i read lots of blogs and a lot of us are asking what is the govt going to do about the situation where locals are losing jobs and foreigners are coming in to replace them.

The reality is — the govt is NOT going to do anything. they are the cause of the problem. YOU have to do something about it yourself

The question is not what is the Govt going to do about it. The question should be : What are YOU going to do about it ?

Plainly, it shows the government has no concern for the common Singaporean.

We need a change of government…. It’s now or never!

Anyonce could name or reply the existing MP, Miniters relations in the current PAP government.

Heard this is the tree ———– LKY , GCT, Tony Tan, Yeo Ning Hong (Ex minister /PSA Chairman), Now Defence Minister Mr Teo are all realted . Just wondering how many of their related are sitting at the GIC and related bodies.

Why the Chairman of the new civil aviation institute are appointed. In short everyone need to apply for a post of job but many dont need to for special VIP.

There go for Temasik too. More to name if you know ????? Highly questionable style of management .

Employer ask do you have experience and skills . What skills do you need ????

Afterall PAP style is external factors and we cannot do much if the economy not doing well . But getting the World highet paid. Make no difference to us who is governing at the end of the day.

Reality issue – Many graduate , under 40′s no jobs are blue Singaporean. Asking them what the givernment is doing or what they can do . Key is not this grioup of people are relying on the govt. Key is their task to be able to foresee, anticipate and make changes to keep the employment market competitive , relevant to the new entrance as well as for existing employees.

Even with 4.99 million population . Key has it help the local economy and revitalise it . In what ways ???? Or it cost more hardship with this growing FT, PR that is taking away the local jobs. All claimed are talent ??? .

Ou education system is the best in the World . Yet we are not able to create the World Class Talent . Highly questionable. With more students coming in the educational hub is like a commercial hub to the government. Worse is yet to come and more will be staying to take Blue Singaporean rice bowl and university education.

Local without jobs are virtually not able to afford the high education cost. This is a visious circle that wa happening during the 70′s and 80′s . Local are denied a University Education with the shutting of Nayang University and able blue Singapore talent ( rich go abroad), average stay and poor stuck without a unversity education. Now got wings cannot fly due to lack of the university education.

Vote them out ..and have a better life . Move ahead and move along to a New World.

DARE TO CHANGE AND GO FOR THE CHANGE .

Civil servants are not allowed to hold two jobs. But PAP Ministers , MP are aloowed to hold many corporate appointments (getting director’s fee) and yet running their own business. Is this the talent or the time evotion to the community. And the world highet paid too. anything that benefits them is acceptable.

Legalise Earning = Free Corruption and above all .

Illegalise Earning = Corruption ? ? or Illegal Earnings or Against the Rules of Law.

To quote roughly what the Australian PM Kevin Rudd said: “If you don’t like the country, LEAVE. Nobody’s forcing you to stay and you can go whenever you want. Just don’t change whatever culture or lifestyle that is already embedded in Australia.”

This is what our govt should do, but did they do it, NO! They only seem to quiver to the presence of China people which i fail to understand. Why is our MM who has been praised as fearless in challenging British authority and subsequently, communist threats, do nothing in the presence of increasing China population. Has he become from a warrior from defeating a communist tiger to become a mouse?

Cont’d with my grouse with increasing number of foreigners, our unis. Our local unis seems to reject locals but bring in more foreigners. Even a uni student commented when he entered the lecture hall, he seems to see many foreigners in the LT. Why is it that Singapore men have to waste two yrs of their life serving NS and defending the nation from threats, only to come back to civilian life and find out that his place in uni is not even secure and is probably taken up by a foreigner who don’t serve NS/ don’t pay IRAS any cent? Is this justice to the blood, toil and sweat offered by our brave NS men?

And lastly, why are maids always allowed to escape death penalty whenever they commit a murder? While our Singaporean employers are always fined/jailed for the slightest mishap to our maids? This is nothing more than PAP bending their backs to please our foreign friends cause in PAP’s eyes, Foreigner first, locals second. Is this what you have been working for?

