Why didn't all this people take a look at the mirror n blamed themselves??? If one is competent enough, for all i care if the govt takes in one million foreigners not forgetting all of our fore-fathers are foreigners too...
Singaporeans style at the moment is ; High salary, minimum working hours, have to suit their style. The best example I've quoted is this guy i know in Wuhan who works for CapitalLand. Highly paid but becoz cannot endure the environment and the way people work here, he rather resign.... If his position is being taken up say by a foreigner, you people will say that it's the govt's fault not knowing that it's the Singaporean who gave up in the first place...
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Such virtuous statements always sound right. It may not be so, if we unearth the root cause.
During good times, the govt had been encouraging us to work smart and not hard. Over the years, the younger generation has changed their aspiration, from being an insurance salesman, to remisier/trader, to IT experts, then property agent, then investment banker.... all because the leader dreamt of making the place becoming all kinds of
hub that can generate money without using hands - the so-called service industries. A clown even came up with a slogan that, "If it ain't broken, break it." Mind you, he was the leader then.
There was total neglect of the virtue of hardwork, perseverance....
only emphasis on how to make easy money through sales, share, properties, IT, investment banking, ..... A generation of softies was created.
Suddenly, time became bad.
Without preparation nor warning, they let in foreigners, not gradually, but like an avalanche, to compete for jobs. When the people felt the pain, instead of empathising the plight faced by the locals, they turned around and blamed them for not being able to face up to the challenge. They want everybody to lower his expectation and work harder, in a snap of the finger.
It is only natural that locals can't adjust having been brainwashed earlier by the same leaders to work smart, not hard and have developed the wrong attitude. It is made worst when the leaders are not increasing their workloads and neither are they halving their pay..
If a zoo keeper first domesticate the lions and then let in wild hyenas to compete for food, does he have the right to jeer at the lion for losing out to the hyenas? Can he blame the lions for attacking the hyenas? Instead of understanding the anger of the lions, the zookeepers called them names. The zookeeper better be careful, the lions will suddenly turned on him instead. It is nature's way for survival.
Looking at the recent fund raising by the boy Roy Ngerng case, as of 30/05/2014, the sum is only approximate about SGD$15k.
