Massive outcry from netizens over PM Lee’s promise to bring in 100,000 more foreign workers
July 16th, 2010 | 
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A massive outcry has erupted in Singapore’s blogosphere with many netizens lampooning PAP Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong for his “promise” to bring in 100,000 more foreign workers into Singapore.
Speaking in the United States a few days ago, PM Lee claimed that the rise in the number of foreign workers was “inevitable” due to the strong growth of the Singapore economy without substianting his statements.
“It cannot be helped because with the market so tight, if we don’t allow the foreign workers in, you are going to have overheating,” PM Lee was quoted as saying in the Straits Times.
PM Lee claimed that the PAP is “managing” the number of foreign workers by “calibrating” their levies to “moderate” the inflow.
“‘But even with that, I would imagine there would be more than 100,000 extra foreign workers this year. I cannot see it otherwise. We have to accept that,” he added.
Foreign workers help to reduce labor costs, thereby inflating GDP growth figures artificially in the process. A certain percentage of the PAP ministers’ multi-million pay is pegged to GDP growth – the higher the growth rates, the more money they bring home.
The outpouring of disgruntlement, disbelief and anger in cyberspace is an indication of the deep-seated unhappiness at the PAP’s pro-foreigner and ultra-liberal immigration policies.
Nearly a thousand comments are posted on Yahoo News so far with the majority of them against PM Lee’s initiative to bring in more foreign workers:
Singaporean:
“Singaporeans are jobless and receiving a very low pay and yet more foreigners coming!!!!!! Stop this shit PAP!!! PAP really sucks!!!”
Disappointed:
“I’m really disappointed. Why govt keep importing foreigners? And yet, the govt department does not recognise degrees from foreign universities (except those top tier-ed uni). Locals from such university cant find jobs in the government department. Why?”
Sekaran Renjiah:
“The PM is intending to allow another exodus of 100,000 foerign workers into S’pore’s workforce as he says “the move was unavoidable as the labour market here is bursting at its seams”. But I don’t understand where tis ppl gets their facts fr. Is nos. & percentages gd enough to make such drastic decisions ?? The reality is, there are tons of us out there looking for jobs like mad dogs but to no avail. Every weekend I receive job opportunities in the civil service thru [email protected]. But whenever I apply they send me an email stating regret in not being able to employ me. But yet again the post ad is repeated every week. Why is tat so? Does tis reflects tat there are no takers & thus foreign talents need to be employed?? Or is it tat by bringing foreign talents the gov can profit more in terms of levy or low wages??? Pls look after ur citizens 1st !! We voted for u to represent us not to imprison us !!!!”
Sad:
“I am 40 plus I am not able to get a job. I have send many job applications and even went to Alexandra Hospital personal for a job interview as a Therapist Assistance still I am not given the job. Yet they say they need more staff for the hospital industry. More foreigns are given the Job in the hopital even doing pharmacy assist packing of medicine behind counter they want chinese speaking staff. Even I look for a job as a parttime packer I went to the recruit express in Jurong for an interview still no call from the agency. But went you look in the paper there is lot of vacancy why are they not employing the Indian and Malay.I have always voted for the government but this election I have to think twice. They say singaporean are fussy and always complaining.As if we have nothing better to do. These foreigner come to singapore to make money and retire back in their homeland. Yes they may have their PR
but the time to retire they have a business in their homeland because their currency value low. In singapore dollar 400 in philippines is a bank manager salary 19000 peos. Two month ago I went for an interview as an operator the pay was $1000.
Three singaporean and one philippino PR went for the interview the Production manager and supervior was a filipo and they employ the the philippino PR and the three singaporean was not given the job. Why was the job not given to the singaporean because we are not capable to do the job, not truth they only like to employ their own people the filipo. Not only they come here to work they break family. They strip the men until he has nothing but only his brief then he has no where to go only to the street or old folk home. Nowday, I see people sleeping in void deck.”
Kamum:
“Allowing foreigners in is to displace those Singaporeans who don’t support them.Simple formula for staying in power so that in the name of politics they can enrich themselves further.PAP members are shameless.
The President of the most powerful nation, in terms of politics, military and economic is only paid fraction of our ‘Minister of State’. Are we saying our junior ministers are much more capable than any world leaders? Simply shameful and disgusting. If these ministers are allowed to run a company outside Singapore, I bet all of them will fail miserably. That is the reason we need more foreigners to work for Singapore and these elites could reap the benefit. Poor Singaporeans, strangers in their own land. Long live Gong Li.”
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an idiot economist called song seng won from cimb was quoted as saying in today’s new paper that the tight labor market will cause a plate of nasi lemak to go up tp $10 a plate.
how the fk did a fool like that become an economist? even i as a layperson know that wages form about 35% of a company’s operating expenses. in other words, for my nasi lemak to have a threefold increase to $10, real wages need to increase by a whopping NINE (9) times! tio bo?
its not just about wages, other things matter too. cost of goods sold, rental, utilities. they are all unnaturally high. fking scare tactics propagated by msm. pissing me off big time.
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I am a native Singaporean. I born here, grow up here, schooling here, live here and die here where I have no other place to go.
I studied hard here and went for the 4-years of my job training. Now, I am already jobless in the last 9-years. I try many times to apply a job in related to my training, but was no avail. Now, I realise that the foreign talents have already landed here during the last 9-years and had displaced me. Again, my health is not so good as before. How am I going to do now as my health is not so good? Work or no work, every month, I have to pay property tax, water and electrical bills, gas bill, Town Council Service bill, food, etcs; Today, Because of inflation, everythings are so expensive.
To all true, blue Singaporeans, I think most of you have the same feeling like me.
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Aiyoh, really hor, meaning very shallow leh, from a layman terms, LHL is obviously wanting these low-waged foreigners to fuel SG economy, AT THE EXPENSE OF local SGreans. Get our act together, and send PAP a serious message in the coming GE.
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DAFT Sinkaporeans, now hear this.
What PM Lee is trying to do is to send a CLEAR SIGNAL to all you DAFT Sinkaporeans that he is AWARE that you LESSER MORTALS is not liking the idea of all these Foreign ‘Imports’ BUT this is a famiLEE matter and Sinkapore BELONGS to the famiLEE.
So he can do WHATEVER he like to Sinkapore and it is NONE OF YOUR FREAKING BUSINESS!
In a nutshell: WHAT THE FIACK CAN YOU, DAFT LESSER MORTALS DO ABOUT IT?
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Good news!!!!!Next PM WILL BE FROM INDIA/PRC.THANK YOU Mr,LHL
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Trust only those who walk their talk.
Even Civil Service don’t want anyone greater than 35yrs.
Without the influx of 100,000, how to dilute the vote of 60% resident.
President election is just a testing ground before the real one and thru expert simulation, the electoral map can skillfully drawn.
Like it or not, that life. Unless you willing to accept $500 and $1800 to directly compete with foreigners.
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THE MATHS, THE ECONOMIC AND LOGIC SEEMS TO BE SUCH A HUGE DISCONNECT. Or is my mind on holiday this morning? Or is my confusion the giddy effects of my Russian vodka for breakfast?
LHL attributed the second qtr strong rebound mainly to the “success of the two integrated resorts” and a sharp increase in pharmaceutical output.
He added that “the two resorts, which opened early this year, “made a significant difference” this year and boosted tourism to Singapore.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporebusinessnews/view/1069265/1/.html
One of the two resorts were opened VERY LATE into the second-quarter ending June 2010 – if it was opened before end June 2010. So how did that IMPACT strongly on Singapore 2nd Qtr GDP’s performance??
Which then follows the relevant thoughts if the tourism supporting that two resorts came in and rained money in billions of US Dollars from the sky in a few days in the casinos, entertainment and also retail spending ending June 2010????.
THE LATEST OFFICIAL FIGURES CAME OUT WAS FOR MAY 2010. That being so, there is no official statistics for June retail sales as of today. So how did LHL came to the conclusion that “tourism” influx of the two resorts were big factors behind that exceptional GDP Growth for the 2nd quarter of 2010???
I am COMPLETELY mystified.
Even more puzzling is that the May retail sales ACTUALLY FELL IN MAY compared to April 2010 by 0.9%.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporebusinessnews/view/1069508/1/.html
So if retail sales FALLEN after the two resorts opened, how did the two resorts had allegedly benefited and lifted up 2nd Qtr GDP statistics???? MORE TOPURISM LESS RETAIL SALES FOR SINGAPORE ???Poor me, I am CONFUSED AGAIN.
But then LHL wants to bring in 100,000 additional foreigner into Singapore workforce. This one again is also mind-boggling to me.
We achieved an estimated 19.3% growth in the 2nd Qtr of 2010, right??? AND THIS WAS ACCOMPLISHED WITHOUT THE ADDITIONAL 100,000 FOREIGN LABOUR.
Why do we SUDDENLY need 100,000 more foreigners when we have achieved the same “outstanding” performance without them? And then a bit more hilarious is LHL’s own caution that 2010 is an exceptional year (NOT TO BE REPEATED) AND THAT the forecast of double digit growth for 2010 actually assumes a much lower second half growth for Singapore. On top of that LHL asserts that “sustain growth, we don’t mean 9, 10 percent or 11 percent in future years but 3, 4, 5 percent steadily for another 10 years.”
In other words, we proved we didn’t need 100,000 more foreigners to grow the economy at such a fast pace in first half 2010, we will logically need LESSER number of foreigner in the 2nd half (when the economy will slow down) and even LESSER STILL AFTER THAT IN 2010, WHEN WE SETTLE TO 3% TO 6% OF SUSTAINABLE GROWTH.
My question is why we need to import “SURPLUS 100,000 additonal FOREIGN WORKERS” – that WE DEFIFINTELY DON’T NEED??? Is it IMMIGRATION policy making on the run of panic reaction, and no economic logic or thinking?
Or am I drunk with Russian vodka this morning for breakfast??? Or is that a camouflage to bring in more foreigners in disguise? Someone be kind enough to clear my muddled-headed thinking here?
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When Dr.Mahathir said Malay Singaporeans are marginalized .So let that never happen in Malaysia if Chinese centric party like DAP takes control of Malaysia….PAP protested.
Of course,PAP and MSM wrote tons of denials.But we locals knew the goddamned truth.They were and still are.
But there is another side to the coin.Wonder if Dr.Mahathir knows.
