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LKY has proudly said that S'pore has a net gain of talents through its ultra-liberal immigration policies and now Goh is crying wolf that a substantial number of our top talents are overseas. Goh can only be right if S'pore is attracting mostly mediocre foreigners to settle here and there are...

S'pore has been swamped by people from 3rd world countries with 3rd world social habits. Only 154th will try to spin all these social disgraces as coming from S'pore citizens. This stomper has done all S'pore citizens a favour by taking this photo.

The salesgal looked quite fierce.

It is the excessive liberal attitude of PAP govt towards letting in foreigners to find employment in s'pore that is the cause of the problem of too many foreign workers.

No $$$ no need to pay. Just go to Changi Resort for free meals and lodgings plus free medical care.

The easy way out is to depress wages by employing cheap foreign labour, which is aided by the PAP govt's policy of opening the floodgate for foreigners to come in. Creativity? That needs a lot of thinking out of the box. Since there is an easy way, businessmen will take the easy route.

From what I know, taxi drivers in PRCs are making very good $$$. Unfortunately, their counterparts in S'pore are struggling to make ends meet.

Our wages comprised about 41% of total GDP, which is very low by developed countries' standard. Wage cost is only one of the several major costs of business, with rental being another one. There must be a good balance between the interest of landlords and that of peasants, and it has become...

Not everyone graduated with a degree has an IQ of 125 and above. Let's admit it. High IQs people forms a small proportion in any given population. Ask yourself, how many of those attending local Uni have IQs above 125? To those intellectual snobs, high IQs is not a pre-requisite to success...

Well, Hong Kong govt provides better welfare to its people than that of PAP govt. S'poreans still have to waste 2 yrs of National Slavery which HK people dont have to. The PAP govt should not shirk its social responsility to the people by abusing the word 'self-reliant'. If it wants to rule...

You are spot on. Our construction industry has probably pulled our productivity index down by using cheap foreign labours through exploitation. What we need is through better use of technologies and innovative solutions to increase our productivity and solve our problems, not cut costs...

Exactly, the govt through its immigration policy has pushed up asset prices not only in the pte residential mkt, but also in the HDB resale mkt. In the end, s'pore citizens have to shoulder the high cost of basic housing with nothing left in their CPF to fund their retirement.

How many of the Singaporeans are PRs? The proportion of citizens condo buyers may be very small. Will the developers provide more detailed breakdown?

It only goes to show the types of immigrants we are attracting to our shore to take up citizenships and PRs. All these folks from third world countries who are taking up jobs that our own S'pore citizens can do more competently are mostly mediocre workers who drag down our overall productivity...

Some HDB units have also been partitioned and rented out to foreigners. It's good money and better strike the iron while it's still hot ...

The birth rate in 2009 will be very very bad .... judging from how badly locals have been affected by this economic downturn ....

The real problem is the lax labour laws for employing foreign trashes for office positions in the lower and middle rung management jobs which many s'poreans can do more competently although they may ask for slightly higher salaries.

He is probably paying $3.50 an hour for his foreign workers and expects to pay S'poreans the same low wages. Only senior citizens might be interested to take up this kind of low pay jobs. But then, restaurants want younger workers, not aged workers and are not keen to raise wages for younger...

Re: PM Lee:"I find it hard to imagine that we can have 2 million foreign workers in S Many FTs have left sg's shore due to this economic crises, PAP is trying to make it look like it is due to its caring for s'poreans that there are now fewer FTs in sg.

If u r not aiming for scholarship, there is no need to study so hard untill u get anxiety disorders. Utimately, when u go for job interviews, to a large extent, whether u get the job depends on how low you can accept your wages as compared to those expected by foreign trash even though u may be...