By Ng E-Jay
I wish I could come up with a more optimistic pronouncement. But this is the most honest assessment I can make: Future generations of Singaporeans will have to pay for the sins of the PAP if something is not done about the present situation.
Let me state quite frankly that I do not deny that Singapore has made huge economic progress over the decades under the PAP’s watch. As some of my friends would point out, however, much of the growth could have come about not because of, but in spite of, PAP’s policies.
Singapore is situated in a very favourable geographical location, and even though advancements in transportation technology over the decades have eroded our geographical advantage slightly, it cannot be denied that our prime location at the southern tip of the Malaysian peninsula has afforded us enormous leverage as far as trade is concerned.
When the PAP came into power in 1959, Singapore was already a bustling metropolis, not a sleepy fishing village like National Education textbooks like to put it.
When we achieved complete independence and sovereignty in 1965, the foundations for our future economic success had already been laid. Investments were already pouring in and our industries were already being rapidly developed, despite the racial turmoil and the communist threat that existed at that time. All this was happening at a time when the then Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew was occupied in a power struggle with the Tunku.
I do not know whether the PAP made things significantly better after 1965, but I do know the PAP managed to make things significantly worse at some point in its reign.
The PAP’s first major policy blunder was its “Stop At 2″ policy which it introduced in 1969 in an attempt to curb Singapore’s rapidly expanding population, which was then seen as a serious threat to Singapore’s long term growth potential. Sterilization policies were progressively liberalized from 1969 to 1974. By 1977, 21 per cent of women of child-bearing age in Singapore had been sterilized. [1]
The PAP’s error in this policy was in going overboard with it. The repercussions would later come back to haunt future generations of Singaporeans.
The pro-eugenics policies of the PAP culminated in the Graduate Mother Scheme which was implemented in 1984. Graduate couples were provided with considerable financial incentives to have more children, the rationale being that children from graduate couples were more likely to be intelligent and would grow up to be more economically productive. However the scheme was scrapped after a few years when the horribly discriminatory implications of the policy gradually dawned on the electorate.
By then, of course, the damage had been done.
All developed economies eventually enter a phase when their birth rates start to decline due to evolving social attitudes and a higher standard of living.
In Singapore’s case however, the policies of the PAP greatly accelerated the process and made the inevitable come much sooner than would have been the case had the PAP not gone overboard.
A decade after the demise of the Graduate Mother Scheme, Singapore’s Total Fertility Rate had plunged to a mere 1.3, far below the replacement level of 2.1 that demographers insist is needed for a population to sustain itself.
This prompted the PAP Government to open the floodgates to foreigners to shore up our population base. Of course, a sustainable population base was not the only reason given by the PAP for doing so. The PAP told the electorate that foreigners were needed because they brought skills and expertise that Singaporeans lack, and their numbers were needed for continued economic growth. For every job which went to them, we were told, more jobs would be created for us citizens.
In more recent times, the electorate was told that Singapore would go the way of the dodo if foreigners were not imported in large numbers, and that Singaporeans should accept this because we are less hard-driving and hard-striving than foreigners. [2]
However, because PAP’s policies have led to an indiscriminate and uncontrolled import of foreigners, some of whom do not seem to bring in new expertise or skill sets over and above what we already have, wages at the lower end of the spectrum have been suppressed, bringing hardship to the lower income. This indirectly leads to suppression of aggregate demand from one segment of the population, which in turn depresses overall economic activity.
It should be noted that unlike countries like Hong Kong and Taiwan, Singapore did not quite have a roaring comeback after the previous two recessions. Perhaps part of the reason lies therein.
The rapid import of foreigners has also created strain on the fabric of our society, with more than a few openly voicing their concern whether the newcomers will make a serious effort at integrating into our society and embracing local social norms.
The larger malaise confronting us, however, is not just the rapid influx of foreigners, which the government has realized only this year must be more tightly controlled.
