http://www.tremeritus.com/2015/09/01/paps-insane-population-policy-will-doom-our-childrens-future/
[h=2]PAP’s insane population policy will doom our children[/h]
September 1st, 2015 |
Author: Contributions
Understanding how PAP’s insane population policy will doom our
children’s future
Singaporeans should not blindly accept every bit of propaganda fed by PAP.
PAP’s economic miracle is all related to an insane population
policy which has caused a lot of unnecessary stress and suffering for
the people.
Be it housing, retirement, education, healthcare, transportation, etc all our
issues cannot be resolved as long as PAP continues to mindlessly import
foreigners and justifying the trade-offs using propaganda. It is not even
bothered about our social fabric is being torn apart so long as it achieves its
GDP objective.
Singaporeans are right to suspect the culprit who started all our troubles –
Goh Chok Tong.
When Goh became PM, the number of PRs more than doubled from 112,000
to 287,000 (‘A’). It wasn’t necessary to increase PRs by 175,000 to
have a wider selection of new citizens averaging only 8,200
annually; the pool of 112,000 PRs (13 times) would have been sufficient.
Since PRs enjoy certain subsidies, compliments of taxpayers, PAP was
therefore helping foreigners at our expense.
Table shows our population density almost doubling from 1990.
Before
Goh stepped down, the number of PRs tripled and foreigners
increased by more than 400,000. The additional headcount
increased economic activity which caused a spike in housing prices and our cost
of living. To Goh and the PAP, Singapore was a success story and the
stratospheric GDP justified all PAP-created issues and
obscene ministerial salaries.
After Lee Hsien Loong took over Goh, he merely copied and pasted
Goh’s shortcut to economic growth. Like Goh, Lee has been
totally reliant on unlimited cheap foreign labour, ie Lee
doubled the number of foreigners to 1.6 million since taking
office. PAP tells us that we need to have as many foreigners as possible for our
benefit.
Lee loves foreigners because they help him achieve his GDP targets and to
make them feel more at home, he has even said that our special place “belongs to all of us”.
Lee
quickly increased the number of new citizens by 4,000 to
above 10,000 annually, ostensibly to increase our low TFR. Four
years later, Lee doubled new citizens to 20,000 since (see
chart above). Most Singaporeans believe Lee needed the votes of new citizens to
stay in power. Left unchecked, PAP will likely increase this to perhaps 30,000,
probably more.
But does our population policy boost fertility rates? According to Lee’s
father, the answer is ‘no’.
LKY: “Finally, empirical evidence tells us that immigrants do not
boost our fertility rates because they have as few children as
Singaporeans do. They replace the young adults that we are short of, but
do not have enough children to replace themselves…..”.
The PAP should cease lying to the people and reduce the rate
of foreigner import for political reasons.
Lee achieved a record on the PR front – he welcomed 79,000 foreigners, mostly
from less developed countries, in a single year. Using such a
ridiculously high intake as a yardstick, PAP subsequently claims the rate of
foreigner growth has slowed.
The combined effort of Goh and Lee increased the NET number of PRs by
more than 420,000 from 1990 to 2014 (see table above). If the objective
of having more than half a million PRs is to create a pool of potential new
citizens to select from, maintaining 200,000 PRs or 10 times the number of new
citizens would have been sufficient. PAP is not bothered about the additional
300,000 foreigners being a drain on our limited resources.
Worse, PAP did not even consult Parliament. It is clear that PAP’s objective
is to offer some subsidies/grants to help foreigners offset the high cost of
living. Remove their PRs status and many would have headed home.
Singapore PR = tissue paper?
PAP has been concealing tonnes of information from the public to
prevent scrutiny of its policies. It is a fact that an annual
average of 10,000 PRs leave Singapore permanently. Recent
figures have also confirmed this, eg from 2012 to 2013, PRs decreased by 2,000
despite an intake of 30,000 new PRs.
