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BREAKING: This Is The Kind Of Professor Teaching In Our UNIVERSITIES?

ahleebabasingaporethief

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LKY School Prof: Singaporeans are “protesting” too much that foreigners are taking away

From Temasek Review

An economist and associate professor from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy Dr Tan Khee Giap has lashed out at Singaporeans for complaining about foreigners taking away their jobs.


Echoing PAP strongman Lee Kuan Yew’s views that Singaporeans are “champion grumblers”, Dr Tan claimed that Singaporeans are “protesting too much” at a roundtable session at the Tax Academy of Singapore’s annual Budget seminar yesterday.
He told the audience presence that figures last year showed that about three out of ten job vacancies had been unfilled for at least six months which implied that Sinagporeans are turning away the jobs.
Dr Tan did not provide any explanation as to why the unfilled jobs are not accepted by Singaporeans. Perhaps the pay is too low and the working hours are too long.
The PAP and <leo_highlight style="border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(255, 255, 150); background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 50%; -moz-background-size: auto auto; cursor: pointer; display: inline; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" id="leoHighlights_Underline_0" onclick="leoHighlightsHandleClick('leoHighlights_Underline_0')" onmouseover="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOver('leoHighlights_Underline_0')" onmouseout="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOut('leoHighlights_Underline_0')" leohighlights_keywords="the%20state" leohighlights_url_top="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_1/tbh_highlightsTop.jsp?keywords%3Dthe%2520state%26domain%3Dforums.delphiforums.com" leohighlights_url_bottom="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_1/tbh_highlightsBottom.jsp?keywords%3Dthe%2520state%26domain%3Dforums.delphiforums.com" leohighlights_underline="true">the state</leo_highlight> media have been busy trying to portray Singaporeans are being “fussy” in job application to deflect blame from their discriminatory labor polices which favor the foreigners.
In the last few weeks alone, the Temasek Review has published job advertisements put up by companies based in Singapore seeking foreigners for positions which can otherwise be filled by Singaporeans.
Dr Tan accused some Singaporeans of being “voluntarily unemployed” and suggested that “every resident worker who is unemployed for more than three months should be made to register with the Workforce Development Agency (WDA), which will have to help him find a job based on his last drawn pay.”
“The WDA can then track how many times each unemployed person turns down a job – much like the statistics the Housing Board recently revealed of new flat buyers turning down flat options,” he was quoted as saying in the Straits Times.
He believes that WDA rejection rate will be “fairly high” without substantiating his statements and that this will “quash the perception there are not enough jobs to go around for Singaporeans.”
“WDA should work actively to help citizens get jobs. When these people turn down jobs once, twice, three times, the Government then doesn’t have to make apologies about bringing in foreign workers,” he added.
Being an economist by training, it is appalling that Dr Tan is not aware of the basic fact that having jobs alone is not enough – the jobs must pay reasonably well to ensure a decent standard of living for Singapore workers.
The PAP has opened the floodgates to foreign workers without putting in adequate measures to safeguard the interests of Singaporeans. It is impossible to expect Singaporeans to compete directly with the cheaper foreigners while remaining “cheaper, better and faster” at the same time.
Despite recent promises made by PAP leaders to “slow” the inflow of foreigners to placate angry Singaporeans, Dr Tan continues to call for foreign workers to spur Singapore’s growth:
“Foreign workers, while unpopular, are necessary for Singapore’s growth, which may not be able to rise on higher productivity alone. This is especially so as the Government has been spending more than it earns – for instance, on help for the needy – and running budget deficits for a number of years now,” Dr Tan said.
According to a recent <leo_highlight style="border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(255, 255, 150); background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 50%; -moz-background-size: auto auto; cursor: pointer; display: inline; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" id="leoHighlights_Underline_1" onclick="leoHighlightsHandleClick('leoHighlights_Underline_1')" onmouseover="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOver('leoHighlights_Underline_1')" onmouseout="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOut('leoHighlights_Underline_1')" leohighlights_keywords="wall%20street%20journal" leohighlights_url_top="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_1/tbh_highlightsTop.jsp?keywords%3Dwall%2520street%2520journal%26domain%3Dforums.delphiforums.com" leohighlights_url_bottom="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_1/tbh_highlightsBottom.jsp?keywords%3Dwall%2520street%2520journal%26domain%3Dforums.delphiforums.com" leohighlights_underline="true">Wall Street Journal</leo_highlight> editorial, the relentless influx of foreign workers in recent years has depressed the ordinary wages of Singaporeans, increased the cost of living and led to an overall decline in the standards of living.
It is pretty obvious that there will not be any major overhaul of the PAP’s disastrous liberal immigration and pro-foreigner policies so long it remains in power.
Unless Singaporeans reclaim their rights as citizens of their country and vote out the despotic PAP regime in the next general election, they will soon be relegated to second class minorities in their own homeland with the males having to serve two years of National Service to protect the lives and wealth of the PAP elites and the immigrants.
>Apparently from this article, policy of our institutions requires lecturers to be de-sexed and de-spined (ie no balls and no spine) before they can teach these same qualities to next generation.
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hockbeng

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What about slavery?

Is that considered a job as well?