The economy is being systematically hollowed out, milked for what it is worth. The economic path we have embarked on is unsustainable. Our future growth potential is rapidly being drawn down in a misguided attempt at boosting our GDP figures and justifying ever increasing public sector and Ministerial salaries.
How is the economy being hollowed out?
- By the entrenchment of unproductive Government-Linked Corporations (GLCs) and the crowding out of smaller players that could have made the economic landscape more competitive and vibrant had they been given a fair chance at the economic pie.
- By the overly liberal import of foreigners which is causing an artificial population expansion and which is putting an enormous strain on our nation’s resources and infrastructure.
- By the government “picking favorites” amongst industry players and in so doing, creating mis-allocation and wastage of resources.
- By the government micro-managing and interfering excessively with the free market economy.
- By the government trying to attract foreign capital at all costs, which leads to very volatile liquidity flows and periodic asset bubbles.
Singapore will probably see several years more of good growth and perhaps even rising incomes in the middle and upper classes.
But the distortions in the economy created by PAP’s policies will also lead to periodic asset bubbles, especially in housing. Asset bubbles are very bad for a country, and even worse for a small country like Singapore.
Not only do asset bubbles lead to mis-allocation of capital, when they inevitably come crashing down, many people get hurt badly in the process.
We see this each and every time the property market here takes off and goes to the stratosphere, only to come down to reality several years later, leaving in its wake hordes of homeless citizens who have been chased out of their flats because they are unable to service their mortgages.
After the PAP has milked the Singapore system for what it is worth, I fear that future generations of Singaporeans will be faced with a hollowed out economy and slow growth rates that will not match their expectations. I fear that many people, especially those just embarking on their careers, will not be able to afford to retire peacefully when they grow old. They will be faced with an overcrowded city, lack of job opportunities, rising inflation, and poor economic prospects.
I am very tempted to try to alter my prognosis so that it does not sound so pessimistic. But to do so would not be honest. In my sincere assessment, if Singapore citizens do not stand up and take charge of the situation now, future generations will have to pay a heavy price for the sins of the PAP.
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References:
[1] SG Democrats, “Creating a ‘superior’ race in Singapore“, 12 June 2005 (first posted on Sg Review).
[2] The Online Citizen’s transcript of MM Lee Kuan Yew’s interview with Mark Jacobson from National Geographic Magazine on 6 July 2009.
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our country is going down hill as long as the PAP stays unchallenged and have a free will to do anything they want. too many of my friends have lost faith in this place.
“Stop at 2″ wasn’t wrong then. I think KK had around then the record delivery of births per hospital globally per year.
Trouble as Ngiam Tong Dow said system went on auto-pilot. When policy reversed, life was getting tough in this “meritocratic” place, issue became, “Why breed for S’pore? Too much hassle and too expensive.”
An FT family LKY will want here — great stud and willing females http://atans1.wordpress.com/2010/07/03/mms-kind-of-ft/
“Accountability” and “taking responsibility” are two concepts that are strange to the PAP. All they are interested in is growing the GDP so they can line their pockets with big bonuses. They are also great when it comes to rising living costs so their developer friends can vastly overcharge us for a home to live in.
There needs to be more opposition members in parliament, like any functioning government should. Short of chasing PAP out wholesale, opposition members would provide the checks and balances against the incumbent regime. To the author: are we going the path of Japan – low growth rates, ageing population? However, Japan is still very much on the cutting edge of technology
Too little too late. Cancer already infected vital organs. Only path now is a slow and painful death. Have fun. Talking about sins of our fathers.
future generations? to me, the current one’s are already (paying-&-paying)…
still, they had many die hard suppoters that believe what they said!
//long time give uo in them
not fans
but mercenaries.
The present generation is already paying the heavy price of the failures of the Pro Alien Party – from all the mistakes made in the 1960s until the present.
