Teo Chee Hean: PAP’s immigration policy has always been “strict”
April 6th, 2010 | 
Author: Written by Our Correspondent
In yet another sign that the PAP’s disastrous immigration policy has been peeving off many Singaporeans and that its leaders remain oblivious to its negative impact on the people, Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean was asked point-blank by a NUS student on the reason behind being so many foreigners in Singapore lately during a NUS forum yesterday.
To the dismay of the audience, instead of addressing the issue proper, Mr Teo dismissed it with the customary PAP rhetoric that Singapore has always kept a “tight lid” on immigration and that foreigners are increasing in numbers because “there are many more people who want to live and work here.”
It appears that Mr Teo is ignorant of a Gallup poll done last year which revealed that the top three emigration destination for college students in China are United States, France and South Korea. Singapore was not even featured in the top five.
The foreigners are increasing in numbers not because they are flocking to Singapore but because the PAP is desperately mass importing them over.
Unlike other countries like Australia and Canada, immigrants do not have to pass a compulsory International English Test to work here with the end result that Singapore has been swarmed by large number of non-English speaking PRC nationals in recent years.
Mr Teo added that “those with criminal records or who cannot support themselves are kept out, while those who are given work passes can work here only for a limited period, and hold jobs that Singaporeans may eschew.”
Perhaps Mr Teo is not aware of the the Employment Pass Eligibility Certificate (EPEC) allows foreigners who are i) holders of selected university qualifications, or ii) current or former holders of selected skilled migrant visas to stay in Singapore for up to one year to facilitate their job search in Singapore.
These foreigners are competing directly with Singaporeans for jobs which can otherwise be taken up by them.
According to a recent Wall Street Journal editorial, the relentless influx of foreign workers has depressed the wages of ordinary Singaporeans, increased the cost of living and led to an overall decline in the standards of living.
Mr Teo said he was confident the Government could maintain immigration controls ‘at the correct settings’.
Based on his appalling answer above, how can he expect Singaporeans to have any confidence in the PAP?
To put it bluntly: the PAP has screwed up its immigration policies big time by bringing in too many foreigners within too short a period of time such that not only are we experiencing many problems with limited infrastructure but having difficulties in integrating all of them as well.
Instead of admitting its mistake and have a proper debate on immigration issues as Australia is doing now, the PAP chose to splurge $10 million dollars of taxpayers’ monies to cover up for its gross incompetence, ineptitude and impotence.
Unless Singaporeans vote out the PAP in the next general election, they will surely end up as second class minorities in their own country of birth at the rate the PAP is mass importing immigrants to perpetuate its political hegemony forever at the expense of true-bred Singaporeans.
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you know that they know something is wrong when every other politician has to be mobilised to explain their policies.
from past experience, does this authoritative government respond to policy errors frankly, or does it tend to explain it away and try to modify it quietly behind the scenes over a period of years?
if you know the answer to this question, you will know what its current strategy is.
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Huh, so how come FTs wrecked DBS?
http://atans1.wordpress.com/2010/03/24/dbs-what-the-new-chairman-shld-be-looking-at/
One way of looking at the problems at DBS is is that FTs policy were lax since the late 1990s. FT policy superseded meritocratic policy.
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Very true, very sad.
Vote them out!!
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Yea, we STRICTLY mass import foreigners to replace you ungrateful peasant.. 吹咩？
Our “shock and awe” approach will leave you no time to react.. and before you realize, you are already the minority. What can you do?
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Telling our National Uni grads funny story and giving “Stupid answer.”
No proof of “kept a “tight lid” on immigration?”
If u walking down Geylang, China town and little India, u noticed the lid is missing.
Contrary, the PM opens the window wide while Tch said “kept a tight lid” so, who to trust?
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go find a spider and i will tell u what to do with it teo…
ARE U SLEEPING ON THE JOB AGAIN?
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Obviously he is sleeping for most if not all the time.
If this is the “tight” lid, i dare not imagine what will happen for “loose” lid……….
Singapore will sink or the foreigners will make up 80%????????
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This shows that he is sleeping for most if not all of the time.
If this is the “tight” lid, I dare not imagine what will happen for the “loose” lid.
Singapore will sink?
Foreigners will make up 80% of population?
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Govt definition of FT:
Tom, Dick, Harry, Ah Hua ,Ah tiong and of course thecheaperthebetter
Better for them to just shut up then to explain. Making the situation worse.
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Yap agreed with the article posted by DML. All the Temasek linked companies with FT as CEO performs poorly like DBS and NOL. These FT will risk your $ and if they make it they get a big bonus, if they loose it, they are on to the next job in the next country. Local Talent are more keen to see the long term success of the company they run. By the way you can start calling DBS the National Indian bank of Singapore because it is filled with lots of Indians.
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Disgusting to hear this remark…..Bearing in mind that some of those karaoke girls are PR too. They are FTs??
Uniquely Singapore!
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What is the use of such forum when the PAP pigs can dismiss questions so easily? A debate is needed but of course the PAP pigs wouldn’t dare to take the challenge. The students should boycott such forum just like netizens should keep away from PAP’s REACH and YPAP websites.
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A lot of parents from my children’s school are still ignorant of the dire situation that awaits their children when they eventually join the workforce… Too many blue pills, perhaps?
The current job market is already hopeless to a good portion of true pink Singaporeans
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He reminds me of chicken little .I mean the verisimilitude.Here we have actually the sky falling right on us and yet he pretend oblivious to the obvious.
They can’t even lie properly these days har !
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TCH bull-crapping again. There was a recent case of a China national who was convicted of two charges of cigarette smuggling but was allowed to stay on. She went on to re-offend.
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PR
PAP is living in pre-internet age where controlling MSM means people have difficulty pointing out contrary facts.
With Web 2.0, kinda easy to inform others of the truth.
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teo chee hian doesn’t have a mind of his own. he is another parrot out there to cause damage to his own people. when things go very wrong during the election, he can always migrate to greener pastures. he already knew he will take this route.
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As a tax paying citizen, I am also very STRICT. Mr Teo, why are you falling asleep in parliament? You are not paid to sleep or nap in parliament, u can do it in the privacy of your own house, not in parliament. Please don’t let us STRICT netizens catch you napping again, please its disgraceful!
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Ya right. Government have always kept a tight lid on immigration.
We only open our arms to 1.3 millions of them.It is not much. Only slightly more then the total number of foreign workers in US
We also keep a close eyes on appliants for PRship and citizenships. We are reject close to 33 percent of all these appliants. All the rest we had assimilated into our society are pure quality and able to work 12 hrs at low wages. Pure quality!!
We do however agree that wages had been depressed. Look at us, our low wages constitute a 8.8% raise because we are commanding a low low wages for the past 5 years. However, we strongly refute the claims that FT are the main causes for the depression. If you can work 18 hrs, you can command 50% more wages then the FT. it is you daft Singaporeans that are lazy and does not dig your spurs into your hide.
