Lee Hsien Loong: We won’t bring in too many foreigners
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When asked by a netizen Angela Xu on the PAP’s plans to address the tensions between foreign manpower needs and building a Singaporeans identity, PM Lee replied:
“We won’t bring in too many foreigners too fast. We’ll work hard to integrate them with our people. We are not planning to make a 6+ million population. Not trying to get there. Dont worry.”
PM Lee’s comment appeared to have contradicted his original stance on the matter in which he urged Singaporeans repeatedly to welcome more foreigners.
During a National Day rally speech last year, PM Lee said:
‘Let us welcome them (immigrants) with an open heart, help them to fit in and encourage those who will become citizens to strike roots here. If we do this well, by the next generation, their children will be native Singaporeans.”
The sudden U-turn by Mr Lee does not change that fact that the PAP has planned all along to bring in more foreigners with PAP candidate for Tampines GRC Mah Bow Tan saying way back in 2007 that Singapore needs 6.5 million people.
More importantly, PAP de facto leader Lee Kuan Yew proclaimed only last week that the PAP will still be bringing in more foreigners:
“Please remember: We still need 900,000 foreign workers on work permits.”
Singaporeans should not be hoodwinked by Mr Lee’s last-minute sweet talk for a desperate man will make all kinds of promises that he will not be able to fulfil.90,000 grateful new citizens will be voting on 7 May after which 900,000 may be voting five years later.
[From Temasek Review]
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The PAP will decide how many foreigners is enough, correct?! They certainly did a great job at that in the past 5 years
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"wont bring in too many too fast."
that means they'll continue to bring in. not too many but still many right? not too fast but still fast right?
does that mean the current foreign population is expected to rise further?
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Abaden?
You really need to dissect what they are actually proposing. What does "too fast" mean, and is "too much", who decides
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how many is "too many"
ok. so they won't bring in too many foreign workers. so does that mean that they will just only bring in many foreign workers?
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Originally posted by dragg:
"wont bring in too many too fast."
that means they'll continue to bring in. not too many but still many right? not too fast but still fast right?
does that mean the current foreign population is expected to rise further?
Yup, PM Lee is still letting the foreigners in. He should be sending them home.
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He meant not within this six months.
He have already screwed up with his arrogant and hard headed team.
His famous message: Moving forward, Leaving No one behind.
But, those that are in opposition ward are left behind in term of upgrading even though they pay their tax.
It is wrong time to play the sympathetic card as all the sufferings are partly due to the policies that you have approved.
Will life be better after you say sorry and no solution implemented ?
I dun think you and your team will hear any one with your million dollar salary and bonus.
You will be busy trying to fix us after you won your seat.
All the listening and take care will be thrown to the dust bin again.
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You believe him?
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When the emperor is wounded, he says sorry.
He even get his papa to say sorry to certain community for certain uncalled for remark.But when the emperor regains his full armoury, might and regality..........
History is a good teacher, always repeat its lessons but human being dumb students
never really able to learn these lessons........ -
I believe more tax and price increase are on the way if we do not vote any opposition into the house.
Leopard never change their spots.
The team are there for the money and bonus and worked hard to come up with more scheme to get more revenue.
What kind of leader will result in what kind of followers.
These two weeks have malu most of them with "brilliant" track record.
They will come back with a revenge.
No, they have lost the respect and trust from me as most of the policies that they have implemented have made the people suffered and made them richer.
We have given all the feedbacks that they can "listened" and "improved" but they have defined alternative method as a negative tone and choose to ignore it.
If they have failed their BASIC task of taking care of the people, they should move on to private sector to make more money.
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PAP election strategy has changed from
"Trust us and our track record" to
"I'm sorry, We will this, we will that".
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Not forgeting that they are seated on $500 chair bought by our tax money.
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Can a leopard change its spots?
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Nobody farked the PM live online?
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I really hope to see PAP lose 20 seats on Saturday.
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We all know, we cant trust the PAP. They have again and again told us to accept more foreigners into our country.
Suddenly, a few days before elections, they suddenly change their opinions and say they are not going to bring in so many. People, its just a election ploy, dont get tricked into it. -
By right, he is not a office bearer at the moment.
You will be arested for being rude to him and you will be "take care of" immediately by his Highness.
It should be "controlled live" environment so he can "handle" all the questions on his script.
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heard them cry wolf too much
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how abt PAP lose all remaining seats and NSP become govt wif 24 seats? imagine Nicole as part of the govt...wad will she be? prime minister?