Will there be a any future generation of TRUE SINGAPOREANS left with the huge influx of emmigrants – who take up Singapore Citizenship out of economic convenience but will give it up when duty calls for sons and daughters to commit themselves to the defense of Singapore ?
As matters stand, Singaporeans will have a price to pay when the SINGAPORE PLEDGE is seen by the Patriach of the Pro Alien Party as mere ‘aspirations’ – and not to be taken as PRINCIPLES.
The NMP who spoke out for the Pledge was scolded for his ‘highfaluttin’ ideas.
With long held principles shaken and no longer accepted based on its clear wors taken seriously by generations across all ages through the decades since independence – is there anything of any significant permanence and value to Singaporeans ?
Singapore has paid a heavy price from the mistakes made by the self-assuming Patriach and his Pro Alien Party, and will continue to pay into the future as a laggard in the community of nations.
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Ref: ‘CNA Parliamentary Report of the “highfallutin” speech.’
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/449858/1/.html
I don’t agree with some of the government’s policies but I thought the article made some very sweeping comments. It seems rather simplistic to attribute all purported ills of today to the stop at 2 policy enacted decades ago. Also not sure that Taiwan had a roaring comeback from recessions compared to Singapore. I thought Taiwan has not been doing very well economically for the past few years.
Great article E-Jay. It is insightful and I can feel the honesty and sincerity of the author.
The truth hurts, but it is better to realise how the PAP has taken us for a ride, before it is too late. Or is it too late already ?
I agree with some of the issues raised in the above blog. But please remember for every argument, there is a counter. While I agree whole heartly that Singapore’s PAP have been giving us some really bad policies recently and of course, this is due to the fact that they are up in the sky and we are on the ground (peasants) They don’t understand how we are, what we are going through, etc. They make policies based on papers (PHd) no less. And theories. They based everything on paper qualifications and qualifiable situations. This is ok if everything can be learned and documented. However, I have seen so many “silly” policies from them that are both wasting taxpayers’ money and time. However, these are all justified under tonnes of papers.
Having said that, I disagree that Singapore will have a problem in the future. As I mentioned in my blog before, Singapore will have an issue with PAP but Singapore will never go down the drain. Simplest of all reasons : We are surrounded by dumb neighbours. I do not look down on Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia or Philippines. In fact, I think they have the greatest potentials. However, given their situation, their political parties, their government, their people, they will screw up. And screw up big time. So big time that they will make Singapore screwup looks like a small bump. So, investors will come, MNCs will build their offices here, PAP will say they are bringing Singapore to prosperity. However, I always know that we are successful because our neighbours will never be….
not sins IMPO, but a series of human errors by our highly (self?) acclaimed leaders. just as litter alone will not choke a culvert, neither wil a single (stop at 2) policy contribute to the failure of growth of S’pore economically.
currently, the major sin is greed, only that the message getting louder, but more obvious. i do, however agree, this is but an opinion piece of an individual, which should not be taken as a fact.
despite some exaggeration, its a fairly good article by people who care enough to write something about it. technically, few can claim to know everything (maybe except MIW? lol…). forums are a get source of information, & TOC really gets pulse of the common folks.
maybe the writer (Ng E-Jay) will take some not so positive comments to further improve in future articles.
aol166, 6 July 2010
somehow that line of thought isn’t going to put me at ease. our neighbours got lots of land, lots of untapped land that can be used to spur economic growth, in stark contrast S’pore has limited land left for uses like building factories, office buildings, farming, agriculture.
size does matter. that is why the en-bloc route a few years back a a smart way to flip the land for GDP gains. it will not surprise me if it happens some years down the road when available land approaches zero…
PRESENT BREED OF MINISTERS/MPs/SENIOR CIVIL SERVANTS IGNORE THE ‘LESSER MORTALS’.
LOTS OF EXAMPLE IN BELOW LINK,
http://forums.asiaone.com/showthread.php?p=440872#post440872
Bree
Extract from Cultwatch “How Pastors Get Rich” (modified in brackets) :-
Nepotism
A church (govt) isn’t a family business you know; it is a family, but it’s not a business.
