Unemployment hits 5% among Singapore residents
-
Originally posted by Rooney9:
do you know in some western and developed countries like switzerland and japan, first sign of recession coming, first to go are the jobs of foreigners, as they are competing for jobs with the locals. anyway foreigners cant vote in election, so the politicians there focus and channel efforts towards locals.
I know, taiwanese do the same, people can even whack the parliament if the govt do not do things well, and people will not be charged. But if you do it in Singapore, tonite 12pm, ISD will be at your door.Singapore do not have a homogenous citizenship, we got indians, chinese, malayu, eurasians and even foreigners...to the govt, the more races here, the better, they use to say, it is very difficult to rule a multi national country, but if you look at it, they are laughing and enjoying it. Because of multi nationality, we become very individualistic, that mean we dun care about others and will not work as a team. So the govt is not worry about any revolt or any revolution, because the citizens are not co-operative, we care fragmented. And in actual fact, more easy to rule. Unlike place like Swiss or German or korea or japan or thais...they are one people, one nation, and if one revolt, all follow. In Singapore, if the Indian revolt, the Chinese and other races laughed and wait for them to die, and if true singaporeans revolt, Foreigners here will be laughing and waiting to be the next citizenship of Singapore.
-
5% not a issue,
when it hit 40%, that will be a issue.
-
What divided Singapore is not racial but social division between the rich and the working class.
However with the influx of foreigners Singaporean would have problem to harbor and much more express dissenting views as the government have no need to worry about the working class Singaporeans as the foreigners are taking their place.
As for the rich what do they care. They've got money and plenty of it! -
Originally posted by mh2:
5% not a issue,
when it hit 40%, that will be a issue.
wtf 5% is not an issue, you sure or not bro?
wait till 40% wtf? 40% people starving to death in the street liao lor.
-
Originally posted by Rooney9:
wtf 5% is not an issue, you sure or not bro?
wait till 40% wtf? 40% people starving to death in the street liao lor.
Originally posted by eagle:Aren't we over-reacting?
Point 1: Foreign workers/talents have a lower unemployment rate because they leave when they cannot find any employment here.
Singapore residents will find it harder to leave.
Point 2: We have been spoilt by the booming economy of 2007, to think that 5% is very bad. In fact, when I was studying economics, 4% unemployment was considered as full employment. That's because in any economy, there will always be structural and frictional unemployment present.
-
According to PAP, we should bring in even more Foreign Talents so that they can provide more jobs to Singaporeans.
