By now the White Paper has been largely discredited with its numerous flaws and unsubstantiated claims that increasing the population will lead to higher quality of life and better job opportunities for Singaporeans. Ordinary Singaporeans now have a good understanding of the outcomes of PAP's immigration policies of the last 15 years after their first hand experience of the net result of these policies. They are not just opposing the White Paper but what the PAP has done for the last decade.
Many of the deleterious effects of past policies such widening income gap, low wages, low productivity, rising cost of living and declining quality of life are now better understood by ordinary Singaporeans. For this reason, Singaporeans do not want the govt to along the same path of growing the economy by importing people. PAP's policies, if anything looks like it is built on a fallacy that govt needs only to do what business want to benefit ordinary citizens - trickle down economics does not work when you have a large income gap and it is never going to work in a country with the 2nd highest (sometimes highest) income gap among developed countries...where the benefits of growth goes to a small number at the top and the negative effects spread to everyone in society.
- http://singaporemind.blogspot.sg/2013/02/protest-at-hong-lim-park-16-feb-2013.html
Many of the deleterious effects of past policies such widening income gap, low wages, low productivity, rising cost of living and declining quality of life are now better understood by ordinary Singaporeans. For this reason, Singaporeans do not want the govt to along the same path of growing the economy by importing people. PAP's policies, if anything looks like it is built on a fallacy that govt needs only to do what business want to benefit ordinary citizens - trickle down economics does not work when you have a large income gap and it is never going to work in a country with the 2nd highest (sometimes highest) income gap among developed countries...where the benefits of growth goes to a small number at the top and the negative effects spread to everyone in society.
- http://singaporemind.blogspot.sg/2013/02/protest-at-hong-lim-park-16-feb-2013.html
