You do not need rocket science to deduce the reason as to why so many qualified and eductaed foreigners are "encouraged" to work and settle here as citizens and PRs.
The paramount reason is the extremely low birth rate and the increase in the number of aged Singaporeans coupled with the increase in the number of singles and divorcees here.
These younger foreigners will be replacement and will form a significant backbone to "support" and equalise the rapidly aging population here.
As it is, there are only 2.3 million citizens here and 750,000 of them are classified as senior citizens.
we should have out pride and rather live in poverty than surrender to ang mohs!
I have never seen any other posts that missed the point a million miles like yours has. The issue is mainly white collar jobs where it is in direct competition with a Singaporean. We are talking about accountants, systems analysts, bankers, technical officers and a whole spectrum jobs.
Foreigners have been part and parcel of Singapore landscape since this island was a colony. No one protested when Indian labour was brought in build the govt infrastructure. The same applied when they were brought in by the thousands to build HDB flats. There Thais, Bangladeshis, Indians, Koreans, were the sam,etc. We allowed and mo expats who opened up channels, netwroks, invested and drove highly skilled operations.
Everyone welcomed the arrival of maids from the Philippines, Indonesia and Sri Lanka. It was something that Singaporeans demanded when both the parents had to work to pay for the HDB flat.
We were delighted when Malaysian girls were bussed by the thousands each day to man Apple, Seagate and many other factories that required huge numbers.
Give you one fucking example:
NUS staff are happy that they got an appropriate candidate to head NUS business school but they are not happy that part of the deal secured a job for his wife as a lecturer in NUS while Singaporeans lost tenure of employement. Get the picture!
You must be one blur sotong not to know what Singaporeans were gripping about for the last 10 years when the floodgates were opened for one and all. Man, you are so detached from reality and whats going on on the ground that it is not funny.
First find your balls to vote out LKY and PAP bastards.
It was your ball-less voting of LKY and PAP that allowed them to bring in the FTs.
You vote for LKY and you fucked yourself.
You got what you deserved.
YES! Like I said before, if I were one of the MIWs, I will also screw balless S'poreans.
Now we have Josephine Teo saying Singaporeans are of poor stock. CCB!
You mean there are Russian students selling their cheebyes here? Where are they? Share man
Go to Sam's sex forum, register and start a thread there under "Singapore sex and health centers" and i will reply to you there. Maybe others will before i do.
That is not the reason. Not sure who told you this.
The Replacement rate is certainly a concern and in particular that of the Chinese Singaporeans. This govt is comfortable with race ratio from the time of independence. Attempts to get Malaysian Chinese via the Asean and local scholarships failed to get them to convert. A second attempt was made to get HKongers and that too failed. Now its the PRC market. That only addresses the repalcement rate for chinese.
The real reason was the effect of foreigners on the economy. Common sense will tell you that when there are more people, the economy with everything holding, will grow. They got their first taste in the early 90s when HDB prices shot thru the roof with a Maisonette going for $740K. It was fueled by FTs when resale rules were relaxed.
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I don't think the above is accurate. The govt. is totally uncomfortable with the race ratios, and if it were up to them, there would be 90% Chinese, 10% Indians and 0% Malays. .
People like me already see them no up. What do you mean surrender to them?
Don't you see ang mos at VivoCity carts trying to sell you stuff or try stuff. I just ignore them.
Don't buy is one thing. BUT ingoring them is the best or give them dirty "fuck off to your own village" look is the best.
Hawker centers also have angmo hawkers. What's left for Singaporeans?
Thought we only allow a certain grade in? Now all chapalang.
I don't think the above is accurate. The govt. is totally uncomfortable with the race ratios, and if it were up to them, there would be 90% Chinese, 10% Indians and 0% Malays. There were never any attempts to get malaysian chinese to come here on a permanent basis. In fact, they were discouraged and considered unreliable and not anti-malay enough. This was a very sore point with the Malaysian chinese, especially in the 1970s when many wanted to move to singapore permanently due to racial tensions but were denied by the govt.
The recruitment of HK in 1990s played on their fear of a communist takeover in HK, and the PAP knew that they were not serious and only using S'pore as a stepping stone.
The replacement rate would have been much lower if the PAP had simply concentrated on retaining its native born Chinese populace. 100,000s have emigrated to Australia, Britain, US, and Canada. There is not one singaporean who does not have a friend or relative in one of these countries. These people left because they know the PAP has fucked it up. If all singaporeans did not leave their homeland, we would not have this problem.
With regards to the price of HDB Maisonnette. U are wrong. All land and property prices in Singapore is controlled by the PAP. At that time, the HDB were releasing units at inflated prices, plus add to that rampant speculation, and you have the prices being what they are. FTs by and large have an overblown effect on HDB prices. If your theory is true, than given the large influx of FTs in the last few years, u should have seen HDB prices shot thru the roof. Instead, u have 40,000 unsold units as recent as last year. FTs are classified into the following categories:
Privileged FTs- Rich Indons, FTs that are working high salary jobs, etc. They buy high end private condos, not HDB flats.
Lower ranked FTs- Working in menial jobs or IT jobs, with salaries of up to $2000 per month. 4 or 5 of them kongsi together and rent one HDB flat. I have seen 1 family per room in the flats. They DO NO BUY because they know they will return back to their village.
Rare FTS- who actually move their families here and make singapore their new homes. Yes, they buy flats, but they are so few of them and their effects on HDB prices are negligible.
we should have out pride and rather live in poverty than surrender to ang mohs!