MM Lee: “good thing” to welcome so many Chinese immigrants as Singaporeans have become less “hard-driving”
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who have great hostility to the many culturally alien, money grubber,
immigrants from north China.
Meanwhile, the apst Globalist Old Farts Club seek unlimited supplies
of “hard-driving” immigrants on behalf of Finance Capital and the
Transnationals.
MM Lee: “good thing” to welcome so many Chinese immigrants as
Singaporeans have become less “hard-driving”
December 24, 2009 by Our Correspondent
In an extensive interview with the National Geographic, Minister
Mentor Lee Kuan Yew continues to support the ruling party’s liberal
immigration policies though he is aware that many Singaporeans are
unhappy with the influx of immigrants.
“Over time, Singaporeans have become less hard-driving and hard-
striving. This is why it is a good thing that the nation has welcomed
so many Chinese immigrants.” Lee was quoted saying.
Lee describes the country’s new subjects as “hungry,” with parents who
“pushed the children very hard.”
“If native Singaporeans are falling behind because the spurs are not
stuck into the hide, that is their problem,” he quipped.
Desperate to boost Singapore’s flagging birth rate, the government
opened the floodgates to immigrants which have changed the island
state’s demographics radically over the past few years.
Foreigners now make up 36 per cent of the population, up from 14 per
cent in 1990.
According to Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng, there were over
90,000 PRs and 20,000 new citizens last year.
A majority of these newcomers hail from China and India with
Malaysians, Filipinos, Indonesians making up the rest.
There are few immigrants from developed countries like Japan, South
Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Australia or New Zealand.
Even for Chinese immigrants, most of them originate from the poorer
inland provinces instead of affluent coastal cities like Shanghai,
Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Tianjin.
In a recent poll conducted by Gallup in July, Singapore is not even
featured among the top five destinations for immigration for college
students. Their first choice is United States, followed by France and
South Korea.
Due to the difficulty in attracting the most talented immigrants to
settle in Singapore, the ruling party has “lowered” its standards to
such an extent that even construction workers, cleaners and masseurs
are offered PRs and citizenship.
The state media reported a Chinese construction worker whose son just
passed out as a SAF officer. He became a PR and citizen within 12
years of arrival in Singapore.
Another China national and Singapore PR, Mdm Song Jin, was sentenced
to nine weeks imprisonment for torching the fish farm of a lover.
It is not sure how these China nationals are classified as “talents”
in the first place and if they are really “hungrier” than locals.
Lee has long eschewed social welfare benefits, claiming that it will
create a “crutch” mentality which will cause Singapore to go down the
slippery slope of Western-style “welfarism”.
Under Lee’s draconian rule, Singaporeans are expected to work for as
long as they can to support themselves without burdening the state.
On the other hand, the government is flushed with cash accumulated
from years of budget surpluses.
Lee is the Chairman of Government Investment Corp and his daughter-in-
law Ho Ching is in charge of Temasek Holdings, both of which are giant
sovereign wealth funds owned by the Ministry of Finance.
A Wall Street Journal article in September reported that “Government
of Singapore Investment Corp suffered a loss around 59 billion
Singapore dollars (US$41.6 billion) in the fiscal year ended
March.” (read article here)
Public opinion counts little for Lee who always thought of himself as
the only person fit to govern Singapore.
As early in 1962, he warned Singaporeans of what to expect under his
one-man rule:
“If I were in authority in Singapore indefinitely without having to
ask those who are governed whether they like what is being done, then
I would not have the slightest doubt that I could govern much more
effectively in their interests.”
Lee’s authoritarian style of governance can only survive in Singapore.
He would have been booted out of office a long time ago if he was in
Hong Kong, Taiwan or Malaysia.
In a famous quote, Lee said,
“If you are going to lower me into the grave, and I feel something is
wrong, I will get up.”
He should know that this is impossible even when he is being taken
care of by the best physicians in Singapore.
The National Geographic also interviewed renowned Singapore
psychiatrist Calvin Fons who gave an interesting analogy:
“When the country was young, there was a need for wise oversight. A
firm hand. Now we are in adolescence, which can be a questioning,
troublesome period. Coming into it without the presence of the
patriarch will be a test.”
Young Singaporeans are ready to show Lee what they really think of him
and his rubber-stamped party. The question is whether he will still be
around then to witness Singapore’s very own “political tsunami”.