Are the pastor (leader)’s relatives high up in the church (govt) ? Are they the ones with the most powerful positions? Then that is nepotism. A good church (govt) will choose the very best people for the job, while a bad church (govt) will reward those closest to the pastor (leader) with the lucrative positions of power.
If you see nepotism, then that is a sign that something is very wrong.
Your Counter Strategy: Yup, you guessed it – stop giving to (voting for) that church (govt) until the pastor (leader)’s little family fiefdom is disassembled.
Aother Extract from Cultwatch “How Pastors Get Rich” (modified in brackets) which is quite sensible :-
Summary
I believe many church goers (citizens) would be shocked if they could comprehend the real attitude their pastor (leader) has towards them. From my experience with both the cults and these money focused churches (govts) , it is my impression that instead of being looked upon with love, these pastors (leaders) see their congregation (constituents) as farm animals to be milked.
The problem started with our present Prime Minister. He had never encountered a day where he was in need of money in his whole entire life. Everything is being provided for.
He had never walk with an empty stomach from Orchard to Katong because his family always provided. Never had he needed to skip recess because of no money to buy food. At the end of the month on pay day, he need not use it to pay for previous months debts. He did not know what it was like to have creditors arriving at his door to force him to pay up.
Frankly he assume everybody in Singapore is free of problem and live happily ever after.
if we’ll really so useless i will give up my citizenship and go back to china….so the cycle is complete..my grandfather came over to singapore for economic reason and his grandson returned to china for economic reason
This is what I see in the near future in Singapore:
- People will live in small space,
whether it is during work, rest or play
- Working hours will be longer. Possibly
till 9-10pm daily. This means getting
home at 11pm to shower, catch-up a bit
with the fanily or entertainment
before retiring to prepare for the
next long, hard day.
- Job market will be very competitive.
It will be an employer’s market.
People will not be able to hold on to
jobs for long durations like before.
- With less continuity in flow of
income, many will have finanicial
difficulties. More families breaks up
at early stages of marriage. Suicides
and commercial crimes rise.
- with mounting pressure to survive
people will be less compassionate and
gracious
With the above, people will feel burned- out and life is meaningless, like that of a treadmill. It is not unliveable but it is difficult to live.
Like the author, I sincerely hope I am dead wrong.
PAP has no idea how to increase GDP
Man – increased foreigners
Land – limited can’t increase anymore
Method – Most GLCs are not world beater except Keppel Sembcorp.
Golden period of 90s has gone, so revenue generate from Sins city will be the future with social implications.
Charles Darwin said “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”
So based on PAP’s “ability” to change…do you think we can survive
it is easy to blame the PAP govt. and yes, many policies do not seem to have been properly thought thru.
however, we Must blame Ourselves, for simply allowing things to roll along. for accepting blindly without speaking up, for believing without question.
let’s face it, we have been greedy and arrogant little pigs, and still are. we need to change ourselves and stop leaving it to the govt to do everything.
we are feeding a very expensive govt.
In the final analysis Singapore must have a two-party system to ensure we will have a viable nation. We are a country and a nation
belonging to every Singaporean!
Therefore it is the responsibility of every Singaporean to make a two-party system happen! You are not going to get any help from the present governing party! As a matter of fact you’ll be discouraged to think in that direction!
@ Winston Cheng 6 July 2010
you are dead right about what you said. you hit every part of it.
yes singaporeans will suffer internally in the future and government nor the pap will do anything about it as their pay cheque is more then enough to sit back and relax allowing this to happen and if it happen. lees..will say.
ops it already happen what to do?
you singaporeans should have vote me out but you again and again vote me so i have no choice but to carry on with my pay cheque rise.
lky: singaporeans should not seek help from the government and pap.
we are not a babysitters.
singaporeans: then why you want us to vote you in every election?
lky: that’s because i want to win you idiot singaporeans fools. i want to fix the opposition and buy in the votes.
i can buy coz i got money!
singaporeans: then what happen to our future?
lky: you go and suck up your own future. you singaporeans are useless dogs
@ anonymous 6 July 2010
1)are we allow to question then in the first place?
