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http://sg.news.yahoo.com/blogs/singaporescene/wake-riot-now-population-white-paper-084429101.html
I think the article is by a ex-PAP member or to similar effect.
Either way he's Plan A and in Particular Plan B are probable and logical outcomes.
I have quoted Plan B below and in general it is similar to my own and I think some forumners views towards the future of sg.
Plan B
What is Plan B? It is certainly not some watered-down version of the Government’s plan that the Workers' Party has presented.
Plan B has to deal with the other alternative -- that of an AGED (rather than ageing) population, with a small work force, but a small immigrant population.
Plan B is an economy less reliant on foreign workers, with Singaporeans taking up jobs in construction, and all the other manual work that we now take for granted.
In this, critics of the Government, as well as opposition politicians, need to be honest too.
There will also be social costs to plan B, and these costs will also be painful for Singaporeans to adjust to.
Firstly, Singapore will need higher taxes from a smaller active work force to support an aged population. There will also be a less vibrant Singapore, with old people making up a larger proportion of society. We may even have to draw down on our reserves, if taxes on the work force are not to become prohibitively high.
We will (as we are already presently) have to get used to more old people taking on work that the young do not want; retirement age also has to go up. The entire economy has to be re-configured to adjust to an aged workforce, a task that will be fraught with risks and no guarantee of success.
In order for more Singaporeans to take up the jobs that foreign workers are now doing, wages have to go up. But that means prices may have to go up as well.
If bus drivers are to be paid more in order for Singaporeans to take these jobs, then bus fares will either have to rise, or taxes have to rise in order for the Government to subsidise fares. Homes may be built less cheaply, even if productivity rises. That means either HDB flats will either cost more, or again, more tax revenue has to be raised for bigger subsidies.
Singaporeans have to learn to do a lot more household maintenance jobs, like in some developed countries, where blue-collared jobs are highly paid. These are also not easy challenges to adjust to.
Plan B is a possible scenario, but it is not enough for detractors of the PAP to criticise its immigration policy and not present the alternative with the trade-offs. There is no perfect solution and both sides in the debate must be honest about the costs of the options available.
The problem I fear is that the shock of the riots of Little India has irreparably tarnished the PAP’s immigration plan. Every conversation it will have from now on will consciously or subconsciously be associated with images of foreign workers flipping over a police car and setting it on fire.
The Committee of Inquiry will not be as important as the Government presenting to the population how it intends to manage the growing foreign migrant worker numbers, needed to build the infrastructure for a larger population.
And it needs to be a convincing story.
Otherwise, it is time to seriously consider Plan B.
Ban beer at some places and everything will be all right.
Originally posted by charlize:Ban beer at some places and everything will be all right.
If only it were that simple my friend
Originally posted by charlize:Ban beer at some places and everything will be all right.
times are bad, when drink beer got drunk becomes complicated.
Originally posted by sgdiehard:times are bad, when drink beer got drunk becomes completed.
I catch you no boleh.
Originally posted by charlize:I catch you no boleh.
sorry there was a typo error. now corrected.
Originally posted by Genie99b:If only it were that simple my friend
It is that simple.
Really.
6 month ban.
Originally posted by charlize:6 month ban.
ban caipng.
NoOooOoo.
Noodles is fine.