I would not waste your time and mine talking about my non-benefits.

Thank you.

How many times must we follow policies
Before we realized they’re wrong?
Yes, ‘n’ how many deceptions must we endure
Before we realized our follies?
Yes, ‘n’ how many times must we remind ourselves
Before we do something concrete?
The answer, my friends, is blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind

How many times must we believe in their craps
Before we refuse to accept?
Yes, ‘n’ how many fools must be used and convinced
Before those fools get up of their traps?
Yes’ ‘n’ how many poors will they generate
Before we turned around and snapped?
The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind

How many years must we live with them
Before we can change the tide and trend?
Yes, ‘n’ how much more sacrifices we must make
Before we can see and partake?
Yes, ‘n’ how many times can a man turn his head
Pretending he just doesn’t see?
The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind

for example, price increase. Rely on CASE? Statistics Department of Singapore?

Besides a lot of nonsense being spilled, best to fight spurious data with solid data. That means, you need to assemble a team of people who can do this kind of things. With his expertise and contact, Mr Leong should have no problem at all.

I came across this site http://aaron-ng.info/blog/ which seems to be fleshing out the main points.

Andrew

Do suggest a suitable name that reflect these horrible expensive clowns who continue to insult the intelligence of Singaporean.

I totally agree with your logic. PM Lee and Swee Say have admitted (implied) by their speeaches that foreigners are far more capable than singaporeans.

Going by their warpped logic, there is something really good about foreigners or something really bad about singaporeans. Honestly, if i were the PM, i would be ashamed to insult my own people before the entire world on May Day.

Are not singaporeans people too? What is so special about foreigners that makes them capable to work long hours? Is the PM telling us and the whole world that singaporeans are lazy, incapable and unwilling to work long hours? Do we and the foreigners all have at least 99% similarity in our genes (not jeans)? no wonder the world looks down on singapore!

People, it is a sad day for singapore when our government no longer believes that its own people are the best for singapore. Singaporeans are the best workers in Singapore simply because they are singaporeans. Foreigners, by definition, are always foreigners and will work towards foreign interests, no matter how we look at it.

Have we forgotten the lessons of WWII? Of Kuwait in the gulf war? A country is strong when its own people are strong and its leaders BELIEVE that its people are strong and work in all ways to be strong. The leaders of our country have no right to value foreign talents while implying the laziness of the people of our country, which is obviously wrong. Singaporeans are the most hardworking people in the world!

A country is strong when it can stand on its own two feet. This means that in any event that something causes every foreigner to shun this country we singaporeans call home, singapore’s economy nor workforce should not be affected. We singaporeans have no need to depend in anyway for nice pretty china barmaids nor top tier PhD holders. Singapore possesses enough pretty women and enough intelligent people to fill the gap. We even have sufficient retired folks to clean the floors and the toilets!

Look. Even if singaporeans are the laziest people in the world, we must put all of them in the workforce. If our people are incapable to be number 1. in ______, so be it. A country is not being about number 1. A country is about living. We can live as happy as number 5 or even number 20. A country’s people must come first, because a country is defined by its people. Your family is defined by your members. Even if my entire family are all invalids, i cannot change a single one of them and i shall love them and esteem them higher than the prettiest, most intelligent, richest, funniest person in the whole wide world. Such is a family. And such is a country.

We need a new government. And prime minister.

Guys, you see this clown always use the worse case. You see, this clown always use something that hardly relevant to the modern educated workforce. Is the use of these foreigners in coffeeshop justify everything about foreigner’s policy ?

Have you not experience the great mass of foreigner in MNC and in professional job too ? To those people who attend the clown’s talk, do you really care about foreigner’s working in coffeeshop or do you really concern the real issue of foreigner replacing you in your professional career not because of they have talent but because they are cheap labour ?

Tell me what is the probability of professional working in coffeeshop ?

Please Clown Prince, do not insult the intelligence of Singapore by using a worse case to strenghten your policy as your party always done. Use your example that target your specific audience. Is your audience all old aunt or uncle preparing to work in coffeeshop ?

Don’t use your pathetic example to sidestep the real issue of foreigner taking the job of more professional job role that contribute to the economy.

