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“We’ve grown in the last five years by just importing labour. Now, the people feel uncomfortable, there are too many foreigners. Trains are overcrowded with foreigners, buses too, property prices have gone up because foreigners with permanent residence are buying into the market. The answer is simple: We check the flow of foreigners, raise your productivity, do the job better, so that instead of two workers, eventually you’ll do it with one worker, like the Japanese do,” he said.
Wasn't this the mantra that he preached in the 1980s? And indeed Sg has the most productive workforce in the world for many years running till he and his wicked CCB PAPee Traitors were consumed with greed and desire to perpetuate their rule. Come on, Sporns! Donch be fooled by him again! This Lau CB is really scared stiff now that Sporns will stage a velvet revolution to throw his gang of TRAITORs out of power! Let's DO IT and create a new path and a future that we and our future generations can really look forward to. Let's make Spore truly our one and only home and not to be forced into extinction by 1 LAN CHEOW FAMILEE!
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January 28, 2010 by admin
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http://www.temasekreview.com/2010/01/28/lee-kuan-yew-now-backtracks-and-promises-to-reduce-intake-of-foreigners-in-next-5-years/
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Though he claimed that he is “not doing much work except forecasting”, Singapore strongman Lee Kuan Yew showed who is the real boss in Singapore by becoming the”first minister to put a time line on the Government’s pledge since last year to reduce the inflow of foreign workers.”
“The next five years, we have decided we will tier down our need for foreign workers. We will pay for help to educate people, continuing education and training, which means a lot of money, probably co-payment with the employer to send him,” he said at an event to celebrate HDB’s 50th anniversary.
[Straits Times, 28 January 2010]
There was no immediate response from his son, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
Stung by rising frustration, anger and resentment on the ground over the relentless influx of foreigners into Singapore, the ruling party is now “tweaking” its immigration policy to make it more “palatable” to Singaporeans.
As late as August last year, the elder Lee was telling Singaporeans to “bear with the tide of immigrations” as foreigners are “essential” for Singaporeans.
He is now singing a different tune altogether:
“We’ve grown in the last five years by just importing labour. Now, the people feel uncomfortable, there are too many foreigners. Trains are overcrowded with foreigners, buses too, property prices have gone up because foreigners with permanent residence are buying into the market. The answer is simple: We check the flow of foreigners, raise your productivity, do the job better, so that instead of two workers, eventually you’ll do it with one worker, like the Japanese do,” he said.
Is this a tacit admission that the ruling party has made a disastrous mistake by allowing too many foreigners into the country over the last few years? If the influx of foreigners is deliberately measured, controlled and calibrated, why then is there a need to “check” the flow now?
Within a short span of time, the demographics of Singapore has been changed beyond recognition: foreigners now make up 36 per cent of Singapore’s population, up from 14 per cent in 1990. Of the remaining 64 per cent who are citizens, a rising proportion are new immigrants born overseas.
In 2008 alone, there are more than 90,000 PRs and 20,000 new citizens. Two out of every three PR applicants are successful, some of whom are cleaners, construction workers, masseurs and prostitutes.
Even if the inflow of foreigners is “checked” as promised by Lee, there is no guarantee that Singaporeans will not be “swarmed” by as there is already a sizable number of them in Singapore.
While Lee was making empty promises to Singapore, the ruling party continues to splurge taxpayers’ monies to “integrate” the newcomers and to recruit them into grassroots organizations to shore up their flagging support base.
Singaporeans must not be deceived by the ruling party anymore. Before the 2006 elections, a “generous” progress package was unveiled by PM Lee putting a couple of hundreds of dollars into the pockets of each citizen. After Singaporeans gave the PAP an “overwhelming” mandate at the polls, one of the first things it did is to raise the salaries of its own ministers by more than 50 per cent followed by hikes in GST, public transport and cost of living.
New immigrants are critical for the continued survival of the PAP without which it will probably lose its traditional two-third majority in Parliament soon with more and more young Singaporeans tilting towards the opposition.
