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[h=2]Singapore should abolish PR scheme[/h]
January 3rd, 2014 |
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A Singapore PR, Zhang Yuanyuan, came to S'pore to study and work in 2003. She got her blue I/C 2 years later. She then returned to Beijing in 2008 to work in a state-owned enterprise. In 2009, she even participated as a member of a women’s militia contingent at the PRC’s 60th National Day celebrations. When asked by CCTV reporters why she wanted to return home, she proclaimed on screen that 'repaying the motherland is her greatest wish!'
I personally think Singapore should abolish its PR scheme. Why do you need Singapore PRs when you still can attract foreigners to come here to work?
Singapore PRs are just as disloyal as foreigners as their main objective is to come to Singapore to make money and leaves when its time to go.
I understand the government may want to use the PR system to attract foreigners to work here long and then have children born in Singapore.
But even if these foreigners chose to have their children become Singaporean, they can still invoke it later since their children can easily attain their country citizenship since their parents are.
Take for example, China has a PR scheme but rarely wants any foreigner to be a PR since it has a huge population on its own. Yet there are many foreigners annually who wants to work there.
Once the PR is abolished, then Singapore only needs to differentiate the benefits, commitment, responsibilities between foreigners and Singaporeans.
There should be priority given to Singaporean in terms of jobs, benefits, housing etc. I am sure PAP is smart enough on how to do that since our ministers are paid one of the highest salaries in the world even more than a big country like US or China.
I personally have many PR friends especially Malaysians who have stayed, lived and work in Singapore for more than 30-40 years and continue to get himself stuck here for the sake of money and children education. But once its children is grown up and education completed, they may choose to go back to Malaysia if they can find a better job there. Which is happening since Singapore economy is already very matured and stagnated whereas Malaysia still have lots of room for growth.
Singapore government is only good at taking advantage and bullying of its fellow citizens but allow foreigners and PRs to abuse itself. Most of these PRs are just taking advantage of the system, buying a cheap housing like second hand HDB, getting high salary compared to what they can get back home, having their children study good schools like Singaporeans in almost similar rates (although government has stepped in now but too late).
I am sure like many Singaporeans, if I have a choice, I would rather be a Malaysian and holding a Singapore PR status. This way I can enjoy the benefits of both worlds. And I don’t have to serve my NS which wasted 2.5 years of my precious time which I considered cheap labour contributed to PAP government.
Also, recent years there is a huge influx of foreigners or PR doing PMETs jobs, not just the normal foreigner worker job. These PMETs jobs most of it can easily be done by a Singaporean but why give it to the foreigners (whether PR or not) create an artificial demand for cars, housing, food, retail etc and have the Singaporean jobless because of that?
PAP Government all along only cared for its own coffers and neglect the people, it doesn’t care whether this job is done by a Singaporean or not, as long as the job creates more economic activity like consumer spending, housing, retail, pay taxes etc, that is all it matters to PAP Government.
If the Foreign Talents or Workers and PR issues are not resolved, please vote against the PAP in 2016 election. This is your last chance to turn around the situation of too many foreigners/PR coming to Singapore to take away our jobs, creating artificial demand on cars and housing.
William Leo
I personally think Singapore should abolish its PR scheme. Why do you need Singapore PRs when you still can attract foreigners to come here to work?
Singapore PRs are just as disloyal as foreigners as their main objective is to come to Singapore to make money and leaves when its time to go.
I understand the government may want to use the PR system to attract foreigners to work here long and then have children born in Singapore.
But even if these foreigners chose to have their children become Singaporean, they can still invoke it later since their children can easily attain their country citizenship since their parents are.
Take for example, China has a PR scheme but rarely wants any foreigner to be a PR since it has a huge population on its own. Yet there are many foreigners annually who wants to work there.
Once the PR is abolished, then Singapore only needs to differentiate the benefits, commitment, responsibilities between foreigners and Singaporeans.
There should be priority given to Singaporean in terms of jobs, benefits, housing etc. I am sure PAP is smart enough on how to do that since our ministers are paid one of the highest salaries in the world even more than a big country like US or China.
I personally have many PR friends especially Malaysians who have stayed, lived and work in Singapore for more than 30-40 years and continue to get himself stuck here for the sake of money and children education. But once its children is grown up and education completed, they may choose to go back to Malaysia if they can find a better job there. Which is happening since Singapore economy is already very matured and stagnated whereas Malaysia still have lots of room for growth.
Singapore government is only good at taking advantage and bullying of its fellow citizens but allow foreigners and PRs to abuse itself. Most of these PRs are just taking advantage of the system, buying a cheap housing like second hand HDB, getting high salary compared to what they can get back home, having their children study good schools like Singaporeans in almost similar rates (although government has stepped in now but too late).
I am sure like many Singaporeans, if I have a choice, I would rather be a Malaysian and holding a Singapore PR status. This way I can enjoy the benefits of both worlds. And I don’t have to serve my NS which wasted 2.5 years of my precious time which I considered cheap labour contributed to PAP government.
Also, recent years there is a huge influx of foreigners or PR doing PMETs jobs, not just the normal foreigner worker job. These PMETs jobs most of it can easily be done by a Singaporean but why give it to the foreigners (whether PR or not) create an artificial demand for cars, housing, food, retail etc and have the Singaporean jobless because of that?
PAP Government all along only cared for its own coffers and neglect the people, it doesn’t care whether this job is done by a Singaporean or not, as long as the job creates more economic activity like consumer spending, housing, retail, pay taxes etc, that is all it matters to PAP Government.
If the Foreign Talents or Workers and PR issues are not resolved, please vote against the PAP in 2016 election. This is your last chance to turn around the situation of too many foreigners/PR coming to Singapore to take away our jobs, creating artificial demand on cars and housing.
William Leo
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