Regards
Your Uncle Teo
Your Singapore Minister of Defence
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The PAP’s assertion that the government has exercised strict immigration controls is an outrageous lie. As far back as a decade ago, hordes of lowly educated PRCs were allowed to enter as work permit holders but became PRs within 2 years. Even local rag-and-bone collectors found their turf invaded by all sorts of foreign rift raffs, who were fiercely competitive. The only talent they had was the wherewithal to work for ultra low wages, the principal trade-off being a decline in service standards.
Singaporeans have been treated in a harsh, unfair and treacherous manner by PAP MPs, who by their words and actions show themselves to be completely indifferent to the plight of their constituents. Now that the genie is out of the bottle, Singaporeans must live with the dire consequences of inimical and disastrous policies for the next few decades. It is clear that the PAP no longer deserves the mandate to govern our country. The electorate will no longer be hoodwinked by their duplicity and hypocrisy.
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Certainly not as strict like “a 100% very clear dividing line” as their policies and rules on how their agencies handle request for help from the needy, poor and homeless Singaporeans.
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‘…immigration policy has always been “strict”’
I had my doubts. There was an occasion in 1997 when my boss asked me to check with the immigration dept why the EP for a foreign job applicant was not approved. I duly went to the dept and after some argy bargy with an officer, hey presto, the EP was approved and a PR application form was issued at the same time. Was it strict then and now?
P.S. The new foreign employee did not last long with my employer, he was sacked less than a month later, as he was caught sleeping time and again during office hours face down on his desk. Excuse – he’s tired!
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Deputy prime Minister and Minister for Defence,Teo Chee Hean said,
PAP’s immigration policy has always been “strict” is true in the past but not now. Now PAP is only safeguarding their own selfish agenda.
When even just a Minister without Portfolio, Ms Lim Hwee Hua earning nearly $2 million dollars a year or more than 4 times the annual salary of U.S. President Barack Obama told us off for irrationally fears of welcoming new immigrants now making up 36 percent of Singapore’s population?
Including other ministers from the PAP leadership, she also must have her selfish interest to safeguard the perpetuation of the PAP party during this coming general election which also safeguard her high annual immoral income.
The declining popularity of the PAP party by so many irrational policies like approving so many foreign workers to make us citizens all jobless, make the PAP leadership cunning and paranoid.
So by getting top-up 36 per cent more new citizens of foreigners to vote for them by splurging $10 million to integrate, welcome and vote for the PAP, these selfish PAP ministers can still enjoy their multi-millions pay packages, 8.8% pay increment this year with other extra entitlements and enjoy more of their immoral good years from our poor taypayers monies.
Soon our small island of only 700 sqkm2 in size will be overflow with shits that all our ministers are coming out with from their recent speeches through their anuses.
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My foot! A PRC told me Singapore immigration is so easy that he could not believe it. He got his PR 7 months after coming to Singapore making $2000 per month. And you call it STRICT!
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Still gooning again! How come not charge under SAF Act for sleeping??????????
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@PR on Tue, 6th Apr 2010 10:09 am ,
Here is my cents worth as to why.
This whole thing about increasing SG population to a few million more is MM’s brain child….listen to all his past speeches on his admiration for HK on it’s ‘buzz’ factor.
Now,MM,at 87, is in deep sleep or semi-coma if you like . Obviously MM cannot be awoken by our balls less multi-million-dollar ministers that the sky had indeed fallen in Singapore…
Neither would they want to be the bearer of bad news to MM because knowing him ; MM would simply replace them by another man who would rather say yes ,yes & yes….like any emperor MM rather shoot the messenger than hear any bad news.
So,our multi million dollar ministers are trying their best to stop the flood by putting their finger in the broken dam.
Not an easy job I must say but than that is the price the devil demands for trading their souls for money.
Amen !
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A rough estimate of the proportion of foreigners occupying a friend’s block in Toa Payoh is 30%. Used to be zip.
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yes i know of PRCs who only are lowly educated but given PRs after 1 year, her pay is not even $1200.
when i took flight from xiaman to singapore, a lot of uneducated OLD prcs, both male and female carrying Singapore RED PASSPORTS. i dont think they are young and vibrant as painted by Teo CH, but why they are given RED PASSPORTS this easily?
how i know they are PRCs? They speak in very high pitched China accented tone Mandarin.
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Even the comment that Spore only lets in those without criminal records is without any merit. Just look at the number of Indonesian corruptors allowed in.
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yea,our PAPies have been so STRICT ABOUT their maddening FT POLICY by STRICTLY GETTING ONLY natives out of their jobs so as to give them STRICTLY to “FTs(?) ONLY.
Minister sir,you are very STRICT indeed!
But,STRICTLY SPEAKING,you are paid millions to STRICTLY “WORk” for the “ground”,NOT work the ground like your colleagues proudly exclaimed.
The only appropriate and rightful singaporeans here who can be entitled to “work the ground” SHOULD be the OPPOSITION as they need to “get your job” to help you “work for the ground”-A TASK YOU ALL NEGLECTED!
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Shame ! Shame! A Million Paying Minster saying such nonsense.
“No Criminal Record ” from where? Local or Foreign Land?
India Burma,China, Philipinos Population ..so big ..how you going to check foreign records ????
So if you are unable to check “Foreign record”, then off course amongst the Billions of “Foreign Trash”..there is easily Millions that qualify entry (going by your standards ).
Well, earning capability …many ways to do it ..right? TCH ?
Open leg, open backside..oso a form of talent and career isn’t it ?
Million paying minster ,talking like a “Kid”,,,kidding everybody….shame on you.
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This is really a big joke. Luckily, Singaporeans have eyes and they can see for themselves around them whether PAP’s immigration policy has been “strict” or not. When you have PRC prostitutes coming to Singapore on S-pass and eventually becoming a PR, you know that PAP is really prostituting Singapore to foreigners… What “strict” policies is Teo talking about?
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If government/MPs are looking after the ‘lower strata’,
HOW DID THE BELOW HAPPENED? [and these are probably the tip of the iceberg]
SHOWS THAT THE GOVERNMENT N MPs HAS ‘WRITTEN OFF’ CERTAIN GROUP OF PEOPLE IN THE ‘LOWER STRATA’ IN SINGAPORE.
http://www.temasekreview.com/2009/09/30/town-council-took-unemployed-man-to-court-for-sc-arrears/
http://theonlinecitizen.com/2009/09/handicapped-resident-applies-for-aid-with-mp-but-faces-difficulties/
http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/showthread.php?t=2702099
http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/showthread.php?t=2579980
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Extracted from TODAY NEWSPAPER 6/4/2010
SOCIETY WILL LOOK AFTER ITSELF, IF MERITOCRACY WORKS
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Is an elitist mindset emerging in Singapore society?