Maybe I can put up an ad for slaves: " work for me and you get food and lodging"
 

phouse3

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This is spin-doctoring and outstandingly illogical. The supply of foreign workers are infinite and cheap. We have been told they are here to do jobs that Singaporeans don't want. Now why are there unfilled vacancies? Why blame it on Sinkies? Is he suggesting Sinkies stoop so low to take up jobs that even Third World workers reject?

Even an undergraduate in economics knows what is a "discouraged worker". Changing the term to "voluntarily unemployed" will not help win arguments.

I am sure even the Manpower Ministry would condemn his suggestion for a selfish reason. Discouraged workers are not counted as unemployed. If his weird suggestion is adopted, unemployment would soar to 15 PER CENT.

The size of the labour force varies in the same direction as demand. For example, in a recovery, more housewives and leg-shakers would re-join the labour force. But such an economic hypothesis did not happen in Singapore with the Sinkie labour force participation rate stuck at 65%. This is likely due to cheaper competition from PRs and foreign workers.

The Manpower Ministry dresses up the figure by adding PRs in the calculation and justify their action by saying: It is "us" (Sinkies+PRs) versus the world.

Sinkies are rational economic beings. Applying for a job is not free of costs. People have to spend money on handphone charges, computer, expensive ink cartridges, stationery, postage, clothes, shoes, photos, transport, hairdo, etc. People don't mind investing this kind of money if they know they have a good chance of securing a job. But their experience tell them otherwise.

During a downturn, the library gets very crowded with people fighting for the Classified Ads just to save 90 cents on newspaper. They also hog the computers to trawl the internet for jobs.

What makes this economist think the WDA can do a better job than commercial employment agencies/human resource departments which are professional and performance driven?

On the contrary, pressure on WDA would lead to paper churning. For example, WDA may recommend unwanted jobs like insurance agent or a security guard job that is very far from where the applicant lives. WDA would also consider it as a rejection when they are unable to contact the applicant. And then WDA would re-cycle the same jobs for the next applicants. They would just want to fill up the forms and quota.

The unemployed would get "tekan", poorer and more frustrated.

We are in the midst of a productivity drive, not an unproductive wild goose chase.
 

Rogue Trader

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First a politician try to get citizen to accept Ft, now they get a LKY school professor to do so.
Next will be an actor or singer. I hope its Jackneo.
 

SneeringTree

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Odd. Wasn't this the same guy who couple of years back got into hot soup because he and his collaborator wrote that most jobs created went to foreigners?

Or did I remember wrongly?
 

kylie72

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Given that the last time this guy DID try to tell the truth and kenna roasted until chao tar, I'm really not blaming him for what he says now...
 

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Odd. Wasn't this the same guy who couple of years back got into hot soup because he and his collaborator wrote that most jobs created went to foreigners?

Or did I remember wrongly?
This is called damage control.
If it was indeed him then, he's now saying that yes, the jobs went to foreigners, but only because singaporeans rejected those jobs and the government had no choice but to bring in the foreigners.
Hence the government are not to blame, and please let me keep my job and my tenure.
 

AvalanCh3

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judging from the name of the institute, i am not surprise that he wrote this article with the intention of getting a promotion.

its the SOP for getting foreigners into the work place.
1. push the wages below market value.
2. blame sg that they cannot dahan.
3. get foreigners in from the flood gate.

we have such big income gap that only the rich is getting richer, with the poor getting poorer.
 

myfoot123

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He is daft to believe WDA is saint and can easily secured job for Singaporeans based on their last pay. I will not be surprised a manager who earned 5000/mth based on his last drawn salary will be asked, by WDA officer, to accept 1500/mth job.
 

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He is daft to believe WDA is saint and can easily secured job for Singaporeans based on their last pay. I will not be surprised a manager who earned 5000/mth based on his last drawn salary will be asked, by WDA officer, to accept 1500/mth job.
They should get him to head the "task force" that ensure this happens.
 

phouse3

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For the few unwanted and unfilled jobs, they blame it on Sinkies for being choosey.

For the hundreds of thousands of wanted and filled jobs, they blame it on Sinkies for being slower, more expensive and lousier.

The complain is there are many jobs that Sinkies can do faster and better. Sometimes cheaper too. Yet those jobs went to the foreigners.

It's time for Sinkies to stand up and be counted. We are not rubbish.
 
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jw5

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For the few unwanted and unfilled jobs, they blame it on Sinkies for being choosey.

For the hundreds of thousands of wanted and filled jobs, they blame it on Sinkies for being slower, more expensive and lousier.

The complain is there are many jobs that Sinkies can do faster and better. Sometimes cheaper too. Yet those jobs went to the foreigners.

It's time for Sinkies to stand up and be counted. We are not rubbish.
Just remember to tick the right box at the polls.
That's all is needed.
 

makapaaa

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A simple question for the FAPee doggie - is he willing to take up $800/mth jobs himself or ask his children and relatives to do so? If not, what makes him think that Sporns as good or even better than himself accept them?
 

Boliao

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I have employees across Asia Pacific and while Singaporeans are slightly more expensive (but much cheaper than Koreans and Japanese), they are the best employees when it comes to value for money.

One of my Singaporean staff handles more than 50% of the workload; more than the total workload of her seven other colleagues combined. And she does it professionally and faster.

I have a few headcounts that are open for more than 6 months but this professor is a nut head to say Singaporeans are choosy. It's the employer. Our criteria are strict and not many people (foreigner or locals alike) can qualify.
 
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