The Singapore News Alternative website hit a very good point. It featured a piece of news that surely is in line with what I said some months back. That is, on one hand the PAPpy govt talks so much about controlling the number of grads to prevent excess grads in the market. On the other hand, its immigration policy is so liberal, it floods the grad supply labour market. What a silly bummer move on the part of the PAPpies.
Note that the ministers themselves send their sons and daughters to unis to make sure they don’t end up as hawkers, crane operators and the like.
Flashback – here is the post I made in Oct last year. Note the same message.
Don’t PAPpy leaders say the darnedest things! So we need to be prudent on our university intake because we don’t want too many jobless grads out in the streets. But isn’t our liberal policy to accept immigrants doing exactly that?
Boyoboy-oboy. Why are we paying our leaders so high to make such self-slapping comments?
Prudence to guide rise in local varsity enrolment
“We don’t want too many Sinkie grads such that foreign grads have to compete with them for jobs….hahahahahaaa..” – the guy in the centre, belching out his trademark larf.…snip…
Varsity intake policy a sign that govt cannot generate enough jobs for grads -
Yeah, isn’t that the real truth? The PAPpy govt is unable to create enough jobs, so it puts a quota on how many Sinkie grads we should have. Never mind the number of foreign grads PAP wants is infinite.
…snip…
On immigration -
So if the idea is to keep the number of grads at a sustainable level, so that we won’t have an excessive number of jobless grads in the market, why then are we importing foreigners like nobody’s business?
My argument is that we should only accept immigrants with the skills where Singapore is short of. However, our immigration policy is non-transparent and the idea is just to absorb any Tom, Dick and Harry to make the numbers. The only consideration is the race demographics.
This “any immigrant will do” appears to be a crude way of raising govt revenue through GST. For sure, everyone has to eat, drink, buy clothes, live under a roof, travel, etc. By getting the volume of immigrants govt wants, it appears that these people would be raising the GST amount collected.
Conclusion -
This is madness. It is craziness. It just does not make sense. PAP wants to prevent an excess supply of local grads. But they have an unlimited number of foreign grads to flood the labour supply market.
If this were not Sinkiepore but some other country, the useless non-thinking PAPpers would have been voted out of office.
Barrie
* The writer blogs at http://wherebearsroamfree.blogspot.com/