One undergraduate feared this was reflected in the formulation of Government policies that she felt took less into account the needs of the lower strata.
Another wondered if the growing income disparity would result in elitism among the affluent.
But Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean dismissed the notion, saying the Government comprises people of different backgrounds.
As long as Singapore remains an open society where meritocracy works, it will “continue to have a society to look after itself”, he said, urging students who have done well to continue contributing to society. Meanwhile, with media reports of Opposition figures conducting their walkabouts over the weekend, one student asked if “election fever” was heating up. Mr Teo’s response: “You cannot watch the PAP and know if the elections are coming.” This is because “once the elections are over, we already start working the ground … It becomes so boring and so routine the media never reports on it”. By contrast, he said, the Opposition is “hardly” seen walking around. “I don’t know when the elections will be. I can only tell you that with each passing day, the elections come one day closer,” Mr Teo added, to laughter from the students.
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There’s one fast way to become a PR & Citizen here in SG. Just come here and study regardless of Pri/Sec, JC/Poly or UNi. Many track records showed from friends around me had proved them they were invited to apply for PR within a year or two and thereafter to the path of Citizenship. Thats where many foreigners are exploiting thru our educational system, owning to the government vision of being a Educational HUb in SG with much Private Institutions cheating students money.
The whole Educational Insitutions in SG are mostly very $$$-driven instead of Quality orientated, sad to say in my opinions. Even a Myamar degress can grant direct entry into NUS Master program easily compared to a local Private UNi graduates whom competing with them.
A PRC PHd undergraduate whom cant even speak a proper sentence of English/Singlsh was what caught my attention to the quality of selection entry into university. They are hard-working no doubt and can excel academically but with the almost immediate PR given to them, our gov expect them to contribute to our economy later.
We Singaporean already got no proper ROOTS to stay on here let not say these PRs whom are much deep rooted than we do in their respective country. Never expect them to Fight for our country should war arise.
Its kinda contradicting for TCH to claim that our gove had always been in ‘Tight Lid’ on PRs & new Citizenship whilst some ministers earlier this year claimed otherwise that our gov ‘is beginning to tighten up the Immigration Policy’.
I really dun know whom to believed now even while GE is looming. Each minister claims different from one another within the same context.
‘The more they says, the more incredibility they will prevails…’. SILENCE IS GOLDEN!
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Is this DPM going to be the next PM when the current princeling die from an exacerbation of his inherent illness ?
I dread the day that another DAFT takes over the helm. Enough misery has been inflicted. This daft frog must go along with his useless pack.
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Ask Zhang Yuan Yuan for a reference on our “strict” ( pronounced correctly as “LAX”) immigration policy.
STOP SLEEPING!
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DPM must be joking “PAP’s immigration policy has always been “strict”?
Are the planeloads of china nationals allowed in without proper paper qualifications /experiences, etc and given PR status and citizenship considered strict?
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Its so sad that our Ministers think that the people are so dumb. “Strict” policy, that must be the biggest joke. Many of the PRC freelance callgirls at many Karaoke bars are now PRs. From the hawker to garanguni are PRCs. Yes they can support themselves but at what cost to the native Singaporean. He will not be taking so boldly if his million dollar job was on the line. Anyway he can sleep on the job and yet not worry about losing his job. So its easy to talk cock and sing song
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PAP ministers will continue to support the wrong immigration policy implemented by their boss LHL. If it is right, why are there so much displeasure on the current government? PAP can continue to deny this but will definitely caught off guard by the expected poor support level in the next GE!
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“those with criminal records or who cannot support themselves are kept out, while those who are given work passes can work here only for a limited period, and hold jobs that Singaporeans may eschew.”…lol, he obviously doesn’t know what he is talking about!
MOM should be more vigilant to check on those so call “FTs”. I was employed by a local Indian company which eventually replaced almost all Singaporean staff with Indian graduates(FTs). Even the storeman & delivery man were FTs with Indian degree. They even hold employment passes but their “real” pay were not reflected & job title were exaggerated so that they could secure EPs.
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Uncle Teo ,
TCASS >>> Talk cock and sin Song huh?
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“Mr Teo dismissed it with the customary PAP rhetoric that Singapore has always kept a “tight lid” on immigration and that foreigners are increasing in numbers because “there are many more people who want to live and work here.””
So they want to come, just let them come???
But we don’t want them come, how come Mr Teo never listen to us. Is he servin g foreigners or locals???? Don’t forget that we voted him in for him to listen to use and not the foreigners.
So do we still want to vote him in next election?
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Sons of Singapore : National Servicemen to defend the nation and to maintain peace and stability in the face of uncertainty and security threats.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyWsFOAA5MY
NOW..” NS for new citizens: No strong reason ” Education Minister and Second Minister for Defence Dr Ng Eng Hen http://www.straitstimes.com/STI/STIMEDIA/sp/budget2010/0603_ns_for_new_citizens.html
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence Teo Chee Hean.. “Singapore has always kept a “tight lid” on immigration and that foreigners are increasing in numbers because “there are many more people who want to live and work here.””
WHY “tight lid” on immigration …because since independent, 40 years ago, hundreds of thousands new citizens have escape from doing NS and Reservist.
WHO is going to defend Singapore now?
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@ apple on Tue, 6th Apr 2010 11:08 am
The PAP’s assertion that the government has exercised strict immigration controls is an outrageous lie.
let’s not be so harsh – the man is still sleeping in the rear, admiring. don’t stir him.
let us rephrase it as: it was “more strict” in the past, and now it is “less strict” but if they insist, we shall use the word “strict”.
only this can explain why in the past, before someone’s bright idea came into play, there wasn’t a foreign population explosion, and now there is, so much so that everyone is working overtime just to quickly disguise them and change their ICs so that it becomes pink and teach them how to sing singapore songs, so that you can no longer prove that they were once foreigners 2 years ago.
you wonder how many of these got through the gates and are now holding pink IC? do some simple arithmetic. it’s all in department of statistics website. look at the population, the number of PRs, the number of citizens, the number of births, and compare across the last 5 or 10 years. they are not hiding the numbers, they just don’t calculate nicely to show you on the website – but you did O level math last time, right?
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Vote PAP out this is the point of no return. The problem is half of Singaporeans are working in the civil service and they are afraid to act on their conscience. Singaporeans are a sissy, afraid of poverty and afraid of the foreigners from PRC who are gangster like the ones you see at the lorongs. Unless the fear factor is addressed. Only two men in Singapore got balls against the FAP govt JBJ CSJ. AT this stage we dun need brains…we need courage. Unless we have that, the next election will be a FAP victory.
