May 11, 2006

The 'thoughtfulness' of our Government

Gayle Goh said:

Though that wasn't an entirely relevant question to pose a man from the MFA, he had no qualms with answering it as follows: "We have to be realistic. There is a limit to how much re-training we can do for some workers, so we have to look overseas. Look at my generation, more than half of them didn't even complete primary school education. What are we going to do? They are not going to conveniently die off..."

Recommended by Anonymous Coward: "Mr. Bilahari Kausikan, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, shocking reply above, when asked about the impact of outsourcing on our local population."

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Comments 27

talking abt kingdoms. i was reading my usual cartoon daily and there was this picture showing some young aunties walking in the corridors of power in a majestic northern palace. i believe, they were supposedly inducted to wheel and deal with veterans. i was thinking...am i suppose to take comfort with a bunch of young squares and unsophisticated thinkers especially aunties? in the other half of the world, you hardly see this most are younger greys to older greys wheeling and dealing and thats despite the fact they have ample young talents to tap from! here, we shun our grey matters and sack them. mind you, these greying potential have at least 2 good decades to offer! highly controversial. a probable core reason is the the fact that these goons are pliable and made good puppetry. who knows.....but looking at young aunties and squares taking the lead is unnerving. good is very subjective lah.

Posted by social observer* on 17 May, 2006 - 6:47pm

puppets live for the kingdom. sycophants live for themselves. the key difference is that sycophants survive invasions, change of regimes and paradigm shifts. If you make the expedient choice, you will experience what is good
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`But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no presents. But he held his peace`