In the table above, the number of PRs is shown to have increased by only
246,000 (533,000 – 287,000).
The chart above shows 460,000 new PRs and 116,000 new citizens. Taking into
account about 90% of new citizens, or 104,000, come from the current stock of
PRs, the net increase should be 356,000 (460,000 – 104,000).
There is a discrepancy – 110,000 PRs are missing.
PAP should explain to parliament the ‘disappearance’ of some 110,000
PRs.from 2000 to 2009. Did an annual average of about 12,000 PRs book a
one way ticket to the Bermuda Triangle?
PAP cannot be unaware of the large number of PRs who have left Singapore for
good. It appears that our PR is being treated like a piece of tissue paper,
no?
PAP long-term = short term
Hundreds of thousands of PRs are not here for the long-term as PAP
has insisted and this has already been confirmed by
our statistics. Another related issue is hundreds of thousands of PRs have
already left for good but their CPF accounts continue to be managed by
CPF Board, earning interest rates higher than those offered in their home
country.
Why is PAP looking after the interest of foreigners?
When PAP shoved the PWP down our throats, it was again to employ its growth
shortcut. Without increasing our population at a historically insane rate of
about 100,000 per year before 2014, comprising 80% foreigners (PRs and new
citizens included), demand for property would have collapsed along with our GDP.
PAP would then have no justification to increase its own
salaries as well as those in the civil service.
When PM Lee says “Productivity growth only way forward to ensure better life”,
he was merely stating the OBVIOUS. And he has just realised
this because PAP has been growing our economy by increasing the population, ie
since Goh became PM, our population has increased by 2.5
million. Lee had thought our economy could grow without productivity
improvements?
That PAP has been sleeping should also be obvious to every Singaporean by
now. The ICA chart shows PAP importing 70,000 new citizens and 260,000
new PRs from 2006 to 2009. Including 2010 figures, PAP imported about
90,000 new citizens and 290,000 PRs from 2006 to 2010. Every
one of them would want to be a part of PAP’s HDB ASS-et enhancement scheme as
they will be able to retire comfortably back home after throwing away their
pieces of tissue paper.
But guess how many HDB units did PAP plan for? 29,935 HDB
units!
HDB
What about tens of thousands of newly-married Singaporean couples who wanted
to help increase our TFR and other citizens who recently met HDB’s criteria for
application?
Prices of public housing naturally shot up and PAP just can’t simply say
‘oops, sorry’ when citizens are now committing additional hundreds of
dollars in monthly mortgage installments. To add insult to injury,
PAP says it is indispensable and the only way forward is to continue
growing the population at the same rate, ie according to the PWP.
If this had happened in Japan in the good old days, the PAP would have been
required to do the ‘right thing’ by calling a press conference and committing hara-kiri after taking a deep bow in front of those
who had paid dearly for its mistakes.
To sum up:
PAP knows no other way to generate economic growth besides increasing
the population. Singapore’s population has grown by 2.5
million since Goh Chok Tong became PM.
PM Lee has recently admitted that “productivity is very tough to do” because
he and his predecessor have been doing it the non-productivity way for
25 years! This has been confirmed by our statistics.
When PAP keeps increasing the foreigner population, Singaporeans will
ultimately suffer. A substantial amount of our budget is allocated to
providing grants and the construction of additional infrastructure to meet their
demand. Worse, PAP policies discriminate against locals,
resulting in unnecessary retrenchments and graduates being forced to become taxi
drivers, etc.
Singaporeans have paid a very high price for PAP’s insane population
policy. PAP only began to ‘look after’ our well-being after it had lost
its grip on power in 2011.
Like its ‘Stop At Two’ policy, PAP’s population policy is an epic failure
which it again doesn’t even want to acknowledge. By pushing through the PWP, PAP
is telling Singaporeans it intends to repeat the same mistake,
never mind what we think. Without a doubt, PAP is certain to doom our children’s
future.
