PAP do have better foresight than american politicians!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK0Y9j_CGgM&feature=feedrec_grec_index
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK0Y9j_CGgM&feature=feedrec_grec_index
dr. Michio Kaku on h1b visa
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Strongly disagree.
Singapore's scientific establishments and academia has not produced internationally recognized breakthroughs in sciences or commercialized viable technologies for industrial applications. If this carries on, it will only show how foolish it is for Singapore to imitate America without understanding the dynamics that are driving people to innovate there in the first place.
Singapore's scientific establishments and academia has not produced internationally recognized breakthroughs in sciences or commercialized viable technologies for industrial applications. If this carries on, it will only show how foolish it is for Singapore to imitate America without understanding the dynamics that are driving people to innovate there in the first place.
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I just had a thought.
John Nash would have expelled from Uni for vandalising library glass windows, and probably a criminal record rendering him unemployable.
Isaac Newton would have been pulled up and fined by NEA for littering.
Einstein would be working in MTI as a lowly clerk under a paper general scholar boss.
Steven Hawking would be dead by now because he ran out of Medisave.
John Nash would have expelled from Uni for vandalising library glass windows, and probably a criminal record rendering him unemployable.
Isaac Newton would have been pulled up and fined by NEA for littering.
Einstein would be working in MTI as a lowly clerk under a paper general scholar boss.
Steven Hawking would be dead by now because he ran out of Medisave.
US population 300M. H1B is capped at 65,000 a year with some exceptions for universities. Restricted to 'professionals' with university degree. Employers need to show H1B are paid the same and should not affect labour market/ salaries.
For Singapore's population, the percentage of H1B 'equivalent' per year is probably higher. Anybody know what is it?
But it is completely true US/ Canada/ Australia have benefited greatly from relatively small numbers of immigrant workers. Like our forefathers, immigrants are hard-working, have lower expectations, less demanding. Also more vulnerable. Little political power. Easier to get more from them for less.
For Singapore's population, the percentage of H1B 'equivalent' per year is probably higher. Anybody know what is it?
But it is completely true US/ Canada/ Australia have benefited greatly from relatively small numbers of immigrant workers. Like our forefathers, immigrants are hard-working, have lower expectations, less demanding. Also more vulnerable. Little political power. Easier to get more from them for less.