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” A rough estimate of the proportion of foreigners occupying a friend’s block in Toa Payoh is 30%. Used to be zip. ”
sorry, but toa payoh is currently full. old citizens who haven’t bought, please join the queue for our new BTOs in locations that you people really deserve, currently priced at the former price of toa payoh. i’m sorry you weren’t fast enough to buy up toa payoh before the new people came in. didn’t i tell you we were importing new people? you should’ve realised, right? didn’t i tell you we wouldn’t build enough for the new people so they have to buy up toa payoh, leaving you with the current BTO locations? oh … i didn’t. but anyway, let me tell you now that since toa payoh is full already, i’m sure there is enough of these BTOs for the rest of you – you just have to pay my current price and go there and leave our new citizens in toa payoh alone because they were clever enough to buy first.
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I don’t think our immigration policy is tight. If it is tight, then how come any Tom, Dick and Harry can come here, get and job, become PR or citizen in double quick time. I think it must be a joke. Seems to me families of most foreign students studying here on scholarships (mostly paid for by taxpayers money)are also invited to apply for PR or citizenship by the authority. Is such a policy tight?. Agree, the scholars may be able to contribute to society after their graduation (provided they stay). But certainly not their family members, including their aged parents/grandparents etc etc. Yes, we do need real talent, those who can really value add not FW that are taking away jobs where Sporeans can and will definately want to do. Unlike in many other countries where their own citizens come first, employers here give priority to FWs, because they are cheaper,faster and they are in abundant supply as the floodgates are always open.
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Onless the fear factor is addressed, many able and scared singaporeans and heroes will not come to our rescue about the concerns of singaporeans. The civil servants are comfortable with their jobs so they dun rock the boat. If Singaporeans are not sensitive to the plight of their fellow men without jobs, homes and etc, we may have to suffer in silence much longer. Please all the Luther Kings, m Theresas, Mandelas, the Aquinos, of Singapore, please come and rescue our nation from the heartless FAP govt.
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ah hean, you still sleeping issit? when u say ’strict’, are u talking about the quality of the chickens in geylang or chinatown? how abt ’strictly’ asking the male prs to do NS? because i really feel i am risking myself defending those able-bodied prs and ‘new citizens’ who havent served ns! can u wake up?
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What is this feckless,hypocrite ranting on about lah!
Yes, (so strict???), to cite a glaringly simple eg, that some parts of Singapore like Geylang, Kovan, China Town are degenerating into ghettos and cesspools for all kinds of unsavory … … Having arrogated n monopolized (for itself) the levers of govt machinery n power, n now this temerity to heap praises and delude the public is appallingly disgusting! All that is palpable is a govt that is fattening itself on taxpayers’ $$$ and if it is not rationalizing, it is hoodwinking the citizens into believing half-truths and sadly roped in a conniving media (we dont have a msm, a lame one – yes!) to prop itself up and propagate its one-sided stories n ….
That we are mired with a leadership that purports to be a democracy is our undoing because we acquiesced unawares to a one-party system and today the reality it is far from it. It is a pseudo-democracy and it is in actuality a dictatorship. Singaporeans have been for much too long deluding themselves that they have an accountable, responsible, just and transparent govt. It is a myth – the reality is that it stinks from all quarters! Even if one tries to obtain info or .., one is more likely to run into a bureaucratic cul-de-sac. If they really “listened” n not hear they would have made a big difference to many lives and Singaporeans would be proud of them as a government or what-have-u.
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Also, the incumbent ruling party/govt keeps harping on this: that other models or so-called political models (eg multi-party/proportional representation) are unsuited for Singapore and it must be discouraged or eschewed at any cost;of course, it is utter rubbish and crap and one has to be an imbecile to subcribe to such rantings! Beware, it is a ploy to perpetuate power and the rationale and arguments put forth seems at best hollow and dubious. Citizens ought to be able to decide and it is thro wise voting. To be dictated to as to what is ‘good’ for the citizens is not being democratic but telling people that u are not wise, u are immature – ‘let me decide’. They have decided enough and ENOUGH IS ENOUGH lar.
Is not this being enslaved to a system (one-party state) that is choking and stultifying us in many ways?
Eg, this bullshit about ‘Swiss standards’ or ‘good’ years simply vaporized! what an insult! Why is there no longer this mention of attaining Swiss standards. ‘It was talking cock’ during elections. It was futurizing and the reality today is, to cite a jarring eg. PMETs are driving taxis, wating on tables and … add on.
Frankly, today Singaporeans are in a relatively unfavorable and a sorry state in many ways – eg, high cost of living has been oversold as higher standard of livng, so-called subsidized HDB flats though claimed to be offered at reasonable prices is in fact most likely untrue and no independent source(s) have yet to or has it ever been verified. HDB has never till today released the actual costing or how they came about with this pricing. Why the secrecy?
One can add on, from medical to transport to CPF … – all one way traffic. Who are these people who sit in committees or bodies that make recommendations or implement … people who are ostensibly yes-man/woman!
Why? Simply, cos the one-party system is in the favour of the ruling party or govt. It is NEVER AND WILL NEVER be transparent or accountable to the people (citizens).
Does Singapore ministries or govt depts have an OMBUDSMEN? Do we have checks n balances? Who is checking whom? Imagine an independent organisation or an oppostion party – it would make a BIG difference. The so-called ‘’self-check” mechanisms are at its best lip service gestures, cursory and perfuntory and at its worse, sadly spurious!
These are questions that Singaporeans need to seriously consider when they vote and hopefully not be simply be swayed by short-term money handouts or rebates or for that matter, eg, the upgrading programs that had been recently announced. All of us know , ti will eventaully be recouped (hidden) through price escalation/increases in medical,tranport, …. add on
Also, the FT (foreign ‘talent’ in quotes cos the incumbent govt defined and decided which or what is .., which on close scrutiny is facetiously shallow) policy is not in the favour of SIngaporeans but to the advantage of the govt. Do other countries allow foreigners to take up PR/citizenship so VERY easily and facilitate them and what is worse is that Singaporeans who were born here and in some ways directy/indirectly contributed to the country have to COMPETE for jobs, schools and who knows what else is to come. Why accord preferences (preferential treatment) to foreigners when NS is concerned? It is criminally unfair! Utter shame that it has come to this.
The benefit(s) of FT policy to the citizens is a mere trickle effect! It seems more of a political tool to leverage (and benefit) during elections. Lest one forgets, higher poplulation means higher GDP = means higher salaries for ministers and their cohorts cos salaries are pegged to GDP. For the sake of political n personal gains and expediency, Singaporeans have been (and are being) sacrificed and pawned.
By ignoring the realities we are unwittingly perpetuating ‘ tyranny’. The crime of ‘tyranny’ would persist as long as we are complicit and stay non-chalant to this charade.