2) what will happen if we question them believing we have the right to?
3) what are we paying for?
4)what future does the government build for us apart from the buildings after building that they mention?
5) what have the poor singaporeans being offer with? where does they stand in singapore?
6) why the high inflow of foreigners over and over again with non stop? are all the foreigners well educate?
7) why are foreigners setting up shops in singapore and employing their own country people? from cleaners, shop helpers and more?
8) why are the government not allowing opposition to speak up what they can share on their part to improve singaporeans life and future but choose to condemn every movement they made?
9) what does singaporeans really sees in the future?
10) shall we continue to vote for the pap again? if so what changes and what will be done for us singaporeans if we do vote for them?
11) will this be the end of singaporeans and welcome to foreigners?
12)will our nationality change by the government if time to come? to world international country and no longer singapore?
13) will the government open every gate and call this is a free flow country and government interest is on their FAT pay cheque?
you singaporean think wisely and vote this election with vision for future singaporeans and not the future of our government.
7)
sure la..china come here open shop they employ their people. they care for them and will bring up their own country people.
big and small companies employ foreigners to cut cost earning more profit then to pay high singaporeans.coz our gahmen allowed them.
so most of the companies employ foreigners and safe cost. then where we singaporeans will be working to earn a living?
1) foreigners earn $900 to $1000 plus ot.
2) they stay in domitory with umlimited water and electricity usage.
3) their monthly payment for domitory is $50 to $70 inclusive of all,bed,tv,cooking,water and electricity.
4) their transportation free by lorry pick up and send.
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1)we singaporeans earn $700 to $1200.
2) we pay for water and electricity at about $200 a month depends on usage.
3) our rental for those stay in rental house will be $70 to $300 or more depending on your pay if on government rental flat.
4) transportation will be up to $100 to $170 depends on your work location.
what do singaporeans think of this??
The present generation is already paying for the sins of the presence of the two casinos. Not surprising half or slightly more than half of the patrons are Singaporeans, many gamble through the night till morning, then they wash in the casino’s tiolets, before heading straight for breakfast and then to the office. They don’t even go home.
And the Govt, their coffers are tinkling with money collected from the $100 levy.
Just pray they don’t lose it all in botched investments elsewhere on foreign shores, usually through ignorance of the international investment climate or by other undisclosed reasons.
After 1990 when LKY put pressure on the old guards PAP to step down but he himself continued on, the rot in the leadership which started a few years earlier went down the slippery slope of no-return.
LKY, as SM and then MM, casts a long shadow over all the PAP ministers without exception.
He has set a bad example by not completely withdrawing into retirement. Two things come to mind, he stayed on as SM, and the monkey-see-monkey-do principle means that Goh CT wanted to stay on after he stepped down as PM.
The other being the billion of dollars of statefund lost in the 2007 economic melt-down. There is absolutely silence from the PAP government and our over-paid MPs are silent and the state controlled media suffers from amnesia regarding this event.
All the PAP ministers with their huge salaries are blind to the economic hardship of the average Singaporean.
S’pore has become so costly that young men don’t want to marry and couples think a 100 times before having children.
None of the promises globalisation, free-trade-agreement and high GDP brought any prosperity to the average Singaporean. Each year, they have to work harder and real income has fallen.
The only thing to do is to VOTE OUT THE PAP.
However, the PAP would use all sorts of unethical means to have a truly free and fair election.
We need to call on heaven to strike them dead.
What should have been mentioned is that the wave of young educated skilled Singaporeans EMIGRATING to other Countries…..many of whom will untimately sponsor their Parents…another HOLLOWING out process which has begun 20 years ago and now is becoming a Flood of outflow of valuable Singaporeans.
