"At the recent annual Kent Ridge Ministerial Forum, Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean noted that like global cities such as New York and London, Singapore too ‘can stay forever young’ and remain socially and economically energetic, competitive and attractive." Quote from an article.
A lot of the Singapore citizen have been complaining mostly about the increasingly and overwhelmingly foreigners being congested in Singapore. Especially it affects the ‘rice bowl’ of the Singapore citizens. If the non-talented foreigners have been hogging Singaporean jobs, what more can you expect now that the government wants to ‘shipped’ a big pool of highly educated and talented foreigners.
Especially when these foreigners will always be willingly to be paid at a lower income than Singaporean usually ask for. Not only that, they would even be willing to work long hours without any much of complain. The employers will absolutely hire them the foreigners instead of us who have been charged by our credit cards or in terms of money since we were born. We pay the Singapore hospitals for giving birth in Singapore. Afterward had invested in such big sum of amount in our children’s schools life so that in the hope that they will have bright and good future in securing good jobs in Singapore. One example is in Malaysia, where the government are trying their best at curbing the overflow of foreign talent into country itself. They were trying their best to put their citizens as their top priority. The government trying to push the employer in Malaysia to employ more of their own citizens (Malaysian) instead of outsiders or foreigner.
Last time there wasn’t this issue of the government taking and prioritising the talent of foreigner. But it’s a curiosity on why suddenly the Singapore government suddenly would prefer and even encourage the foreigner of coming to Singapore not only to study but also working here.
It has always become the top issue among the Singapore citizens that the increase and the support of the government have become tremendously and ridiculously increased.
The top issue is on tough at finding jobs in our own birth country. The low job wages worker will be at a total loss as they would be fired or sacked for foreigner that willingly to settle down cheaper salary.
Although there are other jobs that most of the time the Singaporeans wouldn’t want to accept but Singapore government should not have sorted to sought foreign talents instead do something that can encourage or try to successfully change the mind of the Singaporeans on the specific unwanted jobs. Let the employers or the government itself to discuss about the uncontrollably overflowing of foreign talent.
It is a big curiosity on why does the government still wants to welcome so much of foreign people or talent to our country? Although a lot of the Singaporean have voiced out their concerns over this issue. Maybe their concerns were not heard at all. Another example was the Philippines where they help the citizens actually prepare to work in overseas by providing them to study for free in hospitality department-to let them work in hotel section.
One successful example from the Philippines is where a woman who had been offered to work in Italy because of her expertise in housekeeping and have been offered of $2000+ as her salary, as compared to her salary in Philippines that is about less than half the price that were being offered to her.
Doesn’t mean getting more of foreign talent can give a Singapore a younger outlook. It might even pull down the special look and identity of the true Singapore. The government should resolve this major issue that have been hogging the citizen’s heads.
Like what DPM Teo Chee Hean had touched on is the education part.
It means that education is forever important in our daily lives. Knowledge is power. So as citizens of Singapore we should do our best to always upgrading ourselves in various amounts of studies with what the individual can afford to.
By updating ourselves with education we can always relate to things and can manage to the ever changing world. Things always change so do the educations. With education we would not left behind and can always update with the current issues.
In a nutshell we as a citizen of Singapore can always be cooperative and help each other on improving the lives of Singapore to make Singapore become forever young, alive and harmony too. At the same time not to sacrifice or offend anyone to achieve this noble mission.
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