Singaporeans have only one last chance in the next election to assert themselves as the rightful owners of this country after which they may be relegated to being second or even third class citizens ranked after the PAP elites and their new pets.
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Wasn't this the mantra that he preached in the 1980s? And indeed Sg has the most productive workforce in the world for many years running till he and his wicked CCB PAPee Traitors were consumed with greed and desire to perpetuate their rule. Come on, Sporns! Donch be fooled by him again! This Lau CB is really scared stiff now that Sporns will stage a velvet revolution to throw his gang of TRAITORs out of power! Let's DO IT and create a new path and a future that we and our future generations can really look forward to. Let's make Spore truly our one and only home and not to be forced into extinction by 1 LAN CHEOW FAMILEE!
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January 28, 2010 by admin
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http://www.temasekreview.com/2010/01/28/lee-kuan-yew-now-backtracks-and-promises-to-reduce-intake-of-foreigners-in-next-5-years/
Written by Our Correspondent
Though he claimed that he is “not doing much work except forecasting”, Singapore strongman Lee Kuan Yew showed who is the real boss in Singapore by becoming the”first minister to put a time line on the Government’s pledge since last year to reduce the inflow of foreign workers.”
“The next five years, we have decided we will tier down our need for foreign workers. We will pay for help to educate people, continuing education and training, which means a lot of money, probably co-payment with the employer to send him,” he said at an event to celebrate HDB’s 50th anniversary.
[Straits Times, 28 January 2010]
There was no immediate response from his son, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
Stung by rising frustration, anger and resentment on the ground over the relentless influx of foreigners into Singapore, the ruling party is now “tweaking” its immigration policy to make it more “palatable” to Singaporeans.
As late as August last year, the elder Lee was telling Singaporeans to “bear with the tide of immigrations” as foreigners are “essential” for Singaporeans.
He is now singing a different tune altogether:
“We’ve grown in the last five years by just importing labour. Now, the people feel uncomfortable, there are too many foreigners. Trains are overcrowded with foreigners, buses too, property prices have gone up because foreigners with permanent residence are buying into the market. The answer is simple: We check the flow of foreigners, raise your productivity, do the job better, so that instead of two workers, eventually you’ll do it with one worker, like the Japanese do,” he said.
Is this a tacit admission that the ruling party has made a disastrous mistake by allowing too many foreigners into the country over the last few years? If the influx of foreigners is deliberately measured, controlled and calibrated, why then is there a need to “check” the flow now?
Within a short span of time, the demographics of Singapore has been changed beyond recognition: foreigners now make up 36 per cent of Singapore’s population, up from 14 per cent in 1990. Of the remaining 64 per cent who are citizens, a rising proportion are new immigrants born overseas.
In 2008 alone, there are more than 90,000 PRs and 20,000 new citizens. Two out of every three PR applicants are successful, some of whom are cleaners, construction workers, masseurs and prostitutes.
Even if the inflow of foreigners is “checked” as promised by Lee, there is no guarantee that Singaporeans will not be “swarmed” by as there is already a sizable number of them in Singapore.
While Lee was making empty promises to Singapore, the ruling party continues to splurge taxpayers’ monies to “integrate” the newcomers and to recruit them into grassroots organizations to shore up their flagging support base.
Singaporeans must not be deceived by the ruling party anymore. Before the 2006 elections, a “generous” progress package was unveiled by PM Lee putting a couple of hundreds of dollars into the pockets of each citizen. After Singaporeans gave the PAP an “overwhelming” mandate at the polls, one of the first things it did is to raise the salaries of its own ministers by more than 50 per cent followed by hikes in GST, public transport and cost of living.
New immigrants are critical for the continued survival of the PAP without which it will probably lose its traditional two-third majority in Parliament soon with more and more young Singaporeans tilting towards the opposition.
Singaporeans have only one last chance in the next election to assert themselves as the rightful owners of this country after which they may be relegated to being second or even third class citizens ranked after the PAP elites and their new pets.
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