PAP lacks respect and accountability

"And I am a firm believer that the more talent you have in a society, the better the society will grow. If Singapore depends on the talent they can produce out of 3 million people, it's not going to punch above its weight." 

"We have been drawing talent from across the globe, South Asia, Northeast Asia, China, India and beyond that -- you have a vibrant economy which is way beyond what three million Singaporeans with the talent they produce can do."

"we welcome talent and will continue to welcome talent."

"I do not accept that there are any disadvantages to meritocracy."

"Let's remove the foreign element first. There's no better way to run the country than the best man for the most difficult job."

- Lee Kuan Yew

Enough of your disingenuous arguments every time the topic of foreign talents come up. At your age, isn't it time to show some remorse? If you and your party have been wrong in the way you guys have handled the population and immigration programmes just be a man and admit it. We are no longer like the Singaporeans of the 60s and 70s who swallowed everything you say - hook, line and sinker.

Singaporeans have no problems with real talent, be it foreign or local. We all now that true talents add value to our country. Don't keep harping on that as if we are morons. It is bloody insulting to the people who pay your salary (and your pension). Our issue is the PAP does not have an acceptable definition for foreign talent. You have thrown the gates open for the past 10 years and Singapore has received a deluge of immigrants that our national infrastructure is obviously ill-prepared for. The biggest problem is the quality of these immigrants - 80% of whom will not be defined as talent by any right-thinking government. What is so talented about the hordes of foreigners who have moved here to set up eating outlets catering to the homesick tastes of their compatriots? What is so talented about the hordes of foreigners who come to set up massage outlets, work in bars and nightclubs and hawk themselves on our streets? What is so talented about the hordes of foreigners who have come to set up all kinds of consumer businesses to service the daily needs of their compatriots who came here before them thanks to the PAP's overly-generous immigration policy?

Singaporeans have no problems with the foreigners working here in the industries like construction, cleaning and healthcare. These are not talents but they fulfill a real gap in our labour force. We need them. But we certainly question the need for the tens of thousands of S-Pass and E-Pass holders who do jobs that can be filled by Singaporeans. Where is the talent in this group? Out of a 100 of them, you'll be lucky to find 3 real talents. The situation is made worse when many of these people bring along their assorted dependents who add further strain to our infrastructure, including the local school and healthcare systems.

Every year, many of our local schools go to China, India, Vietnam, Thailand etc. to hand out bond-free scholarships to kids from these countries, all with only a hope that some of them will stay on and become productive and contributing Singaporeans when they finish their Singapore tax-payer funded education. Mr Lee, why don't you be transparent and disclose fully to Singaporeans how much is spent on this programme a year, how much has been spent in total since it started, and what are the returns to Singapore in terms of the true benefit to Singapore in quantified terms (since the PAP always thinks in monetary terms)? Would we still need to run the ST Pocket Money Fund every year to get money from the public if we stop part or all of these bond-free scholarships given to these foreign kids? How many more of our true-blue, born and bred Singaporean students can we help with the money?

Bottom line is - Singaporeans are not xenophobic. We just want accountability for your policies. Show us real talent and we welcome them gladly. Don't just flood our country with huge numbers of immigrants who would hardly qualify for a visa in other more enlightened first world societies and expect Singaporeans to suffer quietly when our children's future is at stake. Who's the genius who says Singapore needs to have 6.8m people on this little island to be viable? There are many properly functioning economies with happy and productive societies in nations that are millions of times larger than Singapore that have populations smaller or barely higher than ours.