Sporean must bind together & boycot FTs

[makapaaa]

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[Maverick01]

first, improve the grammars and spellings.

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[Cestbon]

Nowday everywhere I go I see FT.
1. In shopping centre/retail worker 70%
2. Coffeeshop 50% hawker centre 30%
3. Hospital 50%
4. Shipyard 90%
5. Factory 80%
6. Contruction 95%
7. Finance/banking 30%
8. Transports MRT/bus 70%
...................

 

[halsey02]

This would not do, we are not solving the problems. We must vote for a government that balances the need to protect the people of the country, as well as being relevant in a rapidly changing world. A government that looks after us, but not only interested in making money & more money. ( nothing is wrong in making money though).

A government with moral values...

Jobs that are for the people, must be given to the people first, not foreigners. Only when a certain skills, experience & know-how; then we allow the importation of foreign labours, wether professional or not.

Or course, we do not shut ourselves from the world...

The people of SINgapore, must have first pirority to any employment & education, healthcare & housing and others.

Human resources & management must be placed in the hands of SINgaporeans, not permanent residents or even forieigners.

There must be a National SINgaporeans first!!!!, afterall, we are born here, grow up here...and future generation...

SINgaporeans first....but binding together and boycott FT's, is akin to blind folding oneself...and grope in the dark!!:o

 

[gbomega]

Another loser... this is not the FT's fault but stinkies...

 

[leetahbah]

The children of these FTs will be sporns one day complaining about FTs

 

[singveld]

PAP have the police,army and kangaroo court with them. what do you want to do?
why dun you gave up and let the FT overtake sinkies.
50 yrs time from now, sinkies will disappear.

 

[i_am_belle]

This would not do, we are not solving the problems. We must vote for a government that balances the need to protect the people of the country, as well as being relevant in a rapidly changing world. A government that looks after us, but not only interested in making money & more money. ( nothing is wrong in making money though).

nothing wrong in making money, nothing wrong in wanting economic growth, yes -- but the PAP's greed and lack of empathy with the citizens is beyond redemption ...

 

[Conan the Barbarian]

Sinagporeans will never do that. They will go for the
cheapest prices. And guess what? These are places
where they are suppose to boycott.

If they can bind together, we would never have reached
this situation. Only money binds them together, as can
be seen by the turnout in Hong Lim Park during the
mini-bond saga.

 

[TeeKee]

Nowday everywhere I go I see FT.

of course you see FTs....your grandpa, grandma, mom & pops not FTs?

then you must belong to the following category..

1. Malay
2. Baba..

 

[TeeKee]

PAP have the police,army and kangaroo court with them. what do you want to do?
why dun you gave up and let the FT overtake sinkies.
50 yrs time from now, sinkies will disappear.

i think it will be shorter..probably less than 20 years...

50% already foreigners...after just 5 years...

in future there will be a new term to describe future Singaporeans?

transient residents?

 

[angry_one]

Stupid sinkees cannot realise that if they want something, they cannot beg the govt for it, appeal to ST forums or debate on TV. They will only be made to look stupid or receive textbook replies.

They must practise it and take matters into their own hands. If 1 million people can do and demand the same thing, no govt can stand in their way. The only common thing they've done rightly is immigrating out of sinkeeland en masse.

 

[Wang Ye]

Stupid sinkees cannot realise that if they want something, they cannot beg the govt for it, appeal to ST forums or debate on TV. They will only be made to look stupid or receive textbook replies.

Bro! You forgot their standard "I know better than you" and "you lack the information and experience to understand" position.

 

[littlefish]

I was just thinking about this issue a couple of days ago and reached the conclusion that Singaporeans are too selfish to make something like this work. They have been ensuring low-value jobs get paid as little as possible and turned up their noses at blue-collar workers. In short, they are only concerned about their own wellbeing. Even if it is something that benefits everyone, they will rather sit on their asses and wait for someone else to fight for that for them. Their rationale is to get the gains while avoiding all risks. It is not even like letting someone else do the dirty work. At least when you get someone else to do the dirty work, you have to pay them to do it.

