Firstly, PM Lee says to the NTU Students last week that we (he is the PM right and he made the decision right?) should slow immigration and now there is fund to be spend $10 million to Open our hearts, Open our houses, Open our Minds some more??
I felt that I was living in communist era in East Europe, where we need a national publicity to push a unpopular immigration policy?
I got a friend who related to me when he was looking around for a condominium recently, the agent ask politely to see the condo. Apparently it was the parents of a PRC FT who allowed them to view the condo. Just then, the PRC son came back and chased them out of their condo! From this incident, I will not open my house to any foreign talent at all!
This money will be spent intended to brain wash the true blood citizens and I believed that the policy makers up there had long lost touch with the ground. Such decisions from the PAP will only make people liked me to be more pissed off. The PAP government instead of spending more money on its own citizens, choose to spend money on "Ah Tiongs" so that they can learn English?
Why would these PRCs want to spend time learning English if they work or hang out among Mandarin speaking citizens or with their own kinds? I had already share my thought about a PRC PR who worked more than 3 years in Singapore and YET, he does not even know how to fill in a job application form in English!
Why would these Mandarin speaking PRCs want to integrate with the rest of races such as the Malays, Indians or even Eurasians if they cannot speak English and they are clearly not interested at all?
How can I not started to think about migration to another country if your own "walk over" government implemented all these funny policies? As Dr Vivian Balakrishnan retorted by counter question a poly students who asked him why Foreigners are allowed to compete with the locals for Jobs. Lame answer because of the need to pay high tax to support aging population! These world top No. 1 highest paid paid ministers should use their elite brains to think of a better solutions than to just say increase immigration to boost the number if taxable citizens or PRs so that we can support our aging citizens.....
Last Friday I saw a population news from Australia where the Australian gov announced that they had achieved higher population growth due to immigration and birth rate of >2 birth per woman. Australia have tighter control over its immigration as they have Points system for immigration and Employer Sponsored workers. They also have a list of skills that is in demand in Australia. Thus Australians will not be facing competition from foreigners over the same pool of employment but really supplement jobs that the attracts lower take up rates.
Channel News Asia: Australia's population to increase by 65% to 35m by 2049
Vivian's answer: "...the need to pay high tax to support aging population!" is not true.
ReplyDeleteWe ARE already paying higher taxes.
The more obvious use of our tax monies:
1. Ministerial salary increases
2. Billions of budget surpluses that gets locked up into the nation's reserves every year.
A small portion of that annual surplus can easily be portioned to support our nation's elderly.
I think we do not need to be a rocket scientist to think of this!
ReplyDeletesad PAP is wasting alot of money on those who make money
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