DPM You Got It Right About SME?

[makapaaa]

[h=2]Are You Sure DPM You Got It Right About SME?[/h]

October 13th, 2012 |

Author: Contributions

“However, DPM Teo warned that SMEs are facing an increasing shortage of manpower and it could affect their survivability. And if SMEs fail, Singaporeans’ jobs will be at risk.”
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SME have been failing donkey years ago, nothing new, as many SME were in fact voicing their concerns, but, PAP paid a deaf year.
Look around you DPM, Most SME are in retail or service industry, hardly many in manufacturing, so if GLC, GIC, go into these service sectors to compete with them what can SME do. While GIC and GLC, may have quotas for foreigners to make for shortages of manpower, SME could match the quotas implemented on them. Is this Fair play?

“Mr Teo said that survey from the Association of Small and Medium Enterprises showed that 8 in 10 companies are currently facing manpower shortages, with 3 in 10 even looking to move overseas in order to survive.”
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Cannot survive here , will a SME businessman move overseas? Please provide facts and figures to support you claim.
He said,

“This is a serious matter because our SMEs employ 70% of our workforce.”
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In fact SME is the very backbone of the whole infrastructure of the economy, not GIC or GLC, only now you know it. Is this not undermining your position as a DPM.

“We have to be mindful that many of our SME owners are Singaporeans too. Many of the workers are Singaporeans. If we squeeze too hard, they will lose their jobs too if (the SMEs) move abroad or close down.”
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DPM, you sleeping or what? Many SME are right now run by PRC and India nationals, many of their workers are their own kind.Singaporeans only a bunch, please open your eyes and ears and not be deaf can.

You are squeezing them of the levies that MOM charges,and your very levies have dropped considerably. Can you please provide facts and figures levies collected from the second quarter of 2012, when levies went sky high.

Of course they will close shop, but, going abroad that is absolutely nonsense.

Ironically, if those inefficient SMEs were allowed to close shop, perhaps resources can be freed up and utilized by the better and more efficient SMEs since Mr Teo said there are currently manpower shortages in the industries. Also for those SMEs who need to set themselves up in cheap 3rd world countries in order to survive, perhaps they shouldn’t be setting up shops in Singapore in the first place for their kind of industries.

During the dialogue, Mr Teo spent time explaining the need for foreign workers.
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While the latest population statistics show a rise in the absolute number of foreign workers, Mr Teo reminded people that the growth of foreign manpower has actually slowed down.

Can you provide real statistics, the numbers in play. What was allowed before curtailment and what was not allowed After curtailment. We need figures not talk only.

“He even told the audience a story about how some SME workers went to see him during a Meet-the-People-Session, pleading with him to allow their bosses to bring in more foreign workers.”
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“Why is (the SME worker) interested?” Mr Teo asked. “Because his job is on the line.”

Would anyone believe this? Please tell it to the marines.

“Still, he assured the audience that the Govt had not “gone crazy” to take in just about any foreigners. It would continue to moderate the in flow.”
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DPM, the government had gone crazy and everyone knows.
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Dead Horse
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[makapaaa]

<CITE class=fn>Pink Panty Loong:</CITE>
October 13, 2012 at 8:59 am Pink Panty Loong(Quote)
It is so bloody obvious that the government has gone crazy on their warped immigration policy. No country can match Singapore in accepting such huge number of immigrants. No leaders in other country would expound the importance of immigrants over their own citizens and even putting them down to justify their crazy policy. No leaders will sell their own country away to the extent that they even try to brainwash & convince their own citizens that they are all migrants! Pinocchio Teo, no wonder you have such a big and long nose.

 

[makapaaa]

<CITE class=fn>ben:</CITE>
October 13, 2012 at 7:57 am ben(Quote)
DPM Teo is pinochio in disguise, keeps telling lies.
1. Singapor gov has no wish to groom SME, only growing GLCs and also for GLCs to control all major industries. Why? The gov wants to keep people hungry and mean and not get involved in politics.
2. Business costs are sky high, and the gov is the culprit. To try to balance it, the gov allows cheap labour into the market.
3. Pretending that SMEs need cheap labour while also massively importing FT PMETs taking over middle and senior management positions. But still insisting that SMEs need cheap labour. Singaporeans are ok with importing labour for jobs that Singaporeans dont want to do. But this gov is importing all sorts of cheap labour displacing and replacing Singaporeans.
DPM should stop the BS, reduce business cost with lower transportation/rental/electricity/water/communications and stop FT from coming in to take over jobs that Singaporeans can do.

 

[mojito]

As economies all over the world brace for economic slowdown, it's boomtown charlie for Singapore SMEs who cannot expand due to labour constraints. Most suspicious.

 

[batman1]

This DPM Teo Chee Bye knows nuts about singapore 's economy or immigration.When u asked him why govt allow so many foreigners into sinkeeland ,he will reply "What do u think ?" .This type of stupid people u need to shove a stun-gun to his head to wake him up.

 

[hairylee]

He is the same fella who many years ago wished all retailers could operate on a 24 hours basis, got business or no business.

 

[Confuseous]

Truth be told, our economic policies have been run on auto-pilot for quite some time. Where objectives in the past was to provide employement, policies were tweaked for GDP growth. With their $$$$ tied in with this, the past few cabinets were becoming less focused on this. The SMEs (not totally their fault) were lulled into more good years with perpetual cheap labour and now with the political pressure coming, DPM and his colleagues now place the blame on us. Worse, they threaten that if feedback is to scale back, we too will lose our jobs.

Where was the planning - where taking into consideration our changing profiles of the population, to attract the kind of industries which fit in with the population.

All the recent pronouncements from our 'leaders' on the issue has been one of threats, threats and threats. If there were good plans in place (and for which we have been paying good money for) we won't reach this 'dire' straits - for political survival, mind you, not for us Sinkies.

Notice that other than the usual 4 or 5 suspects the rest of the cabinet have been silent, knowing full well that really, they are bankrupt of ideas already, and perhaps planning their next career now.

 

[Dragon8899]

“However, DPM Teo warned that SMEs are facing an increasing shortage of manpower and it could affect their survivability. And if SMEs fail, Singaporeans’ jobs will be at risk.”

20 years ago, said this.

20 years now, still saying this.

Haizzz