tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post171999687735856821..comments2024-03-21T14:35:09.854+08:00Comments on Singapore Notes: Of Gods And AnimalsTattlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11037010707866164010noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-60754108164290039812011-02-24T15:23:24.942+08:002011-02-24T15:23:24.942+08:00Letting our own workers out there to fend for them...Letting our own workers out there to fend for themselves against the foreign influx of professionals is like sending our soldiers into the battlefield without the right tools. <br /><br />We now know they want to back-pedal on their earlier mistakes because they are talking about productivity grants and training "after the fact".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-81380860939691483732011-02-24T11:13:40.802+08:002011-02-24T11:13:40.802+08:00John Pomfret committed what we call "guilt by...John Pomfret committed what we call "guilt by association". hahaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-61419730680077495302011-02-24T11:12:34.408+08:002011-02-24T11:12:34.408+08:00For xenocentralism to take place, society must hav...For xenocentralism to take place, society must have a balanced relationship between the community, the market, and the government. <br /><br />To start, we do not not have a high communitarians (free markets and private ownership of businesses) to begin with. So in a rush for GDPs, our leaders confuse our Guests for Gods, turning it into struggles for resources (our rice bowls, NS loyalty, scholarship, babies, retirements etc) <br /><br />What PAP has done is to win resources by using McDonaldization process (efficiency, calculability, predictability, and technology), mostly they argue for the transient FT. By and large S'poreans have no problem with this segment. But slowly & blatantly it cut across all segments from middle to upper management levels in private sectors. Perhaps that is what Tharman means by "winnowing out" - to separate the chaff from the grains, an elimination process. He's too pussycat to say let the Employers decide, but we know the reality - further endangering singaporeans jobs. Many mid-senior employees in their 40-50s have lost employment. Other tragic case like the NTU chinese professor stabbed by its students are just fissures our leaders wish to deny. <br /><br />In GDP we trust? Yeah right. Show me their Guts, and I'll show you their Greed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-60543385872656018022011-02-24T10:36:55.272+08:002011-02-24T10:36:55.272+08:00John Pomfred totally immersed himself into PRC lif...John Pomfred totally immersed himself into PRC life in that he studied and live there right after the Cultural Revolution. He did not go there for economic reasons, in other words, he assimilated well all these years. This is not the case for boatloads of mercenaries we have on our shores. They did not come here to understand S'poreans, just to collect S$ cheques.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com