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Feeling like a sardine fish packed in a can? It is because for past years our garment has been inviting FTs into our tiny Red Dot.
Prices are high because there is demand by these FTs so we suffers!
PM Lee Speech:
I think Singaporeans understand why we need new immigrants and foreign workers. I think they accept the explanation intellectually but I think that they have some concerns. They are concerned about competition from the new arrivals, they are concerned about different cultures and habits between the new people and the older Singaporeans, they are unsettled by changes to the social landscape and also they worry about the relative treatment between citizens and PRs and non-citizens. I understand and empathise with these concerns. These are worries which have grown because there has been a large inflow of new arrivals in recent years. Why did it happen? Because the economy was booming, because we needed more workers and therefore, we admitted many more foreigners. In recent years, more than 100,000 a year. Most of them are transient foreign workers, here to work, not to strike roots. But we also have taken in more permanent residents and new citizens than previously. I think it is just as well that we push for maximum growth when the world was booming before the recent financial crisis and we made the maximum headway we could by bringing in the workers, by growing our economy and by accepting PRs and new citizens when we are in demand and people want to come and settle here.
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Prices are high because there is demand by these FTs so we suffers!
PM Lee Speech:
I think Singaporeans understand why we need new immigrants and foreign workers. I think they accept the explanation intellectually but I think that they have some concerns. They are concerned about competition from the new arrivals, they are concerned about different cultures and habits between the new people and the older Singaporeans, they are unsettled by changes to the social landscape and also they worry about the relative treatment between citizens and PRs and non-citizens. I understand and empathise with these concerns. These are worries which have grown because there has been a large inflow of new arrivals in recent years. Why did it happen? Because the economy was booming, because we needed more workers and therefore, we admitted many more foreigners. In recent years, more than 100,000 a year. Most of them are transient foreign workers, here to work, not to strike roots. But we also have taken in more permanent residents and new citizens than previously. I think it is just as well that we push for maximum growth when the world was booming before the recent financial crisis and we made the maximum headway we could by bringing in the workers, by growing our economy and by accepting PRs and new citizens when we are in demand and people want to come and settle here.
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