Singaporeans, need to wake up and disallow these state of affairs to persist and seriously consider a two/multi party system. It may not be perfect but is all hunky dory now? The past does not equal the future. There is no nation, no country, individuals make up that nation or country. It is the quality of individuals that makes or breaks a nation/country. These self-serving current incumbents are gambling away the country and dragging the citizens down to the point of no return! All for $$$ and power.The decaying from top downwards is palpable and is manifesting itself in so many aspects of the country and tis people. To elaborate and substantiate is futile as it is abundantly torrential! Life without dignity is worthless. Hopefully Singaporeans understand and judiciously vote and vote for BIG changes.
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Sometimes I rather my illiterate mother would be replacing such a useless minister.
At least my mother won’t talk rubbish like that.
And in the end my mother would also follow what the old man would say, how can anyone not follow the old man.
Singapore is a joke man.
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Likely because he didn’t have THAT hairy “Spurs” in his hide because he is hairy club member!!!
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The fear factor starts with the education system, with the advent of many private schools, the new private education act aims to monoplise the fear culture. Many students fear the authorities and these feras exercebateb in later years as cowed civil servants. But current youngsters are bolder now since clearly there is no one youngster in PAP that they awed to. Another generation 60 years is what what it takes for complete downfall of the current regime. Among the pro PAP members to possibly fall out of favour are in order of demise sahadivan, john ng. The rest are waiting for their internal leaders to start. The greatest impediment to action of conscience by some in the party is the eerie-lee factor.
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Good article…check-it out…
http://forums.vr-zone.com/chit-chatting/557601-why-singaporeans-unhappy-the-pap-wonders.html
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Pulling on the brake and making the U-turn to hold back on FTs and FWs from further swarming red dot is a clear sign that the MIWs and their Minsiters have realised that they have overcooked the immigration policy, isn’t it?
The horse has bolted.
What is stricty Policy on immigration? Look at the huge numbers of FTs and FWs and all kinds of quality flooding red do. Open eyes to it, please.
Letting in FTs and FWs with no control of the numbers and the quality allowed in, even to the extent of allowing in those with no forearm to beg at our MRT stations does not show up that the immigration policy is really strict, isn’t it?
It is like the right hand does not know what the left is doing, isn’t it?
Letting FTs and FWs to buy and speculate on our public housing does not support the claim that our immigration policy is very strict, isn’t it?
Going to spend $10m on the FTs and FWs to help them to integrate and speak English is not in support of the quality that we let in, isn’t it?
It is like opening the door wide open to all and sundry, isn’t it?
We have let in all kinds and in huge numbers. This is the truth, isn’t it?
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Hello Fugazzi and all Singaporean,
in Malaysia, you can buy a landed 2 storey semi-D with security gruad for RM300k, which is less than S$150k. I am sure there is more building materials that go into the two storey semi-D than a 3 rm HDB flat, so you know how much profit HDB is making and how much blood PAP govt is sucking from its people. This is the reason why they cannot disclose the true cost of building the HDB. And each time they suck our blood and hard earned $, they easily loose it in their big bets oversea like UBS, Merril Lynch, ABC investments.
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Do u feel safe if u see the Minister of Defence actually sleeping in parliament?Defence mind u!Not Minister of Toilet affairs!What type of image are we protraying to the world?
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My company last year hired a new staff. My boss think he found a gold. That guy is a NUS master grad PRC and he getting 2k paid n he happily accept the job. So now you know how the so call FT causes the overall pay structure suffer in SG.
That guy is not a OK guy but the work ability n quality is just so so. I performed so much better than him althot because I got more work experience but I am just a dip grad.
He told me that his entry to NUS is very easy and the school fee is very cheap (PRC ppl tell me the NUS school free he paid is very cheap) because of subsidies from SG Gov. *great
How many of the local students have been denial entry to local U but the foreigner are getting in with red carpet.
I even asked him what he was taught learnt in NUS during his time because I outperformed him a lot in work etc. He said just doing research n report and nothing practical and it is easy to get by. So that’s those kind of cert our PAP looks so much upon. BTW he was suppose to support n help me at the client place but he was also caught sleeping in the middle of the day during office hour at customer site and was barred from visiting the client ever since. So much of a help I got from a FT hired by our boss.
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Generally deserves more than disciplinary actions… IN FACT they normally GET THE SACK!!!… Unless they have relevant medical condition of legitimate reasons to explain!!!…
And of course being a very hairy puppy as DPM… he’s obviously sleeping with the hairy “comfort lodge”… AND WAS… JUST TALKING IN HIS SLEEP!!!
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i heard from somewhere that this action was done in order to get rid of many unsold new flats. At one stage, massive HDB flats were not sold!
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@TOKING COCK AGAIN on Tue, 6th Apr 2010 11:39
REACH IS A GOVT AGENCY N YET IT SHUT DOWN A ‘THREAD’ MEANT TO HELP THE HANDICAP.
???????????????????
http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/showthread.php?t=2702099
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The reason for lax immigration is futuristic in nature. it is unlikely that – bading for time – elite group in FAP had Western countries (popular sentiments are against anything autocratic) in mind for possible exit startegy destinations. The likely country is China – thus thson for indiscrimate people import policy from there. Its like Hey China we help accomodate ur people. So have ready our heavens there for the future. Thaksin exiled to Dubai, Marcos to Hawaii, Suharto return to the sanctity and safety of his loyal village to rip. The policy serve to cultivate exit doors for future use. Who are the main users? The holey 3 neaty…Year of their exit 2020. Destination : S China.
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This feckless,hypocritical Minister can go ranting but Singaporeans are waking up. That one has to stridently defend one’s stance is telling of one’s having taken a wrong direction.
Yes, (so strict???), to cite a glaringly simple eg, that some parts of Singapore like Geylang, Kovan, China Town are degenerating into ghettos and cesspools for all kinds of unsavory … … Having arrogated n monopolized (for itself) the levers of govt machinery n power, n now this temerity to heap praises and delude the public is appallingly disgusting! All that is palpable is a govt that is fattening itself on taxpayers’ $$$ and if it is not rationalizing, it is hoodwinking the citizens into believing half-truths and sadly roped in a conniving media (we dont have a msm, a lame one – yes!) to prop itself up and propagate its one-sided stories n ….
That we are mired with a leadership that purports to be a democracy is our undoing because we acquiesced unawares to a one-party system and today the reality it is far from it. It is a pseudo-democracy and it is in actuality a dictatorship. Singaporeans have been for much too long deluding themselves that they have an accountable, responsible, just and transparent govt. It is a myth – the reality is that it stinks from all quarters! Even if one tries to obtain info or .., one is more likely to run into a bureaucratic cul-de-sac. If they really “listened” n not hear they would have made a big difference to many lives and Singaporeans would be proud of them as a government or what-have-u.