That now,the vast majority of local Chinese are also marginalized.The flooding of SG with foreigners actually hurts the majority local Chinese more than ever.Never mind if indeed the vast majority of foreigners flooding SG indeed are from China.Neither are the local Indians any happy that Indians from India are now ruining their lives.Malays?I really don’t know of PAP allows foreigners of Malay ethnicity to crowd SG to the detriment of local Malays.
But something emerges here.
About our Confucianism culture.What PAP and MM touted and promoted as the ‘ Asian value’.Is that our Achilles heel?….is this aspect of our Chinese Confucianism culture that causing us to tolerate PAP this far?
Why?
Because Western leaders seems to know when to quit.Good examples are George Washington-the first USA president and the Roman dictator Cincinnatus —absolute power did not corrupt them.Even Mahathma Gandhi of India did not sue for political power ,though he was in the heart and mind of every Indian.So was Nelson Mandela .
So what is that even an African culture cherishes that a Confucianism culture lacks —in political maturity?….I mean not only to call it quit when their time is over but more–that is, to tolerate and accept politically powerful warlords holding on to power beyond their usefulness?—-what ,please pray tell me.
Is that why PAP promote’ Asian values ‘ and import PRC over others?—Because essentially Confucianism culture is more tolerant of ruthless dictators than other cultures?…is it a gene or a DNA factor?
At some point we have to face this question.No point barking at the wrong tree.Why?
Because every one of us has the power to change a regime we no longer want.That is exactly what democracy is all about.Not forgetting that PAP stays in power through elections…UNLESS:-
Our Confucius culture allows PAP to cling on to power forever.
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Foreign Workers again? Why keep posting same old topics???
The comments will be the same, don’t think many will want comment on this repeatition of article keep on re-cycle over and over again
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Singaporeans just shut up and listened to the Prime Minister. Singaporeans wants PAP and we must listened to PAP and no choice and if you are truly unhappy then prove otherwise by bringing the educated Opposition to represent us or else just shut up. Why all these is happening because the POWER is with them so they will do whatever they want . We cannot fight them as they are given the mandate to rule and show them this election that they will become POWERLESS and no point shouting against their policies as they are not interested in the actual Singaporeans.At the moment we are dead duck and in this election let show them who are more powerful.
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Aren’t we lucky! PM only promised 100000 and not 1000000 FTs!!
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Bringing in foreigners to reduce labour cost. Consequently, even more locals get jobless, or paid even lower wages. Coupled with the forever rising cost of living, isn’t this modern day slavery for our locals?
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HE is watching and will pass judgment soon.
KR
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@anonymous:
You are certainly not drunk, very reasonable and credible article.
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@Forecaster Extraordinarie -
LOL…..Muahhahaha…. What a nice pix! Suit lesser mortals well…..LOL….
They truly deserved it. They love to suck up to it and asked for it. LOL….. They love PAP telling them “You Die, Your Business….. ROFLOL… lol….
They just suck it with their potty lip. LOL….
This year election coming no problem give discount just take in one to two hundred thousand only. After election they will come in by the million pushing the daft Singaporean out. LOL.. Vote PAP so that your children and their spouse will work as maid in the foreign workers’ home. This is so because the foreign workers have taken the job at the hospital and your children have no job and no choice but to survive. They have to work or die. LOL…
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“It cannot be helped because with the market so tight, if we don’t allow the foreign workers in, you are going to have overheating,” PM Lee was quoted as saying in the Straits Times.
HOW IN THE WORLD IS THE PM CURBING OUR OVERHEATING ECONOMY BY FURTHER OVERHEATING IT?
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Wow! “…your children and their spouse will work as maid in the foreign workers’ home…” this is serious shit! I never thought about it, it sounds really scary and possible!!!
KR
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i am a true blue singaporean boy who has served his NS. my family have been here for 4 generations.
the PAP’s FT policy is not being very helpful to the ordinary working man on the street as our wages are being depressed.
WE ARE BEING DISCRIMINATED AND MARGINALISED in favor of FTs who have never paid his dues on the military fields of SAFTI/Tekong – and i am of chinese background.
I have been displaced in favour of chinamen/indiamen/banglaman/Filo man/ etc.
My chinese language proficiency is useless in the face of cheapo cheena /SUB continent FTs.
Being marginalised by people of your skin colour is one of the greatest Singaporean humiliations that we have to endure.
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Do Singaporeans need any more proof that they just don’t care about our welfare and well-being?
This coming elections is the time for change.
The next time will be too late.
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The PAPpies words, actions and policies are basically legalised corruption, legalised extortion and in the past 10 years have also become legalised treason and legalised sedition against Singaporeans. What they are doing to true-blue Singaporeans and their children is worse than what Mas Selamat can ever do.
Anybody disagree?
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LISTEN! LISTEN! LISTEN NATIVE SINGAPOREANS AND PLEASE LISTEN GOOD!
It is absolutely no point in letting out steam. Blaming the PAP is definitely no use. Look at the crux of the problem. How did the current plight of native Singaporeans evolved? Who caused this situation? Who is the guilty party? To these questions, the answer is we, we the native Singaporeans. We allowed the PAP to hoodwink us that their one-party rule is the way to go if we want to live happily and peacefully.
The current one-party rule must not stand at all. It must be demolished at all costs for whatever may happen after that; be it good, bad or worst. We the natives have dugged our own graves by allowing the PAP to govern us with absolute power with no any kind of checks or balances.
It is now or never. We must stop PAP in its track. There is definitely no other alternative. Come the next GE, vote PAP out to get rid of the ruling family(you know who). Only then we will see light at the end of the tunnel. Change must be done in the next GE. Don’t wait any more. Don’t take anymore chances with the PAP. Vote wisely. Vote out this regime.
We must come together to save ourselves and our country. Stop Whining! Stop Complaining! Stop Grumbling! Stop Blaming the PAP! Stop anything that you are doing that is not going to save us or our country. Wake Up! Take on the responsibility to put things right in our country. Don’t expect PAP to change for good.
We cannot expect the world to help us. In fact there is nobody out there in the entire world who would help us. The US is not going to help us to effect a regime change like it did in Iraq.
VOTE PAP OUT IN THE NEXT GE!
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Could all these be meant to educate the 66.6% on the importance of strong alternative parties being present to act as a counter-balance to the government. The consequences of their absence had been amply demonstarted. What more do this special segment of the population need?
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We need more workers
We grow and hence the bigger pir.
Each one of us gets a slice.
Singaporeans support the govt wholeheartedly
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like it or not , LHL will still be our PM at least for the next 10 years ! many singaporeans believe what mm had said , if they vote for opposition singapore will be finish in 5years time .
this is the consequences ! foreigners took over our jobs and houses
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there are 3 classes of people in Singapore:
1st Class: The PAPers – the MIW and the people who suck up to them
2nd Class: The Foreigners – especially those which bring in tons of $$$ (never mind what kind)
3rd Class: The Daft Singaporeans (excludes the quitters)
Ask yourself which class you see yourself in?
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Lamenting about the dilemma that concerns foreign workers is akin to throwing eggs against stones hoping that the rocks will crack. Singaporeans really need to do some serious soul searching and look for the real cause of this avalanche of massive problems of rising prices, unemployment and diminishing opportunities. When and how did this deadly ‘disease’ start? It started in the nineties. Demand for so called foreign banking experts to fortify the financial system of Singapore. One higher paid group of workers in turn generate the services of more lower skilled workers from Asian regions to satiate their needs in many other areas. Was this avoidable? Not really. Familiar with derived demand? That’s when supply for a need is introduced to sustain a segment of the economy. One example importing more maids to serve the highly paid exPATS. But what was missed?
This vicious circle of introducing more of their clans into Singapore continued till costs in many sectors become increasingly suppressed for the benefit of the entrepreneurs. Who wouldn’t want fast profits at the time when new products and services were flooding all markets in the world including Singapore? Businesses had to move real fast in the heady days of profiteering and expansion in order to stay afloat on the waves of globalisation which continue to claim all sorts of economic casualties in many unimaginable areas. Many successful businesses we learnt thrived in the nineties and beyond at the expense of many proper principles of conducting commerce with a LONG TERM outlook. We know the names of those who failed. Where is the connection? The lessons from collapse of financial systems in US and Europe were also repeated signals but never seriously taken as reminders of the need to be conservative. That in itself requires another frame of discussion though very closely connected to some of the demand problems in all Asian nations today. And consumers unfortunately continue to fuel this demand for many ‘unnecessary’ goods and services which seek to retain the need for foreign workers. Whilst demand must be present to drive economies, there is demand for necessaries and demand for the unnecessary. One need not be a mint foreign uni graduate to put two and two together. See the answer? Perfection in the conduct of businesses with the twin goals of profits and nurturing societal welfare at the same time. That is where the target should be. Then again when corporate profits swell, lessons will quickly be forgotten. And the cycle commences again.
From the nineties till today, citizens of other nations besides traditional maid supplying ones got a whiff of the prosperous pastures at your doorsteps and the vicious spiral of more entries continued right under the nose of ordinary ‘true blue’ lower to middle income Singaporeans. Like the dam that burst at several places, the ‘flood’ of foreign workers needs now to be managed with the focus on regulating the ‘flow’ into necessary areas. There are many solutions to the Singaporean problem and most are tied to other nations. One way is to redeploy local unemployed Singaporeans with qualifications into the financial systems AT ACCEPTABLE AND REASONABLE rates by replacing deadwood foreign experts who are paid horrendously gluttonous salaries. Another is to extend Singaporean expertise offshore in nearby regions and generate more technical industries rapidly for both Singaporeans and foreign natives which will encourage them to stay there. Not impossible and very compromising given the ’seriousness’ of the dilemma? Create your opportunities and divert your resources.
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Who wantes whose rejects?
May be workers party can give them some employment
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joe:
July 16, 2010 at 12:13 pm
Thank you for sharing. Many times I felt so sad to see my country fallen over the other side of the steep cliff and many still won’t wake up. The next generation of native Singaporeans will be worse than current – YOU BET Octopus Paul on this and you win for sure. Let us VOTE RESPONSIBLY FOR CHANGE for the hopes and dreams of our children.
