Riots in Little India

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Instead of being the switzerland of the east by 2020, we are becoming the UAE by 2020.

Actually, the UAE citizen is quite well taken care of. Although UAE has a higher proportion of expatriates compared to Singapore, the government makes very deliberate efforts to ensure that citizens are the priority. Their national identity is their race, religion and ancestry. They do not believe in getting expatriates to root themselves in the UAE. Expatriates are hired to get the work done and get out once they cannot contribute to the economy. Expatriates also recognised that they are guests and perhaps are less demanding on what they expect the government should do for them.

On the other hand, the lack of permanent residency and low proportion of citizens in the UAE is sometimes blamed for the quick collapse of the economy during the 08-09 crisis. Though unlikely to be avoided, the downturn may be muted if more expatriates were rooted to the UAE instead of taking the first flight out.

Different strokes for different folks. Who knows which labour strategy is better for the long term?

After Aljunied, PAP Govt are reminded the people are not worker bees. And civil servants are there for public service and not little LKYs.

I am for SG citizens First policy.

Limited period PR status. No free-rider or 2 timing PR. "Ai Lai Mai Sua" (Take it or Leave it in Hokkien)

UAE was the other extreme that it is too nationalistic to the point of being obnoxious. I doubt this is a good policy as well. I was actually referring to the social discontentment when the foreigners overwhelms the locals.

We have been an immigrant society so I dont think Singapore is against immigrants. However we are against those with no vested interest and we assimilating to their culture due to huge influx, rather than the other way round.

The anecdotal evidence and the signs are here for us to judge which type of labout policy makes sense. As per my previous post, perhaps the Australian model of high wage for jobs that nobody wants to do, makes more sense. We cap cost of low end labour through immigration in order to cap CPI, yet import uber rich that jacks up asset prices. IMHO it is already execution FAIL.