Ultimately We will have a citizenship population of mainly Immigrants of lower skill and doubtful educational qualifications left in Singapore.
They have “set” a precedent of “high pay” and it cannot be lower than that in future, do we have THAT KIND OF MONEY TO PAY FUTURE MINISTERS ?
People will always equate how much this administration and ministers has maked and will want higher.
They have “tried” to set very high standards, but with the world in such bad shape, deficits all over, can the next generation of ministers be able to take this island to next level or we will have PM and ministers, come and go, just like the job market.
Will there be TRUE PEOPLE coming forward or just “FLY BY NIGHT” ministers, aiming of the millions only.
The death of this island is very very near, don’t be very surprised !!!
Your generation (baby boomers)and before has ask for it, coming from poor and illiterate background.
I agree some the writers pointed out and some of them are valid, if not all.
May I add, those good old small industries and SMEs that dotted vaious Industrial Parks I, II, III in AMK, Toa Payoh, Eunos, Bendeemer, Kallang Bahru/Avenue, Geylang etc. These add together provide 100,000′s of decent jobs and employement to many decent average workers most of whom living in estates nearby these work places. And families of these workers brought up, plenty are decent, law abiding, some climbing up highly on the social ladder I believed.
BUT WHERE ARE THEY NOW ? Fkng PAP, answer us here – WHERE ARE ALL THESE VALUABLE industries/SMEs. Look what the bloody PAP has done to drive away all these valauble jobs !!!
Another point, its good that all these PAP sins are highlighted – and at least we can have some more forcasters to compete with the current highly-paid, bird-like-picking-up-cards-wildly one who has the cheek to tell us what will happen to US 50 years down the road, how will India grow in the next 20 years, or what will happen to Asia in the next 30 years ???? !!!! My foot where is he is going to be accountable if after 50 years later all these forcasting turn out to BE A BIG BULL-COCK !!!
no point to talk over here in toc. if singaporeans want a change? then vote out pap completely no matter what goodies bags they give or what sweet talk they say.
The political sins of the PAP are too numerous to list down.
Of these, two stand out as causing the most untold long-term damage to Singapore (the Nation) and Singaporeans (the People):-
(1) POLITICS OF FEAR
— knee-jerk resort to defamation legal suits to silence differing/dissenting views. A PAP-induced “Political Cancer” also known as “Fear of Speaking Up”.
(2) POLITICS OF CONTROL
— control/manipulation of the Mainstream Media so as “to brain-wash and make brain-dead” many S’poreans into believing that “the sky is green and the grass is blue.
IN SHORT — a clueless/useless/hopeless “cunningly-clever” Govt and NOT the “competently-clever” Govt that is expected/respected by S’pore Taxpayer-Voters.
my beloved nephew can never affort to buy his owned future hdb flat…if he is lucky enough..my beloved brother might buy him a super small proton kenchil car..i hav already WILLED my fullypaid hdb’s small castle to him..
that is his future..ole yeah..he still disappointed me for he got no guts/backbone to be a adventurist type of gungho guy…he will never travelled the world on a backpack..thats for sured!
Kudos to Ng E-Jay for his observations and well-reasoned arguments.
I agree completely with all that he has stated.
And I also agree with DavidSeeLeongKit – the political sins of the PAP are too numerous to list down.
And I also agree with “vote out pap” – there is an urgency facing us. We have to kick OUT the papies in the coming general elections. We have no choice, for the sake of our future.
It is too easy to make sweeping and pessimistic predictions about the future of the Singapore economy. And no one can prove you wrong because the future is yet to be. But you cannot prove yourself to be right either. So it’s all just empty speculation at best, dressed up in fancy language.
The objective truth is that up to now, the economy has not done too badly, which is perhaps an understatement. How we will fare in the future depends not just on what we do but how conditions are in the world at large, and whether we are able to adapt to those conditions. There are many unknowns that can either cause our fortunes to plunge or to soar.
