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After 15 years of madness, the PAP has finally come to its senses.
Ever since the 1997 National Day Rally speech when Goh Chok Tong announced the PAP shift in economic policy to open Singapore's doors to foreign talent, the PAP has gone on an ideological and public relations offensive to market and defend the foreign talent policy. At all levels, the policy was dogmatically defended - from the PAP parliamentary backbenchers, right up to the Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew himself.
The policy has literally wreaked havoc on this country.
Businesses have been made addicted to the narcotic of cheap labour at the expense of genuine innovation and productivity improvements. Wages for many have stagnated incomparison to the cost of living that has skyrocketed. Others have been displaced from their jobs and forced into unemployment, underemployment and gross underutilisation of their skills. Meanwhile, income inequality is the highest in the world, a precursor to serious social problems on the horizon.
- http://utwt.blogspot.com/2012/03/pap-finally-comes-to-its-senses.html
Ever since the 1997 National Day Rally speech when Goh Chok Tong announced the PAP shift in economic policy to open Singapore's doors to foreign talent, the PAP has gone on an ideological and public relations offensive to market and defend the foreign talent policy. At all levels, the policy was dogmatically defended - from the PAP parliamentary backbenchers, right up to the Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew himself.
The policy has literally wreaked havoc on this country.
Businesses have been made addicted to the narcotic of cheap labour at the expense of genuine innovation and productivity improvements. Wages for many have stagnated incomparison to the cost of living that has skyrocketed. Others have been displaced from their jobs and forced into unemployment, underemployment and gross underutilisation of their skills. Meanwhile, income inequality is the highest in the world, a precursor to serious social problems on the horizon.
- http://utwt.blogspot.com/2012/03/pap-finally-comes-to-its-senses.html