PAP frame questions to get answers they want regarding foreigners

[A Singaporean]

The question is not whether Singapore should be open to foreigners, it’s whether we should be swamped by foreigners

by Augustine Low

11 October 2020

2 min read

by Augustine Low
Reach, the government’s feedback unit, has released survey findings which show that the majority of Singaporeans agree that the country should be open to foreigners.
This echoes a multitude of statements by Ministers that Singapore must remain open and connected to foreigners and the rest of the world.
As Trade and Industry Minister Chan Chun Sing put it recently: “Singapore is deeply cognisant of the importance of staying open and connected to the world. This will never change.”
But aren’t they all stating the obvious and avoiding the crux of the matter?

Singaporeans have NOT been vocal about closing the country to foreigners. It has always been about managing the influx of foreigners and ensuring that Singaporeans are not discriminated against in our own country.
The rallying cry has been that unfair hiring practices must be weeded out, that preponderance of foreign PMETs must be addressed, and that Employment Pass, E-Pass and S-Pass holders must be calibrated.
In short, Singaporeans want to level the playing field and not have to look right, left and centre and fear the worst for natural-born citizens and the Singaporean core.
But no one has been shouting from rooftops or screaming on social media that the country must be shut down completely to foreigners.
Do we need a government survey to tell us that the majority of Singaporeans agree that the country must remain open to foreigners?
Do we need Ministers to repeatedly tell us that Singapore must remain open and connected to foreign talents and the rest of the world?

Staying open to foreigners is one thing. Being swamped by foreigners is another. There is a difference between opening the country and opening the floodgates.
Either our politicians are missing the point or deliberately taking it to extremes and equating Singaporean sentiments about managing the influx of foreigners with closing the country to foreigners.

 

[myfoot123]

PAP posing question about shit.

1) Is Shitting OK? Yes
2) Should there be a restriction on number of time to shit? No

Question forbidded to ask.
3) Should PAP be allowed to shit all over the place?

The crucial question and the very source of immigration problem was ignored by the cancellation of last question. PAP style.

 

[mojito]

See normal people are not racy xenophobes like oppies.

 

[Splendicker]

PAP posing question about shit.

1) Is Shitting OK? Yes
2) Should there be a restriction on number of time to shit? No
3) Where to shit? East Coast
4) How to shit, any plan for shitting? East Coast Plan

 

[laksaboy]

Leading questions.

 

[blackmondy]

Leading questions.

The wittiest and most timeless British sitcom ever, even endorsed by Margaret Thatcher herself.

 

[sweetiepie]

KNN my uncle know why they get most respondent on neutral KNN becas they engage happydot to conduct surveys and happydot uses a points system to encourage sinkies to do more surveys get more points to get more vouchers KNN so most respondents does not even read and best answers to give is neutral for any questions and any topics KNN

 

[tanwahtiu]

Do we need to pay ministers million of dollars to tell us shits things that they created first.

Time to drop their payckecks and stop bullshitting to us. We know that rent seeking economy need to swarm foreign workers as tenants.

 

[Loofydralb]

The adage rings true.
There are statistics and there are lies.

 

[Confuseous]

It is not that they know they are asking shit questions.
The wonder of it all is that they persist in this kind of bullshitology even after the last erection.
Things may not change overnight - but they sure are hurrying the whole process of being
slowly but surely losing more and more credibility.

 

[bobby]

They never say that those Singaporeans surveyed were all new citizens.....

 

[frenchbriefs]

What strikes me as curious is how nearly 50 percent of the surveyed seems to be neutral or have no opinion at all to any of the questions asked.

 

[stingray]

Staying open to foreigners is one thing. Being swamped by foreigners is another. There is a difference between opening the country and opening the floodgates.
Either our politicians are missing the point or deliberately taking it to extremes and equating Singaporean sentiments about managing the influx of foreigners with closing the country to foreigners.

Opening the door to welcome law abiding foreigners who can contribute to the country is good intention. Opening the door to let in all kinds of bad and rotten foreigners is evil intention. Look at Ramesh, Stuart Mills, all these Covid-19 celebrants in Clark Quay and other places. Pappies sure not able see far ahead. Permanent residents, who are 100% foreigners and jobless, can stay on for donkey years in SG. Why they not booted out? How can they contribute to SG when jobless? Looks like these jobless PS leeching onto pappies given privileges to stay alive in SG.

How are sinkies going to survive in their own country when they have to compete for jobs with foreigners holding PS shitty permits? Who comes first? Foreigners disguised as PS or the true blue sinkies in the job market?

 

[laksaboy]

Staying open to foreigners is one thing. Being swamped by foreigners is another. There is a difference between opening the country and opening the floodgates.
Either our politicians are missing the point or deliberately taking it to extremes and equating Singaporean sentiments about managing the influx of foreigners with closing the country to foreigners.

Opening the door to welcome law abiding foreigners who can contribute to the country is good intention. Opening the door to let in all kinds of bad and rotten foreigners is evil intention. Look at Ramesh, Stuart Mills, all these Covid-19 celebrants in Clark Quay and other places. Pappies sure not able see far ahead. Permanent residents, who are 100% foreigners and jobless, can stay on for donkey years in SG. Why they not booted out? How can they contribute to SG when jobless? Looks like these jobless PS leeching onto pappies given privileges to stay alive in SG.

How are sinkies going to survive in their own country when they have to compete for jobs with foreigners holding PS shitty permits? Who comes first? Foreigners disguised as PS or the true blue sinkies in the job market?

It's a numbers game for the PAP technocrats. Why do you think they built all those infrastructure? So that only Sinkies and quality FTs can enjoy them? Nope... that would be too slow.

Don't forget the numerous grandiose plans put forth by a bloated civil service... for example, LTA transport master plan 2040.