Phillip
Ang
* Phillip blogs at likedatosocanmeh.
[h=2]PAP’s insane population policy will doom our children[/h]
September 1st, 2015 |
Author: Contributions
Understanding how PAP’s insane population policy will doom our
children’s future
Singaporeans should not blindly accept every bit of propaganda fed by PAP.
PAP’s economic miracle is all related to an insane population
policy which has caused a lot of unnecessary stress and suffering for
the people.
Be it housing, retirement, education, healthcare, transportation, etc all our
issues cannot be resolved as long as PAP continues to mindlessly import
foreigners and justifying the trade-offs using propaganda. It is not even
bothered about our social fabric is being torn apart so long as it achieves its
GDP objective.
Singaporeans are right to suspect the culprit who started all our troubles –
Goh Chok Tong.
When Goh became PM, the number of PRs more than doubled from 112,000
to 287,000 (‘A’). It wasn’t necessary to increase PRs by 175,000 to
have a wider selection of new citizens averaging only 8,200
annually; the pool of 112,000 PRs (13 times) would have been sufficient.
Since PRs enjoy certain subsidies, compliments of taxpayers, PAP was
therefore helping foreigners at our expense.
Table shows our population density almost doubling from 1990.
Before
Goh stepped down, the number of PRs tripled and foreigners
increased by more than 400,000. The additional headcount
increased economic activity which caused a spike in housing prices and our cost
of living. To Goh and the PAP, Singapore was a success story and the
stratospheric GDP justified all PAP-created issues and
obscene ministerial salaries.
After Lee Hsien Loong took over Goh, he merely copied and pasted
Goh’s shortcut to economic growth. Like Goh, Lee has been
totally reliant on unlimited cheap foreign labour, ie Lee
doubled the number of foreigners to 1.6 million since taking
office. PAP tells us that we need to have as many foreigners as possible for our
benefit.
Lee loves foreigners because they help him achieve his GDP targets and to
make them feel more at home, he has even said that our special place “belongs to all of us”.
Lee
quickly increased the number of new citizens by 4,000 to
above 10,000 annually, ostensibly to increase our low TFR. Four
years later, Lee doubled new citizens to 20,000 since (see
chart above). Most Singaporeans believe Lee needed the votes of new citizens to
stay in power. Left unchecked, PAP will likely increase this to perhaps 30,000,
probably more.
But does our population policy boost fertility rates? According to Lee’s
father, the answer is ‘no’.
LKY: “Finally, empirical evidence tells us that immigrants do not
boost our fertility rates because they have as few children as
Singaporeans do. They replace the young adults that we are short of, but
do not have enough children to replace themselves…..”.
The PAP should cease lying to the people and reduce the rate
of foreigner import for political reasons.
Lee achieved a record on the PR front – he welcomed 79,000 foreigners, mostly
from less developed countries, in a single year. Using such a
ridiculously high intake as a yardstick, PAP subsequently claims the rate of
foreigner growth has slowed.
The combined effort of Goh and Lee increased the NET number of PRs by
more than 420,000 from 1990 to 2014 (see table above). If the objective
of having more than half a million PRs is to create a pool of potential new
citizens to select from, maintaining 200,000 PRs or 10 times the number of new
citizens would have been sufficient. PAP is not bothered about the additional
300,000 foreigners being a drain on our limited resources.
Worse, PAP did not even consult Parliament. It is clear that PAP’s objective
is to offer some subsidies/grants to help foreigners offset the high cost of
living. Remove their PRs status and many would have headed home.
Singapore PR = tissue paper?
PAP has been concealing tonnes of information from the public to
prevent scrutiny of its policies. It is a fact that an annual
average of 10,000 PRs leave Singapore permanently. Recent
figures have also confirmed this, eg from 2012 to 2013, PRs decreased by 2,000
despite an intake of 30,000 new PRs.
In the table above, the number of PRs is shown to have increased by only
246,000 (533,000 – 287,000).
