PM Lee says productivity, rejuvenate, plse then quickly take action ...

[besotted]

...by opening up western Singapore, build new towns and import 1.5 million PRC youth over next five years to reach 6.5 million target. We need PRC youth because Singaporean not reproducing and those that grow up her mostly epic FAIL


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Published February 13, 2010

PM Lee: S'pore must raise productivity, rejuvenate population


SINGAPORE has reached a turning point in its economic development and must work smart to transform its economy, the Prime Minister said yesterday in his annual Chinese New Year message.


Lee Hsien Loong, now in his sixth year as Prime Minister, said that the country cannot keep importing foreign workers as liberally as before because it is running out of space.

But that 'does not mean less competition for Singaporeans, because our real competitors are out there in the world and not here among us', Mr Lee said, noting that recent improvements in the economy meant that full-year GDP fell only 2.1 per cent, compared with 10 per cent in the first quarter of last year. Unemployment was also kept low, he said.

The twin challenges now facing Singapore are upgrading productivity while rejuvenating its population, Mr Lee said. 'We also need to preserve a core of citizens who are born here and have grown up here, who will maintain and pass on the values and spirit of our nation.'

Singapore's total fertility rate last year was the lowest ever at 1.23, down from 1.28 in 2008, and the Prime Minister said that he is worried about this year, noting that some Chinese couples prefer not to have children in the Tiger zodiac year.

 

[tanwahtiu]

Who is going to keep his Leegime squicky clean and sparkling, Sinkies? Over the past 40 years, Sinkies has had learnt to be lazy and complacent and rely on Gahmen to do everything for them.

 

[halsey02]

Still no one had the gall to point out the author of the birth rate decline, " a swallow doen't maketh a summer'..in physics we have what we know is, 'for every action, there is a reaction' ( something like that, long time I have studied physics).

Would he dare say, " my dad was mistaken with the STOP AT TWO policy"...

 

[batman1]

Productivity ??? Did I hear wrong ??? Talk cock so long but don't take action.Only want the peasants to die terribly.We are waiting for the RESTRUCTURING at the PM Office.......TOO MANY EXPENSIVE DEADWOODS IN THE NEST.....RETRENCH THE MM LKY,SM Wooden blockhead(Senior mentor ?),PUPPET PRESIDENT Nathan,THE MINISTER WITHOUt PORTFOLIO LIM BOON HENG(WHAT TYPE OF FARKING JOB IS THAT ? CHO BOH LAN JOB AND STILL PAID MILLLIOns !)..sINGAPORE IS GOING DOWN THE DRAIN ..ONLY THE FILTY Rich CAN RUN AWAY IN A JET PLANE.