy of the PAP is that our economy must be competitive and to them it means cheap labour. The same logic however does not seem to resonate when it comes to paying our policy makers and our Ministers.

Baey Yam Keng learnt the wrong lesson. The main reason British bus conductors, security guards, and brick layers do their work with pride and are treated with respect is because they get paid just as much as white collar workers. Unlike their counterparts in S'pore, these blue collar workers do not live from hand to mouth — they can afford a decent home and have time and money for leisure just like any other white collar workers.

If a brick layer earns as much as a pen pusher in MICA (like Baey Yam Keng), he won't feel any less worthy and neither would other people in his society. Only in Singapore would people think that writing mission statements is a more worthy job than laying bricks. The reason again is simple: the guy who writes mission statements gets paid a great deal more than the guy who lays bricks.

 

[khunking]

Money is everything to some people out there.

At the end of the day, it's a person's character that prevails.

人的身份有高低之分
品格沒有貴賤之分

Well said and this clown still has not clue. The policy of the PAP is that our economy must be competitive and to them it means cheap labour. The same logic however does not seem to resonate when it comes to paying our policy makers and our Ministers.

 

[Loofydralb]

Always remember wat our great leader told us all the time:

When you pay a bus conductor, a security guard or a brick layer just like an enginer,or accounttant,tat is the end of this country,and yr sisters,mothers,daughters would work as mais in far away places.

That is why the faster he dies, the sooner we can move ahead and reboot our thinking consistent with the modern world. He does not realise it but he is the very reason we are behind in term of first world thinking.

Still the champagne is waiting.

 

[hochiminhcity]

You are right man, if a plumber or taxi driver who is paid almost as equal as a white collar professional there is no reason why there is so many unemployed sinkee.
I dont mind giving up my white collar job to be a cab driver where I am under less stress.
Been self employed will give me more freedom and lower blood pressure.
I dont despise anyone who work with his hand to feed the family.
Low prestige or pride don't matter to me if you can put food on the table.