After that boring drama in Parliament over CECA, I came to the conclusion that it is a gross waste of time. I now realised that CECA is nothing more than a strawman that the PAP would love the opposition to use. Sadly, the Progress Singapore Party (PSP) is dumb enough to bite the bait. Now the “racist” label will stay with them and the IB (internet brigade) will remind everyone every now and then.

That said, we can also see how the measures to contain the pandemic has brought a lot of pain to the construction industry due to its reliance on labour from a certain region. (Not to mention we have that region to thank for the Delta variant rampaging here causing the relaxation of control measures to be rolled back anyway. World problem my arse.)

But I digress…

We now also know that 1 in 4 EP holders are of a particular nationality. Taking the predicament of the construction industry into consideration, I am amused how the “Minisir” of Labour feels comfortable to reveal that. He can go ahead and “assure” us it is not due to CECA., while I can’t help but feel a chill running down my spine. Spare a moment to consider its implications to the security of Singapore’s economy.

Meanwhile, Ong Ye Kung babbles away about how anti-FTA / anti-CECA sentiments would harm the foundation of Singapore’s survival (or something along that line). Please remember, every strength can also be a weakness. Yet Ong does not seem at all worried that a disproportionate number of jobs created by the investments Singapore attracted seemingly goes to benefit mostly a particular nationality. I can’t help but ask, is this the government of the Republic of Singapore or that of just a another state of that nation? Above which, why does the “Minisir” of Hell Health have so much to say about this? I know, I know… he’s from the NTUC and all that crap, right?

As for the matter of how an EP holder must meet certain criteria to get here, who the fxck is going to ensure it? Take note of this recent article about the Mana Bharti University scandal, and one wonders just how many had already slipped through undetected.

IIRC, in 2015 we even found evidence of someone employed by the IDA who has declared “qualifications” from a degree mill. Allegedly, that person is now a citizen of this country. Just how fxcking cool is that?!

Ong Ye Kung wants us to believe that more jobs created and more competition is good. However, I for sure have no clue whether how that will be monitored to ensure that the playing field is indeed leveled in the competition for jobs. Because by the time any hanky-panky in companies are discovered and punished, those foreigners are already laughing all the way to the bank (or worse, to a pink Singapore IC). What good is it to those who somehow got excluded from jobs through the machinations of certain individuals? Perhaps some Singaporeans don’t really matter once they stop showing up in the unemployment statistics after they either become food panda, cab drivers or private hirers.

CECA, as one of my Ingress friend rightfully pointed out, is indeed a strawman. The real problem is that we may have too much EP holders from certain nationalities in certain sectors, and that Achilles’ heel is something this piece of sh*t of a government should really do something about.

Unfortunately, I expect that it will just give me all that free market bullsh*t and do nothing.

【Joke】

Friend: There is no smoke without fire.

Me: What about?

Friend: Our “Chennai” Business Park. Even Wiki agrees.

Me: Huh?

Friend: See… don’t even have other languages hor…