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Population Replacement Program. Import 100,000 workers and keep granting PRs to these people. Then say we have not reached the quota yet. Then import more and grant more PRs. Convert earlier PR batch to citizens and the cycle goes on. Lo and behold in a span of five years or the next GE, local born and bred Singaporeans will be outnumbered by imported ones.
Bottom line. You voted them in… ONLY YOU can vote them out.
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singaporean will become minority very soon … thanks to those who vote for PAP with their eye close ! my pink i/c become worthless
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A massive outcry has erupted in Singapore’s blogosphere with many netizens lampooning PAP Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong for his “promise” to bring in 100,000 more foreign workers into Singapore
True or not? Post the links to those blogs leh
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Something is WRONG here, this CANNOT be his idea because he is ONLY a PM in name, he cannot make HUGE decision like this without the OK from the OLD MAN, can he?
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@Billy, when you apply for Internet Access, did ANYONE teach you how to use Search Engines like Google and Yahoo?
Did the PAPies teach you to ready CAREFULLY before replying?
The article already stated very CLEARLY: “Nearly a thousand comments are posted on Yahoo News so far with the majority of them against PM Lee’s initiative to bring in more foreign workers”
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Well. This just came in.
100,000 jobs for Philippinos in the IT/Accounting/Service sector. Is there any more reason to believe that the government is going to look after locals?
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/video/global-filipino/07/15/10/thousands-jobs-await-pinoys-singapore
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Wake up you 66% all! You are screwed front and back. If you still don’t get it, then you should go to hell. Stop spoiling our democracy.
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It’s critical whichever race we belong to,we must unite and put out this toxic fire ignited by the regime for their own greed and hegonomy since many years ago.Never be hookwink or seduce by their alluring tricks of some gains as we know we’ll have to pay back substancially in return.It takes many years for us to feel the negative impacts of their policies and time is running out if we true S’poreans never wake up and see the evilness of their rule,then we’ll have to resign to fate.So,I call upon all native born S’poreans to unite as one and extinguish this toxic fire—-for the sake of ourselves as well as our love ones!!!!
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How does the PM justify and quantify that Singapore needs another 100,000
foreigners?? The figure pluck from thin air?? Which sectors of the economy
require workers?? Has Singaporeans, those who are jobless, been asked to fill up the vacancies?? You always say that ‘Singaporeans come first’ didn’t you?? If the economy is so heated up, why the hell there are so many jobless singaporeans out there?? If the ecomomy is that good, why the hell we see so many gloomy faces in the streets, in the malls, in the trains, in the buses and hawker centres??
Ain’t we suppose to be jumping for joy and celebrating the booming economy, just like the Spainards celebrating the winning of the World Cup????
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@ ah beng, specially for you :
Ah Beng come from Chinatown
Money problem never run him down
Give a tinkle, taxi come
Any problem, fly back China settle down
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Hey,it used to be called foreign talents,right?
now,they just call them foreign workers.
so,pm lee,are these going to be construction workers or bankers or what?
please be more specific,you are the pm,you should speak like the big man of the country.
if bankers and such,we have alot of untapped local talents ranging from diploma holders to Masters with years of expertise.
are we in short supply of labour?…and overheating?
you mean your pockets are overheating,sir?
if so,you can donate the excess to the poor.
Even,dogs konw gratefulness and show faithfulness.
what about you and you miws?
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So you’re enraged by the callous, self-serving PAP. Enough is enough. You swear to vote them out. Fine.
Now how are you going to do that if no opposition party candidate stands for election in your ward? Please tell me that?
It will cost around $16,000 election deposit per candidate – almost $100k per 6-person GRC. You don’t need to be an accountant to work out why such an outrageous amount is set, do you? Where are the opposition parties impoverished by strict restrictions on fund-raising and sued to bankruptcy going to get the money to pay for this, not to mention all the other costs that go into running for election?
Did you put your hand in your pocket to help support them? If you can’t afford money, did you volunteer to help out in any other way you can? Or are you sitting back complaining bitterly as usual and hoping God/Karma/Lightning will magically strike down your enemies without you having to lift a finger?
Look in the mirror. All your problems are self-inflicted. The PAP is your creation. Their demise is in your hands but do you still have the stomach for a fight? You man or you mouse?
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Singapore govt itchy backside go and sign FTAs with everyone and have to commit to give those countries’ citizens visas/permits work here. Nowadays economic stimulus during recession also no use — the money all get sent to India, Philippines, Bangladesh, Australia, etc.
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@anonymous:
July 16, 2010 at 11:35 am
Or am I drunk with Russian vodka this morning for breakfast??? Or is that a camouflage to bring in more foreigners in disguise?
No bro, you’re not drunk. When LHL mentioned calibration, he meant 100,000 per quarter to reach the 6.5 mil target sooner than later.
I think all hell is going to break lose when the magical growth figures start to evaporate in the next couple of quarters. Then we’ll see who’s going to be laid off by the hundreds.
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LHL has mismanaged the economy! Too high the growth is a problem rather than blessing as we will see high inflation that cause the real wage to go down. In fact, Singapore should not build IR in the first place to ensure steady growth and also there will no overcrowding problem. This clearly shows that LHL is incompetent!
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How can such stupid people think they deserve millions in salary?
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Singapore is already now in a mess because of your stupid policy. Your evil intention is to destroy Native Singaporeans who vote you and your father into the high office. Have you read the messages above from the netizens. This is not a bluffing matter. How do you feel and say out from your heart now? The voters give and your father the million dollar pay,the status, power and prestige. In return, this is what you do our local breeds. Shit.
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we are screwed every now and then.. and continue to suffer in slience.
there are 100 questions regarding the new 100k foreigners.
will someone with good English write to ST forum and get the letters published?
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PM Lee can only bring problem to Singaporean and our life is getting worse under his rule! Vote him out!
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To all highly local talents and local professions, please do something to save our beloved motherland. Put aside your professional careers now to join the opposition parties. Any opposite parties will do. Our local breeds need your help urgently before it is too late. I think is already late. Please…please do something. I am also aware that you may fear of arrest, warning, sue, fine and imprisonment from any small mistake you make. Be careful of the old man, aged 87, who is a lawyer and cunning man.
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Kick LHL out of the government!
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No wonder all Singaporean got rejected, now all these non-citizens become the hiring boss. Who promote them to management position? It’s MNC bosses from US / Europe.
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In a nutshell :
O <——- PAP
[\\___O
// JJ*\\ <—— Sinkies
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I hope the opposition can use all these during the next voting, will be waiting for that. Many issues they can bring up and stir the emotions of the people unless the ISA is used against them!!!
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Nothing went right after LHL became PM. Due to his liberal immigration policy, the property price skyrocketed. The public transport become too congested like those trains in the third world countries. The low income group suffers further reduction in salary due to large influx of foreign worker despite the high jump in living cost. Temesek Holding and GIC lost billion due to their stupidity when they jumped into investing in US bank when every investors were avoiding banking share. GST increase to 7% to help the poor but no or little help provided to the poor. Poor leadership when problem occurred e.g. disappear for 11 days after the incidents………..
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this clown is trying to wiggle out of the system, he’s dying and enough millions for las vegas, this is the only way to do it.
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The garment is holding various dialogue sessions in all CCs with the grassroot leaders to try to get them to accept that immigrants are required for Singapore – to fill up the drop in birth rate, to do the jobs that Singaporean won’t do such as construction, healthcare and service sectors, bus drivers, to enrich the cultural landscape etc etc.
I agreed to some extend. But when my admin job is being replaced by foreigner who accept 50% of my salary, and then I am not able to find another job as I am already 55, how am I going to accept that the foreigners are good for us?
There should be a quota in all companies to have certain number of citizen before they could hire foreigners.
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The ground are ripe with discontent towards the ruling party…If the opposition do not make use of the situation now to their advantage and make a difference to this island we called home,this coming election…we,the citizens of Singapore,regardless of race language or religion,will be screwed many times over.
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Ah Hsien is really tua sian king. Fake up numbers to get his goal. All you guys out there, don’t fall for his tua pow sian. He’s just playing you like monkeys. Do your part so that after next election, he can move out from pm office and stay at home to masturbate.
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He is looking like a hound dog.
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Last chance to get PAP out..
After next election is about 2017.. How many PRs will have become new citizens by then? Think about it.. Think about your chances of getting a family and a happy life.. Do you really want your children to suffer in the future amidst a population of 6.5 million ppl, without FT’s children vying with you for school places and jobs? COEs, HDBs.. All these issues are very true..
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Enough inconsiderate meanisters! Please go away! I FIRE YOU!
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The only thing really getting ‘overheated’ is the Prime Minister’s salary.
Less any further clarification by the authorities about what they truly mean by ‘overheated’- that the demand for labour is so high, it’s considered ‘overheated’, I think that the only thing really getting ‘overheated’ is the Prime Minister’s salary.
-http://forums.asiaone.com/showthread.php?p=446011#post446011
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well said CHANGE REGIME and may i add, i doubt it can get any worse (with a change)with what we have now
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LHL will tell you to “get out of my elite uncaring face”.
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Folks,
I guess maybe its time for all true blue singaporeans here to fight for our own citizens right now. Not only that, i think maybe its time to start real protest against our this evil garhment by protesting them in all garhment agencies.. Name it, just like the rest of the countries do that in real street protesting against their garhment when they have been treated unfairly.
I personally do not see that by our votes is still able to cast this evil garhment out. We need to go out there and protest!
Period.
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It is old man Lee’s idea to bring in this 100,000 foreigners.
The PM is only a puppet, so we are shooting at the wrong man.
Our MM is like the old dowager of Ching Dynasty of China, wielding power behind the bamboo curtain.
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Billy,
http://sg.yfittopostblog.com/2010/07/15/100000-more-foreign-workers-needed-pm-lee/
31 pages as of now
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So simple yet Singaporean do not know. So duno how singaporean get PSLE, O level and NUS.
No foreigner, 3 company go after 1 worker(singaporean), so his salary go up.
Got foreigner, 3 company go after 1 worker(singaporean) 2 worker(foreigners), so his salary stay the same and more work to do, as foreigner work harder so that they can earn enough OT and go home buy land. Singaporean work so hard, then Wife or hubby find another man or woman. Children go glue sniffing, ah lian or ah beng.
That is difference.
WAKE UP.
Singaporean should know, 3 people want to buy 1 durian, the durian is expensive. 3 people want to buy 1 durian, but go 5 durians, then price go down.
