Counter anti-foreigner talk
July 30th, 2010 | 
Author: Dear Straits Times,
I refer to your report dated 20 Jul 2010.
In the report, it is said that the 40,000 resident births in the mid-1980s cannot make up for the 221,600 new jobs created in 2008. But there were 62,900 residents who were unemployed in 2008 so ideally, we should be looking at importing 221,600 – 40,000 – 62,900 = 118,700 workers. But we ended up importing 157,000 workers in 2008 or a surplus of 38,300 workers. Add to that the tens of thousands of ‘invisible jobless’ as reported by your good paper on 28 Dec 2009 and Singaporeans’ concern for jobs may not be so misplaced after all.
The diversity that Lynda Gratton referred to which leads to more innovative products and services is the diversity of disciplines, not the diversity of nationalities. She used the example of the diversity of engineers, mathematicians, code breakers, cryptographers, crossword puzzle experts and others that cracked the Enigma code during World War II to illustrate her idea of diversity. The spanning of nationalities is incidental, not key to diversity.
Thank you
Ng Kok Lim
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good one here.
Ask the govt to explain this discrepancy. And don’t give any excuse like “act of god”.
Perhaps not all of the 62,900 have the physical ability or skills to fill the type of jobs created. Also some of the jobs may be seen by the 62,900 unemployed as beneath them.
It’s not “act of god” anymore, this time the old fart would say “I AM THE GOD” liao
I feel cheated into doing 2 years of NS when foreigners can just walk in to steal my job. bloody PAP SAF generals has backstab all those NS men who work practically for free during 2 years of NS.