Length of loan is not the issue: Mah Bow Tan

[yeokiwi]

I do agree that we should import workers for low level jobs under WP that no one want to do. However i do not think FT fits this criteria.
Concern is probably those drawing above 2.5K or more (just an arbitary number). Jobs that generally compete with a larger segment of Singaporeans.

There are only so many Singaporeans. I hardly know of any friends or relatives that are jobless. Maybe I do not know as many people in Singapore.
But, I know quite a few that had quit their job to look for new ones or simply relax at home.

So, since Singaporeans generally do not like to have more foreigners, then we must accept that economic growth can only be gotten from either improve in productivity or creation of higher value industries. If we cannot do that, then we have to accept for a slight growth or no growth in the future.