1. LHL propose 6 M population number.
2. Lim Hang Kiang say you want 1% growth or 3%...if there is no large influx growth will slow.
3. Acting Manpower Minister Tan Chuan-Jin warned that this sentiment (to think we can live with slower growth and lower influx) pre-supposes Singapore has arrived and that survival is not an issue.
What is Tan Chuan-Jin trying to say? Without foreigners to ramp up growth, Singapore cannot survive? Lets get it straight many Singaporeans are HARDLY surviving today under PAP policies fearing job loss to foreigners, low pay and rising cost of living.
We must look at things in totality and good back to basics. To import foreigners to survive is self contradictory...we are not surviving but on living on borrowed time, at some point as the numbers of foreigners grown, the concept of Singapore the nation becomes meaningless. Economies can grow or shrink ...nations can still survive, but you destroy a nations identity, it is gone forever. Our leaders don't understand this...that makes me worry for my country.
"Economies can grow or shrink ...nations can still survive, but you destroy a nations identity, it is gone forever. "
ReplyDeleteI salute you for this insight, one that unfortunately too few people have been able to see or understand, or even if they did do not place enough importance on the concept of a national identity. Like you, I worry for my country and fear that the future is bleak indeed.