Onerous cost of living in Spore - PAP policies or globalisat

• casino_king

  1 May 06, 14:50

  LHL blames it on globalisation? Ingenious, giving excuses, trying to deflect blame or truth? PAP policies or Globalisation?
• NuLife

  1 May 06, 21:38

  Globalisation due to China is only partly right.
  
  The main reason is they had allowed HDB flats, property, and indirectly salary and business cost to rise too much too fast and unproportionally over last 20 years.
  Just ask your parents.
  
  Add COEs, GSTs and you get the picture why business and product cost become even higher.
  The key problem is too much too fast and unproportionaly when
  we should be focusing more on core competencies and competitiveness.
  
  They were trying to tax and profit from citizens and businesses.
  Where those money goes to? figure out yourself.
  
  So when global competitions arises, we are already too incompetitive
  and lack core competencies.
  
  PAP run out of ideas and have to propose Casinos.
  
  Lack of foresight and flawed decisions.
  
  
• dragg

  1 May 06, 22:17

  Originally posted by NuLife:

  Globalisation due to China is only partly right.
  
  The main reason is they had allowed HDB flats, property, and indirectly salary and business cost to rise too much too fast and unproportionally over last 20 years.
  Just ask your parents.
  
  Add COEs, GSTs and you get the picture why business and product cost become even higher.
  The key problem is too much too fast and unproportionaly when
  we should be focusing more on core competencies and competitiveness.
  
  They were trying to tax and profit from citizens and businesses.
  Where those money goes to? figure out yourself.
  
  So when global competitions arises, we are already too incompetitive
  and lack core competencies.
  
  PAP run out of ideas and have to propose Casinos.
  
  Lack of foresight and flawed decisions.
  
  

  i agree totally.
  
  
• joelwinston2005

  1 May 06, 22:34

  They said that to have casino is to provide jobs to local people. I tell u is crap. I don't think all the casino job will go to the local people.
• I-like-flings(m)

  1 May 06, 22:37

  globalisation to their world class salary what.. so he is right to blame it on globalisation actually.
• dragg

  2 May 06, 07:56

  Originally posted by joelwinston2005:

  They said that to have casino is to provide jobs to local people. I tell u is crap. I don't think all the casino job will go to the local people.

  i think it is bullshIt too.
  
  singaporeans are known to shun service jobs. even hotels and restaurants have to resort to employing foreign workers. the casino is service-based. so where do they expect the workers to come from? other service-based companies isnt it? the high-end positions will most probably go to foreign talents.
  
  
• gerrykoh

  2 May 06, 16:16

  He blame it on us- say cos we owe hp, aircon. & go for costly Lasik surgery.