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We should be able to differentiate between useful and useless foreigners.
Perhaps most cases are not clear cut, but in these 3 hypothetical examples, it's pretty obvious which is the useless one.
A is the MD of a Japanese manufacturing company based in SG. The Japan HQ has made it clear that if they cannot have one of their own heading the local company, they will exit from the country.
A is therefore based in SG with his wife who does social work and shops and Takashimaya and 2 children who go to the international school.
B is the Bangladesh construction worker. Works hard, sends money to his family back home, doesn't commit crime or cause trouble in public.
C is an IT "specialist" from India. Whenever someone not at senior mgt level asks for IT help, he does a google search or asks the person to do one.
Has a wife who doesn't work and 3 children who behave like monsters in public. After 2 years, the couple bring their elderly parents over.
(that means 9 people supported by one IT "specialist" who does google searches, oh, of course, the country's infrastructure also supports them)
The government would like us to believe that the vast majority of foreigners are like A & B.
But we know, don't we, that there are in fact LOTS of those like C around.
Perhaps most cases are not clear cut, but in these 3 hypothetical examples, it's pretty obvious which is the useless one.
A is the MD of a Japanese manufacturing company based in SG. The Japan HQ has made it clear that if they cannot have one of their own heading the local company, they will exit from the country.
A is therefore based in SG with his wife who does social work and shops and Takashimaya and 2 children who go to the international school.
B is the Bangladesh construction worker. Works hard, sends money to his family back home, doesn't commit crime or cause trouble in public.
C is an IT "specialist" from India. Whenever someone not at senior mgt level asks for IT help, he does a google search or asks the person to do one.
Has a wife who doesn't work and 3 children who behave like monsters in public. After 2 years, the couple bring their elderly parents over.
(that means 9 people supported by one IT "specialist" who does google searches, oh, of course, the country's infrastructure also supports them)
The government would like us to believe that the vast majority of foreigners are like A & B.
But we know, don't we, that there are in fact LOTS of those like C around.