Same for MRT, HDB, etc etc. too many foreigners = Housing and MRT and Cars go up and up many percent. But your Salary only up 1%.
Salary also the same lah.
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@Baby Boomer:
July 16, 2010 at 4:15 pm
THAT IS EXACTLY WHERE LHL IS HEADING FOR, looking at your comment below.
“I think all hell is going to break lose when the magical growth figures start to evaporate in the next couple of quarters.”
I believe the shocks will come sooner than later, maybe within this coming qtr. Just look at Alcoa, Intel, GE, Goldman Sach, Citigroup, Bank of America corporate results just announced in this opening week of the US corporate June qtrly reporting season, it is worrying if one looks at the number closely.
On the surface, Alcoa and Intel are inspiring but when you dissect the accounting numbers, it is horrid. GE is bellwhether stock and Citigroup, Goldman Sach and Bank of America all reported revenue fall despite greatly improved results – how can the US economy be strong?
http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/Default.asp?refresh=on
No wonder all these 4 stock prices drop heavily tonight and US market decline steepen – currently down over 160 points on DJIA despite the “sparkling” results release.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/ge-profit-up-16-as-ge-capital-recovers-2010-07-16
and the US consumer confidence which attempt recovery this year plummetted again in July after plunging in June.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-july-consumer-sentiment-plummets-2010-07-16
The signs are increasingly pointing to the US recovery story having stalled and Chinese trade statistics just announced for June was scary – big drop in imports of raw materials indicating strongly forward slowdown in manufacturing and/or construction in the months ahead. This came after Chinese Government reported a slower than expected 10.3% growth in the 2nd Qtr.
Only Japan and Germany’s manufacturing is still strong but will that last if China and/or US continues to slide faster than expected on the downtrend again? I wonder.
And then suddenly we got more than 100,000 surplus foreign workers floating around – all thanks to the Govenrment’s immigration policy on the run, not careful analysis of sustainability.
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I dont think they really care. They know they sure win bec higher HDB prices will benefit the HDB majority voters. They know for sure, the GDP 15% growth would justify their $million salaries. They know for sure, they will win bec of the GRC and walkovers, NMP and cooling period, powerful ST and monopolised papers in Singapore. They sure win bec now FT and new citizens constituted every 2/5 of the total Singaporeans populations. They sure win bec they have the backing of the machinery and powerful ISD. Sure win bec Singaporeans are compliant and kiasi, kiasu and they will discredit and frighthen Singaporeans who are easily frighthen. I am one of them.
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One killed, 8 injured in accident along Chai Chee Street
By Evelyn Choo | Posted: 16 July 2010 1825 hrs
SINGAPORE : An accident between a double-decker bus Service Number 87 and a large tree-pruning vehicle left a 50-year-old male passenger dead and several others injured on Friday.
The collision occurred along Chai Chee Street in Bedok.
Police have arrested a 33-year-old Bangladeshi foreign worker from the landscape management company for causing death by negligence.
Shattered glass windows, a fallen tree, and major traffic congestion were the result of the accident which left one dead and eight passengers – including a pregnant woman – injured.
The bus was behind the lorry when it went to the middle lane. But little did the bus driver know that the head of the crane was protruding into the middle lane, and this scraped against the side of the bus.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1069789/1/.html
Too many cheap unskilled foreign workers already. This country is going to the dogs.
What are they trying to do????
Giving driving licence cheaply to foreigners who can’t speak English. Now letting unskilled FW operate machinery.
If Singaporeans ddon’t vote for change, then we must really be daft and ignorant.
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Enough is enough. SDP or any other P, please send any team to my GRC. You can put a monkey in the team from India or China or Malaysia or anywhere. I’ll vote for anybody and anything as along as he/she/it is not from PAP. Fxxk it!
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same old comments on the same Repeative Posting on Foreign Workers
66 reponses can do lah, maybe b’cos our PM Lee is the star
otherwise 23 reponses at the most, infact most are repeative comments with the arguement. Yawn…zzzzzzZZZZZZ
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Massive outcry?
How come i dun hear any?
Its not like everywhere we hear outcry.
These outcries are on the net and these are just a small small fraction of the electorate.
singaporeans have not changed, mentality-wise.
Its easier to win over foreigners who were brought up in a different environment or system or culture. These can definitely change singapore because they are different. Why is it that singaporeans are each unique individuals and yet have something in common?
Its because of the environment they grow up in.
Get my point? Change is impossible.
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hey guys, we are the 81th happiest country in the world!!!! Congrats Singapore!!! Put that on ST tomorrow morning!!! What an achievement for the fastest growing country in SE Asia or even Asia this quarter!! Hooray!!!!
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Already overheating and fire burning he still add oil. All of us will be burn to death soon.
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We serve NS for fuck ? to defend our land. It is time to take up arms to chase all these kelings FT destroying sg.
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If nothing is done in this election.
You will wait until 2017.
By then the island will sink, and the monkey elites would flown off with all our hard earned money.
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Why are we celebrating National Day? Who celebrate?
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@ Lee Tuck Chew:
July 16, 2010 at 11:18 pm
Smart foreigners (PRs) won’t be sinking roots here permanently. It is a transit stop for them because they too get replaced by new foreigners. They also know what are the insurmountable problems facing this country.When time comes, they leave. There may be new arrivals to replace those who left. Same cycle repeat. Will they change Singapore? I doubt it. Singaporeans will always be Singaporeans by nationality of birth and NS experiences.
We will make our own home and find our own political destiny. Internet keeps us informed of the real things which Government-controlled media will find increasingly irrelevant of public trusts and believe in.
Rotational foreigners can’t fit in.
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Ah~ That’s the reason why my blog got two special guests talking about this… Hahahahahahaha…
1,000 comments at Yahoo? Hmm…
100,000 workers? 1 comment for 100 workers… How massive can it be? Hahahahahahahahaha~
Hmm… Seems like the PM didn’t elaborate… … Expected.
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Just go to NUH Hospital Pharmacy. All Foreigners. Somemore govt Hospital. Do youreally think PAP look after us, they just want money. NUH Staff are foreigner, than all patients Singaporean.
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We can only pray that AMK GRC voters to vote this lousy PM out !
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“I think all hell is going to break lose when the magical growth figures start to evaporate in the next couple of quarters.”
sure or not,just bought new house.
think PAP champion forecaster still better.
they can control anyway,got lots of money.
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May MIW continue to run the garmen & u people get fark left , right , centre , up , down. You people study so much but can’t think wat is good . No guts to kick them out.
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The PAP has BETRAYED Singapore!!!
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This son only know how to listen to father. He is the worstest PM in this world
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http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/Story/STIStory_554148.html
” When I first took up my role in Singapore two years ago, I was shocked that workers were crammed into open-top vehicles designed solely for the transport of materials. “
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80 responese but really ? only 10 responses are fresh
Most are the same complain from the previous comment
After it is the same re-cycle topic, as always the same few actors making the repeative noise
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Looks like the father and son team is going to clear us all the last trapped citizens out of this tiny dot to make way for their newly bought over citizens after hijacking all our cpf savings.
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Next election:
Example:
GRC : Famous Cabinet Minister MP, Ms Gong Lee (new FT), Mr Tan O-rang, Mr Mer Li-on (said new imported sportman) and Mr SPCA (preservation of ethic, arts/culture, green and cruelty to animals representation seats) versus Opposition>
Guess:
Verdict 1: PAP (more golden years ahead)with all the backing of super powerful machinery, Monopolised Media, highest GDP growth; 25%new migrants, proven track records and kiasi/kiasu/scared Singaporeans, etc
Verdict 2: Walkover
Verdict 3: Opposition (fragmened, discredited, ineffective)
Which you think Singaporeans will want or vote.
Are you not wasting our time here?
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Tea:
July 16, 2010 at 4:02 pm
Let me be brutally honest, none you here knows what is POLITICS ???
There is only 1 type of voter, that is “Consumers Politics”
Please read at the Posting, it is a list of complain
Please read at the Comments, it is a list of complain
2 things that received more than 50 responese are Foreign Workers and HDB flats, besides it is entertainment gossip on church, jack neo
95% of all Singaporean are Consumers Politics, that love to complain, individuals or interest groups are hoping for the Govt. to take noticed of them. (even our PAP Govt. knows that at the end of day, they hope Govt to intervene on everything) I could see it crsytal clear
Our Govt. will give economical hands out, the result is always the same b’cos Consumers Voters are very please their self-interest had been met, from Cheap Flats, Big salary Jobs, Big Bonus, Cheap Transports…etc all these stuff is so easy for PAP Govt. they can deliver these goods (Besides, it is the same “Repeative Posting” of these Econonmical Voters that received the most comments)
Well, Tea go ahead, I challenge you, what do you personally think Politics is about??? Let me guess “Consumers Complain???”
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Come around next budget MIW just give out goodies and all will vote for them and they win another election.
Aitah every year the same. singapores very easily bribed. MIW knows this and they simply take it all back (and more) over the next 4 years.
get ready for 9% gst 1 year after elections.
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Has the economy expanded by 13 to 15 percent that justify 100,000 more additional foreign workers ?
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The Department of Statistics had on its front homepage the following Key Indicator [See Ref #1]
[QUOTE]
Advance GDP up 19.3% in 2Q 2010
Total Trade up 27.6% in June 2010
Index of Industrial Production up 58.6% in May 2010
Total Population was 4.99 million in June 2009
CPI up 3.2% in May 2010
Retail Sales down 3.4% in May 2010
Employment was 3.03 million in May 2010
Unemployment Rate (SA) was 2.2% in Mar 2010
[UNQUOTE]
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Were these numbers massaged – especially those related to employment ?
In the Manpower Ministry website published in January 2010 – Table 1.1 Employment showed employment level as at December 2009 was 2,991.2 Million covering Manufacturing, Construction, and Services. [See Ref #2]
Table 2.1 of the same Report showed that by end-2009 there was a Redundancy of 22,700 workers, Early Release of Contract Workers 3,200, and Retrenchment of 19,500.
Table 2.2 showed ‘Redundancy by Sector’ with a total of 22,700 for all sectors covering Manufacturing, Construction and Services.
Table3.1 ‘Unemployment Rate {Quarterly} showed Seasonally Adjusted Overall of 2.1%, and Resident being 3.0% at December 2009.