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"Retrenchment is good for singapore. If there is no retrenchments, then I worry." - SM Goh
"If you don't include your women graduates in your breeding pool and leave them on the shelf, you would end up a more stupid society...So what happens? There will be less bright people to support dumb people in the next generation. That's a problem." - MM Lee in 1983
"GST hike is to help the poor." - PM Lee
"Only 5% are unemployed. We still have 95% who are employed." - Yeo Cheow Tong
"For a person who runs a million-dollar charitable organisation, $600,000 is peanuts as it has a few hundred millions in reserves." - Mrs Goh Chok Tong
“People support CPF cuts because there are no protest outside parliament." - PM Lee
"SINGAPOREANS could consider living in nursing homes in neighbouring Johor Baru, Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan suggested."
"How much do you want? Do you want three meals in a hawker centre, food court or restaurant?" - Dr Vivian Balakrishnan
"Honest mistake" - Singtel and IDA after the taxation mistake of not recorded in.
"Let's move on..." - Dun know by how many white scums and how many times.
"The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) spends more than 80 per cent of its funds on its beneficiaries." - Lim Hng Khiang
"Save on one hairdo and use the money for breast screening." - another gem from Lim Hng Kiang
"...I regret making the decision because, in the end, the baby continued to be in intensive care, and KKH now runs up a total bill of more than $300,000..." - Lim Hng Kiang, regretting the decision to save a baby's life because KKH ran up a $300,000 bill
"Singaporean workers have become more expensive than those in the USA and Australia." - Tony Tan
"Contrary to public perception, the White Horse classification is not to ensure that sons of influential men gets preferential treatment. Instead it is to ensure that they do not get preferential treatment." - Cedric Foo
"I don't think that there should be a cap on the number of directorship that a person can hold." - PAP MP John Chen who holds 8 directorships.
"It's not for the money because some of the companies pay me as little as $10,000 a year." - PAP MP Wang Kai Yuen who holds 11 directorships.
"We are not considering a casino but an IR - an integrated resort. IRs are quite different." - George Yeo
"If you want to dance on a bar top, some of us will fall off the bar top. Some people will die as a result of liberalising bar top dancing... a young girl with a short skirt dancing on it may attract some insults from some other men, the boyfriend will start fighting and some people will die." - Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports
"I would want to form an alternative policies group in Parliament, comprising 20 PAP MPs. These 20 PAP MPs will be free to vote in accordance with what they think of a particular policy. In other words, the whip for them will be lifted. This is not playing politics, this is something which I think is worthwhile doing." - SM Goh
"If you sing Jailhouse Rock with your electric guitar when others are playing Beethoven, you are out of order. The whip must be used on you." - SM Goh again, on a dramatic u-turn, rethink or backtrack, whatever you call it.
"We started off with (the name) and after looking at everything, the name that really tugged at the heartstrings was in front of us. The name itself is not new, but what has been used informally so far has endeared itself to all parties." - Mah Bow Tan on the $400,000 exercise to rename Marina Bay as Marina Bay.
"Having enjoyed football as a national sport for decades, we in Singapore have set ourselves the target of reaching the final rounds of World Cup in 2010." - Ho Peng Kee
"If we want to be a world-class city, if we want to be a nation that has got very good standards of public hygiene and cleanliness, the best place to start with is the public toilet." - Amy Khor, PAP MP
"Restoring the pay cuts of civil servants and ministers is reasonable as Singapore's economy has now regained momentum." - Ng Eng Hen
"I don't think my reading for the economy is strong enough for us to even consider asking for the restoration of the cut in CPF." - Lim Boon Heng
"If we ever introduce anything like quotas or incentives based on race, it will reinforce the perception that Malays and Indians have low skills and can only get jobs because of an incentive or quota." - Tharman Shanmugaretnam
"These schools (SAP schools) need to remain essentially Chinese to give the edge in interacting with China..." - self contradictory statement made by Tharman Shanmugaretnam again
"We must encourage those who earn less than $200 per month and cannot afford to nurture and educate many children never to have more than two... We will regret the time lost if we do not now take the first tentative steps towards correcting a trend which can leave our society with a large number of the physically, intellecually and culturally anaemic." - MM Lee in 1967
"The PAP Government has always thrived on its ability to anticipate problems." - Wong Kan Seng (....hehehee.......listening to it now)
"We are not able to be everywhere as a government to know everything in Singapore." - PM Lee (.........hahahahaaa......listening to the appology now......)
"The opposition's plans to 'give and give' will lead to Singaporeans having to pay higher taxes in order to foot the bill." - then DPM Lee at a rally in Tampines, in 2001.