The chart above shows 460,000 new PRs and 116,000 new citizens. Taking into
account about 90% of new citizens, or 104,000, come from the current stock of
PRs, the net increase should be 356,000 (460,000 – 104,000).
There is a discrepancy – 110,000 PRs are missing.
PAP should explain to parliament the ‘disappearance’ of some 110,000
PRs.from 2000 to 2009. Did an annual average of about 12,000 PRs book a
one way ticket to the Bermuda Triangle?
PAP cannot be unaware of the large number of PRs who have left Singapore for
good. It appears that our PR is being treated like a piece of tissue paper,
no?
PAP long-term = short term
Hundreds of thousands of PRs are not here for the long-term as PAP
has insisted and this has already been confirmed by
our statistics. Another related issue is hundreds of thousands of PRs have
already left for good but their CPF accounts continue to be managed by
CPF Board, earning interest rates higher than those offered in their home
country.
Why is PAP looking after the interest of foreigners?
When PAP shoved the PWP down our throats, it was again to employ its growth
shortcut. Without increasing our population at a historically insane rate of
about 100,000 per year before 2014, comprising 80% foreigners (PRs and new
citizens included), demand for property would have collapsed along with our GDP.
PAP would then have no justification to increase its own
salaries as well as those in the civil service.
When PM Lee says “Productivity growth only way forward to ensure better life”,
he was merely stating the OBVIOUS. And he has just realised
this because PAP has been growing our economy by increasing the population, ie
since Goh became PM, our population has increased by 2.5
million. Lee had thought our economy could grow without productivity
improvements?
That PAP has been sleeping should also be obvious to every Singaporean by
now. The ICA chart shows PAP importing 70,000 new citizens and 260,000
new PRs from 2006 to 2009. Including 2010 figures, PAP imported about
90,000 new citizens and 290,000 PRs from 2006 to 2010. Every
one of them would want to be a part of PAP’s HDB ASS-et enhancement scheme as
they will be able to retire comfortably back home after throwing away their
pieces of tissue paper.
But guess how many HDB units did PAP plan for? 29,935 HDB
units!
HDBWhat about tens of thousands of newly-married Singaporean couples who wanted
to help increase our TFR and other citizens who recently met HDB’s criteria for
application?
Prices of public housing naturally shot up and PAP just can’t simply say
‘oops, sorry’ when citizens are now committing additional hundreds of
dollars in monthly mortgage installments. To add insult to injury,
PAP says it is indispensable and the only way forward is to continue
growing the population at the same rate, ie according to the PWP.
If this had happened in Japan in the good old days, the PAP would have been
required to do the ‘right thing’ by calling a press conference and committing hara-kiri after taking a deep bow in front of those
who had paid dearly for its mistakes.
To sum up:
PAP knows no other way to generate economic growth besides increasing
the population. Singapore’s population has grown by 2.5
million since Goh Chok Tong became PM.
PM Lee has recently admitted that “productivity is very tough to do” because
he and his predecessor have been doing it the non-productivity way for
25 years! This has been confirmed by our statistics.
When PAP keeps increasing the foreigner population, Singaporeans will
ultimately suffer. A substantial amount of our budget is allocated to
providing grants and the construction of additional infrastructure to meet their
demand. Worse, PAP policies discriminate against locals,
resulting in unnecessary retrenchments and graduates being forced to become taxi
drivers, etc.
Singaporeans have paid a very high price for PAP’s insane population
policy. PAP only began to ‘look after’ our well-being after it had lost
its grip on power in 2011.
Like its ‘Stop At Two’ policy, PAP’s population policy is an epic failure
which it again doesn’t even want to acknowledge. By pushing through the PWP, PAP
is telling Singaporeans it intends to repeat the same mistake,
never mind what we think. Without a doubt, PAP is certain to doom our children’s
future.
Phillip
Ang
* Phillip blogs at likedatosocanmeh.
