If we have workers who continue to be trapped in the low-productivity job, in the low-wage jobs, in the low-skilled jobs, whether the worker is a local worker or a foreign worker, he is still an economic problem because Singapore’s economy in certain sectors will not be sustainable.
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The donkey spits again.
What he says is like a mother who adopts another kid just cos her own is not getting distinctions – just As only to realise that the bugger only knows how to eat, shit and leave.
Maybe we shld import some foreigners to act as our ministers as well – just so to increase productivity, competiveness and get them to use their brains more than just sit ard shake legs and spew nonsense….
but of cos that may also mean that they will start encouraging us to put our parents and eventually ourselves in retirement homes along the johor straits…
@51) Sage on September 1st, 2009 11.35 pm
“….Maybe we shld import some foreigners to act as our ministers as well – just so to increase productivity, competiveness and get them to use their brains more than just sit ard shake legs and spew nonsense….”
Yah lor, then we can also pay them peanuts … better than nothing. But make sure these “imported” ministers knows how to articulate with their hands in a natural manner when giving public speeches.
He is wrong. Workers can never be an economic problem.
That’s because labour is highly mobile. In any economy, developed or otherwise,
there will always be the lowly paid, low-skilled jobs when cost of doing business is a factor otherwise who’s going to clear your rubbish and shit, farm the food we eat, make the cheapest clothes and shoes we wear.etc?
Its’ wrong government policies or the failure of them thats the problem.
Besides LSS is head the NTUC, whose interests is he speaking for?
For once can he wear the role that he is paid.
# Rod….
Yes, people do want to ask for more, so what is wrong with that…
when there are idiots pulling in millions …why can’t an average Singaporean ask for a decent salary to sustain the family comfortably.
We should have minimum wage….both for locals and foreigners.
Then, if it is not enough for the Singaporeans family, the govt should provide additional support, like tuition for the kids, transport and also for food, if the family needs.
I would vote in the opposition for such policies, just like the JAPs.
The ministers should realise that as long as a Singaporean goes to work….willing to break his/her back …then the govt should help them in all ways.
Anyways this is for Lim Swee Sauy….look ….what you said is utter rubbish….because we will always need a toilet cleaner….only a person can do it…unless in the year 2100 perhaps a robot. So what economic talk are you giving.
PLS MAKE SENSE, when you say something.
Low-productivity job and/or low-wage job and/or low-skilled job, if held by foreigner, tell me: where got problem? It is problem only if held by Sporeans. Foreigners come and go but Sporeans are here to stay.
Similarly, high productivity/high pay/high skilled jobs should be held by Sporeans. We are here to stay but the foreigners are here to milk. So why is it that I see so many foreigners in the workplace? In jobs that do not require specialist skills? In jobs that can be easily filled by Sporeans?
Is this a classic example of what army boys may called “talk c*#k?”
when lss was the minister for the environment he was doing all right (in my opinion)…he introduced recycling, clean toilet hygenic at the food centers, coffee shops, etc…but as a union leader, i find him a big flop….
Alright, great examples to use for my evaluation (criticism) of the effectiveness of Singapore’s solutions to the problems of globalisation for my A lvls economics exam tomorrow. :P
MP = My Pocketmoney.
We slog and slog. They get all the credit like what happen to SAF.
Now Mr Teo has bragged so much about SAF that he do not know that lots of us r so pissed by IT>
I think about the old grandpas and grandmas working in Changi Airport, food courts and hawkers. And wonder about the garbage that is spilling out of Lim Swee Say’s mouth.
First he says “Faster better cheaper”, now call them an economic problem.
His parents may be wallowing in his millions while he whips your old folks to work at low paying jobs that requires high physical effort, and the greatest public humiliation.
Under the PAP, Singapore is not a welfare state, it’s just a disgraceful state.
Rod Sep 1, 2009 2:35 = LSS’s mother-in-law = Spew better faster cheaper nonsense = normal