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Also, the incumbent ruling party/govt keeps harping on this: that other models or so-called political models (eg multi-party/proportional representation) are unsuited for Singapore and it must be discouraged or eschewed at any cost;of course, it is utter rubbish and crap and one has to be an imbecile to subcribe to such rantings! Beware, it is a ploy to perpetuate power and the rationale and arguments put forth seems at best hollow and dubious. Citizens ought to be able to decide and it is thro wise voting. To be dictated to as to what is ‘good’ for the citizens is not being democratic but telling people that u are not wise, u are immature – ‘let me decide’. They have decided enough and ENOUGH IS ENOUGH lar.
Is not this being enslaved to a system (one-party state) that is choking and stultifying us in many ways?
Eg, this bullshit about ‘Swiss standards’ or ‘good’ years simply vaporized! what an insult! Why is there no longer this mention of attaining Swiss standards. ‘It was talking cock’ during elections. It was futurizing and the reality today is, to cite a jarring eg. PMETs are driving taxis, wating on tables and … add on.
Frankly, today Singaporeans are in a relatively unfavorable and a sorry state in many ways – eg, high cost of living has been oversold as higher standard of livng, so-called subsidized HDB flats though claimed to be offered at reasonable prices is in fact most likely untrue and no independent source(s) have yet to or has it ever been verified. HDB has never till today released the actual costing or how they came about with this pricing. Why the secrecy?
One can add on, from medical to transport to CPF … – all one way traffic. Who are these people who sit in committees or bodies that make recommendations or implement … people who are ostensibly yes-man/woman!
Why? Simply, cos the one-party system is in the favour of the ruling party or govt. It is NEVER AND WILL NEVER be transparent or accountable to the people (citizens).
Does Singapore ministries or govt depts have an OMBUDSMEN? Do we have checks n balances? Who is checking whom? Imagine an independent organisation or an oppostion party – it would make a BIG difference. The so-called ‘’self-check” mechanisms are at its best lip service gestures, cursory and perfuntory and at its worse, sadly spurious!
These are questions that Singaporeans need to seriously consider when they vote and hopefully not be simply be swayed by short-term money handouts or rebates or for that matter, eg, the upgrading programs that had been recently announced. All of us know , ti will eventaully be recouped (hidden) through price escalation/increases in medical,tranport, …. add on
Also, the FT (foreign ‘talent’ in quotes cos the incumbent govt defined and decided which or what is .., which on close scrutiny is facetiously shallow) policy is not in the favour of SIngaporeans but to the advantage of the govt. Do other countries allow foreigners to take up PR/citizenship so VERY easily and facilitate them and what is worse is that Singaporeans who were born here and in some ways directy/indirectly contributed to the country have to COMPETE for jobs, schools and who knows what else is to come. Why accord preferences (preferential treatment) to foreigners when NS is concerned? It is criminally unfair! Utter shame that it has come to this.
The benefit(s) of FT policy to the citizens is a mere trickle effect! It seems more of a political tool to leverage (and benefit) during elections. Lest one forgets, higher poplulation means higher GDP = means higher salaries for ministers and their cohorts cos salaries are pegged to GDP. For the sake of political n personal gains and expediency, Singaporeans have been (and are being) sacrificed and pawned.
By ignoring the realities we are unwittingly perpetuating ‘ tyranny’. The crime of ‘tyranny’ would persist as long as we are complicit and stay non-chalant to this charade.
Singaporeans, need to wake up and disallow these state of affairs to persist and seriously consider a two/multi party system. It may not be perfect but is all hunky dory now? The past does not equal the future. There is no nation, no country, individuals make up that nation or country. It is the quality of individuals that makes or breaks a nation/country. These self-serving current incumbents are gambling away the country and dragging the citizens down to the point of no return! All for $$$ and just to perpetuate power.The decaying from top downwards is palpable and is manifesting itself in so many aspects of the country and tis people. To elaborate and substantiate is futile as it is abundantly torrential! Life without dignity is worthless. Hopefully Singaporeans understand and judiciously vote and vote for BIG changes.
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Teo Chee Hean on LKY’s comments abt MBT losing election will make HDB flat prices no value.
Mr Farouq had singled out a comment from Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, made in January, that he felt was particularly alienating. Then, Mr Lee had said that if National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan were to lose Tampines GRC, Singaporeans should sell their flats quickly as they would no longer be of any value.
‘He’s basically saying: ‘Don’t vote for the opposition’, and my thinking is that most Singaporeans don’t like to be told what to do, especially regarding politics,’ Mr Farouq said. ‘They deserve more respect.’
Mr Teo reminded his audience that, for the Government, policy came first; persuasion, second. This was its brand of pragmatism. Returning to Dr Caplan’s example, he noted that in the US, not implementing congestion pricing is ‘pragmatic’, because it is politically difficult to do.
In Singapore however, congestion pricing is done – and it is ‘pragmatic’ because it is the correct thing to do, as it solves a problem. ‘Then (the Government tries) to persuade the people about it.’
Still, Mr Teo admitted that politicians ignored the human factor at their peril. The Government still has to engage people with sensitivity and to avoid preaching.
In this respect, he concurred with Mr Farouq. Said Mr Teo: ‘I don’t like being told what to do. I prefer to think that I make up my own mind and, I think, so do most Singaporeans.’ Indeed, Mr Farouq bluntly admitted that he was so offended by Mr Lee’s words that he would have voted against the PAP in Tampines GRC – even if he thought that the party’s economic policies were fundamentally positive.
However, Mr Teo begged the audience to consider the Minister Mentor’s legendary brusque style before making the call.
To much laughter, he said: ‘You know MM. He’s got a wealth of experience. He’s probably heard this question (about Mr Mah’s electoral prospects) multiple times and he is famous for telling it like it is.
‘So, you know, we accept what he says at face value. I mean, he’s like that.’
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TCH says “many want to live and work here”,thus the surge in immigrants but don’t tell me in the 90s,there are few who want to live and work here. Afterall,the govt controls the floodgates regardless of how many would like to live and work here
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Uncle Teo is deaf to all critism
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ben is correct. Nowadays,we see alot more elderly foreigners in our housing estates. This is surely not strict immigration policy. I believe they are the parents or dependents of the thousands of new citizens or PRs now living in this country. Are these elderly folks really quality immigrants that we are looking for?. If they are indeed citizens, these elderly folks will add burden to the country in no time. As a senior citizen, I feel terribly sore and disappointed that these instant citizens are able to share the fruits of our labour without having to contribute anything. These instant citizens have contributed nothing, yet they were welcome with open arms and are also able to enjoy the same benefits of local born citizens who have toiled and sweat for this country their entire life.
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Temasek Review is at fault for waking him up from his deep sleep.