"$2.6b 'Progress Package' for lower-income groups, elderly, NSmen" - now PM Lee, in 2006
MMLee:
"Our women will be maids in other countries"
(if you do not vote for us)"Singaporeans are of POOR STOCK....that is why we need more FTs"
"People could buy frozen food instead of more expensive fresh food" "They could opt for house brand goods, which cost less than others. " - PM Lee"'I mean, we are different. This was a lapse, what to do, it's happened." - PM Lee
'You know, the cure for all this talk is really a good dose of incompetent government. You get that alternative and you'll never put Singapore together again: Humpty Dumpty cannot be put together again...and your asset values will be in peril, your security will be at risk and our women will become maids in other people's countries, foreign workers.'
- MM Lee - Justifying pay hikes for Singapore ministers, The Straits Times, 5 April 2007'This should never have happened. I am sorry that it has.' - Wong Kan Seng
Lim Swee Say:
Every month, when I receive my CPF statement, I feel so rich and the best part is, I know the CPF money won't run away. CPF will still be around for a long, long time to come. Not only is it earning good interest, my capital is protected. (cb, when cpf send monthly statements?)"Right now we have Low Thia Khiang, Chiam See Tong, Steve Chia. We can deal with them. Suppose you had 10, 15, 20 opposition members in Parliament. Instead of spending my time thinking what is the right policy for Singapore, I'm going to spend all my time thinking what's the right way to fix them, to buy my supporters votes, how can I solve this week's problem and forget about next year's challenges?"PM Lee Hsien Loong, 3 May 2006.
Here's what MM Lee said in April 2007:-
........you have to pay the market rate or the man will up stakes and join Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers or Goldman Sachs and you would have an incompetent man and you would lost money by the BILLIONS.....!!!!!!"This is because the public transport fare is not directly linked to the oil prices. We link it to national factors, like the inflation level in Singapore, and the wage level in the whole of Singapore." -Transport Minister, Raymond Lim
"No, it was not a U-turn, and neither was it a reversal of government policy. But you can call it a rethink." - Yeo Cheow Tong
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what PM is doing now - apology, raise income ceiling for housing, lower foreigner intake - are just "cooling measures" (Mah Bow Tan's favourite term). PAP hope to cool us down to vote them in 2 days time.
hope singaporeans see through this and think long-term: the next 5 years are at stake. without alternative party in parliament, PAP will fall back to its old stance. power to the people comes in 5 years. pls treasure our vote. please treasure this opportunity to make a change.
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2006 Election aftermath
What do you think was on voters minds when Lee Hsien Loong decided to increase the GST to 7% and increase ministers pay shortly after he was given a strong mandate the 2006? When he campaigned for a strong mandate in 2006, his message was he will take care of the poor, look after Sngaporeans and address the widening income gap. But the moment he got into office his priority was to increase GST and increase his ministers' pay.
Now that it is election time he is saying the same things again - that he will take care of Singaporeans and help those in need. These is only one intelligent line (and countless unintelligent ones) I remember from George Bush:"If you fool me once shame on you. If you fool me twice, shame on me..." - George Bush.With more and more foreigners coming in and taking over our job, housing and university places, only a fool will sit by and continue to vote for PAP which supports the foreigner policy so vigorously.It has come to the point that we need to wake up the PAP or we Singaporeans will eventually get outnumbered by foreigners. Jobs are lost to foreigners. (wait till you get retrenched) -
My personal experience in my previous coy.
Knew this PRC guy who studied in NUS on FULLY PAID scholarship. FREE lodging, FREE allowance, FREE tuition fees.
Only 'bond' he had to serve was to work in SG for 3 yrs. No need to be any specific coy. Just need to work in SG for 3 yrs.
After just 1+ yrs, he packed his bags and went back to China to work for an international bank.
I can't even afford to stay in the uni's hostel and experience uni hostel life. Yet this guy gets to come here FREE EVERYTHING and then pat his backside and went off to China just like that.
I'm a 2nd class citizen in my own country!!!! I feel betrayed, forsakened and used... best of all... I feel a stinging pain in my backside...
Edit : Just to add, he was AUTOMATICALLY GIVEN a PR when he grad -
I do hope people can treat the issue of influx of foreigners as high priority.
The foreigners that came are not always inferior stuff, many of them through will power and tenacity have risen to managerial levels.
Underestimate them at your own perils.
Housing values, amenities and all other topics paled in comparison to this.
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talk so much....people still vote PAP. We wait and see.