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?”

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.

“….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.

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….

Presumably you regard yourself as someone in the high-productivity bracket?

Can you please clarify, and give examples, what do you mean by [a] a high-productivity job and [b] a low-productivity job?

Can you tell us some facts about your job achievements as a minister for the passed, say, three years?

And do you regard yourself as grossly, obscenely overpaid? Please give us reasons, whether your answer is positive or negative.

Well, every learned person who in the area of economics knows this.

Where you do not have the good advantages of having raw resources (other than human beings) to do value additions in the category of manufacturing and production of goods (e.g not services) and where your land resources (physical space for business operation and even living) are creeping upward due to “good marketing”, it is not too difficulty how the equation is going to break someday for some poor souls (not because they do not want to work and that they are not hard working).

Now, how does ‘low-productivity’ (do not even need to talk about low-wage) come into the picture when this financial crisis clearly shows that global capacity is way above real demand (not speculative / hyped up demand made easy due to borrowings not backed up by real earning power). Unless our dear friend refers ‘low-productivity’ in some other context not in the strict sense about manufacturing of goods as we understand.

how come GIC & TH loss so much money?

how come inflation rise faster than salary for most?

how come we as a nation cannot progress together, with no one left behind?

If the FW added problem to our economy, dont bring them here. dont need million $ ppl to understand that.

indeed well spoken
you just used the correct SENTENCE
the government realLEE realLEE wants to stuff their owned pockets with YOUR blood sweat and tears includin your ORGANS
you mereLEE think you are not include amon the peasants?
than again a DOG is still an animal ain’t you?
why was the GRC formed? you instruct leekuanyew on that?

How about this? a true leader will do it for the people without caring for the pay, just like Obama….while someone who ask for pay increment etc can never be considered as a true leader as money is on their mind first…in a corporate world, the first will be called a leader while the other is just a manager….

Mr Rod, do you think that they can lead without these “ungrateful brunch” support? do you think an organization will succeed without its people? perhaps you have not work in the corporate environment before, but it is said that human resource are the only competitive advantage that others can’t copy….

to end this Mr Rod, if you are the leader in an organization, I am sure either you won’t last or the people will just leave….

The flawed notion here is that people who are certified better educated are deemed higher skilled while those that are less educated are low skill – just because they are not certified to be high-skilled. There are high-skilled people who are not able to do things that low-skill people do. It takes people of different skills to do different things.

The low-skill definition is not only derogatory but also disparages against those who have chosen a different path – whether by choice or by circumstance.