It is no coincidence that the PAP has remained in power all these years and the policies that they have put in place are meant to suit that mentality.

It is no point asking businesses to help Singaporeans because their focus is on the bottomline. It is up to the consumers to force the change but is that possible in Singapore? Let's assume that company A hires the greatest proportion of foreigners within its industry. How many Singaporeans would be willing to boycott company A if it offers the lowest prices? They do not know the concept of self-sacrifice for the greater good (they believe in it only if it affects their loved ones or themselves). Besides, with the huge numbers of foreigners in Singapore, this bargaining power of Singaporeans has been greatly diminished.

So, don't put too much hope in something like this happening. I have always considered myself an optimist and I am more optimistic that pigs will fly before you can see a protest of 10 people fighting for something not directly related to their own pockets. However, this strange species called Singaporeans will somehow fight over Hello Kitty toys given as part of meal purchases from a certain fast-food restaurant chain.

Let me give a recent case in NZ. Cadbury recently downsized their chocolate bars by 20% and replaced its cocoa butter ingredient with vegetable fat and palm oil. Even though the bars are now cheaper, Cadbury was forced to make an about-turn a couple of weeks later. Link here.

 

[molly]

Sometimes singaporeans don't want to do the job, who else but a bangla would push that rubbish bin collecting rubbish from the chute

 

[littlefish]

Sometimes singaporeans don't want to do the job, who else but a bangla would push that rubbish bin collecting rubbish from the chute

The solution to this is not importing cheap labour. It is to redesign the job and ensure that the pay matches the unattractiveness of the job (people who perform dirty jobs are humans too). The design of the rubbish chute is so wrong, it allows people to just chuck all sorts of rubbish down the chute and forget about the mess. In first world countries, people need to bag their waste properly, take it out of their house and put it nicely by the roadside for the garbagemen to dispose of it. I don't see why people in Singapore can't do that and take their rubbish to a central collection point in their block daily instead of just chucking everything down the rubbish chute. For the elderly or sick who need help, special arrangements will need to be made. However, Singapore being a tropical country, the garbage collection would need to be a lot more frequent than once a week.

 

[ManBearPig62]

In first world countries, people need to bag their waste properly, take it out of their house and put it nicely by the roadside for the garbagemen to dispose of it.

You know what happens if you don't do simple things like put the bin the correct way facing the roadside? They just ignore it and don't collect it for another week.

After one or two times living with the smell of rotting rubbish for a week, you will learn to respect the garbagemen.

 

[littlefish]

Most Singaporeans have never lived in first world countries for any appreciable period of time (vacations don't count) and think the world revolves around Singapore simply because they bought into the fairytale that Singapore is an economic miracle. The PAP has no choice but to bow to the wishes of the masses with third world mentality in order to stay in power (although they are guilty of spinning the fairytale in the first place).

 

[ashjaw]

.........In short, they are only concerned about their own wellbeing. Even if it is something that benefits everyone, they will rather sit on their asses and wait for someone else to fight for that for them. Their rationale is to get the gains while avoiding all risks. It is not even like letting someone else do the dirty work. At least when you get someone else to do the dirty work, you have to pay them to do it.

It is no coincidence that the PAP has remained in power all these years and the policies that they have put in place are meant to suit that mentality.

I so agree with you on this..... just look at every elections, there is always an overwhelming support in opposition rallies, but when it comes to actual voting, DUH!!! all become mouse! :(

 

[Cestbon]

Sinagporeans will never do that. They will go for the
cheapest prices. And guess what? These are places
where they are suppose to boycott.

If they can bind together, we would never have reached
this situation. Only money binds them together, as can
be seen by the turnout in Hong Lim Park during the
mini-bond saga.

If they can bind together, we would never have reached
this situation. Only money binds them together, as can
be seen by the turnout in Hong Lim Park during the
mini-bond saga.
100% agree. If they bind together they will vote more opposition MP.
The FT problem will not happen.