Before you blast my parents being one of those foreigners, I shall just drop a few facts. My parents came in the 1970s, when the international world taught Singapore got no hope, and worked hard to provide decent housings for me. They pay taxes, appreciates the Singapore lifestyle and is already Singaporeanized. Least, they never even complained once.

I’m not surprised if Singapore will join China as the next province if they don’t stem the flow.

you did mention Quan Yifeng, Guoliang and Li Guohuang and about competition. my follow up on having more freer media just came out naturally (too tempting an example for anyone to have missed it). in our dear country, it is not difficult to find many other examples. call it digression if it suits you but I find it appropriate to zero in onto a bigger problem rather than picking (blaming) on lesser mortals who can only make noise and complaints. What else can most of us do, protest and then get “whacked” ?? I am a law-abiding citizen (sarcasm intended).

“Laugh at life. Don’t complain, do your best and seize all opportunities instead of hide in a shell to protect yourself from competition These two – they have character – they are worthy of emulation. The fittest will always survive., somehow It is the sub mediocre that clamour for protection”

“To some extent, out of charity perhaps, I agree that the government should provide some protection, but it is not in the total interest of the country if carried to the extreme. .”

Thank you for telling me. carried to the extreme ? mind you, this is singapore. I hope you are not getting the order of “blame” mixed up.

“As for singlish, i wish it is as simple as adding a lah to otherwise grammatical correct sentences lah. Singlish is more than that. It constructs sentences based on chinese sentence structure. Verbs and nounts are swopped in position sometimes, many many other incorrect constructs, it is obvious. Fact is, parents baby talk in completely broken grammar translated from chinese sentence constructs. Parents hear wrong constructs of children, and leave it uncorrected. It makes my hair stand.”

spoken language evolves due to many factors (there will be no end to hair splitting on details). this site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dialects_of_the_English_language on english alone may awaken you a little bit.

fact is some parents may not be as good as you and at least they are not shameful to speak out in a language as best as they can. else would’nt it be easier for them to just communicate in their own dialects.

“If we have to learn something DO IT WELL and do not vindicate our errors and omissions – that is the biggest problem with Singlish proponents.”

you and me do not make the rules. english spoken here (singlish) will keep on evolving in its own way and will much influenced by the net collective mix of all the people here (even more so with so many different people coming from many different countries and having different level of english language proficiency – let alone their own native languages – among the many different age groups) – very much as someone may like to control.

the invisible hand of some unforeseen & unplanned force will always throw you with surprises and it tends to be swept under the carpet lest it bares for all to see the failure of some grand planning. Did we not have english as our 1st language and speak mandarin campaign.

“The influx of foreign mainland immigrants will improve chinese singaporeans, speech habits in the long term.”

For any matter, the different cultures (not just because we may have the same skin color) may prevent the necessary & critical direct integration (genuine & not those announced loudly in the media just for the sake of visibility that something is being done) for the so-called good speech habits to be imparted.

thanks for the clarification.

I too agree with your view point that we should allow foreigners who can contribute to singapore in.

The current policy by the gov’t to grab everybody they can grab at the expense of local citizens is ridiculious….

paying “foreign talent” students from china/india/etc education at the expense of our local kids….or giving out PRs like water…..allowing PRs with sibling to buy HDB flats but NOT over 35 years old….etc etc…

I believe PAP no longer work for the common local citizens anymore…and the gov’t is no longer a gov’t but a bunch of technocrats, over-studious scholars and etc….the gov’t has became a board of directors and upper management where the bottom-lines and theirs positions comes first always….to the detriment to Singapore and its citizens.

It is so sad.

As for all this hoopla about foreign talent, some of the comments people make almost makes me think that the PAP are the good guys, while the average Singaporean is a xenophobic, angry, whining layabout! I know this is not the case but really, if you glance at Sammyboy’s unmoderated fora, the hatred for people from other countries and races is scary, and it is not a fringe population either. Are people aware how unnerving those comments get for people who come here with a desire to set up home and become new citizens or even those Singaporeans from the minority races? Who do you think they will vote for in every election because of the hatred? The MIW of course!