Table 3.2 ‘Unemployment Rate {Annual} showed Overall of 3.0% and for Resident at 4.3% by December 2009.
With all the negative numbers do we need another 100,000 foreign workers ?
Can the economic expansion of 13% to 15% be real, or simply blowing hot air up everyone’s arse ?
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Ref #1 – http://www.singstat.gov.sg/
Ref #2 – http://www.mom.gov.sg/home/Press_Release/Pages/20100129-ESQ42009.aspx
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National Day:
July 17, 2010 at 12:17 am
Why are we celebrating National Day? Who celebrate?
somebody put national day flags just outside my home. never ask me first.
this time round, seeing the red and white colours and that lion gave me a very different feeling. it felt that it was not my shade of red, my shade of white, and the lion’s name didn’t sound very singlish.
it felt very different.
remember to watch the armoured column! you know what kind of passports are driving those tanks.
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anonymous:
July 17, 2010 at 12:21 am
@ Lee Tuck Chew:
July 16, 2010 at 11:18 pm
Smart foreigners (PRs) won’t be sinking roots here permanently. It is a transit stop for them because they too get replaced by new foreigners.
A Singapore Taxi Driver’s Diary is a blog by a foreigner who got replaced by a foreigner and is unhappy. not everyone has a blog but i suppose foreigners displacing foreigners is getting to be quite a phenomenon too.
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There is no way, absolutely no way, that I, my family, friends and relitives will ever vote fot the PAP. Enough is enough.
We the Citizens of Singapore do not want a govt that takes care of themselves only, using fake economic growth to justify their 8.8% increments this year. Singaporeans are not stupid. Fark the white scums.
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@ anonymous:
July 17, 2010 at 12:21 am
But lets not ignore the New Citizen population that had grown exponentially over a very short few years . Who really knows the Exact number? Seriously!
I have an observation to share. I may be wrong but i notice a company has not long ago hired many fresh grads from China who are from rich families. Is this a coincident? These come from middle class china. they suka suka buy airplane tickets, go usa, china and stay/rent condos while working here at EP level pays.
Anyone any idea on this phenomenon i observing? coincidence?
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SONG SENG WUN is a f–king lee family asslicker, thats why! VOTE THEM PAPPIES out quickly, before the PRs are bigger in numbers than us native Singaporeans, by then the PAPPIES will be entrenched by these fake singgies!
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Serves Singaporeans right.
“THEY CAME FIRST for the Eurasians,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Eurasian.
THEN THEY CAME for the Indians,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Indian.
THEN THEY CAME for the Malays,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Malay.
THEN THEY CAME for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up.”
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Flood every time it rains–almost.
What has the worstest crown prince have to say now.
Pardon my ah-beng sweet say ministerial-standard england.
$2 billion spent on flood prevention–down the blocked drain, because block heads are in charge.
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@ atobe:
July 17, 2010 at 8:15 am
Hey, Atobe, you got some great statistic there! In one of my post on this thread I quote this headline source …”Singapore’s retail sales fell 0.9% on-month in May…” from
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporebusinessnews/view/1069508/1/.html
Beneath in the body content of that source, I missed out this REVEALING CONTENT
“Compared to the same period last year, retail sales in May decreased by 3.4 per cent…. WHICH AGREED WITH YOUR QUOTE OF STATISTIC DEPARTMENT DATA THAT “Retail Sales down 3.4% in May 2010″ WHEN COMPARED TO 2009.
Is it not amazing of of the following facts proven here -
a) May 2010 retail sales fell 3.4% compared to May 2009
b) April 2010 sales were lower than April 2009 by 2.5% ( i.e. 3.4% – 0.9%).
c)April and May 2009 was in deep recession near its lowest bottom in March 2009.
YET LHL ASSERTED IN MEDIA INTERVIEW THAT THE OPENING OF TWO RESORTS BOOSTED TOURISM WHICH ALONG WITH PHARMACEUTICAL SECTOR ( very small manufacturing sector here) lifted our second quarter GDP to an estimated 19.3%. THIS IS REALLY CONFOUNDING OF MY COMPREHENSION!!!
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporebusinessnews/view/1069265/1/.html
The comments in quote of LHL was
“Mr Lee, speaking to reporters at the end of an official visit to the US, attributed the rebound mainly to the success of the two integrated resorts and a sharp increase in pharmaceutical output.
He said the two resorts, which opened early this year, “made a significant difference” this year and boosted tourism to Singapore”
HOW DID WE ACHIEVED A 19.3% GDP growth in 2nd Qtr 2010 due to tourism boost when 2010 MAY RETAIL SALES WERE WORSE THAN 2009 by 3.4% and April 2010 is worse off by 2.5% than April 2009???
The arithmetics don’t add up. So your question of “Has the economy expanded by 13 to 15 percent that justify 100,000 more additional foreign workers ?” is perfectly poignant, pertinent and demanding of justifiable substantiation!!
In recession, we need less foreign workers. If LHL agreed on public record that 2010 is an “exceptional year” and retails sales were so BAD in reality in 2010 COMPARED TO 2009 AND ONLY PHARMACEUTICAL SECTOR IS UP, where does he proposed to deploy this additional 100,000 workers? Either LHL did not elaborate or the media kept silence.
Is it in retail sales which is worse than 2009 recession? Or is it going to be in the pharmaceutical fields where we got loads of unemployed life sciences graduates?.
The justification in support for adding in another 100,000 foreign workers in UNDISCLOSED SECTOR NEEDS SUBSTANTIATION and explanation of economic logic and realities proved up by contradictory statistics seemingly to be refuting of LHL public comments.
I am drunk and lost for comprehension on this puzzle. Anyone wants to help???
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Bro, do you guys know how much “blood money” these FTs will help to bring to the towkays?
Taking $10K as a typical sum that FTs use to “bribe” middlemen/towkays, that would be 100,000 x $10K = $1 Billion !!!
Expect more towkays splashing these money in KTVs, luxury goods etc.
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Every 1 they bring in, they need to bring at least another 1 more. E.g. Spouse, children etc
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@ Lee Tuck Chew aka Bean:
July 17, 2010 at 9:29 am
I am NOT surprised. A lot of the very rich in Shanghai, Hangzhou, Xiamen etc are NOT “natives” – they come from other parts of China. With the kind of wages, “natives” except business people and corrupt political class cannot afford the luxurious housing in big Chinese coastal cities. The “rich” Chinese you spoke of are very very wealthy. If you think they depend on “salary” here for their lifestyle, it won’t meet their “basic” needs. I met a bunch of Argentinian (passport)- PRC Chinese in Australia. Whosh!! they took us out to restaurants in Sydney asking for the “best” crayfish, crab, prawn seafood without asking the price, paying cash over counter and not bothering about change. THAT WAS A DECADE AGO!
They are still communist party “bosses” in China with local residency right (when China does not permit dual citizenship) and runs all kinds of business, and inside China they are still mafia ruling town – thanks to corrupt greasing everywhere. The rich kids you met is probably seeking another passport ( from Singapore) surveying the world, looking to upgrade themselves and fortune.
These kids would NOT make it to top national universities but study in joint Sino-foreign univesities outfits ( to get a foreign degree). Parents wants face. Let alone abroad, they won’t get that paper scroll to show associates and relations that their kids have “arrived”. A Canadian PRC professor told me that one of his student refused to do assignment, disrupt class, refused to sit for examination and demand a qualification at the end as his heavenly-destined right. Confronted of his reasoning of refused assessment assignment – the reply came as ” my father got business!” – leaving the obvious void of WTF are you asking???.
So through connections, he “passed” and “graduated” against the objection of the professor and against the objections of foreign joint venture “prestigious” University. What nonsense of reputation? It is money venture!! China and rich Chinese from there are NOT Singaporeans nor will they ever be Singaporeans. Unless one been to China and dealing directly with them, their behaviour will always confound us – at the very least, some are “proactive” of mindset a few cunning steps ahead and we are thinking of of how to react in the next step.
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@ taxi blog:
July 17, 2010 at 8:57 am
YES, you are dead right. The economy and management of economy is a circus in this political zoo. Any foreign PR awake and watching would know his or her “risks” of changing citizenship UNLESS his/her country of origin accept dual citizenship or he/she has connections to reclaim back his original citizenship and residential rights like China via corrupt means. If you don’t have that kind of connection, then be taxi driver in Singapore.
This is a sweatshop to enrich a few self-selected and wealthy businessmen. The ordinary Singaporeans and “new citizens” are mere serfs in slavery within the Animal Farm setting. PRs exploiting opportunities here will broadcast propaganda in favour of their temporary political master.
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@ ah beng :
Timing rolling round and round
Repetition surely found
Poly ticklers crushing clowns
Say a word to save the barn
Human spirit closely bound
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The condo I stayed with my parents have so few Singaporeans. But there’s lots of China, Indian, and Philippines people. I go to a nearby coffee shop. 5 China guys were at the Chicken rice stall. I asked them did u cook chicken rice? they said yes and that their boss gave them the recipes. WTH!!?? So now even our tradition and secret recipes are leaked out to foreigners. Then I asked the auntie next stall how long these China guys have worked there. She said 6 months and before that was an old Singaporean couple who didn’t own the stall. I went to the coffee shop toilet and another young 20yearold China guy was washing the toilet bowl. I asked him if he could let me use the cubicle first. He spoke in a heavy inland dialect which I could understand if i listen intently. I struck up a casual conversation to learn that he has just arrived not long ago and what he earned here is enough to feed his family in rural part of China. I was curious how he got this job. He said the boss of the coffee shop is from China.
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Hope we are not into the DARK ages.
The whole of western Europe and even the US today have to import labor (cheap) from elsewhere for SURVIVAL.
If we had done Economics we will understand that globalisation means the survival of the cheapest & the best.
Singapore is already handicapped being without economies of scale (no domestic market to break the bulk), no mineral recources, etc.
Only FOOLS don’t understand how we can protect our locals (not natives for we aren’t the Orang Lauts) without our being able to compete internationally exporting our services & products, cheap & good.
Money doesn’t fall from the sky.
For example, Malaysia can continue to rob Peter (Chinese taxpayers) to pay and buy crutches for Paul (Malay bumis). It can’t last. We are already seeing unpopular austrity measures being put in place now – the milk cows and golden geese are disappearing fast from migration and population decline 46% in the 60s to a mere 22% today).
