Kenneth Jeyaretnam only knows how to talk cock!

[Isogallardo]

Can kenneth Jeyaretnam find that many Singaporeans to replace all these foreigners in the manufacturing sector?

Most of them won't want to step into a factory to work!

 

[yellowarse]

KJ is spot on. In every advanced country from Japan to Germany to Switzerland, raising minimum wage together with real productivity improvement has led to industries moving up the technological ladder, automation, and higher value-added manufacturing, thus reducing their reliance on cheap semi-skilled foreign labour.

We're still stuck in the phase of stagnant productivity and low wages by maintaining low value-added manufacturing industries and not implementing minimum wage. Hence necessitating the import of large numbers of foreign workers, leading to suppressed real wages, and increasing unemployment for locals. The social and infrastructural problems are now coming to a head, e.g. MRT breakdowns, riots, increased crime, heightened xenophobic tensions, etc.

While increasing GDP growth through sheer numbers may pad the annual bonuses of the ministers, it doesn't lead to increased per capita wealth or equity, higher wages, or a better quality of life.

 

[jw5]

Couple Of Points:

1. Absolutely agree, I am with you on this.

2. Better to talk cock like KJ than to do nothing out of perpetual fear of potential repercussions for their gutless selves (harrych/mojito and various monikers) or out of perpetual desire for pets on their heads after they have licked clean the sweaty balls of their pappy masters. (Isogallardo and various monikers)

KJ is spot on. In every advanced country from Japan to Germany to Switzerland, raising minimum wage together with real productivity improvement has led to industries moving up the technological ladder, automation, and higher value-added manufacturing, thus reducing their reliance on cheap semi-skilled foreign labour.

We're still stuck in the phase of stagnant productivity and low wages by maintaining low value-added manufacturing industries and not implementing minimum wage. Hence necessitating the import of large numbers of foreign workers, leading to suppressed real wages, and increasing unemployment for locals. The social and infrastructural problems are now coming to a head, e.g. MRT breakdowns, riots, increased crime, heightened xenophobic tensions, etc.

While increasing GDP growth through sheer numbers may pad the annual bonuses of the ministers, it doesn't lead to increased per capita wealth or equity, higher wages, or a better quality of life.

 

[xpo2015]

I thought the nick by the name of KojakBT wrote an article about low Productivity levels as a result of increased rate import of Foreign workers?

Even Parliament that Lady I dunno what is her name brought up this issue too?

PAP knows this problem too!

 

[LEGEND]

KJ is a wise man. I will vote for him if he comes to my ward.

 

[carrierman]

TS talks cock even more than anyone else just look at his various posts and see for yourself.

 

[JohorRookie]

Talk cock or not, KJ is the only politician in Singapore who can call a Senior Counsel dishonest in public and still nobody dare to touch him. If my memory serves me right, just recently KJ called another top civil servant dishonest, and still nobody dare to touch him.

Together with CSJ, these are the only two politicians in Singapore who have balls of steel.

 

[Isogallardo]

KJ is spot on. In every advanced country from Japan to Germany to Switzerland, raising minimum wage together with real productivity improvement has led to industries moving up the technological ladder, automation, and higher value-added manufacturing, thus reducing their reliance on cheap semi-skilled foreign labour.

We're still stuck in the phase of stagnant productivity and low wages by maintaining low value-added manufacturing industries and not implementing minimum wage. Hence necessitating the import of large numbers of foreign workers, leading to suppressed real wages, and increasing unemployment for locals. The social and infrastructural problems are now coming to a head, e.g. MRT breakdowns, riots, increased crime, heightened xenophobic tensions, etc.

While increasing GDP growth through sheer numbers may pad the annual bonuses of the ministers, it doesn't lead to increased per capita wealth or equity, higher wages, or a better quality of life.

And how is this the fault of PAP when they are trying to push technology and innovation to the business owners? SO you mean increasing GDP growth did not give good bonuses for Singaporeans ah? So i guess those having good year end bonuses from private businesses must be fake one.

 

[yellowarse]

And how is this the fault of PAP when they are trying to push technology and innovation to the business owners? SO you mean increasing GDP growth did not give good bonuses for Singaporeans ah? So i guess those having good year end bonuses from private businesses must be fake one.

Because the government is the largest employer in Singapore – civil service, stat boards, GLCs – there's absolutely no incentive to implement measures that will result in higher wages that will surely help reduce the income gap (we have the highest Gini coefficient in the developed world) but also increase salary overheads.

You can't have your cake and eat it too. In developed countries where unions are strong and there's minimum wage, companies are forced to innovate and automate to compensate for high wages. Here we take the easy way out – foreign labour.

What's the point of GDP growth when:

1. The paltry 'bonuses' do not prevent the gap between the top 2% and bottom 98% from widening - rich getting richer, poor getting poorer (if you factor in inflation), middle class stagnating;
2. The growth is achieved not by increasing productivity but by increasing inputs (more workers more production, bigger population more consumption)?

 

[danielsim]

This is where they justify themselves in bringing foreign workers to fill the gaps that sinkies refuse to go into

 

[Cerebral]

All the PAP IBs seems to be working overtime these few days

 

[JohnTan]

KukuJiao (KJ) is just a failed politician who lost his deposit, along with his credibility and dignity. All the grassroots leaders I know write him off as a failure. If he is the opposition candidate in the PAP ward, PAP will sure win!