How do you live life to the fullest in SG? You pay for a piece of paper of SGD70,000.00 to buy a vehicle; you pay SGD0.20 to piss or shit in a toilet; you pay at least SGD1.00 to park your vehicle and it counts by the minutes; you run when you see a parking warden; you are not eligible to buy HDB flat when you have reached certain age as you are no longer eligible to get housing loan even though you are a local born Singaporean. Is this a caring Govt?
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Reason Why Singaporeans are Angry
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How do you live life to the fullest in SG? You pay for a piece of paper of SGD70,000.00 to buy a vehicle; you pay SGD0.20 to piss or shit in a toilet; you pay at least SGD1.00 to park your vehicle and it counts by the minutes; you run when you see a parking warden; you are not eligible to buy HDB flat when you have reached certain age as you are no longer eligible to get housing loan even though you are a local born Singaporean. Is this a caring Govt?
Don't worry about how much you have to spend. Concentrate on maximising how much you can earn. When it comes to achieving wealth quickly, nothing beats the Singapore system.
Ask Lee Hsien Loong why estate duty in Singapore was abolished. Ask him how much is his, his wife, inheritance from Mum and from Dad soon, worth.
The main problem is that we don't want to live with chao ang mohs and other FT's. If we wanted to be 2nd class citizens and get abused by beer swiling ang mohs with a misguided sense of racial superiority, all of us would have migrated to Australia.
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Citizenship should only be given to those born in this country. You play tennis, you get citizenship; you invest, you get citizenship. It does not make sense how sports and money can tie such new citizens to die for this country.
Actually construction cost in Singapore is inexpensive compared to many developed countries.
He is a lucky man and one of the few exceptions. Ordinary wage earners now do not have this luxury of doing well in SG.
Because labour for low wage workers are cheap. So Sam's comments that Singaporeans do not want these "unglamorous" jobs don't hold water. In short he is in self-denial.
Actually he is not the exception. I came from a school close to Hock Lam Street and I'd have to say that the majority of Chinatown boys have made good. Some are professionals. Some are businessmen. Some are Civil Servants. They all succeeded because they knew the value of hard work and an independent spirit.
A tradesman is not a laborer. A tradesman is someone who possesses a special set of skills required of a particular vocation. He is the one qualified to do the work.
He hires labor to do the dirty unskilled part of the job at a cheap rate but he makes a lot of money himself. However, it is a tough job often in hot and uncomfortable conditions which the majority of Singaporeans shun.
So in the 60's 2 million population was enough, therefore they say "stop at 2, 1 is enough." After Goh took over the population started increasing and like a frog in the slow-boiled water we discovered the population has suddenly increased to 3.31 million.
Together with foreigners the population is now about 5.4 million.
With the target to reach 6.9 million by 2030, will that be enough? If we look back into the past and the continual addition of foreigners to increase the population, the contention by the PAP was that we need more people to increase jobs and GDP. When will there ever be a time when Singapore no longer need a larger population to increase jobs and GDP? NEVER!
Together with foreigners the population is now about 5.4 million.With the target to reach 6.9 million by 2030, will that be enough? If we look back into the past and the continual addition of foreigners to increase the population, the contention by the PAP was that we need more people to increase jobs and GDP. When will there ever be a time when Singapore no longer need a larger population to increase jobs and GDP? NEVER!
Buddy, you got it wrong. Locals who want to be builders, plumbers and carpenters have to compete with FTsh for the jobs. Employers pay levies to Govt for employing FTsh but they have to pay CPF contribution for employing locals. From Govt point of view, the levies represent a source of revenue but the CPF contribution must be returned to the locals. As long it is cheaper to pay levies, employers will recruit FTsh. If you were the Govt, what would you want to collect? Non-returnable levies or returnable CPF contributions?
That's not the point if we talk about construction. Of course there is a need for architects, lawyers, engineers and etc before construction work begins. The construction work will mostly be done by low-wage workers, not the plumber or skilled tradesmen. The argument that Singaporeans avoid skilled jobs that require working under the sun is something you think is true, but that is not the case. Many Singaporeans are working in such conditions and how do I know, because I work with Singaporeans doing these jobs.
What you know are stuff you read about and on short visits with a few people you know but anyone can say what they believe without even having experience living in Singapore.
Vocations are not jobs. There may be a period of apprenticeship but once that is over, a tradesman is running his own show. How much work you get depends upon the quality of your work, the ability to get good references and the price you charge.
An FT tradesman and a local tradesmen have exactly the same overheads. There is no advantage being a foreigner.
How does a local contractor compete with a Malaysian contractor for example when the latter employs his own Malaysian workers who stays in Johore and ride everyday into Singapore on their motorcycles and do the skilled and unskilled jobs?
I worked in manufacturing in Singapore for more than 10 years. When the factory was expanding, I had to take on the role of facilities manager working with the construction company project manager. I know how it works. Even in those days, I found that when it came to wiring, piping, gas installation etc, most of the skilled, well paying parts of the construction were done by Malaysians/Thais. The donkey work was done by the banglas.
The project manager told me himself that it was very hard to find a Singaporean electrician or gas fitter. The hours were long and irregular and involved heights and confined spaces and most Singaporeans wanted office hour jobs in an air con environment.
yes...the problems must be addressed.
The Singaporeans hire exactly the same people. The Malaysian/Bangla workers couldn't care less whether they are hired by a sinkie or a malaysian as long as they are paid.
The Sinkie guy (my ex LCP) who re-tiled my roof got all his labor either from Bangladesh, Thailand or Malaysia.
Are you suggesting that your tiler friend can earn $4,800 per day?
If he earns $4.800 per day from you, is that an exception?
The pay was not enough and it was far cheaper for the sub-con to employ foreigners. I myself gave out jobs to my sub-cons who quote the lowest.
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