For nations as well as for individuals, much depends on that mysterious quality called luck.
Our govt has the tendency to ‘over kill’ in all their policies.
2 wrongs do not make a right. But they seems to think so. From over populated forecast to underpopulated within our life time ! Their forecast sucks ! They get it wrong all the time.
Don’t bluff lah.
The one and only resourceless tiny 700 sq km island that has lasted for 40 good years when resourceless rich countries with economies of scale have gone begging thy neighbours.
We NO stupid lah.
Aung San Suu Kyi was jailed and later put under house arrest simply because she was a political threat to the Military leaders in Myammar.
Did the Military leaders learned the trick from our Singapore leaders ?
So looking at those political detainees jailed a couple of decades ago, did someone cheated with our political history ? If someone really cheated, then he must have probably committed the greatest political sin to become so powerful ?
Since i have given up all hopes relying on apathetic people for change, i dun really care what happens in future.
I dun even care if influx will replace or dilute the native culture.
I dun even care at all because there is no purpose left to care.
I have totally given up all hope for change.
Let the heavens dictate.
i will not be bothered anymore. there is no hope.
cyrus, 6 July 2010
the economy has little relation to the economic well-being of the people, so what good is a strong & robust economy? such times are but excuse for public transport operators (for example) to increase fares.
if that much of fortune depends on luck, then the S’pore Flyer is a good example that debunked that myth.
i agree that a countries fortune is tied to the world at large, but isn’t this the reason S’pore pays a hefty amount (well above that of other 1st-world countries) to leaders to steer the economy? if luck plays such a large part of a countries’ fortune, then the salaries are not justified….
A brain-washing article in The Sunday Times (5th July) on our table tennis foreign import, Feng Tainwei, both the Feng and the reporter made a Freudian Slip.
Feng was quoted as saying “I still go back to China to take part in the Super League…..In a way, I haven’t forsaken China.”
The Super League is China’s table tennis tournament. Feng actually said she has not forsaken China and proves it by taking part in China’s domestic tournament.
This betrays her motive for coming to S’pore and shows where her real commitment lies. Obviously, she is using S’pore merely as a stepping stone to greater success in her homeland. S’pore govt throws money at her and train her for free!! She would not have gotten such benefits in China.
The composition of the foreigners in Singapore may change when the chinese reminbi appreciate drastically and the chinese workers in china clamour for even higher wages to catch up with the expected high inflation due to the china exceptionally high economic growth. The Chinese foreigners may drop singapore and go home as they realised that its not attractive to work in Singapore anymore. They would rather work in their homeland and enjoy all the social benefits given by their government.
The PAP may be scouting around those fourth world countries now to look for cheap willing workers to replace the chinese so as to stay competitive. We are going to degrade even further and further in future.
So Singaporeans better do something now before you can,t even find your own face in future Singapore landscape.
there is no more hopes. don’t hope that pap will lost the election of any of lky member will be step down or fearing us singaporeans. they are well trained in this for years and our father will lead the way to winning unless he is dead. but no h is alive! so don’t hope. he has the great power!
with great power comes no responsibility.
that’s our government and the pappies.
so singaporeans just accept it as there will be no opposition or pap will lost. if even opposition to be win is sure under the arm of lky and this opposition also will be aiming to lay their hand on the millions to feel how it is to earn millions under our lky.
many people care for singaporeans now but when get the hands on the millions? all goes in the same boat even pap and opposition can be one. don’t be surprise.
you vote our pap then opposition will be the next lky dogs.
you vote out opposition..then pap will remain lky dogs.
so singaporeans you just live your life while you still have till you reach the grave. no more change and don’t hope. this is what has happen and this is what will be.
We gota work till we croak to feed them.
@ Fullofnonsence 7 July 2010
we already coaking to feed them ever since