The next time, please let him sleep in peace. Better sleep than talk nonsense.
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wonderhowtrue on Tue, 6th Apr 2010 1:53 pm :
i heard from somewhere that this action was done in order to get rid of many unsold new flats. At one stage, massive HDB flats were not sold!
they published the number of unsold flats during that period. the number was not large. compare it with this:
how many flats do you think newcomers need if there are 100,000 newcomers?
multiply that by “x” where “x” is the number of hundred-thousand of newcomers that were let in over the last 5 years, which was a ridiculous increase from old steady-state immigration numbers.
again, these reasons are desperate attempts to find excuses, justify. in most societies, especially japanese ones, this situation would have been labelled a “Mistake” and an apology issued.
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Call me paranoid, but I believe somewhere down the line, during a discussion between the heavenly kings, it was decided that the current batch of singaporeans are not up to mark. We were (according to them) getting too relaxed, focussing on work life balance, going for self actualization and so on. This spoilt batch,(according to them) lack certain sharp pointy things on their backside. They were king grumblers, entitletlement seeking leeches, irrational thinking imbeciles.
So what to do?
Start getting to work on a new batch. One that will not grumble, one that has multiple spurs imbedded in their posteriors. One that will die, die also will take the job. The new batch will be given the spotlite, whilst the old batch will be pushed further back on the counter, just slightly left of the the trash bin.
Since it has already been decided that the first batch is spoilt, there is really no need to bother with it.
So that’s why the mass import of new ingriedients. All for the new batch, sweeteners and binding agents to make sure the new batch sticks together.
And when the new batch is ready, well.. then someone will conveniently, (accidently on purpose)knock the old batch on the counter into the trash bin.
Thats just me… paranoid as usual.
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Is it Proforeigners Action Party for approving so many immigrants to shore up their declining votes for the coming General Election so that the minsters can still enjoy to enrich themselves with their annual multi-millions pay packages?
Or is it Prostitutes Action Party for allowing so many immigrants,foreign workers and foreign prostitues into our country? What cannot be fathom is our PAP leaders is spreading their legs to welcome, entertain and respect them and yet instead of collecting monies from these foreigners still need to splurge $10 millions of our tax payers monies to integrate them?
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Sleepy minister Teo is still in slumberland
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@VeryAngry ,
No disagree with you , WP LTK and Sliva are the best .
Chee is a good for nothing DOG , supported by another foreign
country . If he will be the next PM , we will be subjugated by
that foreign country . Chee suck !!
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Now, Can you guys handle the truth?
Here goes:
The real exercise behind the opening of flood gate to FT is a political one, one of self preservation for the PAP.
They know that all the dirty GRC trick, Suing the opposition, controlling the media is no longer effective and if they don’t do anything soon, something drastic, they will risk seeing power slipping away.
They are very desperate to have all the FT convert to citizen, only then, their vote can be of influence to the political scene here.
It’s a political gamble, they know this policy will offend the local citizens but hopefully, their cowardly track record will prevail on poling day. With the support of the New Citizen, they can still stay in power for at least 3-4 electiions.
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this kind of people who sleep on the job, he’s words can be trusted? pui!
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Uncle Teo , wake up read below your strict control of FT result.
Police take action against online vice activities at budget hotels Channel NewsAsia – Sunday, April 4Send IM Story Print
Police take action against online vice activities at budget hotels
SINGAPORE: Police arrested 12 female Chinese nationals on April 1 following an operation conducted at two budget hotels in the Kovan area.
Investigations showed that some of those arrested had used the Internet to advertise their sexual services.
Assistant Director of the Specialised Crime Division, Superintendent of Police Goh Lam Kiong, said the Police takes a serious view against such syndicates which conduct illicit businesses over the Internet.
Hotel operators who were found to have knowingly allowed the syndicates to operate in their premises would also be taken to task.
Under the Women’s Charter, anyone who lives on the earnings of the prostitution of another person could be jailed for a term of five years and shall also be liable to a fine not exceeding S$10,000.
Repeat male offenders can also be caned. — CNA/vm
See lar … what happen when you sleep , WKS play you out lar..
So dun sleep in parliament ya..
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Crap. All crap. This FT policy has been implemented in 1989 yet the problems only begin to surface these few years. WHAT WENT WRONG? Should we blame the actual policy? Or should we blame the regime in charge overseeing this policy?
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guyd,now that DPM Teo is mumbling…his rival,WKS, is yawning…zzzzz,,,zzzzz,zzzz…?
these clowns are overpaid and underworked…that’s why the rest of us are having it so tough…kick out of job,no money…
still pay higher GST?
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It appears to be that they either have no answer or cannot answer. They seemed to be caught offguard.
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It is a known fact that when you have a mass recruitment of foreign talents to choose from in all sectors of the industries and can be hired for lower pay, which employer do not want them? It is company survivor first what. Who cares about sgporeans 1st. Hire Sgporean 1st is not a nationalistic policy. Same thing for sgporean babies. It is not a preference anymore. Now whatever nationality babies also can. As long as it populate sgp. Since whatever nationality also can and they want so many babies and sgporeans can’t afford to have more, why not make an imported woman do NS and mate it to a single males who do NS at same time. Abled single males should be able to make one extra hybrid baby everyday to populate sgp and govt should foot the bill and take care of them for the NS they have done for Sgp la.
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BTW is he sleep-talking?? We saw him dozzzing in Parliament.
Or is he ‘ministrial-fatique’? If there is such word!!
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in a democracy, when the people suffer the effects of an unreasonable government, they have an option to put this government in its place or change a government.
in our very Uniquely Your Singapore kind of system, when the government’s statistics (GDP numbers, birth rates etc) suffer from the effects of the population (life has been made too tough to have more children, locals don’t earn enough so we need foreigners drawing big bucks to boost GDP), they can change the people. and there ain’t nothing the people can do about it.
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This song is applicable to this PAP Minister stand and position of the current situation all singaporeans are under-going under their “wise and throughfully thought out” policies…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpmWIyjilQo
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Always been “strict”??
My foot!!…ask around those with PRC friends.
Sleeping “beauty”…time to wake up
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>>So dun sleep in parliament ya..
Can sleep lah…but must observe SAF’s COC 8 leh
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Just YAWN or GO TO SLEEP… and then go INTO DREAM MODE… and hope that Dreaming WILL produce some ‘fruitful’ OUTcomes to FIX Singaporeans UNTIL the NEXT Time-Around law!!!
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Either he is damn bloody stupid or he thinks we are still so guillible!!
Another overpaid underperforming useless pappie parasiting on our taxes!!
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@Read Ass Teo
Like the two casinos, the FT policy is a gamble, but the latter may be a gamble which the PAP loses. Many FT/PRs whom I know are just as pissed off at the PAP: PRC, Korean, Japanese, Thai, Indonesian, Pinoy, mainland Indian, Ang Moh etc.