Frankly we are here because we have astute thinkers in the PAP who can scan the horizon with great accuracy; not 100% though for we aren’t GOD.
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LHL is useless as a PM. This is to increase his vote for the next election.
Let request for Germany to have Paul to predict when LKY will die.
87 or 88. Sure correct one.
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Let me tell you all complacent and daft singaporeans. Why more 100,00 foreign trashes this year ?
Simple, I will brainwash all of these trash to pledge their die-hard allegiance to me.
After that, I will grant them NEW CITIZENSHIP as easy as I use toilet paper to wipe the ar*e of my senile OLD FART, oopps I mean daddy.
They will then replace all you complacent and daft singaporeans to be my die-hard supporters and vote me into POWER forever !!! Long Live FamiLEEEEE!!!!!
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more and more foreigners will come in if our economy continus to “boom” , do you still believe that PAP will give priority to citizens ? or PAP will only give priority to the economy ? the answer is very obvious right ?
one ppl one nation ? no no no … it should be many ppls (china , india , veitnam , philippines , srilangka , bangladesh etc etc) one nation !
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I may only occasionally respond to the articles on TR, but rest assured that I read almost if not all of the opinions published here. One thing you can be completely sure of is that I will NOT be voting for ruling PAP this coming GE, for I recognise the dire need now for some meaningful opposition in Parliament to balance the increasingly one way policies being force-fed down Sgporeans’ throats, NCMPs scheme sorry I don’t buy at all, just a distraction and red herring, in fact quite laughable, if it weren’t so tragic for the real meaning of democracy.
Oh and many of my friends, colleagues and family members DO NOT respond at all to TR or any other blogs but I would say that they are more aware now than at any other time in the past, that something is truly not right about the direction that this government is going, and we are talking about people who have mostly voted for the PAP all along; sensible, practical, successful but yet honest people who have a real stake here, AND who still morally care about what’s happening to our fate whether concerning the poor, the disadvantaged or the already successful strata, in other words the distinction between right and wrongs of current policies are now being questioned and put under the microscope.
And I believe that the governing PAP knows this well, and are accordingly worried despite appearances to the contrary, so let no one tell you otherwise. You may yet be surprised that how many would contemplate and finally make the cross-over when the final scales are weighed.
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Take a look at the chart – Median household income vs HDB Resale Price hike:
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Perhaps many countries that need to or want to increase GDP can learn from PAP’’s stance – simply allow foreigners to come in and benefit and show off that we are doing well. Even a moron can do that lah. Instead of innovation and solutions that benefit the country and its people, the govt has taken a short-cut which in the long run is going to have disastrous effects. It is a recipe for disaster and chaos!
Of course, it is absolutely without doubt the respective govt or ruling party that implements such a policy of importing foreign labour to inflate GDP would be given the marching orders even before one bats an eyelid!
Sad indeed that Singaporeans are being taken for a ride and scrutinize and read between the lines – it is all for $$$ (lest one forgets lah, Ministerial wages are pegged to GDP perfomance) and political power.
Singaporeans ought to shoulder partial responsibility for all these state of affairs – all cos we stupidly voted for a one-party rule and today look at the mess. The system is being exploited for political and financial rewards. Nothing more nothing less.
PS – We should welcome foreign labour or what-have-you but it must NEVER BE AT THE EXPENSE OF natives. A good eg is the predicament of many having to deal with skyrocketing HDB prices which has come about cos of disregard of the negative impact and and incompetency. However that is not the case today with these so-called foreign ”talent’ or the need to have more foreign imports as the incumbents are not truthful and constantly lying and shifting blame and dodging issues that matter to Singaporeans.
Singaporeans never came first – it was crap talk and one must be a simpleton to buy into these lies.
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Relax, my fellow native bros and sisters.
The 100k foreign workers to be brought in by lunatic PM,
are assigned to Geylang where Singaporeans shunned.
This generates……”.dirty money” for the greedy, heartless
PIGS!!!
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before,
flood is unavoidable as the sky is bursting
now,
“the move was unavoidable as the labour market here is bursting at its seams”
next time,
if singapore sinking due to too many underground work, unavoidable as the ground is bursting
天 , 人, 地 problem all are unavoidable. so why we need pap
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Send this utterly useless PM away in a sinking boat. Let the sharks deal with him.
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//Something is WRONG here, this CANNOT be his idea because he
is ONLY a PM in name, he cannot make HUGE decision like this
without the OK from the OLD MAN, can he?//
Of cause not. lhl may be sitting on the seat, but lky’s
backside-print is the one on the seat!
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it seem like GE has to delay liao , too many bad news leh ! both mm and pm also scare , ppl not happy oredi .
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@ anonymous: July 17, 2010 at 11:07am
Clearly, the reported comments of PM LHL that was made with such joyful glee can only be another propaganda effort to build a huge bubble of “feel good hoopla”.
This bubble will continue to be pump up to culminate with the NDP 2010 parade, fireworks, and partying at the Padang; which will then be followed by the over-budget celebrations for YOG 2010.
All these “feel good hoopla” will lead immediately to Election 2010 during the September 2010 school holidays, when the class rooms in selected schools are available as Poll Stations, and the school teachers will be recruited as Election Officials.
The ironic part of it all is that the harder the efforts are made to pump up the “feel good hoooopla” bubble, the Heaven is not co-operating and is spoiling the efforts like a “wet blanket” – [no pun intended].
NDP 2010 may just be a washout as happened so many times every 9 August – during the early days when LKY and his cabinet had to withstand the rain during the NDP held every year in the morning.
It was only when the age of LKY and his cabinet began show as they reached their mid-50s, and the NDP was re-scheduled to late evening, when the weather was recorded to be better.
When National Day was celebrated in the morning, with participants gathering as early as 4.30am, and celebrating the sunrise as dawn break open a new day with such wonderous symbolism, it was great to enjoy the cool rain that followed to relieve the participants from late morning heat during the route march.
Singapore prosperity blossome from 9 August 1966 through the 1970s and early 1980s.
In 1986, National Day was rescheduled to co-incide with the setting sun and into dusk, the ominous decline of Singapore’s economy was quite telling when the 1987 economic recession hit Singapore like a lighting out of the blue.
Can the mere words of PM LHL changed the fortunes of Singapore and justify the additon of 100,000 and more foreign workers ?
He will have to reschedule the NDP to the morning half and brave the rain as those who had done so in the 1960s through the early 1980s.
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It’s the factor inputs of another 100K of foreign workers needed just to keep this ponzi scheme kind of economic growth going. Most layman will think “more workers will help slow down GDP growth or prevent overheating; truth of the matter it’s that “more workers will increase GDP growth and lower wages even further”.
It’s totally disingenious to suggest “more workers will prevent overheating”.
But we all know it can’t gone on. And when the music stops, there will be no chair for those left here to sit on. That’s why some minister pointed out that “Singapore’s economy will decline if population doesnt increase”.
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when things go up they also come down
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Wah lan.. This PAP really has screwed us upside down inside out. No wonder lah, even my elderly relatives said that compared to the old guards in the PAP, this current ones we have are conniving and deceitful.
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Not only local Singaporeans feel that their pay have been depressed, overheard some china FTs who have been here for a few years complaining that their pay have been depressed by the influx of even cheaper labour from myanmmar in the IT industry.
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S’pore seems like it’s being run as a business. If foreign talents/workers help improve the profit margins, why not just bring more in? Who cares how the locals feel about it honestly. “It’s all for the best in the long run.” Like how raising transportation fares RIGHT NOW is all for the best in FUTURE. How baseless and unsupported can it get?
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Why 6 days child leave and 4 mth maternatiy leave are given to Foreigner female? they are here to work,not here to make babies???
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Once he made the decision, it flooded again.
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shut up peasants
I know you lesser mortals are not happy with the famiLee and will not vote for the famiLee, so what do you expect me to do? Call for an election and let you guys vote against me? Of course not. I need to hire more foreign mercenaries to drown your voice. Be thankful that I only said 100,000 not a million.
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This idiotic PM is become more idiotic. He is so obsessed with foreigners now. Look like he needs a psychological therapist to put his mind straight.
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stop moaning lah. just do what you can at the next elections
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You all should be more like ah beng, dont complain, ignore everything and be happy. Dont worry , let PAP run the country, we will take good care of ourselves, heh heh heh ! You all can swim or sink, just dont complain! If evry singaporean think like ah beng, it is very good for PAP! You all so free want to talk so much is it? Not happy leave lor!! Simple mah! REmember, come election you get $200 ang pow, quickly vote PAP, than dont think so much, no job drive taxi lor! Or pick up cardbox lor! Also can liive mah!! You think we all so free want to care about you is it? Must teach aingaporean a lesson! must flood singapore with foreignwer and offer citizenshiop to them, them you all no vote for us nevermind, we get all the new citizen vote. After that replace them with more new citizen, cannot lose one! Aiyaah, we all so smart, aFTER ELECTION MUST INCREASE PAY BY 1000% TO CELEBRATE OUR SMART BRAIN, HEH HEH HEH !
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This PAP Govt is worse than a stinking, unwashed, overused and aged cunt.
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You can plan to import even 1 million foreigners provided you must filled up local employment quota first. Currently lots of my Indian and Malay friends are not able to find a job and they have been waiting for more than 6 months some even up to 1 year and still unemployed. Most jobs required Mandarin speaking and the Malays and Indians already so demoralized with this kind of discrimination and yet govt planning to bring in these FTs. Please have a mankind and patriotic feeling for the minority here. So who are these 100,000 foreigners govt is bringing in and if majority from China than too bad, too sad for all non-speaking Mandarin Singaporean.
Seriously, Singapore is facing more serious public issues lately – the flash floods, security lapses(MRT), Sentosa development, China illegal immigrants, prostitution, influx of foreign workers, job issues and now this importing of 100,000 so called foreigners….Well, if the job market are so well blossoming do check out all those job advertisement in the papers it will make you wake up. I hope the authority will also take a deep look on the micro problems we are facing instead of being to self-centered towards the macro issues. Remember we have been tolerant and respecting on another despites race, religion and culture and served the national service altogether. Give us strength to live in harmoniously and do not take everything for granted.
I am writing this cos I have experienced the difficulty in securing a possible job, it took me 12 months to get a job and the pain I went through was so unbearable and I nearly want to migrate to Canada or possibly back to India.
