FAP Traitor: I am not ashamed to say I own condo & rent out to Indian FTrash!

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[h=2]What’s wrong with letting FTs working in S’pore?[/h]

July 7th, 2014 |

Author: Contributions

Indian IT workers

I refer to the TRE article – http://www.tremeritus.com/2014/07/06/would-sgs-encourage-their-children-to-go-into-it.

In the article, the writer blames the so-called “cheap” Indian IT programmers for depressing the salaries in the IT industry, discouraging Singaporeans to work in the IT industry.
I would like to offer a different persepective to the matter.

First of all, I would like to remind all that we are living in a globalised world. If the cost of programming work is too high, companies will simply outsource the work to other countries like India, Malaysia or even Vietnam these days. This will be a loss to Singapore.

=> The real loss to Singapore is when Sporeans are denied opportunities to make a living, advance their career and gain working experience in their own country, Fxxxtard!

Would you rather the work be done here in Singapore or other countries, even though in Singapore, they are done by foreign IT personnel, which include other nationals too like the Filipinos and Chinese?

You may ask, are there still advantages for Singapore to use lower cost foreign IT personnel to work here? Their presence here certainly helps other Singaporeans and businesses.

I can think of the following Singaporeans and businesses which can benefit from having foreign IT personnel working here:

1. House owners. Foreign workers coming here to work need a place to stay. A lot of Singaporeans are renting out their rooms and houses to them. The foreign workers help to earn rental income for Singaporeans. In turn, they help to pay for Singaporeans’ mortgages. What is wrong with that?

I’m not ashamed to say that I own a good condo unit in the East side of Singapore and I’m renting it to a nice Indian family who is working in the IT industry. Like any tenants, there are good and bad ones. As a landlord, you just need to know how to manage your tenants. I also have friends in Tampines renting out their HDB rooms to the Indian IT programmers, earning a good stream of rental income. Everyone is happy. What is wrong with that?

2. Foreign workers living in Singapore need to travel. They bring business to our transport companies like SMRT. Our SMRT in turn, employs mostly Singaporeans. In other words, foreign workers are helping to create more jobs for our transport industry. What’s wrong with that?

3. Foreign workers need to eat. In turn, they help our F&B industry to grow. Didn’t you read the news that F&B industry now wants to hire more Singaporeans? That means, more jobs created for Singaporeans in the F&B industry. What’s wrong with that?

4. Foreign workers also need to buy the usual living necessities like clothing, soap, shampoo, toilet papers, rice etc to live here. That means it’s a boon for our retail industry, helping to create more jobs in retail. Again, I would like to ask, what’s wrong with that?

I would like to advise all here not to be so small-minded and myopic. Think big and think strategically. Instead of complaining online, think about how to take advantage of the situation.
The unhappy people will waste their time online, griping away. The smart people will try to make the best out of the situation to make themselves happy.
Be smart.

M K Tan

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[h=2]Response to ‘What’s wrong with letting FTs work in
S’pore?’[/h]

July 8th, 2014 |

Author: Contributions



Previously, some TRE readers had written on the reasons for the demise of a
generation of IT professionals in SG. But another TRE reader, @MKTan ["What’s
wrong with letting FTs working in S’pore?"] seems to take a vastly
different view on the IT industry in SG.

Many IT professionals in SG could have been shaken out partly due to rapid
technological changes but the main reason must be the shift in IT industry
policy by the PAP Govt to align with their foreigner influx and lax immigration
policy.


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@MKTan started with a myopic and wrong view of global economic growth as a
zero sum game. He asserted if SG doesn’t compete on “cheap” IT programming work,
SG will lose out to other countries. This sounds so familiar with PAP’s policy
to avoid economy restructuring preferring to import cheap labor into SG en-masse
to compete globally and, running down SG in the process.

@MKTan sounds technically backwards in IT industry. Didn’t he know for
decades, the majority of SG companies had already outsourced their IT functions
overseas whereby hosts and apps are housed in data-centers outside SG? It
accelerated when virtual machines and cloud computing intensified. Many SMEs use
HR and payroll apps customized and hosted overseas on per seat basis or as a
package. They only need skeletal IT staff for daily administration and managing
vendors or outsourcers. Companies benefited by focusing on their core businesses
instead of on IT support function.

Even the government sector went for SOE (Standard Operating Environment)
consolidating their networks, servers & apps hosted in just a few
data-centers plus standard operating environment at agencies supported by
foreigners with dubious background requiring just a declaration on a form
unlikely to be checked thoroughly unlike S’poreans rooted here. Of course, the
irony is the custodian of our information, those data on S’pore citizens, are
accessible, maintained and supported by foreigners. IDA basically provide
directions and manages. It stopped running programs across govt agencies to
employ and train local IT professionals, causing SG to lose out in IT competency
and benefiting those foreigners here to gain experience then take it back to
theirs or other countries. Worst, they sneered at S’poreans after benefiting
from SG — thanks to PAP xenophilic addiction under the leadership of a xenophile
PM.

But the mother of all issues in SG for the past decade and set to continue
until 2030 is the influx of foreigners unless, the PAP Govt is voted out. If the
govt keeps bringing in cheap source of labor to win those industries with low
value-add and already gone, to grow SG’s GDP, it would be myopic, just like
@MKTan, and destroying S’porean livelihood. SG needs to attract clusters of
highly-skilled workers to capitalize on the whole, which is greater than the sum
of the parts effected, not some mediocre or lowly-skilled workers to depress
wages and compete for food, office space, housing, public transport, healthcare,
etc in a tiny island with limited land mass and importing water, gas,
electricity and food from abroad. Real productivity — not govt credit fed
productivity for window dressing — is also missing.

Moreover, more than 80% of S’poreans live in public HDB flats with their
family and they don’t own more than one property for rental. Hence we see the
PAP Govt’s token appeasement to atone for skyrocketing cost of living in the
form of GST Vouchers, CHAS & MediShield Life premium kind of assistance
pegged to house annual value at a level mimicking HDB flats. Unlike land owners
such as the govt, developers & condo owners, like @MKTan, the majority of
S’poreans is not going to benefit from rental income from the influx of
foreigners. More likely, the majority (including businessmen) will suffer from
high cost of housing and downstream effects from higher rental of
businesses.

The PAP Govt policies of the day are benefiting the minority such as @MKTan
while the majority is suffering from it. They are elected by the majority but
are working for the minority and foreigners. By the way, we’ve not even gone
into other areas bringing more hardship to the majority such as NS liabilities,
unfair education scholarships, discrimination by foreign labor to replace
S’poreans, etc resulting from PAP Govt’s foreigner influx and lax immigration
policy.

5starmoon

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