They take offence at the fact that the PAP treats them (i.e all of us) as though we were born yesterday by nonchalantly explaining away why some crap policies were implemented and it’s ‘for your own good’. They are amazed that Singaporeans have tolerated this paternalistic BS from the govt for so long.
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Since when were we compelled to make way for the “many people who want to live and work here”? What nonsense is TCH talking about? Are we compelled to maintain our current population density as the third highest in the world at 7,022 persons per sq km? Shouldn’t we be trying to bring it down to reduce stress levels and improve the quality of life for ordinary Singaporeans? Is the PAP greedy for more GDP to continue enriching themselves? More GDP has not improved Singaporeans’ standard of living or made them happier.
What does TCH really mean by “tight lid on immigration”?
If the immigration policy is LIBERAL, there is no point being strict about ‘regulations only’ because any fool knows how to circumvent regulations regarding employment of foreigners.
If an employer applies for a P1 Employment Pass for a Foreigner and pays him SGD 7,000 per month and then takes back 5,000 into his own pocket what do you think of the SGD 7,000 criteria or any other salary criteria MOM sets? Good if there was income tax collected on 7,000 but did you notice how the employer’s business ‘suddenly went bad’ after the Foreigner got his SPR and his salary had to be cut to 2,000 to save on income tax!
There is NO Dependency Ratio for Employment Pass Holders (P1, P2 & Q1) and the Dependency Ratio for S-Pass Holders is 25% of Residents NOT Citizens so Foreigners coming in are recycled into the Residents denominator when they get their SPR status in a few months. If an employer cannot meet the Dependency Ratio for S Pass Holders why not ask another company who can and then have that company back charge the payroll? You can use phantom workers too!
So isn’t it obvious enough there is actually no control in substance as the regulations are more lip service? The sad truth is they never made the effort to first find out if Singaporeans wanted those jobs. What more proof do we need that they did not care about Singaporeans and betrayed their trust?
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Stay cool man …
and wait for the erection to come …
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I’m so proud to go RT today. Phenomenal achievement!!!
The PTI made us run 2 rounds around the camp. Total 4.8km.
Know what I am proud of?
No lah, not the 4.8km.
It is the fact that I am running like a dog to keep myself fit so those FT can be outside at the same time, watching TV or having dinner. I am so proud to protect FT. I am even more proud to sweat so much to protect a country that don’t belong to me anymore.
I am even more proud to go back ICT while those FT are outside stealing and under cutting our jobs just to keep them safe at night. Sleep easy dear FT. I am here to protect you.
Thanks PAP!
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This is the tactics of repeating a lie often enough, and soon people will accept it as truth..
Except that now with the new media, they still think they can continue to fool the people this way..
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Mr Teo can continue to ball carry his boss despite the absolute failure of PM policy but who will buy his argument ? It is better for him to keep his mouth shut than making a fool of himself ! It is already known in the world that any Tom Dick and Harry can come to Singapore and our citizenship has become toilet paper!
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Ah Teo is talking in his sleep.
Dun wake him up just yet. I want to
see him do his sleep-walk!
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Deputy Minister, Teo Chee Hean is talking nonsence when saying,”PAP’s immigration policy has always been strict up till today.
Even foreign prostitutes can also get Permanent status and to be a new citizen easily from this laxed Proforeigners Action Party.
The reason most probably being to entertain the huge influx of male Foreign Talents, foreign workers and new immigrants as our local prostitutes may not want to serve these aliens from other countries.
Our government are splurging $10 million of our taxpayers monies to welcome and respect these foreigners and approved foreign prostitutes as immigrants to cater to the sexual lusts of these foreigners.
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Criminals caught are few and far in between. How come among convicted criminals are PRs in some of the lowest jobs like cleaner etc. How did they came in?
And the one-legged beggars around shopping malls and foodcourts, did they swam across the South China Sea and crawled on deserted patches of shore land like where MSK swam to Malaysia?
Please stop farting close to our dinner tables.
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Quality foreigners my fooot.
The other day I was at Ikea and this foreign looking woman just cut into my queue. She even had the cheek to glare at me and told me off I was rude when I ticked her off for her behaviour.
After opening her mouth and revealing herslef to be a perpetual slave to Marcos legacy, she was told to behave herself in Singapore.
Guess what she declared openly in typical Pinoy fashion, “I am already a PR.”
Thanks Teo Chee Hean and gang for using our forefathers hard earned money and effort to swell the head of these Third World people who just come here and enjoy the fruits of our labour and giving us Hell day in day out.
May you and your decendents enjoy the fruits you have sown.
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This is the sg version of human tsunami. Meaning all ordinary sg citizen will be wiped completely and be replaced.
Only the yes-man, will be around to serve.
I encourage people to stand up, and take back your own homeland . Change , Change for your future generation.
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@Andrew T,
Bro , Uncle Teo and gang wont enjoy the fruit they sown .
They with their millions and monthly pension will be enjoying
in Hawaii .
Bro only we and our children will suffer for their mistake .
KNN… KNN may they burnt in hell !!
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If pap thinks that new citizens are likely to vote for them, then pap is probably delusional.. new citizens too wanted good jobs with good pay and good increments, just to survive in this sky-high cost of living singapore.. and they probably can see thro’ the lies much better than the 66% kiasi singaporeans..
prs (who don’t get to vote) don’t mind low pay, as long as they can save a big proportion of their pay, so the prs are likely to scrimp, don’t mind sharing rooms with a few compatriots, unlikely to spend on unnecessary stuffs.. their intentions are pretty clear, that is to basically earn enough, go back home and retire in comfort..
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Remember GCT’s famous “Higher Standard of Living right UP to Swiss standard” as PM!!!… BUT WHAT SWISS and WHEN still A HUGE MYSTERY UP TO NOW!!!
All of hairy and hairy GCT and LHL talk only of Higher Pay… Higher Standard of Living… BUT NEVER… Higher COSTS OF LIVING… Higher AMOUNT OF WORK… OF STRESS… LONGER HOURS AT WORK… LESSER TIME FOR FAMILY – meaning spouse, & children, parents too… ET CETERA!!!
BULLSHITTERS!!!… Talky talk goodies and never THE BAdieS that MAKE US GET SICK MORE OFTEN AND DIE YOUNGER!!!
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All i can re-qoute is this to the PAP and their self serving cronies…
When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along. Carl Sandburg (1878 – 1967)
Sad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akp4RXItSMw
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Temasek Review: Why have you got Wong Kan Seng’s photo for the headline: “Teo Chee Hian: PAP’s immigration policies have been strict”? Case of mistaken identity or paucity of photo library?
The Pariah, http://www.singaporeenbloc.blogspot.com
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