Ok god bless Singapore and the people and the govt.
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Just after having said it, there was another tragic accident at Bedok in which a crane smashed into a double-decker SBS bus killing one innocent victim and injuring mant others.
I do not blame the Banglasdeshi worker who operated the crane. I’m sure he was asked to do the job despite having no or very little experience. While we, Singaporeans have to go through all kinds of stringent tests to get a license, the foreigners were entrusted into jobs requiring these licenses without scrutiny of their capabilities.
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To all Singaporeans instead of shooting yourselves get ourselves together and let us find a solution to make this right. Since there are so many jobless, with experience and the know how we should do it by getting ourselves together, work out and ensure true blue Singaporeans are given the priorty. It will not work shhoting here and writing. Do we have a Singaporean Society to take care of Singaporeans. We must not be into any political parties, the objective will be SINGAPORE FOR SINGAPOREANS.Regardless of Race, Language and Religion. WE must not be divide and put oor family first. We all work to ensure our family and our children will enjoy the fruits. The club should be registerd as Singaporeans For Singapore and let us see how many loyal Singaporeans are they to help fellow Singaporeans
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If i do not bring in these 100,000 foreign workers and give them PR and later on hasten the process of converting to them to Singaporean before the next election, you all local born singaporeans are not going to vote for me after all my policies that had FAILED, than how can i stay in power in the long term. Every Man For Himself, I still NEED to draw big paycheck so as to live comfortable in Singapore. IT RUN IN THE FAMILEE. I did my calculation, from the ways local singaporeans that do not dare to vote for the opposition, 100,000 of NEW SINGAPOREANS is more than enough to make sure i will still get the majority votes. I will still laugh my ways to the bankssssss.
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Singapore has become too business-friendly, at the expense of the average citizen. Your vote is the only power you have to kick them out.
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Let’s welcome them with open arms. Me n my family will b sleeping at bus-stops n parks soon. So much for dedicating my 8 years of army life to Singapore. Stand up for PAP!
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Singaporean are actually quite poor thing… You know its not easy for us to find jobs overseas, in other countries, they will give the job to their own people first. Like i have a friend who went to Italy to study design, he passed and try to apply for work permit but was rejected. In other countries, they look after their own people first. But in Singapore we welcome foreigners with open arms and our own people has to fight with them for a job. So we can’t go overseas and our own country also don’t look after us… what we gonna do?
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Pros : FT fill up the gaps(Jobs that Singaporeans do not want) and keep our cost low so that Singapore can be competitive. It also gives the impression of higher productivity per dollar as Singapore’s productivity actually falls compared to other developed countries.
Cons : FT keeps overall salary low that Singaporean salaries are not inline with the rise in real estate, automobiles and general inflation
Unless Singaporeans increase their productivity, there is no way this influx of foreign workers are going to stop. Also foreigners are not having it as easy as most people think. Check out this blog http://www.chinalass.blogspot.com. Imagine working for SGD800 dollars working a 12hour day… I’m not sure any Singaporeans is willing to do that.
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Pathetic sickaporeans!
Only know how to fart their ways off inside this kind forum!
Take on the streets like what those Thais did in Bangkok lah!
Farting away here will end you up in nowhere!
wake up, sickaporeans!
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A week ago i met one of PAP MPs around East. I told him I’m jobless and homeless; I need help. He replied ‘theres more people who are facing more serious problem then you’…. Alamak ! what more serious then jobless and homeless ??? One think for sure they will lose 2 votes.
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Without another 100K ft to help out, S’poreans cannot feeds these pigs.
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Papayas are placing their wrong bet on foreigners, because foreigners would return to their country later, bringing back good money. What is left in singapore would then be dropping properties and unskilled true singaporeans who are are not being invested for the job.
Have we reach that stage where we cannot import FT in large number? Perhaps these events would help:
1. Papayas voted out by too many frustrated singaporeans.
2. Other country (ex: china) look like a better destination. China likes to copy us, who know it may happen in 5 years time. By then, all PRCs would go back home.
3. Our rising cost of living translate to “not profitably” for FT to come here.
4. A freak giant octopus and his pal, Gozilla, smash singapore shenton way and marina bay to pieces. And, yes, Orchard Road would be flooded again by these 2 buddies.
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Kick him out before he kicks us out!
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Here is a nice party name or society to make, it is called:
SoS – Singaporeans of Singapore
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Singaporeans are doomed. Soon they will be in the minority in their own country and lorded over by the foreigners. Your children, grandchildren and great grandchildren will also be kowtowing to the foreigners.
So if you and your future generations don’t want to be screwed day in day out by the papayas please make your vote count in this coming GE. If not just be a coward and continue to suffer under the regime.
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PM Lee: you have made enough blunders during your watch as PM. Let this be the final one please.
You should set an objective and a target, at least for the next 12 months, i.e repatriate at least 10,000 of them per month to their homeland so that it will provide singaporeans greater opportunity for employment.
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TR please put up a new post regarding the article written by Shit Times’ Senior Correspondent (Indian charbo from India by Origin…10 yrs in Singapore)titled : “Stop Anti Foreigners Attack” Utter Rubbish!
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Dear Mr Lee,
I am a borned Singaporean, working overseas, drawing more than 300K SGD salary. I wish to return to Singapore but until now, have no luck in getting a job even if I am willing to take less than 1/3 of my current pay. I must be out of my mine in wanting to return home but the truth is that I cant raise a family if I choose to live overseas and be separated from my family.
Why do you need those Indians and Chinese if we can tap into the Singaporean pool overseas? The point is that you have allowed so many imports so call ‘FT’ who actually are cheap labourers who make neither contribution nor benefits to the economy but to lower the living standard of this country.
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MM and PM, please die. The faster, the better, for the sake of Singapore and mankind. You are bloody useless, destroying Singapore by the day. Please, please die.
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I really hate the PAP govt, imagine thse 100,000 foreigners workers will rent and buy our HDB again, moreover there is not enough HDB flats build. It is so expensive to buy a flat even now, me and my boyfriend are so scare of the hugh cost.
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I had many PRs as friends, they find job easily than me. Whenever we had our ladies talk, they are all aiming to earn a sum of money and return to malaysia or china to build a terrace house or condo. They are not interests to stay in singapore forever. We studies the same course but why can’t i find a job. Is biz management job shun by local singaporean??? I don’t want to see only PAP govt as the majority.
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I am a Malaysian from JB, working in the finance industry, recently from the amount of foreigners workers from india, china and other southeast countries, I myself also fear for my job security. I really want to question the singapore companies and PAP govt, is the india and china and vietnam uni degree more better than the Malaysia uni? they usually screw up all the finance in the end and customers cannot understand their english.
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I am a middle age working mum in the service industry as a sales promoter. I find it nowsaday Singapore is no longer the Singapore i knew of, everyway beside me are sales promoters from other countries such as malaysia,vietnam, phillippines,mynamar, india and china. although i do not speak english that well but local singapore customers still can understand my singapore english. BUT those foreigners worker their english is far worse than me and can even serve those middle age housewife also with their broken english, why do we still need them.
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I am telling my children and my hubby a civil servant NOT TO VOTE FOR PAP anymore. I do not want my children to suffer under the rules of the PAP.
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Fuck the PAP govt. I want to vote them out.
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YWM:
July 20, 2010 at 4:52 pm
I am in the same boat as you; can’t find no job in SIN. In fact I left SIN because I was retrenched in 2001 and my MP suggested that I should consider working as a cleaner when I approached him for assistance.
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PAP ministers are useless bunch of shit. No point asking jobs from them.
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True Singaporeans just have to blame themselves. Because they itchy.
Don’t like the govt but still vote them in in every election since 1965 after kicked out by Tunku A Rahman.
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Singaporeans are paying a very heavy price for having opted to have a one-party sytem where there is lack of trasnparency, lack of responsibility, lack of equity and lack of sense of justice.
Besides the claims of GDP in the past as well as now and the futurizing – till today there has never been independent verification to these statistics or what-have-you. Extrapolate to HDB,CPF, Transportation and Health statistics put out by the incumbents – the same bullshitting! A conniving main stream media is of no help n better to label it as lame media.
I doubt it would have regressed to such a sorry state of affairs if it had been otherwise – a two-party/proportional representation or multi-party. The benefit to the citizens when GDP performance is concernedd is a mere trickle effect as opposed to Ministers and their vested interests are now benefitting and going to in time to come.
We can cajole, complain, whine but nothing doing lah. The damage is done and the only solution is for the masses to summon courage with conviction to end this tale of tyranny and greed for power n $$$.
As long as one single individual votes for PAP – it is adding to the misery and suffering and also perpetuating the ‘tyranny’ of this self-serving lot. Each vote for PAp means – yes, to lack of transparency,yes to lack of unchecked immigration, yes to lack of …. yes to ridiculous HDB prices, yes to dubious price increases of Transportation and one can add on and an ugly pix of what IS will have one sighing lah.
PS – This so-called Free Trade Agreements (or …?) that the govt signed with some Asean as well as other countries – no one knows the actual contents and who are real beneficiaries. Why? one-party rule and a muzzled media
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legnaire:
July 17, 2010 at 12:04 am
We serve NS for fuck ? to defend our land. It is time to take up arms to chase all these “kelings” FT destroying sg.
hey cheena Kwee legnaire, i also serve ns like u , can i say It is time to take up arms to chase all these Cheena Baabi flat nose yellow bas3rds FT destroying sg.
use ur brains when you are making comments , if u think of using stereotype like “keilings”, there are lots of sterotype meant for ur races as well, if u stick ur coomment on Foreign Talent, be precised do not bring the entire race in, cz Singapore is not own by a single race of urs, jus becz u fellows are majority, so watch ur words .
i have my concern over Singapore being flooded by these India and PRC fellows .
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These are clear signs of deterioration in behaviour where people in power and who have access to money do not feel accountable to the people they represent
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STOP this invasion now!!!!
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Every foreigner is coming here to shit and go. Singaporean ends up cleaning the shit but foreigner happily collecting their gain for retirement back home. A wake up call must be given to the ruling party in the next GE as changing the ruling party is quite not possible in the near future. A temporary solution is to vote out LHL!
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To AP party,
Please consolidate and challenge the “weak” incumbents in shaking GRCs.