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100 Comments on “MM Lee: “good thing” to welcome so many Chinese
immigrants as Singaporeans have become less “hard-driving””
Exposer on Thu, 24th Dec 2009 11:18 am
““Over time, Singaporeans have become less hard-driving and hard-
striving. This is why it is a good thing that the nation has welcomed
so many Chinese immigrants.” Lee was quoted saying.”
Yes, why isn’t Old fart replacing himself with “Cheaper, Better and
Faster” Chinese immigrants or hardworking citizen then ?
Fancy someone who is given few millions of tax-money salary for
forecasting as hobby, and not working at all, travelling at
Singaporean’s expense of tax-money, who is this Old Fart to say that
Singaporeans are less hard-driving and hard-striving. Just because
this old fart is “less hard-driving and hard-striving” then all
Singaporeans are “less hard-driving and hard-striving” ?
Old fart, please get out of our elite uncaring face !
Exposer on Thu, 24th Dec 2009 11:26 am
So I see, that the reason why foreigner influx is because old fart say
so, and so the rest of kangaroo policy and system need to follow suit.
That explain it all ! No questioning of old fart, but just the usual
herd mentality and SayYes to naked emperor. No wonder we always in
this pathetic stage. Whatever old fart says, kangaroo follows.
LHL’s Dead Wife on Thu, 24th Dec 2009 11:32 am
Man this is really tiresome. His boring rhetoric is starting to sound
like the rantings of a flaccid old man desperately trying to show that
he is still relevant and effective in his old age. His time to shine
is over, he is starting to sound bitter and weak.
The only thing i wish for that tiresome senile old tyrant is a 2hr
long heartattack that ends in death!!
Darth Vader on Thu, 24th Dec 2009 11:33 am
What a crock of shit. It is the children from the wealthy politically-
connected elite families who have no drive. Why should they, since
society hands everything they want to them on a silver platter? It is
the children from low-income families, the “lesser mortals” in other
words who possess such hunger and drive. Why else would they work
their way up by repeatedly going for skills upgrading courses if it
was not for the fact that they hope to be able to provide for better
lives for their loved ones someday? And they are also the ones who are
marginalized by the government’s favor the foreigners and elite
policies.
Tom on Thu, 24th Dec 2009 11:42 am
He is turning the country upside down and don’t give a shit . Just
interested in GDP numbers . who cares if GLC lost 60 Billion this
year . They still commanding million dollar salaries . Action time
soon for ALL Engineers and those 40 & above in age . FT policy is the
biggest mistake ever done and will cause them dearly . They are hoping
the FT will be the savers in the coming election .
Tanjong Pagar GRC on Thu, 24th Dec 2009 11:48 am
Can the opposition please contest in tanjong pagar GRC in the next GE?
You may win and kick LKY out as a farewell gift to him. He may die on
the spot when the result is known.
LKY pui
LHL pui
PAP pui
It is just about... on Thu, 24th Dec 2009 11:52 am
In this world there is just a “Unigue” country with an equally
“Unigue” human being with equally “Unigue” feature like having 2 arse
that can produce the same fart due to another equally “Unique” kind of
indigestion that produce yet another “Unque” kind of awesome smell”
farting that will also “Uniquely” parlayse your brain till even such a
“fart” begin to make THAT “Unique”sense it has always been “Uniquely
meant to be!!!
Hope the above does make another kind of … erh … Unique Sense! … But
not from … erh … farting!!!
jiangbao on Thu, 24th Dec 2009 11:54 am
I do not welcome Northern Communists because I have been brainwashed
that communist bad after decades of education… Why in blazes are they
are all when Communist is bad to begin with…
We should form the Singapore Clan.
Uruachim on Thu, 24th Dec 2009 11:58 am
“If native Singaporeans are falling behind because the spurs are not
stuck into the hide, that is their problem,”
One of Lee’s trade mark scorn. He may have said it metaphorically, but
this is how he wishes to continue to rule the populace, with the spurs
stuck into their hides. The way he had fixed “blinkers” to the
populace and made them “run” without looking back all these years.
ErniesUrn on Thu, 24th Dec 2009 12:10 pm
I hope MM Lee fully understands that the waters surrounding him and
his MIW are starting to simmer into a boil.
And if these Frogs In White still believe Singaporeans truly welcome
Chinese immigrants, they’ll be in for a freaking shock election.