““Foreign workers are hardworking and willing to work long hours.”
PM clown,
If that’s the case, is there any plan to bring these foreign talent workers to replace minister’s and high post roles. They are cheap, smart and capable than million-dollars gahmen. Don’t tell others what to do if you yourself are not willing to do it for the same reason. Plainly disconnect on the ground and still able to sing song aloud.
At least, have some dignity and respect for yourself if not for others when you make such a public speech.

And do note that for worker permit renewal, it si also another opportunity for those callous employers to charge those hapless workers “an adminsitrative charges” of say, S$50 to S$100 to help them to renew their work permit every 2 years.

No malice intended to MOM.

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yes, yes,..in Dubai, these foreigners working labourers got to wake up at 5am and work till mdinight, 7-days a week, earning salaries ranging from 600 AED to 1,200 AED per month (S4155 to S$310 pm)inclusive. COmapny wil provide accommodaiton liek squeezing 10 to 15 workers into a ROOM.

And from an employment agency, my draftsman is earning 3,000 AED pm (S$780) including transportation, medical expenses, paid leave, ticket back to India,,,,,,accommodaiton si 8 person squeezed into a one-room apartment.

By Ah Loong’s sattement, he ever ehard of Minimum Wage for Singaporeans?
Or “Free Market” slavery and cruel expliotattion fo freign workers in Singapore….like in Dubai?

Did Ah Loong realsied that for a foreign worker employed on a 2-year Work permit, what he si getting is:
- First 6-month, his salary is paying off hsi Agent fees, msicellaneous fees, etc..surviving on handouts?
- And he is not entitled to overtime pay but to work as required by the nature of his occupation?

Adn assuming a Singpaorean company needs to employ 100,000 per annum.
And this company charges a S$1,000 per head fees for getting him a 2-year employment permit.

and this Singpaore company will easily gross S$100-million per annum for doing nothing but as a lucrative fornt for engaging in modern-day “slave trading”.

Imagine, we need 500,000 construciton workers per annum till 2015. And the overall cost of sucking the “bloods” from these hapless foreigner cosntruciton workers is at S$3,000 per head in gettign permits, training courses, airfares, agent fees, etc.

Then, the Slavery Industry turnover per annum = 3,000 x 500,000 = S$1.5-billion per annum.

and this obscene profits is blood money in our construction industry which made many a millionaires in players in SIngapore Cosntruciton idnsutry locaaly as well as foreigners.

Imagine since foreign workers are allowed to work in Singpaore in the late-70s, say in 1978.

From 1978 to 2008, a 30-year span, assume a 300,000 work-force (construction, oil & gas and marine idnustries) for 30-year and at an average cost of S$1,500 per head per annum deducted from workers’ salaries:

30 years x 300,000 x S$1,5000 = S$13.5-billion!!!!
And thes emoney ended up in the pockets of MOM, labour agents and cosntruction companies, locally and foreign-owned!!!!

Indeed, multi-billion Modern SIngpaore Slavery Industry at work.

Otherwise, why wouldn’t the govt reveal the figures???? Another of those “Trust Me” from the PAP.

The PAP leaders tell others to employ locals, yet the PAP gahmen are replacing locals with foreigners and out-source many contracts to foreigners.

The PAP leaders tell others NOT to increase workers pays, yet the PAP millionstars increased their own pay and bonuses sky-high.

The PAP leaders tell us that more jobs are being created, yet the PAP gahmen do not ensure that these jobs go to the locals instead of foreigners.

The PAP leaders tell foreigners to invest in Singapore, yet the PAP gahmen take Singaporeans money to invest in foreign countries and makes great losses.

The PAP leaders tell us that they care for us, yet the PAP gahmen is actively implementing the concept of “Welfare is a Dirty Word!”

The PAP leaders tell us to “Grow the economy at all costs”, yet the PAP gahmen ensure that it is not at their cost but at the cost of the common people’s sufferings and hardships.

I believe MOM’s definition of a foreigner excludes Singapore PRs. (Please correct me if I’m wrong.) In other words, of the 40% of jobs that go to “Singaporeans”, many them could be just PRs. And it’s super easy to apply for PR nowadays. The moment a foreigner lands on our shores and gets his Employment Pass, he is eligible to apply for PR.