I do not want to see 3 or 4 AP parties challenging an incumbent PAP in 1 GRC…i want to see a single AP party….why? Because the votes will get diluted and in the end the incumbent will walk away smiling at the sheer stupidity and mis-cueing AP challengers again.
Please remember this….a fist close do more damage then an open fist with 5 fingers spread out.
Haiz.
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Do you guys know that there are many foreigners(malaysia, indian n china) real estate agents practicing in s’pore. Many of them are working illegally as part timers. Recently, I made a call on the property I interested in. A foreigner agent answer the call speaking china chinese which I don’t understand. I want to ask the authority, why are they allow to practice here ???
What happen if something crops up. Will they just flee the country. Who is responsible ?
If you are buying or selling your property. Pls make sure that real estate are s’porean n not foreigner. Together we stand !
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Commonsense will tell you by bringing 100,000 more to Sg, it will create more jobs. As the saying goes: money make money. But low, dirty, heavy, difficult jobs will mostly be occupied by FT and locals will mostly take the light, easy and better paid jobs. Why so -Sg has to expand fast and to fight another recession from coming, Sg must innovate and to expand/produce more. This is also partly the reason to justify our ministers and top civil servants pay. They have to rely on so many others to earn more money. Sg has nothing except with brain power, creative minds and imaginations.
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100,000 does not mean exactly 100,000 I bet you its much much more than that.
He’s just saying because people already notice the rise in foreigners. and now, he wants to bring in much more. Think about it..
100 000 more workers, do u think it will be noticeable? its just 1 foreigner in every 500 locals.
I dont think so.. its probably 500,000. How do we know the figures, since everything is not transparent.
This country is not democratic. If you do a poll now on who wants to bring in foreigners NO ONE LOCAL WILL AGREE TO THIS. Majority will say No.
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sorry maths fail. 100,000/1millino is 1 in 10 people. so its about 1 in 50 people.. not 500.
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the father says we are regulating the flow of foreigners
then the baby says we are bringing in 100k foreigners, no choice.
I thought they are staying under the same roof. They are not talking leh. Or they have strategize it so well to make people feel daft.
Ok is this what the father meant when he said regulating . Only 100k .
OMG, got to read between the lines
I serious think the PM Lee should leave and pls bring your cabinet of ministers with you. So lousy.
As it is I am having difficulty buying a 3room with valuation and COV shooting through the roof. Where will everyone stay with so many foreigners around? I really dont want to be renting out leh. It is crazy that a 3rm HDB costs 300k!. Utter RUBBISH!.
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YES. N MBT, WKS,PM Lee and Tharman to challeng individually. U r holding such big portfolios leh. U cannot stand alone and win?
Shame shame if u take shelter in GRC.
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” Quitter:
July 17, 2010 at 10:10 am
Serves Singaporeans right.
“THEY CAME FIRST for the Eurasians,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Eurasian.
THEN THEY CAME for the Indians,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Indian.
THEN THEY CAME for the Malays,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Malay.
THEN THEY CAME for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up.”
This is a good one leh.
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what can we do? We are call Monkeys by the ivory tower ruler.
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LOOK WHO THE GOVT SUPPORT THE LOCAL PEOPLE!!!
Take HARD LOOK At this….
Singtel is a govt body which deals with telecom services for
“ITS PEOPLE OF SINGAPORE ”
Go to their Service Centre and see who do they “EMPLOYS”??????
The china worker who speaks pooR English and the filipino…
Now LOOK at Starhub & M1… who do they employ??
The singapore Locals.
DONT U THINK THIS IS AN ” SICK and SAD” .
Sngapore Govt hires foreigner ,,,, NOT GIVING THE JOBS WHICH THE LOCAL DERSERVE!!!!
wherelse a foreign Company EMPLOY THE LOCAL AND SUPPORT THER LOCALS and their welfare..
NOW with 100,000 new foreigner what will happen to the LOCAL SINGAPOREAN JOB?? who works in our middle, executive , Top management JOBS???
THINKING OF IT : ) with the same flow abt foreign Talent…
SHOULDNT WE HAVE A FOREIGNER GOVT TO RUN SINGAPORE AS THEY suppost the locals and our welfare..
(like starhub , MI and many other foreign company in spore supporting our Singaporean people )
THUS WE DONT NEED TO PAY A HIGH SALARY…. of $3.900.000.00 to singaporean minister but pay $390,000.00 to a foreigner with GOOD TALENT to run our country.
hmmm….. GOOD FOREIGN TALENT and GOOD PALNNING FOR THE SINGAPORE PEOPLE and to acheive more greatnest for the Singapore People and NOT to PAY < PAY < PAY MORE MORE and squeeze every blood of our hard earn money to the GOVT.
The NEW GOVT will,,,,,,,,
Cut our GST from 7% to 3%
HAVE ERP with CBD AREA and not out of CBD
NO ERP when going home… why should we be punish to go home after work??
Help the needy with social income and welfare
Help Singaporean GET back their jobs from Middle – Top Management level
Help Singaporean ABLE TO OWN A FLAT with a ACTUAL VALUE of the flat cost….NOT with the present ridiculous price ( transparency of the cost of land, cost of development
Low cost of hospital bill
and many more which i am sure you know wht i meant…
WhO shall we vote for??? is your choice???
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screw!make it 100,001 foreigners needed here!
that 100,001th guy is Lee Hsien Loong himself.
get that Arroyo to chaperon her people here as she is retired and I am sure,she would take on the PM job for less than half the pay.
that way,we save some money and stop the bullshitting agony.
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can singapore and singaporeans survive without jobs and money?
NO!
can we survive without lee hsien loong and his daft FLOODS Band?
yes!
vote pro-citizens’ candidates,out with pro-foreign party!
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“Nearly a thousand comments are posted on Yahoo News so far with the majority of them against PM Lee’s initiative to bring in more foreign workers”
Is this a lot? Some can be repetition from the same guy.
Hypo: Singapore population 4 million 1/4 children, balance 3 million, 30% no internet, balance 2.1 million, 1 in 50 read yahoo news 42k, only 1 in 10 comments, 4.2k. Without deducting repetition, 1k over 4.2k = 24%… just wondering…
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Born, bred, served NS true blue Singaporeans. If our children don’t or missed out serving NS we pat a heavy penalty. The FT comes here and take our jobs and buy HDB houses meant for Singaporeans and make us fools. Yet the PAP verifies that we are not up to it. Please check on the comments. Are we going to take blows after blows and
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Yo LHL i dedicate the below song to you : )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfrIipujxfQ&feature=related
Why?…because at your age you still need daddy to baby sit you…what the fish…please look down…yeah down there…can you see it…it is called a dick by golly…and you are suppose to be a man…a real man dammit!!!…and you are not wearing diapers anymore for cotton picking sakes…
Come on bro…you can do it…bring it on you can handle it…show the world you are a REAL gawddamn Prime Minister with real leadership material and not the other type of leedership suck up material…and no longer some kid with strings tied to so many old men you have to bend over or get wussle over…you still have self respect and real intelligence…prove it to the old man and his bunch of still in diaper buddies.
Just be yourself and also leave a positive legacy before you go…and finally, please live your own life for yourself instead of being a thumb or a department store dummy or still a kid in diapers at the behest of others who don’t deserve or never had the right of it to dictate to you at your age and this new 21st century.=
Believe in yourself…you don’t need crutches anymore or some BS folks who “support” you but all of us know actually don’t when the sakes are all on the table.
Chioooonnnnnngggggg arrrhhhhhhhh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE-49Bm_DHI
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If there is an overheating, then it is caused by PAP government. The government should develop the economy according to the country resource and if they need such large number of foreign workers to prevent overheating, this imply that they have planned the economy correctly. Or does this also implies that IR is not required at all ??????
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$100,000 foreigneer warkers employeeing in Shingkangore. Die, Die, Die,sorely so moneay torokplems comering to Shingkangore wery soonar.
Oppositioneers musts comering to telle thee goatvermens oucf.
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This foreign import policy will be their undoing. Changing the demographic landscape in such a short time and so dreastically is
akin to interfering catastrophically with nature. But alas, only time will tell – sorry Singapore. In years to come, the story of
Singapore will be a “must read” for serious students of what not to
do in Governments.
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my collegue is a PR , he live in johore and drive here everyday,
he just bought a 3 storey house, costing less then 300,000 riggit
n he renovate another 100,000 ringgit. it a 5 mins frive from the malaysia check point. it not about the price as we cannot compare there and here but the facts is what i went there for house warming
he pulled aside and he told me.
Look at my house, why should i be a singapore citizen,
PR is good, our garman give them good discount, the recent rise in some charges that PR have to paid is a JOKE. He going to buy a HDB and ride on the profit at our expense.Why should he stay here, he dont even have to report to work if traffic jam or flood, he can work from his 3 story house.
IS THIS A GOOD POLICY PAP?
SHOULD I VOTE FOR YOU PAP? SHOULD MY SON SERVE THE PAP in the Army PAP.
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My observation is :
by saying 100,000foreign workers coming to Singapore is having a BIG and massive impact on HDB property prices which translates into a wealth effects to HDB dwellers. The mass market is already hot and will be hoter gearing for the coming election. This is what the Government intends so that voters in the HDB estate (more than 75% of voters) will be happy and feel “richer”. They will stand to vote for the PAP. To put it nicely, PAP will come out with some propaganda that PAP can continue to bring wealth and increase in their assets. Do you want to risk in the hand of the opposition or freak election?
Singaporeans will definitely buy and bite this. The verdict an thundering overwhelming majority even surpasing all previous records of 66.6%(last year). The GRC, redrawing of boundaries, cooling time and more reports to discredit the opposition will be in the second or third gear for a perpentual win by the ruling party.
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100,000 foreign workers and MBT today statement will definitely and inevitably drive up HDB property prices.
This is indeed what the PAP wants and the voters will bite.
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Like father MM (Mau Mati) like son PM (Poondek Man), all they think of is how to fulfill their high salaries. He done it again LHL (Lee Honang Loot), bring in more PR and lets cha-cha together and forget about the stupid S’porean that have been so LOYAL to PAP (Panpat Aku Panas). They are paying the price for their decision in their VOTE. Please don’t forget to bring in more foreign Ladies too, so we don’t have to go to Batam for adventure. PAP all the wayyyyyy……….
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Vote them out, then they will realise who is more important – citizens or foreign talents.
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