Can’t believe this old man is testing the patience of the electorate.
cy on Thu, 24th Dec 2009 12:18 pm
reminds me of a slave-owner who tell others that his slaves are lazy
and thus need to be replaced by cheaper,hardworking,obedient slaves.
copied from another blog
Influx of Foreign Workers
Every morning 5am, Monday to Saturday, more than hundred of private
buses with 44 maximum capacity each will pass through Woodlands
custom. These buses ferry workers, mainly female, from Malaysia to
different factories in Singapore and transfer them back in the
evening.
Looking at the other passageway for motorcyclists, everyday there are
more than 30 thousand Malaysian workers crossing the causeway to work
in Singapore. More than 10 thousand motorcyclists are also using Tuas
Second Link. In the evening, these workers will ride back to Malaysia.
Since before Singapore’s independence, Malaysian workers are welcome
to take up manual jobs that Singaporeans do not want. Employers of
these workers are required to pay the Government poll tax, from about
300 SGD to 450 SGD per month.
Alright, we shall not talk about these workers from Malaysia as they
are taking up jobs that Singaporeans rejected. Twenty years passed, I
travel to Singapore frequently. On Dec 2008, I went to Singapore and
saw foreign workers everywhere, working at food stalls, food courts
and even the public bus drivers are hired from China. Out of
curiosity, why there are so many PRC workers, I asked a PRC worker
selling dim sum, “Where are you from?”
He was impolite and not even looking up when he spoke, “I am from
Shantou, have been here for 2 months.”
I could sense that he was little angry and I was even more curious and
asked again, “How much is your salary, should be very good?”
He replied bluntly, “Talking about this makes me boiled, when my agent
take the placement fee from me, he promised that the salary will be S
$1,800 per month but now I am getting only S$1,100. I have to work 4
hours overtime daily and cannot even earn S$1,800.”
He hit the table and said, “I paid 40,000 yuan for placement fee,
which is equivalent to S$8,000. Even if I do not spend a penny, I have
to work 7 months to reclaim my 40,000 yuan placement fee, how can I
not angry?”
I shook my head and said, “I am sorry to make you angry.”
He said angrily, “Before coming to Singapore, I heard that there are
plenty of opportunities in Singapore. But, what I see now is swindlers
more than anything else and your Government is a bid liar.”
In Oct 2009, I came to Singapore’s IMM to shop and discovered that
many shop promoters are workers from China. Wow! What happened?
Singapore has become the second China.”
I chatted with my Singaporean friends at a cafe, I asked her, “Why is
there a sudden increase of workers from China? Now, even the promoters
who were usually taken up by Singaporeans have now been replaced by
PRC workers. I have heard that many Singaporeans are unemployed at
this economy downturn. Are the jobs replaced by these workers from
China? It is really incredible, aren’t Singaporeans given employment
priority? ”
She shook her head replied: “We are really pathetic, I’ll give you
some data and you will understand why I am so sad and has completely
lost confidence in the future of my country.”
To employ PRC worker, the employer must pay S$450 every month, adding
up to S$5,400 per annum, when multiplied by 50,000 workers from China
amounted to S$270 million. It is a huge amount of money which goes to
the government. Lee Kuan Yew is very pleased that Singaporeans’ money
he and Ho Ching have lost in the 2008 financial turmoil can be
recovered soon. ”
I was shocked to hear that and asked: “S$270 million a very amazing
figure, but what happened to those Singaporeans who have been laid-
off?”
She explained, “A person with no income can apply for employment-
seeking grant which is only S$250 per person, but it will only be
approved if the applicant has no other family grant. We need to
understand this is two different issues. First, employing seeking
grant is only S$250 per month as compared to each foreign worker’s
poll tax of S$450 which S$200 less. By replacing a Singaporean with a
foreign worker in exchange for S$200, the astronomical amount of money
lost by both the father-in-law and daughter-in-law can be recovered.
How can his son Lee Hsien Loong not exploit Singaporeans? Second, you
must remember that, if the unemployed have savings or one of the
family members is working, then the grant he applied will not be
approved by the Government. The government can even save on S$250, all
to be transferred into the pocket of the government ”
I am very surprised that Lee Kuan Yew has been describe to be so
remarkable, and he is but a tyrant who has been a dictator for 50
years. I mourn for the people of Singapore.